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Vol 21. No 18 LADIES MEET WITH BOOSTERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FORMING AN AUXILIARY TO THE BOOSTERS CLUB MEETING TO BE HELD FRIDAY. The Boosters Club had as thei£ guest on Monday night, Mrs. F. M. Smith, Mrs. E. M. Wimberly, and Mrs. G. W. Lankford, who came by in invitation of the club t<> represent the womans’ interest in the civic af fairs of the town. Rev. Theo Pharr, president of the Boosters Club introduced Mrs. Smith, who outlined the purpose of the ladies in conjunction with the busi- j ness men, in forming a mutual club which should be known as an Auxil- i lary to the Boosters Club. Their special purpose just now is the improvement of the city park and the building of a “COMMUNITY j HOUSE”, of Club House, where all j meetings of Clubs and special com- , mittees could be held, and have i their meals served them by special j arrangement. Also forming a tourist camp, with ' propper equipment, and a ladies rest room, with an attendant, to care for the building and supervise at all times the whole house. This move ment on the part of the ladies has created more interest in the park plan than anything that has trans pired in a long time, and it is almost a certainty now, for all it needs is the concerted interest of the whole town. The ladies are to meet at the home of Mrs. E. M. Wimberly Friday af ternoon, at three thirty, for the pur pose of organizing under the direc tion and by special request of the Boosters Club. Every lady in Lyons and iom munity is requested to be present on j Friday and enlist in the movement, j Next week we will have something definite to publish as to plans and improvements for the city park, and for the special park along the right of way of the railroad. NOW DON’T FORGET LADIES, FOR IT DEPENDS UPON YOU TO HELP IN THIS MATTER. JOIN THE AXUILIARY FRIDAY AFTER NOON. ! On suggestion of county agent; Garner, an Agricultural committee | was appointed by the club to act j with the Kiwanis Club in Vidalia to j promote the farming interest, and to keep up the fight made in the early part of year by the club 3 against the boll weevil, and to promote general farming interest, and more especial- ! ly to work on the general lines for Toombs county farm program of the ! Georgia plan the, “Hen, Hog, and Cow.” Dan Odom, S. J. Henderson, Dr. W. W. Odom, and C. B. Newton were appointed on this committee. BAPTIST REVIVAL TO BEGIN ON MAY FIRST REIDSVILLE, Ga.—Rev. J. D. Rabun, pastor of the Reidsville Bap tist church, announces that a series of revival services will be held at the Reidsville Baptist church beginning on the evening of Thursday, May Ist at 8 o’clock. He anounces also that he will be assisted in the meetings by Rev. E. C. Cowan, sfate board evan gelist, who is now with him in a series of meetings at the Glennville Baptist church. Rev. Cowan is said to be a very strong and warm-hearted preacher who is reaching the hearts of the people at Glennville, as he does wherever he conducts services. The meetings at the local church j will continue through Sunday, May 11th. * PENSION CHECKS ARE RECEIVED BY ORDINARY Ordinary Hagan anonunces that he has received pension checks for all Confederate veterans who dra** pensions. Both old and new classes are included, and they are requested to call at his office and receive, same. Whe IW//5 roaress MISS WILLSON WINS FIRST HONOR AT DISTRICT MEET First honor in music was claimed by Miss Maud Willson, of Lyons, at the Twtlfth District contest held at Wrightsville last Thursday and Fri day. This is quite a distinction for ; Miss Willson and the musical depart i ment of Lyons High School, as she was competing against some of the best schools in south Georgia. Miss Willson will enter the state contest, to be held at Athens in June, and has an excellent chance to retain the cup, which was won by the I Twelfth district last year. All Super 'S nter.dents are urged to put forth the utmost effort to retain the cup, this year and next, which will give per manetn title to the Twelfth district. Lyons High School was also rep resented in Ready Writing by Miss ! Louise Brown and Alvin Usher, and in Expression by Miss Gladys Aaron, i The contestants were accompanied |to Wrightsville by Mr. B. F. Brown, Prof. G. E. Usher, Prof. D. C. Cor bitt, Misses Milholland, Mary Frances Wocdle, Robbie Inman, Elizabeth Pharr, Dorothey Brown and Bobbie McLeod. It is said that this was the strong ■ est contest ever held in the Twelfth i District. JOHNSON CORNER SCHOOL ENTERS PROGRESS CONTEST The Johnson Corner Consolidated School, having accepted a proposi tion offered them by The Lyons Pro gress, has entered into a subscrip tion contest. They have set as their goal one hundred suscriptions to be gotten with the next three weeks. There are eight enthusiastic con testants who are already on the way to success. They have taken hold of the proposition with a spirit cn*.- acteristic of the school. There will be a first, a second, and a third prize given by the school t» the three get ting the greatest number of sub , scriptions. The school has recently installed a Physical Laboratory, and the funds i realized from this contest will be ad , ded to funds already on hand for , the purchase of a first class Li ! brary. The readers of the Progress are ; invited to watch this column and keep up with the contest. | The following are the contestants | and their standing: j Nannie Bell Mann, 10th grade j 1000 points. I Lucile New, 9th grade 1000 points. Elma Spell, Bth grade 1500 points. Gladys Sutton, Bth grade 1000 points. Charlotte Johnson, Bth grade | 2875 points. Lillian Currie, 7th grade, 1000 points. Johnie Bert Smith, sth grade 2500 points. Horace Smith, sth grade, 1000 ' ooints. AGRICULTURAL CENSUS TO BE TAKEN IN 1925 ATLANTA, Ga.—The federal ag ricultural census will be taken in 1925, acording to assurances given by U. S. Senator W. J. Harris of Georgia to J. J. Brown, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Agri culture. The census laws call for the census periodically but it was not taken in 1920 because of the failure of Congress to appropriate funds. Senator Harris has advised Com missioner Brown that the pending appropriation bill for the Depart ment of Commerce carries an item of $3,500,000 for the agricultural census next year, and the Georgia Senator feels certain Congress will approve the use of the money. CORRECTION According to a statement received from Mayor Darby, of Vidalia, there have not been as many as 101 cases of small pox in Vidalia during the recent epidemic. In this statement, he says there have been only a few cases. We are glad to make this correction, and to repeat that the , situation is reported to be well in ' hand. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAY 1 1924 20 CARS LUMBER. NAVAL STORES AND LIVE STOCK SHIPPED IN WEEK VOLUME FOR LAST WEEK EX CEEDS CARS AVAILABLE—AN AVERAGF OF THREE CARS A DAY IS BEING SHIPPED. Shipment of lumber, naval stores and lives tock from Lyons is now averaging twenty cars per week, or more than three a day. This is true in spite of the fact than live stock is moving slower than at any other season of the year. The week just closed ran seventeen cars, with five cars left over on the yards because a sufficient numbers of car could not be placed to take care of the de mand. These products are going to eastern and northern points and bring in many thousands of dollars of foreign money. The present volume of shipments of Toombs county products is about at Poultry Shipments Saturday Double Last Car Shipped 3,844 POUNDS LOADED AT LYONS WHICH BROUGHT $837.-! 35—TOTAL SALES FOR COUN TY AMOUNTED $1,343.30. * Last Saturday’s poultry sale was most successful ever held in Toombs county. Total sales forthe county amounted to 6,486 pounds, netting the farmers $1,343.30. This includ ed loadings at Lyons, Vidalia and Ohoopee. Lyons loaded 3,884 pounds and received $837.35; Vidalia loaded 2,039 pounds and received $386.70; Ohoopee loaded 603 pounua and received $119.25. This is near ly double the amount of poultry loaded at Lyons over the first car. An increase of more than 10,000 pounds of poultry equivalent to a value of over $2,000 more than that of the previous shipment was regis tered when the poultry cars operat- ( ed by the Seaboard reached Savan-! nah from thirty-one towns. This was the second train operated by the Seaboard to increase the co-operative system of marketing for -he farmers in that territory, and the results, seem to indicate that its success is, assured. Not only did the volume and val uation of the poultry increase in the j shipments yesterday, but it became •necessary for the railroad to attach j a box car at Helena and fill it as the ; train came nearer to Savannh to j take care of the overflow. There J were 39,520 pounds of chickens sold j at the train on this trip and the far- : mers were paid in cash $8,108.65. The goods were transhiped from Sav annah in two cars to New York city bv the Seaboard. They took 36,- 520 pounds, and 3.000 pounds were sent by express to Atlanta. Following is the list of the towns j visited, the valume of feright han- 1 died, and the money paid at each: Amount Pounds. Received, j Richland 709 $136,801 Americus 1,366 293.20 * Huntington 279 43.00, Leslie 730 140.80 i De Soto 383 108.50 j Cobb 141 25.60 j Cordele 2,803 580.00 j A.B.&A. (Cordele) 3.652 789.05 •Seville 1.785 348.62 Pitts 1,249 257.00 Rochelle 2.317 420.31 Abbeville 1,149 220. bu Rhine 1,380 278.89 Milan 3.254 634.43 Helena 4,096 782.85 Alamo 513 107.30 Glenwood 1,141 221.95 Mt. Vernon 1,050 222.15 Ailey 804 141.60 Vidalia 2,039 386.70 Lyons 3.844 837.35 Ohoopee 603 119.25 Collins 2,001 534.55 Manassas 328 90.30 Belleville 307 60.70 Claxton 850 165.55 its minimun for the year. Naval stores are just beginning to produce new stuff, and are just opening the seasons shipments. This will grow rapidly for the next few months to a normal volume. Shipments of live stock will greatly improve within the •next few weeks, owing to the fact that we are getting away from the cold spring, which has been very hard one stock. Poultry shipments have just begun to go forward in car lots. A few weeks from now pota toes will begin to move, with heavier volume than ever before, which will be followed with tobacco. The to bacco acreage for the county is the largest in its history. These Conditions warrant the pre diction that business for the county will be good throughout the year. It also shows that we have no longer a one-season section. Daisy 392 79.50 j Groveland 79 15.80 Pembroke 138 30.40 Lanier 54 13.00 EllabeU g 84 13.90 Total 39,520 $8,108.65 i W. T. White, development agent , of the Seaboard, stated that the far mers and people in the towns along , the route have received the service as a great move for the better on j the farms. In each oemmunity, he said, the people in large numbers were present to witness the sales and the farmers went away with their cash highly satisfied that there Is no tie to the transaction. The ; agricultural agents in the various towns, banks, and organizations have started boosting the service and ev ery thing points to its continuation, i The service was instituted by the Seaboard and unexpected results have been acomplished. It is felt i that if the response from the farm ers continues the demand will in crease sufficiently to have a regul i lar weekly schedule within the next while, and probably a daily schedule within two years’ time. Another poultry section will be operated in the same territory on May 17, and still another on June 6. i Besides Br. White on the train I Saturday were F. M. Connor, Sea board’s development agent at Cor dele; S. M. Dutton, trainmaster, and ’Foreman Hopkins of an engine of the Alabama division. VIDALIA GETS NEXT SCHOOL MEET OF TWELFTH DISTRICT WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga.— The 12th District Accredited High School meet, here was pronounced one of the best the schools of the Twelfth | has ever held. Fully three thousand I patrons, pupils and teachers were I here all day Friday and were shown every courtesy by the citizenship of; ' Wrightsville and Johnson county. i Supt. H. S. Burdette was chosen 1 | president of the association for the j , coming year. Prof. Ernest Ander i son, principal of E. C. 1., Twin City, ; was selected vice president, and Guy j H. Wells, superintendent of Eastman; High, was elected seceretary and treasurer. The next session goes to Vidalia. The state cup is held by one of, the Twelfth’s schools, E. C. 1., and they have emerged from this meet victorious in many instances. No | district in the state has ever he’d this cup two sucessive terms and E. C. I. is biding strong for this honor. The debate between Eastman High and E. C. I. was held at the court house Friday evening and the music contests at the school ouditorium at | the same time, both places having all they could accomodate. AH the county is highly elated over the suc cess of the meet and the visitors de ! parted expressing their pleasure at. coming to this big event. LYONS EASTERN STAR CHAPTER ELECTS OFFICERS The members of the Lyons Chapter of the Eastern Star met in the Ma sonic Hall on Tuesday afternoon, April 29th, for purpose of electing officer for the ensuing year. The following were nominated and elect ed: Worthy Matron —Mrs. C. C. Mose ley. Worthy Patron —Rev. Theo Pharr. Associate Matron—Mrs. I. H. Cor bitt. Secretary—Mrs. S. J. Henderson. Treasurer—Mrs. Mae Sumner. Conductress—Mrs. Dess Gray. Associate Condustress—Mrs. R. D. McLeod. Chaplin—Mrs. Carl Rogers. Warden—Mrs. C. C. Carrolton. Marshal—Mrs. Sam Estroff. Sentinel —Rufus Hall. iAdah—Mrs. Carson Mason. Electa —Miss Mae Odom. Martha—Mrs. Roderick McCall. Ruth—Mrs. G. W. Lankford. Esther—Miss Annie L. Hagan. Public installation of officers will be held Friday night at the Masonic Hall. The public is cordially invit ed to attend. WILLIAN D. UPSHAW WOULD ACCEPT FOR VICE PRES. Mr. Upshaw is Congressman from the fifth Georgia district and many in the state will be interested in this statement from him: W/ASHINGTON, D. C.—Represen ative Wiliam D. Upshaw, Georgia, would accept the Democratic nomin ation for Vice President, if offered, he said in a statement Saturday night to the public, by the New York Upshaw Club, through its chairman, P. Varnum Stephens. “Moved by a commanding sense of loyalty to the great moral issues before the people of America,” the statement quoted Congressman Up shaw as saying, “and with deep grat itude to friends and forces all over the nation whise generous initiative for many months has linked my name with the Democratic nomination for Vice President, I feel that I ought to go far enough to say that I would accept the nomination if it were tendered me and would regard | this high honor supremely in terms I of service.” Indorsements by Senator George of Georgia, and Dr. Clarence J. Ownes, president of the Southern Commercial Congress, were quoted in the statement. “From a life-long and intimate acquaintance with William David Upshaw, I am pleased to say that I indorse his aspirations,” Senator George said. LYONS WATER CAN BE SAFELY USED FOR DRINKING The following letter from Mr. H. C. Woodfall, dated April 28, to Mr. C. P. Odom, shows that, at this time, "Lyons water can be safely used for drinking purposes. Below is giv en the letter from Mr. Wodfall: Atlanta, Ga., April 28th, 1924. Mr. C. P. Odom, Box 232, Lyons, Ga. Dear Sir: I wish to make the following re port on samples of water collected j on April 22nd: Samples Nos. 1471 and 1472 as listed, both show at this time a water which can be safely used for drink ing purposes. Yours very truly, H. C. WOODFALL, Chief Engineer; ALTAMAHA S. S. INSTITUTE RALLY AT MARVIN CHURCH The Altamaha Sunday School In stitute-Rally will be held at Marvin Church, Friday, May the 9. A didi program will be carried out for; the information and inspiration of i every Sunday School officer and teacher of the charge. It is hoped that they will be present at 10 o’clock A. M., sun time. Rev. W. H. Budd will preach at II o’clock. C. S. MARTIN. Subscription SI.OO NAPIER AGAINST JAP COLONY ONE RACE QUESTION ENOUGH, HE ADVISES IN STATEMENT— PROPOSE ESTABLISH BIG PLANTATIONS. ATLANTA, Ga.—Establishment of a colony of Japanese in Georgia for the cultivation of rice, which was proposed recently by a citizen of South Georgia, would not he advis able at this time, acocrding to an opinion handed down by Attorney General George M. Napier. The opinion was given at the re quest of J. J. Brown, state commis sioner of agriculture, who stated that he had received a communica tion from G. Ledsigner of South Georgia relative to bringing Japan ese from California to develop the negelected rice plantations on the Satillo river, on Camden county, either under lease or purchase by the Japanese. His Reason The ottorney general pointed out that there is no written statute that would prohibit the colonization by the Japanese, but added tiiat “since the act of congress excluding Japanese from the right to own land in the United States is now being consider ed by the President Paving passed both houses of congress, it would seem desirable not to encourage the settlement of California Japanese in Georgia at this time.” Mr. Napier said :“It is a matter of common knowledge that our na tional congress has recently passed an act excluding Japanese from the right of entrance into the United States as immigrants. While our state has had no occasion to en%jt a law upon Japanese settlers, the fed eral government could justly make no complaint if this state should do so. The exclusion act of congress referred to is now before the Pres ident for his approval or veto. The Japanese referred to bv Mr. Ledsing er are now in California. Enough Race Question “Whether there would be raised a Japanese question in Georgia, by the admission of Japanese settlers that are now in a sister state is a matter not properly within the province of the legal department of this state, and, of course, it is not my purpose to advance gratuitous advice upon the subject. However, I would be derelict in my duty as a public offi cial not to say that we have already one race question in Georgia, which, by long expereince, we are getting along fairly well in a general sense; but that to inject another race ques tion, probably of more serious as pect, bv admitting a non-assimilable race of Asiatics *-o settle permanent ly in Georgia might involve us in worse difficulties than those we have heretofore encountered.” 30 COTTON-CLUB BOYS MAKE BETTER THAN BALE AN ACRE A bale of cotton to the acre was made by 30 cotton-club boys in Spal ding County, Ga., in 1923, a season as adverse that the acre average for the State was only 82 pounds. Feel ing that some measure should be tak en to improve cotton production in that locality, the Griffin Chamber of Commerce, early in the year approv ed a plan under which the banks agreed to finance 20 boys in the county who would undertake to grow an acre of cotton according to the methods recommended by the county agricultural agent. The interest arounsed was so keen that funds for the work of 30 boys were made available. Following the plan, 30 boys In va rious parts of the county measured off an acre of ground, not above the average in fertility, and gave the banks their perosanl notes for an amount sufficient to purchase their supnlies. They applied 1,000 pounds of high-grade fertilizer to the acre, planted good pure seed, cultivated and fought the boll wee vil with calcium arsenate,