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Vol 21. No 21
LYONS LEADS IN
POULTRY SALE
THIRD POULTRY CAR RUN LAST
SATURDAY OVER THE SEA
BOARD —NEGT CAR TO RUN
JUNE 7TH.
Another highly successful poultry
car was operated over the Seaboard
Saturday from Cordele to Savannah-
The Seaboard Air Line passed
through twenty-eight towns buying
chickens on a cash basis. While the
volume and value of the business
done Saturday was not quite as
great as that of the train operated
April 26, it was sufficient to show
that the farmers in this section have
entered chicken raising with a high
spirit and that they intend to keep
to the hen program as long as there is
a ready market for this products.
From the side of the car, f which
was in charge of several officials of
the Seaboard, the farmers were paid
in cash $5,240.29 for total of 22,-
136 pounds of hens, friers, roosters,
stags, turkeys and ducks. This vol
ume is not quite as large as on the
trip in April, these figures being 39,-
520 pounds for $8,108.65.
The men who were in a position to
observe the geeral effect of the bus
iness transacted at the car in the
various towns stated last night they
are convinced that the poultry busi
ness is on the eve of a permanent
basis and they are confident the bus
iness will continue on a steady foun
dation. The train on this trip was
in charge of E. C. Bagwell, super
intendent; W. T. White, develop
ment agent of the S. A. L.; and R. F.
Welchel, representing the state bu
reau of markets. They are highly
pleased with the amount of birds
brought to the car for sale.
Lyons, with a short lead, headed
the list of twenty-eight towns with
a total of 2,907 pounds, equivalent
to $672.28. The other cities com
pleting the list of the four highest
places were Helena. 2.717 pounds
$592.30; Collins, 1,957 pounds, $582.
96; and Rochellq, 1,943 pounds,
$429.78.
|u One of the noticeable features of
pthe account kept of the entire trip
is that Collins registered a big score
on friers, the farmers there selling
1.009 pounds while the people at
Lyons sold bens amounting to 2,211
pounds. Helena hold the lead in
turkeys, selling 30 pounds of these.
There was also a little business in
ducks done at this station.
MASONS HAVE GALA MEET
(At the regular meeting of the
Lyons Masonic Lodge, held Wednes
day night, Messrs R. L. Page, Dan
Newton, Jones Bargeron, Howard
McNatt and Pat Godwin were raised
to the sublime degree of Master
Mason.
Rising Sun Lodge team of Reids
ville. rated as the second best Blue
Lodge team in the state, yielding
honor to but one other, an Atlanta
team, together with the assistance
of some members of the
lodge, conferred the degrees.
After the first section of the de
grees had been conferred, the body
adjourned to the City Hall, where
an elaborate barbecue was spread,
and to which the Masons addressed
themselves earnestly for a half hour.
The degree work was perhaps the
best ever done in Lyons lodge.
GLEASON COTTON CO. BUYS
THE JNO. FLANNERY CO.
... ,
SAVANNAH, Ga., May 12.—1 t
was announced on Friday afternoon
that the John ,Flannery Company,
for a half century cotton factors in
Savannah, is to go out of business.
Effective now, it is announced, the
John W. Gleason Cotton Company
takes over the business and cotton
on hand of the Flannery Company
and will take care of the needs of ;
the customers of that firm.
The Flannery Company was one of
the best known factorage firms in
the South. »
J! he 3T//OWS |f rogms
THREE STUDENTS OF JOHN
SON CORNER WIN PRIZES
Commencement exercises of John
son Corner school were concluded
last Friday night with a play entitled
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
effectively rendered by a large num
ber of the pupils. This story,
though simple to read, is interesting
and difficult to portray, and the
splendid success of its rendition indi
cated the excellent capabilties of the
pupils of the school.
They played to an overflowing
house, the spacious auditorium hard
ly affording standing room.
This was the second and last night
of the exercises, following a success
ful presentation of a play entitled
“Home Ties” on Thursday night.
The program was concluded by
the awarding of prizes to the three
successful contestants in the Pro
gress subscription campaign put on ■
by the school three weeks ago. The
Campaign was a warm one and was
thoroughly enjoyed by the centest
ants.
Final!reports gave the successful
contestants the following standing:
Gladys Sutton, 15,250 points, van
ning first prize.
Lillian Curiie, 8,500 points, win
ning second prize.
Johnnie Burt Smith, 8,000 points,
winning third prize.
The prizes were awarded by the
school.
The campaign was in the interest
of the school library, it getting a per
cent, of the receipts, and netted the
library fund $35.75.
The Progress now has a splendid
circulation in Johnson Corner com
munity.
TOBACCO CROP EXCELLENT IN
TOOMBS
A thousand, eight hundred acres of
the beat tobacco, for this season,
ever grown in Toombs county are a
feature of the agricultural progress
of the year. The tobacco crop is
generally distributed throughout the
county, on land selected by exper
ienced tobacco farmers and expert
tobacco demonstrators, showing that
Toombs county soil is peculiarly
adapted to this highly remunerative
crop. One of the demonstrators,
having charge of perhaps the largest
acreage in the county, reports that
the best tobacco lands he ever saw
are to be found in Toombs county.
It thus appears that tobacco is one
of the leading crops to be adopted
South Georgia farmers in their plans
of diversification made necessary by
the boil weevil, which has made cot
ton such an uncertain crop.
While the crop at this season is
slightly later than last year, on an
average, due principally to late seed
ing, it is better than it has ever been
in the middle of May. Everyone of
the six demonstrators in the county
is enthusiastic about the prospect
of a large yield of a good grade of
tobacco.
Some of the farmers will start to
laying by their tobacco crops this
week, and all ploughing wall son be i
finished.
The Georgia crop is far bhead of
the old tobacco states, according to
tobacco men, and the quality and
volume per acre promise to compare '
as favorably when the crop is mar-1
keted. The crop in most states is j
much later than usual, according to !
one of our demonstrators.
A great many tobacco planters
have already come to South Georgia
from North Carolina and other to-I
bacco states, and have met with such
success that an influx of ‘hese ex-:
cellent people may be expected with-;
in the next few' years. They ap
preciate the soil and climate as of
fering superior advantages for the
crop that will make it more profit
able here than in any other section.:
A particular advantage is the earli
ness of the crop, which usually has
some advantage in price.
A proclamation by the Mayor, set
ting aside next Thursday, May 29th, j
as clean-up day for the city of Lyons
has been issued. On this day, the
entire city should be renovated, and
every bad prospect removed from
view, as well as every (insanitary
condition corrected.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAY 22 1924
SNOWED UNDER
Such an avalanche of subscriptions have flooded the Pro
gress in response to our new subscription campaign launched this
week that we will not be able to begin mailing copies to anything
like all new subscribers until the next issue of the paper.
On account of this condition, all those who have received our
subscription offer are urged to reply at once so that they may
not be disappointed in not getting the paper next week.
The Progress has a great mission in its field, prompted by a
desire to be of the greatest service to the people.
In order to be of the most service, the Progress must go into
every home.
To make this possible, we are making the liberal offer you
have just received.
The Progress thanks its people and patronage for their gen
erous support and promises to live up to their reasonable expec
tations.
Boosters Hold Best Meeting Os
The Season Last Monday Night
MONDAY NIGHT BEING LADIES’
NIGHT, IT WAS LARGELY SO
CIAL ONLY PRESSING BUS
INESS TAKEN UP.
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The Boosters Club meeting, held
’in the Auditorium at the City Hall
Monday night was the best meeting i
the club has every had. Being La
dies’ Night, it was largely social, and
i only pressing business matters were
taken up.
The Hall, wrilh its long tables bur
dened with generous and most de
lightful supper, and filled with a
gleeful crowd of Boosters and mem-j
bers of the Ladies’ Auxiliary, made
an inescapable impression upon en
tering that took one right into the
happy atmosphere and spirit of the
occasion, which were sustained
throughout the evening. The Hall
I had been made ready for the Boost
, i -ers and, vdth the excellent lighting
! I and ventilation with which it is pro
| sided, a most cheery and exhilerating
; environment lent to the meeting a
. | touch that completed its success.
: | A supper which justified the ex
! pectations of the most ardent advo
: vates of the work of the Ladies’ Aux
i iliary was prepared and served by a
; ! committee consisting of Mrs| S. J.
1 Brown, Chairman, Mrs. W. T. China,
Mrs. C. C. Carrolton, Mrs. I. H. Cor
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FORD SALES PASS THREE
QUARTER MILLION MARK
Car and truck deliveries alone
show increase of 102,158 over last
year. May has opened with a bigger
demand for Ford products than any
month so far this year, the Ford
Company announced here to
! day.
i Ford retail sales in the United
States during the first ten days of
May averaged 8,385 daily* exceeding
j the last ten-day period of the record-
I breaking sales % in the month of
April and indicating the continued
; upward trend of the market.
Figures just compiled show' a total
of 757,023 Ford units retailed to cus
tomers from January Ist to and in
cluding May 10th, of which Ford car
and truck deliveries alone show a
' gain of 102,158 over tKe same per
il od a year ago.
With the increases already attain
j ed this month and with the present
I outlook for business the company
anticipates a new high sales figure
i in May. >
STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!
Tuesday, May 27th, is “Stunt
Night”. Some of the leading or
ganizations and some of tbe most
prominent citizens are going to pull
off stunts. A prize of five dollars
j will be given to the ones having the
best stunt.
Come and See who wins the prize.
You will be highly entertained for
the small admission of twenty-five
I cents and thirty-five cents.
I The proceeds will be used on the
Park on Railroad Avenue. Do
your bit to beautify Lyons by attend
ing the “Stunt Night” entertainment
at the School Auditorium next Tue*-
! day night.
bit and Mrs. Edd Clifton. Only ex
pert culinary knowldege and a fitting
sense of the what and how of things
could make such a meal possible, and
in this particular especially, these
ladies have thoroughly established
themselves in the high regard and
esteem of the Boosters. They seem
to have discovered whatever philoso
| phy there is in the little couplet:
“The shortest route to men’s hearts,
I find
Is byway of mouth, or I mistake
mankind.”
A very agreeable feature of the
evening was a vocal solo by Mr. Wal
ter Pharr, rendered in his usual ex
] cellent and effective way, wdth Miss
Juel Johnson, accompanist.
Essential reports of committees
were made but not discussed.
A new' feature of Ladies’ Njght in
(troduced at this meeting was a con
test for the ladies, in w'hich some
lady present is awarded a prize from
the Boosters. In this first contest,
Mrs. S. J. Henderson was the winner
• and received a pair of silk hose. This
j'wi?rt>e a regular feature hereafter.
I Mrs. Fulton Smith, president of the
| Auxiliary, announced that the com
mittee assigned to privde refresh
ments for the Boosters next Monday
night will be composed of Mrs. Dess
Gray a? chairman, Mrs. F. F. God
dard, Mrs. J. K. Hall and Mrs. C. W.
Culpepper.
PROGRAM OF EXERCISES
OF LYONS PUBLIC SCHOOL
Sunday Morning at eleven o’clock
at School Auditorium —Sermon by
Rev. Theo Pharr.
Monday Evening, eight-thirty—
Exercises by Music Class.
Wednesday Evening, eight-thirty
—Exercises by the Graduating Class
and address by Hon. George H.
Carswell.
All these exercises are free and ;
the public is most cordially invited
to attend.
COURT NOTICE
This is to notify all parties con
cerned that there will be no civil •
cases tried at the forth coming term
of Superior Court to be convened at
Lyons, on the fourth Monday in May,
1924, except default verdicts and
cases where both parties are ready
for trial.
All criminal cases, and bond cases
especially, will be tried at this term
of court.
By Order of the Judge, R. N.
Hardeman.
E. F. PARKER,
Clerk, Superior Court, Toombs
C unty.
NEGRO MINISTREL AND
TOM THUMB WEDDING
Do you want to see yourself as
other see you? Then come out to
see the Tom Thumb Wedding given
by the little folks.
Do you want to hear the latest
joke told on you? Then don’t misS|
the Lyons High School Ministrel.
Lyons High School Auditorium,
Friday evening, May 23rd., at 8:30
sbarpe.
Admission 15 and 25 cents.
COLLINS AND EDENFIELD
HELD BY SHERIFF
Wilson Collins, who was arrested
about two o’clock Sunday morning
by Sheriff Culpepper on suspicion,
Monday morning confessed to having
part in the stealing of a Ford auto
mobile and an oil tank which was
stolen from R. A. smith a week ago,
according to Mr. Culpepper.
Collins and Elton Edenfield, his
supposed accomplice, were arresetd
at Lyons Sunday morning, about two
o’clock and placed in the county jail,
after deporting themselves in a sus
picious manner in the streets. It is
said that they were trying to get in
to the store of Mr. Clarence Odom,
who lives in the same building, and
told Mr. Odom, when he came to the
door, that they were hunting gaso
line. They were taken to the
sheriff’s home by Mr. A. J. Huggins,
and were placed under arrest after
having made several conflicting;
statements as to their actions
business. They first reported that
their car was a mile and a half from
town, but it was later found ia the
: front of F. M. Smith’s home. With
I the car was found a quart fruit par
of liquor. The engine number had
been removed from the car, which
appeared to be a omparatively new
car, together with the fenders, body
and radiator cap, and these were dis
placed with a home-made body and
old rag over the radiator. There was
no license tag on the car. (A bundle
of thirty-nine keys was taken off one
of the men, it is said, and there were
key 8 that would unlock many of the
places of business in town.
Sheriff Culpepper preferred
•charges of driving an automobile with
out license and posessing liquor, and
held them until Monday. Edenfield
made bond, leaving ColMns in jail,
after which Collins became anxious,
and told the sheriff a long and com
plete story, verifying Mr. Culpepper’s
susoicious from the outset.
They will probably be tried at the
j May term of Superior court.
JUNIOR-SENIOR RECEPTION
A very delightful evening was
spent at the home of Mrs. G. W.
Lankford, on Friday, May 16, when
i the Juniors entertained the Seniors
I of Lyons High school.
The beautiful lawn of the Lank
ford home was charmingly decorated,
the winding pathways among the
shrubs and the conveniently lo
cated settes, rugs and heaps of sofa
pillows serving to atract the joyous,
and gaily dressed, young people on
leisurely strools neath the rays of the
smiling moon.
Intermingling with the laughter of
the girls and boys could be heard the
music from the Victrola or piano.
Punch was served on the lawn by
Misses Elizabeth Oliver, Vivian
Brown, Mary Sumner and Mary
Elma Aaron. These charming little
j ladies also served a delicious ice
I course later in the evening.
The guests included Misses Mary
Hunter, Louise Brown, Tommie Lil
Mason, Annie Lou Coleman, Lizzie |
Kate and Eunice Coursey, Elizabeth
Newton, Robbie Inman, Maude and
! Rebecca Wilson. Evelyn Wimberly,
Mary Frances Woodle, Gladys Aaron
1 Cleo Stanley, DeEtte Aaron, Florence
’Johnson, Gladys Stanley and Ruth
Moore. Messrs Alfred Newton, Lin
ton Inman, Loyd Jones, Winston
Ivey, Spencer Mcßride, Ray Peacock,
Alvin Sawyer, Harry Sutton. James
Inman, Estell Coursey, Walter Phan-
Happy Brown, Winston Jarriel and
Bvron Jarriel. Paul Jones, Lynwood
Thompson, William Oliver and
George Lankford.
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, it is necessary for the
health and civic pride of the City of
Lyons that the residents of said City
see that the streets and other places
are cleaned and beautified,
Therefore, I, R. L. Page, Mayor of
the said City of Lyons, do hereby
proclaim Thursday, May the 29th.,
j be, and the same is set aside as clean
up day, for said City, and all the
residents are requested to give said
day for the betterment of the City.
This the 20th. day of May, 1924.
R. L. PAGE, Mayor.
Subscription SI.OO
A FINE PROGRAM
TO BEJENDERED
HON. GEORGE H. CARSWELL ..TO
DELIVER BACCALAUREATE
ADDRESS—G. W. LANKFORD
TO DELIVER DIPLOMAS.
Commencement exercises of Lyons
High School will begin Sunday morn
ing with commencement sermon to
be preached by Rev. Theo Pharr.
Monday night, Miss Tippins’ music
class wall give a recital in which an
elaborate musical program, includ
ing instrumentals and songs and in
terspersed with readings, will be ren
dered.
The graduation exercises will fol
low on Wednesday night. Numbers
| will be rendered by each member of
the class, which indicate an unusu
ally interesting program.
Hon. George* H. Carswell, one of
Georgia’s present outstanding and
effective legislators, will deliver the
baccalaureate address Wednesday
night, and diplomas will be delivered
by Hon. G. W. Lankford, member of
the local school board and state sen
ator from this district.
The members of the graduating
class are Miss Louise Brown, Miss
Tommie Lil Mason, Miss Annie Lou
Coleman, Miss Mary Hunter and Mr.
Alfred Newton.
IN BAPTIST CHURCH CIRCLES
A. D. Woodle, Pastor
There was no preaching at the
Baptist church last Sunday, due to
the absence of the pastor, who was in
Atlanta attending the Southern Bap
tist Convention.
Next Sunday the pastor will
| preah at Pembroke.
The Womans Missionary Society
| held its monthly meeting last Mon
i day afternoon.
Food for Thought
To stay away from church is a vote
!to make the church fail. The failure
of the church would he an awful ca
lamity to any community. It would
corrupt moral life, disrupt our social
order, endanger business interests,
and threaten life itself. Are you
willing to assume responsibility for
such calamities? If not, do your
duty by your church.
Where is your wandering boy?
Perhaps he would e at church if you
had set him a good example by at
j tending, and magnifying the church.
The boy who is tied to the church is
| not likely to go astray.
| God is your father. He asks you
: to meet him at church.
“I was glad when they said unto
me, let us ?o into the house of the
j Lord.”—Ps. 122:1.
YANCEY CLUB
Miss Vann met with us on Friday
May the 16. Our members and of
ficers are as follows:
Blanche Reynolds, president.
Lola Mae Stroud, vice president.
Alice secretary and
treasurer.
Carrie Lou Smith, corresponding
secretary.
The members are as follows: Vel
ma Smith, Marie Stroud. Marie Stan
ley, Easter Hardy, Eveleyn Rey
nolds.
We are looking forth for a nice
club. Next meeting will be June
the 20th.
Carrie Lou Smith, Cor. Sec.
NOTICE! LOOK!
Everybody having relatives and
friends buried at Hardens Chapel
are urgently requested to meet here
on Friday, May 30th, for the pur
pose of cleaning off the cemetery.
Please bring tools as will be needed
and a lunch for dinner, as we expect
to be there all day. Don’t forget to
come.
CLOSED FOR SEASON
We will not accept any more meab
for curing until next fall.
Lyons Ice & Cold Storage Co,