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- The Lyons Progress -
The Official Organ of Toombi County.
OFFICE PHONE NO. 19.
C. C. MOSELEY LESSEE and EDITOR
C. G. GARNER OWNER
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CLEAN-UP DAY
Elsewhere in this issue of the Pro
gress will be found a proclamation
by the Mayor of the city declaring a
clean-up day.
The idea of a clean, healthy and
beautiful city appeals to every citi
zen who has any worthwhile interest
in the town and should enlist the
support of all such citizens. The
Progress has that confidence in the
citizenry of Lyons that believes that
they would heartliy respond to a
practicable plan to meet the utmost
requirements of the city in this res
pect.
While the Progress attributes to
the Mayor and Council the best and
most sincere intentions in their action
taken with respect to this matter,
there is very little that can be done
o make successful the plan carried in
this proclamation.
The idea of a clean-up day must
be very rare, if not entirely new. The
experiences of all communities who
have undertaken this kind of thing,
according to our observation, has
been such as to dictate a ampaign of
publicity and preparation leading up
to a period suffiently long to allow
for a thorough renovation of the
community.
The Progress entertains the opin
ion that, in considering this matter,
the city authorities did not weigh
carefully its importance and relation
to prosperity and well-being of the
people, nor give proper regard to the
fact that the community would take
the matter seriously and give it whole
hearted support, with assurance of
gratifying results. There is scarce
ly an organization in the city but
would have lent to the enterprise its
entire influence and support, but
little can be expected to be done in i
a day, besides sweep the yards and
probably remove a few weeds that
have been overlooked.
Another thing which seems to
have escaped the attention of the
city authorities in dealing with this
matter is that the city, itself, has
the biggest job to handle. The ap
pearance of private premesis, .as a
rule, show’ up the public streets and ,
alleys at a decided disadvantage, j
leaving very little praise to be claim
ed by the city authorities for its
tidiness.
The Progress believes that the
action taken should be reviewed in
the light of these suggestions, and
the matter given the serious consid
eration to which it is entitled.
WHERE Df' T r »FOPLE
COME FROM?
Where do little people come from?
Why, right out of themselves.
There are big men who who have
risen out of the most unpromising
circumstances, and little men have
grown us where everything favpred
a great life. '
Big people are not always rich;
often they are very poor. Neither
are little men always poor. There
are very wealthy men who are so
small in the scale of human interests
that they don’t weigh an ounce.
Neither wealth nor poverty make
men big or little, but the soul with
in.
Just as the blood is the life of the
body, so is the spirit the Hfe of the
character.
To every man is committeed the
task of building for himself a char
acter for his spirit to live in, a tem
porary home for the soul. An ele
phant e&n not make his home in an
ant hill; neither can a big heart beat
in the breaA of a little old scowling,
scorning, hating, envious man. When
a man finds himself out with the
world and everything, there is only
one thing for him to do: draw up a
new set of plans for his own life,
"•'U ’ ’ himself a bigger character and
let his soul move into quarters where
it will not be cramped and can deve
lop into the proportions of a real
life.
Little people come right out of
themselves.
SHOULD A NEWSPAPER LIMIT
ITS SCOPE
It is no business of the Progress’
how you run your farm, wrhat you
plant, how you cultivate your crops
or, in fact, how you run yojjr bsi
ness.
In one sense this might be true.
But, if it were true altogether, then
you might complete the idea and say
that it is nobody’s business whether
you make money or loose money,
whether you are sick or well, wheth
er your schools and churches are
flourishing or running down, or
whether anyone thought of you or
sympathised with you in any of your
success and adversities.
The truth of the matter is we are
all deeply affected by the interests
of our neighbors.
The Progress is glad to write up
the success of an individual or a
community in any enterprise or un-'
dertaking; glad to tell the world of
the splendid things accomplished by
is vast number of readers. It will
continue to do this every time it sees
a single opportunity to boost pro
gress and prosperity.
If we may note the things that
help, to be perfectly fair,, we should
also note the things that hinder.
The Progress trusts, therefore -that,
suggestions and criticisms found in
its columns will he read in the light
and writh the understanding that they
are prompted by a spirit of co-oper
ation and helpfulness, and invites
discussion of such matters as will be
of mutual benefit to its readers and
the people as a whole.
PICNIC AT GORDON’S BRIDGE
The Ohoopee School closed Friday
May 16, with a picnic at Gordan’s
Bridge. There W’ere quite a number
who attended the picnic, the crowd
being estimated at about 125.
The P. T. A. Club furnished free
lemonade, also fish. We earned the
fislj to the picnic ground and fried
them down there. This reminded us
more of an old time fish fry, than a
school closing picnic. The ladies
looked after the fish frying and lem
onade making, while most of the
young folks went in bathing. It was
a bit cool for bathing, but neverthe
less they enjoyed the water just the
same.
We spread dinner about 2 o’clock,
and the table oh, boy. It didn’t look
like hard times in this part of Toombs
County. Everybody enjoyed them
selves to the fullest extent. After
dinner, the young folks returning to
the water for another bath, and, of
course, thee rowd followed them to
see them swin, dive and duck each
other. After an enjoyable hour at
the water, everybody began to de
part for home, wishing for another
day like this in the near future.
We had a most successful term of
school, the primary teacher award
ing some of her puipLs prizes. They
■ . wer e given for regular attendance,
| good average, etc. The prize win
ners were little Odom Anderson, Au- (
thor Meadows and William Hum
phries. Little Annie Ruth McCul
lough, Evola Franklin and Nettie
i Blalock. The boys received gold
j knives and. the girls gold pencils.
We all hope for another successful
| term.
NOTICE
The books are now open for re
ceiving tax returns of the City of
Lyons for year 1924, and will close
on June Ist.
All real estate located In blocked
section of city must be returned by
BLOCK AND LOT NUMBERS;
otherwise returns will not be ac
cepted.
By order of Mayor and Council,
this 14th day of May, 1924.
2t. F. F. GODDj\RD, City Clerk
THE LYONS PROGRESS, LYONS, GEORGIA,
FARM
STOCK, NEWS
BY C. G. GARNER, County Agent, and MISS WILLIE MAE VANN,
Home Demon-tration Agent.
(C. G. Garner)
Poultry Car Again Successful
The poultry car that passed here
last Saturday secured 2907 pounds
of poultry for which they paid $672.-
28 at Lyons. That was the highest
of all points from Americvxs to Sa
vannah. Vidalia had .her, v poultry
split as the Georgia and Florida car
loaded 361 pounds there Ist Friday
afternoon and the Seaboard car load
ed 7ißpounds Saturday. As yet I
have not heard what the Ohoopee
weight and receipts were. This
makes a total of right at 15,500
pounds of poultry these cars have
moved out of this county and the
farmers have received a little over
$3,000 for their poultry. This money
has been scattered a few dollars
each among a great many farmers
and so has been of inestimable bene
fit to many.
Next Seaboard Poultry Car June 7.
The next Seaboard poultry car
will pass through Vidalia, Lyons and
Ohoopee Saturday, June 7th. Fryers
should, by all means, be ready for
this sale as the Tennessee and west
ern fryers will begin to come into
the market centers in large quali
ties soon after that time and the mar
ket will very probably go down rap
idly. We could hardly expect that
the same good price we have been
getting for hens and friers will hold \
until the,7th of June, but we are as- |
sured of getting the market what- :
ever it is at that time.
Fryers should not be confined
more than ten days before a sale and ;
fed a soft wet rtiash but they can be j
fed separately and rushed from now
until the time you shut them up and
make them ewight as near two
pounds as possible.
Marketing Report for April
Farmers of Toombs county have :
cooperated in the following pur-:
chases and sales with the resulting i
saving as shown.
60 bbls. Blackstrap molasses at:
21.2 c per gal. $686.88 —Savings at
$121.12.
7 two row cotton dusters at $60.00
and frieght $420.00 —Savaings at
$140.00.
Seaboard Poultry Car 6486 lbs.
$1343.00 —Savings at $194.58.
Georgia & Florida Car 725 lbs. 1
$125.00 —Savings at $21.75.
Totals $2,576.88 —Savaings aft
$477.45. |
We figured the poultry saving at '
3c per lb. which was the average over
the local market for hens but the j
saving on the friers was nearly 10c
per pound. The saing on the two [
row T cotton dusters does not take in- |
to consideration a sls reduction in
one machine that is being sold in this .
county and a $lO reduction in an
other as a result of this cooperative i
order.
Miss Vann has worked equally as.
hard on these poultry sales as I have, :
but we both could not have made the
outstanding success they have been
without the cooperation of the far
mers and the merchants. We es
pecially want to thank the merchants
for their unselfish and whole heart
ed cooperation in all three of the
tow’ns t,h»t were touched by the Sea
board.
Early Mopping of Cotton
The early application of a mixture
of 1 gallon of molasses, one gallon
of water and 1 pound of calcium ar
senate should be applied directly in
the bud of the cotton when the first
small forms appear and before the
squares are large enuogh for the
w’eevils to puncture. That will ne
cessitate applying the mixture when
the forms first appear in the field.
This should be repeated in a week to
ten days later. The squares should
then be picked up until the first
blooms. If the mixture is applied
properly there should be very few
squares to pick up but it is import
ant that they be picked up and burn
ed. Then after the first blooms
watch the fields closely and as soon
as the weevils show up dust the
places he starts three times four
days apart. If he shows up over the
field dust the whole field that way.
These three applications of dust
should hold the weevils until late
July or nearly August when you will
very probably need two more appli
cations of dust.
DeLoach Dusting Method
For those wanting to use the De-i
' Loach method which is a very slight
modification of the Government
method 1 will repeat it again. As
■ soon as the squares appear dust
. three time for days apart using
; three, four and then five pounds of
dust to the acre. Pick up squares
until the frist blooms appear. There
■ should be very few if the cotton is
r thoroughly dusted. If all the cotton
. in a given community is dusted that
[ way no further dusting should be
, needed but unfortunately there are
5 hundreds of farmers who do not want
l to dust in this county so you will
. have to watch where the weevils are.
first starting in your fields and dust
, those places, then give two or even
, three more dustings of the field in
. late July or early August to protect
, j your young bools from your neigh
j bors weevils.
U»e Two Row Dusters
Those intending to dust more than
ten acres of cotton should by all
means use one of the many makes of,
♦■•vo row dusters now on the market, j
T is so much easier to operate one of |
'bese machines and the hand ma-j
chines are hard to use, especially as- j
ter a man has done a hard days I
flowing. The two row machines
be run all night and should dust
r ’ ut 15 acres each night.
Did You Plant Early Porto Ricans
Several farmers in this county
; were planning to plant a large crop
!of early Porto Ricans to come off ,
\ during July. Llease send your name ;
and date of planting as well as
amount you planted to me at once if |
j you did plant early porto ricans. The j
July market should be good this year
due to the fact that very few early ;
ones (were planted and I want to j
keep in touch with those who plan
i to shin early.
Get Your Hogs Treated Now
Get your pigs and light shoats
i treated for cholera and swine plague
:at once. This county lost in the
! neighborhood of $100,000.00 worth
| of hogs last year due to careless in
i net having the young pigs treated
soon after weaning. If treated at
, that time the cost is very low- and
I they will be immune for their aver
! age life, from cholera. The swine
I plague treatment will usually last
j about ninety days and should be re
j peated at that time.
(Miss Willie Mae Vann)
Home Canning Up-to-date
By Rena M. Farrell
Some Canning in (America prob
! ably began with fruits. With the
> invention of the Mason Jar just
| prior to the Civil War, Home Can
! ning took a decided jump in popu
larity. Away back in 1850 the new
patented jar with the rubber ring
; feature and the convenient screw top
j seemed easy as compared with the
old-fashioned stone crocks and glass
[ jars which had to be sealed with wax
to make them air tight.
In the latter part of the Nineteenth
Century, the idea of canning vegeta
bles at home began to take root with
enthusiastic home makers and the
Agricultural Colleges and bacterio
i logists were able to develop through
i their increased knowledge of bac
(terial science a system of processing
j that would effectively destrop spores
| and germs and insure the safe-keep
ing of the contents of the jar.
Today we see Home Canning car
ried to even further stages. Not
only is fruit and vegetable canning
popular but the preserving of the
family meat supply in glass, the can
ning of odds and ends, the preparing
of soup mixtures, party lunches and
after-theatre suppers is becoming
popular.
On the farm the importance of
canning becomes evident. It is very
difficult to keep fresh meat without
an adequate ice supply. Home Can
ning solves the problem. Much
meat is lost through a sudden change
of weather after killing and often
the family consumes too much meat
in order to save it. Home Canning
makes for a balanced diet, increased
health and a consistent food supply
throughout the year.
The Dietitians and Food Chemists
tell us that a family ration with too!
great proportion of meat (protein)
is not desirable from the disgestivo
point of view. The woman who
! lives in a large city or town wil’ fm-* J
j her home markets the year round,
I fresh fruits and vegetables to sup
| ply the neccessary elements of diet. J
|lf markets are inferior or she lives
in the country, the canning shelf with
its beets and beans, corn and toma
j toe?, spinach and other greens, will
, make her a veritable “winter gar
: den” and balance the family ration
along with her shelves of home
canned meats.
Canning should be done with a def
inite aim in view. It is really mar
; keting for the future. The food put
] up each season should be planned to
, meet some definite need syhich has
, been forseen in advance. Merely
! filling a shelf with fruits, vegetables,
! and meats, as. they come along is
really purposeless canning, some
! times a waste of good time and ma
: terial, and so far from advancing the
i art of canning—often actually tends
, to destroy it, as no human activity
' can thrive unless it is successful and
| appreciated, and fills a definite
| place in the family scheme of things,
i It is possible by planning intelli
gently to make the year’s budget
one of the most interesting and prof
(itable of the household activities. A
friend of mine w'ho cans just- this
, way, calls her cellar store of pre
serves her “food bank.” Surely a
thrifty expression and what a pay and
comfort it is to her! Some of the
most delicious meals I have ever eat
en were withdrawn at a minute’s
notice from her “food bank.”
She cans corn and tomatoes, and
mided vegetables diced and ready to
add to the soup stock to make veget
able soups,—baby beets, tomatoes
canned whole, or any preferred com
bination of vegetables which need
only to be chilled and arranged on
lettuce leaves to make delicious and
attractive salads. She cans mince
meat and also windfall apples, so
much better canned than dried for pie
fillings, and an almost unlimited as
sortment of fruits and heavy syrups
using the syrup to flavor fruit, gel
atine, jellies; and to make sauces for
puddings, etc.
For an emergency shelf of’canned
meats she always plans to have a few
jars of combinations of meats and
vegetbles, stews and her New Eng
land boiled dinner is just the best
ever when she opens a jar of nice,
tender, juicy corned beef, cabbage
cooked just right ar.d turnips, pars-!
nips, carrots and potatoes all blend-1
ed into a delicious dinner.
Whether canning for emergencies,
for entertaining, for gifts, or to s ave
surplus food, —the purpose is one and
the same, a thrifty home making pro
gram in addition to which one has the
supreme satisfaction of having done
it all one’s self.
CEDAR CROSSING NEWS
Rev. Earl Grace preached an in
teresting sermon at the Methodist
church Sunday morning and Sunday
night.
Miss Adrain Jones was the guest
of little Janie Bland Sunday.
We are sorry to note the illness of
Mrs. J. S. O’Neal. Hope she will
soon be well again.
Mr. Emory Gray and Mr. Joe
Henry Wolf passed through our sec
tion Sunday P. M.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. McCorkle an
nounce the birth of a girl thp 16th.
Mr. Dolphus Phillips passed
through our section last Tuesday.
Little Janie Bland visited her
grandmother, Mrs. L. J. Wynn, of
Swainsboro, Ga., last week.
Mrs. L. J. Wynn and daughter, Mrs
George Childers, Miss Virgina and
Lyda Childers and Mr. John Smith
of Swainsboro were the guests of her
daughter, Mrs. H. M. Bland Sunday.
Quite a large crowd attended
preaching here Sunday and Sunday
night. 1
' I
It All Depend*
At the marriage altar he agrees to
endow her with .all his worldly goods
and she promises to love; honor and
obey—but do they make good?
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Drue*i;ts refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails
m cure Jwhing. Blind, Bleeding or Promidins Piles,
mscantl/ relieves Itching Piles, and you can get
restful sleep after the first aDoUcatioo. PncoOOe
Colds Cause Grip and Influenza
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove
the cause. There is only one "Bromo Quinine.'
E. W. GROVE'S signature <*n box. 30c.
A TONIC
drove’s Tasteless chill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
Enriching the Elood. When you feel its
Strengthening, invigorating effect, see how
it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
Grove s Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even children like it. The blo<sd
needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invigor
ating Effect. 60c i
NARROW HEMSTITCHING,
WIDE HEMSTITCHING,
AND PECOTING;
KNIFE AND ACCORDION
PLEATING ON STEAM
AND ELECTRIC MACHINES;
CLOTH-COVERED BUTTONS
IN THIRTEEN STYLES. ; ,
ALL THIS IAM PREPARED TC
> DO WITH MY MODERN
MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT.
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT
’ ATTENTION.
MRS. R. If. BURROUGHS
CLAXTON, GEORGIA
BUHl: 11
MRfc, I every meal
It stimulates
IQr appetite and
I aids digestion.
!4 crj. j I* makes your
food do you more
UnliiiifiiiiifHniiiiiriiK good. Note how
It relieves that stuffy feeling
.Iter krutt
CONSTIPATION
Is the parent of nearly
all other ills
DR. G. B. WILLIAM’S
LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS
A Natural Treatment
For Stubborn Livers
Gently urge the bowels to natural
action and leave the syßtem in a strong,
well regulated condition.
They are not habit forming and do
not gripe, sicken or salivate.
Especially recommended
for constipation, bilious
ness, indigestion, back
ache and kidney and liver
complaints.
Full Directions on every package.
At Your Druggist's
PRICE
25c
\ Money back without question
\! if HUNT’S GUARANTEED
I j SS3N DISEASE REMEDIES
WJJ J fcAf (Hunt’s Salve and Soap) v fail in
I Yi the treatment of Itch, Eczema,
j/j Ringworm, Tetter or other itch
ing skin diseases. Try this
treatment at our risk.
New Lyons Pharmacy
A. L. Mosley, Prop.
When The Big “Filter” Fail*
Skin and eyes yellow, mind and
body slowed up and wearied by poi
sons, thatls when the liver, the “big
filter” of the system is torpid and
congested. Chamberlain’s Tablets
for stomach, liver and bowels change
all that, easily and pleasantly, oveir
night. Feel fine next day. Only
25c.
VIRILE STRENGTH
IN EVERY BOTTLE
No need to have Malaria, Chills
and Fever. Colds or La Grippe.
Nor to feel all run down and un
able to enjoy your food.
101 TONIC
The Greatly IMPROVED Tonic
will help you amazingly. There
is no other tonic like it. Great §
hosts blesa its efficacy.
At Your Druggist**
PRICE 25c
666
is a Prescription for folds, Fever and
I.aGrippe.. It’s (lie most speedy rem
edy we know, preventing Pneu m onia.