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Vol 21. No 23
CHICKEN CAR TO
RUNSATURDAY
FUORTH POULTRY CAR TO RUN
ON SEABOARD PRICES ARE
LOWER FOR SATURDAY’S CAR
THAN ANY CAR BEFORE.'
Prices received for the chiken car
Saturday show that the poultry mar
ket has started dropping rapidly and
farmers having friers that are ready
for the market as well as hens that
they have culled out, should get them
off to market as soon as possible,
up the price paid in this car for Sat-
We have made every effort to push
urday, and though we believe the
price on hens should be a litt’e high
er as well as the price on friers, we
have not been able to get any one to
pay more, so that must be closer to
the market than we think.
Hens -18 c
Stags 18c
Friers 30c
Roosters 8c
The season is out for turkeys,
geese and ducks though they will pay
15c per pounds for turkeys, they do
not want them.
Another car will be run through
here June 21st., prices will natura'ly
drop lower especially on friers, so
get off all that you can this week.
There is little excuse for our raising
the late friers when we can have the
early ones just as easy. Our warm
early springs, when compared to the
weather in the North, is not of much
use to us un’ess we make use of it.
We can grow out the early friers
and get the fancy prices if we will
hatch our eggs in December, January
and February. After that time they
will begin to drop, though early
March hatched biddies will usually
hit a pretty good market too. Chick
ens hatched after that time should al
ways be figured as loosers as far as
the frier market is concerned.
Do not feed chickens on any kind
of grain the morning of the sale, but
give them a light mash feed.
A. R. KICKLITER OPENS CASH
GROCERY STORE THIS WEEK
Mr. A. R. Kickliter, who was
formerly in the grocvery business
here, has returned and opened a
grocery and feed business in the
O’Neal store, next to Estroff’s.
Mr. Kick’iter was a popular mer
chant and had a splendid line of
trade. He moved to Soperton a few
years ago and conducted a general
store. He happened to the misfor
tune of being burned out a few weeks
ago, and decided to enter business
again at Lyons. He will do a strict
ly cash business and will have no
delivery. He states that he will thus
be able to give the trade very at
tractive prices.
HORACE FLANDERS SUES
FOR SIO,OOO DAMAGES
SOPERTON, Ga., June 2.—Crosby
Williams, who shot Horace Flanders
because of editorials in his paper
fighting the whiskey traffic and
other evils of the county, is still at
large.
Attorneys for Flanders, E. D.
Graham of Mcßae, U. L. Giles, Jr.,
and Dr. Jackson of Soperton, fi’ed a
damage suit today against Williams
for SIO,OOO and attached the Will
iams store and other property here.
The store was closed immediately
after it was opened this morning.
The attorneys for Mr. Flanders an
nounce that they are going to fight
the criminal proceedings to the limit.
Mr. Flanders’ condition is much bet
ter this morning. The sheriff has
increased his deputy force to hunt
Williams.
EASTERN STAR TO MEET
NEXT WEDNESDAY
The Order of The Eastern Star
will hold a meeting at the Masonic
Hall next Wednesday afternoon at
4:30.
All members are requested to at
tend.
JPf Xtjom: §ragrm
PERMANENT ROADS FOR
GEORGIA
(Editorial)
The Progress is going to move
slowly and careful’y in advocating
or opposing questions in which the
general welfare of the state or com
munity is involved. The influence
of a life is a great responsibility,
but the responsibility of a newspaper
to the public for honest and sincere
presentation of questions of great
importance is far greater.
Assuming this responsibility to
our readers, much thought has been
given to the question of a state bond
issue for bui ding roads in Georgia,
and how this matter would affect
Toombs county. Thes tudy of this
question has led to some very defi
nite conclusions, and the readers of
the Progress are entitled to the ben
efit of this study.
Georgia is going to have a system
of good roads. Most states already
have them and every state is certain
to have them in time, including
Georgia. Our state can not afford
to lag behind in a thing so essential
to our progress and prosperity.
Some of our most far seeing
statesmen have long advocated gov
ernment ownership of railroads.
They did this because they under
stood the necessity and value of
cheap and quick transporation. The
coming of the motor vehicle wi’l for
ever solve tfiis question, and you will
hear very little henceforth about
government ownership. There will
be more miles of hard surface road
than there ever would have been of
railro'ads, and every shipper will fur
nish his own vehicle and make his
own schedule to suit his convenience.
Good roads are never built out of
surplus funds. None of the per
manet road systems that many of
the states now have were built with
money on hand. Neither were they
built with the money left after every
thing else had been taken care of.
Nor will you find good roads any
where which have been bui’t with
funds as they were received.
Every successful plan of road
building has been put over by bor
rowing the money and repaying it
in some manner proposed in adpot
ing the plan.
In view of these fact, Georgia is
going to submit to her votes a $70,-
000,000 bond issue for permanent
roads.
Toombs county will have an op
porunity, along with the other coun
ties of the state, to say where she
stands. Therefore, we must study
this question thoroughly, and in
passing on it, be good jurors and
give the right verdict after all the
evidence is in.
We can have the benefits of a
great system of permanent roads
without any increase in taxation.
This and some other features of the
proposed road plans will be discus
sed in these columns next week.
COUNTY CO-OPERATIVE CLUB
MEETS AT JOHNSON CORNER
The Co-operative C’ub met in
Johnson Corner School auditorium
Tuesday, May 27th, and was presid
ed over by its able president, Mrs. B.
F. Brown, Mrs. L. B. Godbee acted
as secretary. We were indeed de
lighted to have Club meet with us
and enjoyed the splendid program.
Mrs. Katie Lanier Smith, from Sa
vannah, Mr. E. T. Mcßride and Mrs.
Frank Darby, from Vidalia, spoke on
“Social Life in Rural Communities”.
The Woman’s Club furnished re
freshments, and the Girl’s Club serv
ed under Miss Vann’s supervision.
Johnson Corner won the prize of
fered for the best report.
We hope the Co-operative C'ub
gives us the pleasure of entertaining
them again soon.
Mrs. H. D. Youmans, Cor Sec.!
LADIES AUXILIARY TO
HOLD MEETING FRIDAY
The Ladies Auxiliary will hold a
called meeting next Friday after
noon at 4:00 at the City Hall. It is
essential that every member be pres
ent if possible. Important business
will be transacted. The session will
be short.
Mrs. F. M. SMITH, President.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TOOMBS COUNTY
LYONS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JUNE 5 1924
LYONS BOOSTER CLUB HOLDS
GOOD MEETING MONDAY NIGBT
LANDSCAPE GARDENER COMING
THIS WEEK—MISS JUEL JOHN
SON IS ELJECTED AS PIANIST
AND SONG LEADER.
The Lyons Booster Club held an
enthusiastic meet last Monday night
with Mr. S. J. Henderson acting as
president in the absence of the Pres
ident and Vice President. T. Ross
Sharpe was elected Marshall with au
thority to col ect a fine from each
Booster who fails to the prefix
“Booster” in speaking to the Chair
or to any member present during the
meetings.
The club voted unanmiously to ex
tend their thanks to Miss Tippins for
her work as pianist and song leader
and elected Miss Juel Johnson to that
;‘position.
'A new Program committe was ap
[ pointed for the month whose duty it
I is to see that interesting and helpful
j programs are planned ahead for each
meeting. This is very important as
the greatest good of the club wil
come from careful planning to get
things started and completed in
systematic order.
Mr. Sam Estroff will continue in
charge of Entertainment during this
month having made such a good one
so far.
The chair asked for a report to be
presented at the next meeting, on
cleaning up the town. Reference
was made to the exceptionally clean
condition of our sister town, Metter,
and surprise expressed at the condi
tion of trash and garbage here. It
is thought this committee will have a
thorough report ready for the next
time.
The Booster Auxi iary Club ex
pressed themselves as being glad to
serve the club regularly but thought
it advisable that, during the hot
months, they be relieved of all ex
cept Ladies’ night, so the club voted
to go back to the restaurant three
meeting each month and have the
ladies to entertain us once* a month.
The service that has been given by
the Auxilary Boosters has been high
ly pleasing to a’i the members of the
club and has been of much benefit
in building up the attendance of the
club. The committee of ladies that
prepared the supper this time were
Mesdames C. C. Mosley, F. M. Smith
C. C. Carrollton and G. W. Lankford.
A report was called for from the
Advertisement Committee, but they
were not ready. They were asked
to present some plan by the next
meeting, also Messrs Mac New and
Sam Estroff were added to the com
mittee which consists of Messrs S. J.
Browm, H. H. Ta'ley and J. P. Mc-
Natt.
A Landscape Gardener is expected
to be here some time during the
week to make plans for the City Park
and the Park Committee was asked
to meet him on arrival and go over
the plan s with him.
WASHINGTON, June 3.—By a
nonpartisan vote of 53 to 36 the Sen
ate today adpoted the House resolu
tion fixing 7 o’clock next Saturday
night for final adjournment of the
frist session of the sixty-eight Con
gress. /•
Republician and Democratic organ
ization leaders joined to put the reso
lution through carrying with them
thirty-four of the majority and nine
teen Democrat votes.
ATIANTA, Ga., June 3.—As a
result of President Coolidge’s ap
prova' of the tax reduction bill,
Georgians will save approximately
$1,250,000 on their 1924 tax pay
ments, acording to announcement
today by J. T. Rose, internal revenue
collector for Georgia. Savings on
other taxes affected by the bill will
run the total up to $3,500,000, Mr.
Rose estimated.
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 3.—The
long contest over the frist district
congressional seat was definitely set
tled yesterday when the House of
Representatives passed a resolution
C. & G. R. R. PUTS ON POUL
TRY CAR TO COLLINS
Such interest has been shown by
the farmers and others interested in
the advancement of the chicken in
dustry in the territory west of Sav
annah that the Collins and Glennville
Railroad, a short line, has put on a
poultry car to meet the cars at Col
lins operated from Americus to Sa
vannah by the Seaboard Air Line
Railway.
The first information relative to
the auxiliary car was received in
Savannah Monday by development
agents of the Seaboard system. It
is received as encouraging news
since the additional car reaching
new territory will add much to the
business transacted.
The fourth trip of the Seaboard
poultry car will be made on Satur
day along the same route as fol'owed
previously. The indications are
that the pounds of pou’try and var
iety this time will equal or exceed
the best °f the past three trips.
FARMERS BELIEVE COLD
HAS KILLED BOLL V/EEVIL
'ATLANTA, Ga.—Prepare to fight
the bo'l weevil with all the means
and all the speed on may command.
This, is effect, is the advice of the
insect investigators of the federal
department of agriculture, made pub
lic here today by agriculture agents
of the rai’roads, who, with other
agencies, are helping to rally the
forces that will do battle with the
bilhon-doßar bug.
The opinion is expressed by agents
of the department of agriculture
that many farmers are placing too
much confidence in the cold weather
of last January and are expecting a
lighter invasion of bol 1 weevils than
tfcey will actually experience this
year.
The farmers are all wtong, it ap
pears, for the latest information
shows that while the emergence
from hibernation will be genera ly
light, there will still be sufficient
weevils to do very serious damage in
almost all sections.
Laboratory Te*t Give* Prospects
Each fal 1 , according to entomolo
gists of the federal department of
agriculture, approximately thirty
thousand boll weevils are placed in
hibernation cages at Tallulah, Louis
iana. Percentges of weevils emerg
ing this year, in spite of co’l weath
er, the offcials report states, is
greater than was the case in either
1918 or 1919 and approaches close
ly that of 1917 and 1920. A s near
ly as can be predicted, the survival
wiili probably be higher than in 1917,
1918 or 1919, and will fairly close’y
approach that of 1920.
“The farmer who does not prepare
to fight the weevil now is merely
gambling on the weather during
July and August”, says an official
statement.
SUNDAY SCHOOL NOTICE
DANIEL ASSOCIATION
■ ■ 1
On account of the continued ill
ness of our secretary, H. M. Flanders
the Sunday School Convention of the
Daniel Baptist Association which was
to have been held with Soperton
Baptist Church on June 11 and 12
will be postponed indefinitely.
D. R. JACKSON,
Vice President.
declaring Congressman R. Lee Moore
entitled to it, finally disposing of
the claims brought by Don H. C ark.
The resolution was unanimously re
ported by elections commitee No. 2, a
news dispatch from Washington last
night stated, and was adopted by the
House.
Mr. Clark has maintained that he
was justly entitled to the seat in
Congress, carrying the fight before
that body itself, where it was trans
ferred to the elections committee
for investigation and recommends-,
tion. r __ ___ I
BONNIE CREST OPENED
SATURDAY FOR BUSINESS
Bonnie Crest Filling station was
opened for business Saturday, and
had a surprisingly good day. The
management report that they are
delighted with the showing of the
i frist few days, and appreciate the
! generous patronage which they have
j received.
Bonnie Crest is a beuty spot on the
main business thoroughfare, filling
a gaping vacancy with a thing of
utility and attractiveness.
Mr. Sheldon McDi'da, a populor
young man who knows how to give
that kind of service that satisfies, is
in charge.
600 CARS TO MOVE VEGE
TABLES ALONG A. B. Sl A. RY.
ATIjANTA, Ga., —Vegetable crops
covering nearly 3,000 acres that wil 1
require more than 600 acres to move
them are now being grown along the
| line of the A. B & A. railroad south
lof Cordele, with the exception of
Brunswick, according to reports re
ceived here today from G. B. Eunice,
agricultural development agent of the
road. Most of the truck, early var
ieties of which are already beginning
to move to eastern markets, wil! be
produced in six counties in South
Georgia within a radius of fifty
miles.
The following summary of all the
vegetables grown in the territory
mentioned is as follows.
Coolidge, a total of 396 acres,
divided as fol'ows: Corn 140 acres;
tomatoes, 50 acres; cucumbers, 75
acres; beans, 30 acres; big stem Jer
sey potatoes, 100 acres. Estimated
railroad cars needed 81.
Norman Park, a total of 288
acres, divided as follows: Tomatoes,
150 acres; cucumbers, 88 acres, can
taloupes, 50 acres. Estimated num
ber of cars 56.
Omega, a total of 470 acres, as
follows: Lima beans, 20 acres; corn
200 acres; cantaloupes, 175 acres,
cucumbers, 60 acres. Estimated
number of cars 89.
Mystic, a total of 140 acres, as
fol’ows: Corn, 100 acres; tomatoes,
40 acres. Estimated cars 20.
Fitzgerald, a total of 300 acres,
as follows: Tomatoes 100 acres; J.
B. Clements; cantaloupes, 150 acres,
I corn 50 acres. Estimated cars 65.
Ambrose, a total of 40 acres, as
follows: Irish potatoes, 20 acres; to
matoes 20 acres. Estimated cars 8.
Douglas, a total of 700 acres, as
fo'lows: Cucumbers, 400 acres; big
stem Jersey potatoes, 300 acres.
Estimated cars 140.
Bolen, a total of 35 acres, sa fol
lows: Corn, 30 acres; Irish potatoes,
I 5 acres. Estimated cars 7.
Offerman, a total of 150 acres, as
follows: All in corn. Estimated
! cars 30.
Rebecca, a otal of 30 acres, as fol
lows: Tomatoes, 20 acres; beans, 10
acres. Estimated cars 5.
Brunswick, a tota’ of 25 9acres,
!as follows: Lettuce, 20 acres; toma
toes, 200 acres; beans 2 acres; cu
cumbers, 22 acres; peper 15 acres.
Estimated cars 121.
PARKER CLUB NEWS
Miss Vann met with us Saturday,
May 31, and we made our aprons.
The fourth Monday was our regular
meeting day, but Miss Vann could
not be with us and so Saturday wa3
an extra meeting.
Five of our members were absent,
and we trust that they all will be
present the next meeting day, fourth
Monday in June.
Our plants are growing nicely,
and some of the girls will soon have
ripe tomatoes.
Mary Estelle Brinson,
Cor. Sec.
BLUE RIDGE CLUB NEWS
Mis s Vann met with us Thursday,
May 29th, and we girls were very
“busy making our aprons. Attend
ance was very good, and we think our
meeting day wi’l be more regular
now, as we have changed our meet
ing day to the second Tuesday in ev
ery month.
Would be glad to have any of our
. friends to come out and be with us.
Lucile Moore, Cor. Cec.
Subscription SI.OO
FOUR TEACHERS
SELECTED
AT A MEETING OF THE SCHOOL
BOARD HELD FRIDAY NIGHT
—ONLY ONE NEW TEACHER
IS ELECTED.
At a meeting of the School Board
Friday night, four other teachers
were elected for next school term.
Miss Bessie Davis was elected for
the frist grade; Miss Emmie Martin
for the fifth grade; Miss Cassie
Youmans for the third grade.
Miss Davis was formerly first
grade teacher, and her many friends
and patrons of that year will be glad
to have her return.
Miss Youmans was socond grade
teacher the past year, but indicated
that she preferred to teach in North
Georgia, which caused her election
at this ’ater date. It is deemed
fortunate for the school that she has
reconsidered.
Miss Martin comes very highly
recomended.
Miss Milholland, a member of the
High School faculty, tendered her
resignation.
Miss Nellie Lou Tippins was re
elected as music teacher for the
ensueing term. Miss Tippins had a
successful year in that department,
having one among the largest classes
in the history of the school.
GOVERNORS OF 11 STATES
WORK ON HIGHWAY
Governors of eleven States invited
to swing picks on two “free days” in
which 1,500 persons contributed their
services toward putting in condition
mountain seations of the Eeastern
Dixie Highway, a through route south
from Cincinnati to Cumberland Gap,
gave their services free. Representa
tives of 247 banks, 152 hotels and
civic c’ubs in cities on the route from
the Ohio River to St. Petersburg and
Miami, Fla., participated in the work
of reconstructing these sections of
the route.
The Governors of Kentucky, In
diana, lillinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Ohio, Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, and Florida help
ed to construct a mile on each “free
day.” The volunteers gathered at
Pineville, Ky., to work on a stretch
between Corbin and Barbourville.
The next day was devoted to work
between Roundstone and Berea.
LYONS WATERS SHOWS
EXCELLENT FOR DRINKING
According to a report on city
water from the State Board of
Health, Lyons has excellent water.
The letter follows:
Mr. C. P. Odom,
Lyons Ice & Cold Storage Co.,
Lyons, Georgia.
Dear Sir:-
I wish to make the fo'lowing re
port on samples of water collected
on May 20:
Samples Nos. 1935 to 1937, as
listed, show at this time a very ex
cellent water.
I am enclosing results of analysis.
Yours very truly,
H. C. WOODFALL,
Chief Engineer.
COUNTY OFFICERS GATHER
SAVANNAH, Ga., May 29.—The
Georgia County Officers Association
with approximately 200 here from
all parts of the State, spent today on
a boat trip to Beaufort, S. C., with
refreshments on board and a big din
ner The second day of
the convention, tomorrow, will be the
business period. All business will be
transacted, including e’ection of of
ficers.
W. L. Grayson, of Savannah, will
preside. Judge Roscoe Luke, pro
gramed for an address, wired good
wishes and regrets that he cannot be
here. The entire party will join the
bar association at Tybee tomorrow
afternoon. The local motor club
will convey the officers over the
“million do’lar” highway to the
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