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S vGLUME XXV. > mmmmmmmmmtmmmmammmmmom k CHICKEN SALE FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY The next chicken sale for Thomson will be pulled off next Wednesday, May 7th. Attention is called to the announce ment of the sale in this issue of The Progress, which will be found on the fifth page. These sales are attracting a great deal of attention throughout this sec tion. Those who have patronized the previous ones declare they get better prices for their chickens, and that they have the advantage of selling all kinds of fowls, thus giving them the opportunity of culling out their flocks. Be sure to read the announcement and patronize the merchants who are making the advertising of the sale possible. The McDuffie County Democratic Executive Committee met at the court house last Saturday to recount the votes for County Superintendent of Schools which were polled in the primary election of March 19th. The recount gave the following results, after the Thomson vote was thrown out; M. W. Dunn 194 B. F. Fuller 315 E. B. Lazenby 265 After the results were determined, the committee declared Mr. Fuller the nominee. Revival Services At M. E. Church Close Friday. Today (Friday) brings to a close the great gatherings at the Meth odist church, which have been in progress for the last two weeks— but the revival still lingers. It«was a beautiful sight to see the offices, shops and business houses close at 10 o’clock and the great throng of men and women hurrying to the church to join in the services. Dr. Fraser goes home today, but his memory, the influences of his wonderful messages, will remain. Thirty-one had united with the church up to Thursday evening, who will be received Sunday morning. Several others are expected to be added to this list. There has been that beautiful spirit of cooperation that God could smile on, and we trust that this is only the beginning of God’s glorious work in Thomson. J- T. P. THOMSON EASILY DEFEATS SHAMROCK. Shamrock went down before the Thomson High team last Friday to the tune of 13 to 2. Thomson expected a tough pull with the Augusta boys, and at the opening of the game it looked like it would be a one-sided affair, for Shamrock made her two runs in the first of the game. But after that Thomson tore their hopes into shreds by piling up six runs in one inning and then adding on to the score run after run till the lucky number 13 was reached. Thomson has a good team and it is doubtful if any of the semi’s in this section are going to be able to hold them a light. The boys go down to Augusta to day to give Shamrock another try out. AT BAPTIST CHURCH. Next Sunday will be “Roll Call” day at the Baptist church. Regular services will be held in the morning at which hour the pastor will preach on “Why I Am a Baptist.” Dinner will be served at the church at 2:30 P. M. A church conference will be held and a roll of the members, old and young, will be called. Every member is expected to come and bring dinner and answer to their name at the afternoon meeting. At night the pastor will preach on “What It Means To Believe.” Let us make this a great day in the his tory of our church. Device Calms Waves To calm rough waters around ships caught in storms, a southern man has invented a spreader that sprays all over a large area around the vessel Pumped front a tank on deck, the '’'t'• passes far out from the boat to tin brella-like devii-es of canvas that ar ' set ffo.it n ike sea. PEOPLE TO BE ENTERTAINED WITH LECTURES, MUSIC AND PLAYS. Young folks, old folks, everybody ome! Where? Why, to the Chautauqua, of course It's to be held in Thomson May 2nd, 3rd and 5th, every after noon and night, in the big khaki tent tn the Government lot next to thrasher & Wilkerson’s. Reports from along* the line where he Chautauqua has been held this year announce it the best ever. A raried program, guaranteed to please each number of the famliy is prom ised. Friday comes the Plymouth Male quartet, a fine group of singers who have been with the Radcliffe organi zation four seasons. They are sing- . rs and instrumentalists, and give two top-notch programs. Dr. Harry Hibschman, Friday’s speaker, is a writer and lawyer as well as lecturer. His afternoon talk .n “That Something Within,” and his evening talk on “Broken Barriers” u - e said to be real intellectual treats. Rip Van Winkle, a four act classic, is to be given Saturday night by the Sprague players. The lovable vaga bond, Rif), is played by Herbert Sprague, who has played the part more than 3000 times, and is conceded the best Rip on the American stage today. He wears the crown of Jos eph Jefferson very gracefully. In the afternoon the Spragues, who are ably supported by Miss Eunice Diller and Mr. John Steine, perform a one-act comedy, “The Duel.” Saturday’s speaker is Dr. Daniel H. Martin. His afternoon • talk is “The End of the Rainbow,” and his evening subject “The Dawn of Civi lization.” He is a forceful speaker of pleasing personality. Monday is Fathers’ and Sons’ day. Then Dr. Albert M. Hyde, Chautau- ’qua director, will speak in the after noon on “That Old Gang of Mine,” and in the Evening on “The Better Tomorrow.” His talks are gripping. The musical feature Monday is a series of two concerts by the Clarke Novelty Company. Mrs. Edith M. Clarke is a former Keith vaudeville star and can play almost any instru ment under the sun. Her assistant, Miss Irene Soule, has a beautiful j soprano voice of lyric quality. The Chautauqua is a community project. It was brought here by a group of public-spirited men and women, anxious for Thomson to have the very best there is in entertain ment. Season tickets are now being sold at $2.00 for adults, and $1.00 for children. Single admissions are 75 cents for grownups and 25 cents for children afternoons and 35 cents for evenings. Get your tickets now and be a booster! PARENT-TEACHERS TO MEET TUESDAY, MAY 6TH. The last Parent-Teachers meeting for the present school term will be held at the school auditorium Tues day afternoon, May 6th, at three o’clock. The following program has been arranged: Subject: Education’s Responsibil ity for Parenthood. Community Singing. Child Training—Mrs. Ira E. Farm er and Rev. C. C. Kiser. Reading—Mrs. W. C. McCom- mons. Parents and the School—Mrs. Kate Houston. Piano Solo—Martha Harrison. BOXING MATCH AT ATHLETIC CLUB FRIDAY NIGHT. There will be another boxing match at the Athletic Club Friday light, this one to be contested by Baxter Roper and Hubert Baker. Young Roper defeated Jones last Friday night in a boxing bout. The boys enjoy these bouts and expect to have something of the kind on the program during the summer months. Road Tax Notice, Road tax is now due and can be paid for $1.50 if paid on or before May 10th. After that date $2.00 to erybody. See the collector or call at my office and pay before the 10th ,nd save money. G. W. LOKEY, Ordinary McDuffi: ^eurty. DR. ALBERT MARION HYDE A great lecturer who ha*' awoken before hundreds of Chautauqua audiences in practically every slate. THE SPRAGUE PLAYERS WITH HERBERT SPRACUE • s An All-Star Cast of professional actors, presenting "The Duel" and an artistic ro* • -' a masterpiece—RIP VAN WINKLE. CLARKE NOVELTY COMPANY DR. DANIEL H. MARTIN Unusual programs of readings, soprano and ct Ho solos, xylophotio selections and the fascinating Musical Lyre. An eloquent snonkor nlin Tim Chautauqua's Icailinq artist on tlu< bandies his subjects with beautiful silver-toned Swiss Hand Bells, more than the usual bril liance and clarity of t houglit THE PLYMOUTH MALE QUARTETTE Standard and popular male quartette music by well blended voices. Impersonations, soIoh, instrumental eusemblen and special musical features. For many years one of the most popular lectures on the \mrneun platform l*oeau.*»e of his masterful presenta tion of reul messages. CHAUTAUQUA SUPERINTENDENTS SIDELIGHTS ON CHAUTAUQUA. By Lucile Dvorak. A genial smile, fine tenor v'oice, and enviable swimming record. All are possessed by Bill Payne, good- natured first tenor with the Plymouth Male Quartet, which gives two pro grams Friday at the Radcliffe Chav.- tauqua. The tent is pitched on the site of the new postofficc. This is Bill’s first year on the Chautauqua platform, but ever since he v.as knee-high to a duck’s instep he’s been singing. It’s all due to his friend, Led Sulli van, he says. Leo is the basso-pianist in the quartet. “Leo and I have known each other since pre-school days,” says Payne. “He’s played the piano all his life, and used to lispingly ask me to sing with him, which I did.” Both boys made their premiere in Boston while in knee-pants. Does Bill play musical instru ments? Just the uke and the drum. His ambition is to sing in musical comedy. He’s a very easy-going chap, and disclaims any trend toward the art istic temperament. “I have no patience with it,” he exclaims. “Artistic temperament— bah; it’s just another name for bad temper.” Ballads and sentimental songs ap peal to Bill more than jazz. And he declares there are no songs like the old ballads. Bill’s eyes are blue, his hair a curl ing black. And—secret—he never wore a bow tie before this season. With Dr. Harry Hibschman and the other members of the Plymouth Male Quartet, Payne leaves Saturday for Edgefield, S. C. A CONTEST FOR YOU, BOYS AND GIRLS. By Lucile Dvorak. Get out your pencils and papers, and put on your thinking caps. Chautauqua will be held in Thom son Friday, Saturday and Monday. Chautauqua is just another word for “good time.” You’ll all want to be present, for there is much there to interest you all. Here are four lines of a five-line limerick. Add a last line to rhyme with the first two. The three judged best by the Chautauqua superintend ent, Miss Lucile Dvorak, will be read at Chautauqua Saturday night. Leave them at the door of the tent when you come to Chautauqua Friday and Saturday. Chautauqua is held in a tent. Last season we children all went We’re going this year And never you fear Add the last line, make it snappy *and leave at the tent door. Let's see n - ho can write the best last line to the limerick! Fast Traveling. Friend (to road-hog, as a picturesque hamlet in the distance'* — •iff’"'*'—wasn’t ii?” THE PLYMOUTH MALE QUARTETTE. The very first entertainment com- ipaiiy to greet us at the Radcliffe Chautauqua this year will be one of the finest male quartettes to be found in the American concert field today. | During four seasons? the Plymouth Male Quartette has toured the Rad- eliffe Chautauqua circuits to the sat isfaction of every town, and we are fortunate in having it assigned to our circuit this year. The Plymouth Male Quartette hails originally from Boston, the great music center, and has an un usually excellent combination of solo voices which are made to blend with effective ensemble effects. It is man aged by Robert Davison, who wants you to call him “Bob” as long as he is in town, and with him arc three splendid singers whose greatest joy is to entertain on the Chautauqua platform. Plenty of standard and popular music will be on both after noon and night programs, and several of the old-time ballads so dear to the heart of everybody. The Plymouth Male Quartette turns itself into an orchestra occasionally, and plays en semble numbers on the trumpet, banjo, saxophone and piano, and one of the boys will show you how to turn an ordinary hand-saw into a musical instrument of wonderful tone. Im personations and comedy sketches are also on the programs, making them highly interesting from begin ning to end. “RIP VAN WINKLE.” “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, is one of America’s greatest classics. Two men have been respon sible for its unusual success as a drama now known over the world for its great lessons of truth and sobri ety. These two men are Joseph Jef ferson, the great actor who is long since dead, and Herbert Sprague, upon whose shoulders the mantle of Jefferson has fallen. We are espec ially fortunate, therefore, in having Mr. Sprague and his company of players on the second afternoon and night of our Radcliffe Chautauqua this year, and to have an opportunity of seeing this famous American clas sic given under the direction of Mr. Sprague himself. In the afternoon, the Sprague Play ers will present a fascinating one-act comedy called “The Duel,” and which is full of intense dramatic situations. At night they will give the great comedy-drama, “Rip Van Winkle,” in which Mr. Sprague will take the part of “Rip” and Floy Mahan Sprague the part of his second wife, “Gretchen.” They will be supported by Miss Eunice Diller and Mr. John Stine, both of whom are splendid ac tors, and the entire play of four acts will be given from Joseph Jefferson’s original manuscript. The Chautauqua Committee is glad to welcome this innovation on the Radcliffe Chautauqua programs, and hopes that everybody will avail him- . eh o r this opportunity to hear an:! see an eminent artist and actor. Washington, D. C., April 30. CONGRESS. Senator Lodge and Representative Longworth, Republican leaders of the two branches of Congress, hnve call ed at the White House to give the President the information that Con gress would adjourn before June 1. Longworth said the House calendar would be cleaned out by the report ing out of the agricultural export bill, the child labor bill, the general deficiency bill, and the District of Columbia bill. Mr. Longworth felt confident of the position in the House, because that branch of Con gress grinds a coarse grist, leaving in plenty of straw and brush to be cleaned out when its legislative mess got over to the Senate. Senator Lodge has been too long on the job to go into particulars in prophesying . une adjournment. But in the upper body there arc a number of approp riation bills, the revenue bill, and ihe measures en route from the House. Of course Congress could ad journ by June 1, as under high-pres sure the Senate is capable of speeding .tp legislation to the point where the ‘impossibilities” become accomplish ments within a few days. Mr. Cool- idge is continuing to “saw wood,” and he has said that he will remain in Washington this summer. At the White House it. is believed that Con gress will also continue in session until Fall. Observers in Washington .re accustomed to prophesies of early adjournment at cherry-blossom-time -but they are unconvinced this year, is usual. RADIO SPEECHES. The “secret” is out that some of he most prominent political leaders of the country make their most con vincing speeches by the use of the radio. President Coolidge is one who is helped by this modern device, (which moves his mild steady voice up to a splendid volume," thereby giving to it a better expression on the air than is received by his immediate audience. This fact added to the possibility of reaching great crowds will make the coming national politi cal campaign one to be fought out largely on the air. The campaign committees are making their plans along this line. CROPS. Late corn planting is taking place in the South; winter wheat is green ing, and good but slow progress is reported. Fall sown oats were badly hurt by cold weather in the South, and barley and rye suffered. Crop reports to the Agricultural Depart ment are favorable concerning spring grains, potatoes, cotton planting, to bacco, livestock and fruit trees. There is expectancy that the labor shortage will be increasingly felt on the farms as the planting season ap proaches. PUBLIC UTILITY MONEY. Financial estimates of “where the money will come from” for the light and power industry this year, inti mate that $600,000,000 will be needed, of which $50,000,000 will be supplied from surplus earnings, and probably $200,000,000 will come from “cus tomer ownership.” $"400,000,000 will be raised through the sale of bonds and notes. ledented volume, the per capita con sumption of pork increased one pound ler month, in 1923. The success of he packers in meeting this situation nd in preventing a disastrous fall n the price received by the farmer* onstituted a real public service. LUMBERMEN RECEIVE OKEH. Secretary of Commerce Hoover says that the lumber industry “now eads all the industries in the United Statesin its effort to establish rules or fair dealing in the trade.” The standardization program agreed up on between the Commerce Depart ment and the lumber trade commits the entire lumber industry of the country as well as all wood-working, wood-using and consuming and dis tributing industries to the adoption of standard grades, sizes and nomen clature and guaranteed inspection. Under this program it is stated the purchasing public will be able to buy lumber intelligently and with the guarantee that it will get what it .vants. IRON PRODUCTION. The pig iron production of the United States achieved a new high record in 1923. It formed 62 per ent of the world output last year as against 40 per cent in 1913. The National City Bank, in commenting upon these figures, adds that the Jnited States has about 20 per cent of the “available” iron ore of the ■vorld. The statement concludes “the fact that our supply of coal, neces sary for transforming the ore into ig iron, is far greater than that of any other iron producing country gives additional assurance that WO are to continue at the head of the ist of world producers of pig iron.”' WELDING TOGETHER FOREIGN OFFICIALS. The regulation of interdepartmen tal relations is sought to be obtain ed through a proclamation by Presi dent Coolidge. Officials of the State and Commerce Departments are sought to be brought in harmony with the effort now proceeding through the Bureau of the Budget and the joint congressional commit tee on reorganization. The Presi dent’s order seeks particularly to bring about cooperation of all United States officials abroad. WOULD BAN HELIUM EXPORTS, Helium advocates among the chem ists are urging that its export be orbidden by Congress. America ha* a monopoly of this gas, they hold, declaring that this advantage will bring about great supremacy in avia tion for the United States. Out standing features of the supremacy of helium have been demonstrated through the experiments and use of it in the dirigible Shenandoah. PRODUCTION OF STONE. About 107,200,000 tons of stone, valued at $161,600,000 was produced in the United States in 1923, accord ing to figures compiled by the Geo logical Survey. These figures show an increase of about 34 per cent in quantity over the output made in 1922 and an increase of nearly 17 per cent over the largest recorded output—that made in 1916. V UNFAIR MARKETING OF COAL. Eighteen hundred subscribers to a traffic and service bureau operated at Minneapolis, arc charged by the Federal Trade Commission with using the information disseminated among them in order to carry on unfair methods of competition in the mark eting of coal. The Government is emphasizing with an iron fist that the purpose of “associations” is mis directed when price-fixing and unfair competitive methods are engaged in by the members. PACKERS AND PORK, j A statement by Armour & Com pany says that they bought' 9,900, 000 hogs in 1923. The total numbe. purchased by national packer amounted to 81,523,600. The pack ers bought all the offerings of hog last year even though the increas 1 over the previous record year wa more than 14,000,000 hogs. Th' 1 statement says that the nationa ! packers “marketed the products s effectively that more pork was con sumed last year than in any previou 1 year. . . Due to the efforts of th ackers to find a market for th armors products arriving in unpr*. IRON HILL NEWS By Rose and Buttercup. Miss Edna Johnson, of Boneville, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Misses Mary and Clyde Spear. Miss Ruth McGahee spent Tues day afternoon with Miss Beulah Reynolds. Mrs. Classic Radford and Mrs. Mol- lie Culbreth spent a while Wednesday with Mrs. Rosa Green. Miss Nellie Pearl Wheeler was the guest of Misses Sadie and Alane Mc Gahee Sunday. Look out Boneville girls, the new buggy went some route Sunday. . Miss Ruth McGahee spent one af ternoon last week with Miss Alane McGahee. Mrs. Rosa Reynolds had as her guests Tuesday Mrs. Rosa Green, Mrs. Lizzie McGahee, Mrs. Sadie Johnson, of Boneville, and Mrs. Kate Brookins and children, of Milledge- ville. Messrs. Cap and Bob McGahee went fishing Wednesday. Say, boys, did you have any luck? T