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ROCKDALE RECORD
j. M. TOWNS Editor
W- E. ATKINSON Publisher
PUBLISHED ivERI WEDNESDAY
Entcml at tit* | mi*-t offi<t* iit Conyers.
Georgia, its second-class mull mull or.
Official Organ of Rockdale County
and flit* C'lty of Conyers
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Our Fox Hunters .
Getting Careless
Our fox hunters used to could loll*
by tin* way tlie fox looked back, wlielli
er it was u mule or female, but .loe,
Sam and Luther went out Wednesday
morning with ltoek, 1 took''and .Muse
und euuglit a female fox in spile of
the way she was looking buck, all of
which was not ethical nor fair.
Ham ('owan says Joe Hims lias the
fastest full back in Kocl; there is la
Southern swumps today —now that’s
saying u whole lot when you got a dog
yourself like Dock —funny thing about
I>ock. he’s always the gout Ibis time,
while Rock was necking that fox, slit*
got old Dock by the hind leg. and II
looked like it never would thunder to
him —in fuel the harder ltoek necked
her the harder she legged Dock. Well.
Ham is unliyky somewhat like that,
for one of ids legs got mixed up with
a briar just as he went to jump a
branch like Joe and Luther and la* gol
wet everywhere except his feet, even
his pocket handkerchief was soaking
wet. This trio are tin* only reformed
fox hunters we ever heard tell of
heretofore fox hunters took a drink of
licker every time their dog alarmed,
somewhat like we used to do ala corn
shucking every time a red car showed
up. We remember well shucking six
straight red red ears one time bill not
ao with these boys, why they don’t
even ‘ride honsebmjk when they go
limiting. It’s alright to reform in some
things, but there's some things best
Juat as they are or were and horseback
fox hunting one of them Why. if
a man laid suggested an automobile i'*>x
hunt fifty years ago. our forefathers
would have laughed at him This fox
was supiKised to lie red with kin
der blue propelers, luu she wasn't. In
fact, in Ibis day and time bail- will
change color over night like anyway.
We’ve ’et supper with a blonde and
breakfast with a brunet and vice-versa
with no change in fundamental prltici
pics at all.
It’s wonderful, this new spice of
life, only we come along ahoiint twen
ty years too soon to get tlu* lull bene
fits. We have come to the conclusion
that these fox hunters don’t know any
thing about our lantern, for \\c have
circumstantial evidence igninst Will
Wheeler, Leroy Hrialmliue and Tom
Parker- Now come on boys, if you got
thut lantern, we’ll forgive you no soon
er than you bring it hack and as to
where it was found ain’t nobody's bus
iness
Me and Aunt Het
Are Fully Agreed
Some of 111 church people have more
or less trouble, especially if we eing
lti the choir, the place where dynamite
la stored. Aunt Het expresses our
thoughts somewhat in this manner
“Ella has got the kind of religion that
makes her love the heathen in Africa
an’ hate folks that is close enough to
keep her from havin' her own way
about ever’thing " Now the Hood Hook
says something like this —"If you
would be exalted, go way hack and sit
down, but If you would be abased, go
up near the front." Our mistake was
doing the latter in days gone by. We
have always noticed that the people
who sit on the back benches don't ever
have any run In's and nobod> talks
much about or to them. Now we may
uot have quoted scripture ver-batnm
but It's near enough to indicate a fair
knowledge thereof for a deacon.
Card of Thanks
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We desire to express our tlmnks to
neighbors and friends for their never
falling loyalty and sympathy during
the Illness, death and burial of our
dearly beloved son and brother, lewey
Sims.
MR and MRS. G- NEWT SIMS
MR and MRS 1.. C. DOWNS
MR. and MRS. HOMER 11. SIMS
MISS ELLA SIMS
MR ELTON SIMS
Dr- and Mrs. H. G. McElvany had
his mother, Mrs. Ida McElvany as their
guest last week. Mrs. McElvany return
ed to her home in Atlanta Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Meriting had
as week-end guests, their son and wife,
Mr. and Mrs. T A. McClung of Atlanta.
Husband Shot Twice
By Jealous Wife
Mrs. ('. A Pittman trails husband to
Piedmont Avenue Apartment Saturday
night and opens fire wounding Idm
twice with tin* same bullet, bill not in
Hie smile pin e, police were not aide
10 determine bow many Limes lids
same bullet pierced the heart of Mi -
Helen Reese, the young lady. If any
times al all. for al last accounts sin*
wn* still running and bad no time
to check up on such trivial mutters.
Mrs. i’lllniiin only shot one tiirn*. bill
that wn.- sufficient to break np the
little parly and the big apartment
Mr. Pittman declared that the 1 1 111 •*
wife bad intended the shot for Miss
Reese and be wanted I la* whole thing
dropped without any charge-. Possibly
the young ladx will likewise be willing
to forgive tills intrusion of her little
apartment room under the circum
stances and everybody will be happy
once again We wish to recommend
Mrs. Pittman for president of “Wive
Protective A ■ social inn" if there In* such
11 tiling, and if there ain'l. that one hi
organized, with her jurisdiction over
Apartments only and then we men
will be al the office when we say we
are there, oxer the phone.
The Flu Epidemic
Becomes Pandemic
The flu epidemic thut started on
our west coast in November has erdss
ed the continent, leaving in its wake
dealli. destruction and suffering (*n
a much larger scale in most sections
than the pandemic of a decade ago.
Among the eriioie hit hardest, Rock
dale sec in lo belong, for we have
never experienced a more devastating
pandemic than has held sway through
out this section for the past thirty
days. Except for the after effects,
there is an abatement in its virulency
iust at present. However, its toll for
tin* twenty-two days in this mouth
has been bet,ween thirty and forty
men, women, hoys and girls—a fear
ful and exceeding miforlunali* loss for
our little county. We understand this
ration has even been higher in some
adjacent communities. There are only
a few new eases in this county, but
there are a great number of relapses
that keep our three splendid physic
ians, Doctors L- .1 Pharr, P S. Smith
and I*. ,1 Brown up and on their toys
all tlu* time.
I'.vi ry community. es|iecinily as
large ns Ibis, should engage one or
more resident nurses, not only during
epidemics, lull regularly year in and
year out as a furl her precautionary
and cducutiomil measure toward avoid
ing uniHve&snry suffering on tlu* part
of poor and rich alike. This would af
ford (lie less fortunate a service that
they could pay for. but that would be
prohibitive otherwise. Such an arrange
men! would he self sustaining, ami of
great assistance to our efficient and
very busy physicians.
Goodyear Announces
New Pathfinder Tire
‘'Announcement of the new Good
year Pathfinder tire is of interest and
importance to large numbers of mo
torists in this city,”'said ,1. E. Davis,
manager of the Goodyear service sta
tion at Conyers, operated by the Lang
ford Motor Company
"The Goodyear Pathfinder is built
by the world's largest lire manufac
turer and lias gained an enviable rep
utation for quality." he said. "It is
the equal, and in many cases the su
perior. of the highest quality and
highest price tire built by smaller tire
manufacturers: in fact, it is the out
standing tire in its price class.” lie
said.
"The Goodyear company has for
many years been building a tire to
fill tiic demand of automobile owner
wlm, for various reasons do not want
to invest in the best standard tire on
the market —such as we believe the
AP, -Weather tread to lie —(but wJm
want tire equipment that will give
them the most service for a moderate
investment.
“Whenever possible, the quality of
this tire lias been improved and Good
year engineers comliii||ed many tests
and experiments before
upon the changes which have been in
corporated in the new Pathfinder.
"It is a standard Goodyear product,
stamped as such and carrying its own
identification mark.
"Rugged and attractive in appear
ance. this newly-designed lire gives
real value in maximum of wear and
traction. The new Pathfinder is made
in all the popular balloon and high
pressure siy.es.'•
Mrs Harry G. McElvany. returned
ti> her home in Conyers over the week
end from a two weeks’ visit with Mr.
McElvany's sister. Mrs. s. J. Bell and
family at Columbus. Ha. Mrs. Bell will
lie remembered as Miss Ruth McElvany
before her marriage. The new daugh
ter has been christened Charlotte Lou
ise and seems to be well pleased with
her reception in Columbus. Of course,
she is just like mother, they always
are when very pretty-
tiih uocKOAi.n hkcoiid i:i>nvi*:hs.okoiuua
LINES
J. L. I).
“Happiness Is nnieh more evenly di
xided than some of us imagine” How
often have we sal in sorroxv because
We ihoiighl someone else bad all llu*
happiness and we were "ot all men
most ini-ci able " "Happiness is a city
in Hie state of mind" and we must
move into Hint city if we would be
happy Many limes we could change
sorrow into happiness just by chang
ing our altitude toward life and its
problems, and. too. iliings are not il
xva.fs as bad as they seem.
The story goes that a white man
once a fed an old darky why so many
while men committed suicide and so
few negroes. Well, said the old negro,
you ee a xx Idle man gels in trouble
and sir down and begins worrying
and shoots himself, and a negro gets
in trouble lu* its down and goes to
sleep We believe that none of the
worry is worth xx Idle, and that half (if
tin* trouble never comes, so spend the
time in smiling instead of sighing.
We till like those things that are
lovely and inspiring. We can think of
nothing more blessed than a happy
mind and soul contented in xvhat they
are doing. We sometimes bring sorroxv
and grief upon ourselves when it
would have been as easy to bate tak
en the other course and found comfort
and rest. Happiness is something that
is not found by seeking but comes as
a crown for duty xvell done. We may
rest assured thut xvc xvill never be
happy b,v trying to find happiness. No
one need to want liappiness and go
without it, there is enough for all- If
we would be happy try to make other
happy-
II lias been commonly admitted that
happiness is to be found among life's
common tilings. II is not the rare gifts,
the possessions of the few; it is not
great gifts, great genius, or great
poxver that make the possessors happy*
II is health, it is friendship, it is love
al home, il is the voices of children,
ii is sunshine.
Baptist Church
The third Sunday of (lie New Year
brought the sunshine and the fairest
weather of the year. While ive art*
yet in th einiddle of the winter sea
son as we beheld the large number
who came to church it reminded us
of slimmer congregations, and we were
glad that the flu had almost gone and
God's people had come to worship Him
in I Ibis house-
Perhaps the outstanding feature of
the Sunday school was the large in
crease in attendance of the men’s
class. This class seems to be at tlie be
ginning of real worth while things.
The class was taught by Mr. W- E
Atkinson, publisher of the Rockdale
Record. This good man brought some
helpful suggestions to the fathers of
our town. Mr- .1 M. Towns, teacher of
tlie class, understands men and ex
pects to make tlie class a home for
men every Sunday. The ladies’ class
also had a large increase in attend
ance which goes to show that the moth
ers and fathers are not sending their
children to Sunday school, but instead,
they are bringing them.
Sunday morning the pastor used as
bis subject "Uonqucring the Yielding."
He spoke of the four surrenders that
Abraham made showing how God rich
ly blessed him each time he surrender
ed. "Our Dependance Upon God" was
the evening subject-
Mr. J. A. Jenkins
Retires from Business
Air. .1 A. Jenkins, one of our lead
ins Sheffield merchants and business
men. has retired from active business,
being succeeded by Mr- 1,. S. Ham
by. Mr. Jenkins lias renewed his
subscription to the Rockdale lie -
ord and expects to keep abreast of
the times and argue it out with his
neighbors and court house friends. It
lias been something like eighteen years
now since we have had a '‘Whittling’'
convention and since warm balmy
days are fast approaching, we would
like to have Brother Jenkins reorgan
ize our "white pine" knife association
Most of us can recall the days when
I'ticle Tube Helms, Jim Tilley. Sher
iff Austin, could lie found sitting out
in front of the court house with a
piece of white pine in one hand and
a sharp knife in the other, and there
is no better way to be congenial than
when a number of sharp knives are
in evidence and actually in use. These
men knew what was going on and
knew what was wrong with everything
that was not right —and did not hesi
tate to spoaik their i convictions, fi
looks good to see these old fellows
clustered up together and hear them
talkin the language of other days.
Miss Minnie Smith is on a p&olouged
visit with her brother. Mr K A. Smith
and family at Statesboro. Ga. Mr. Bill
Harden has been confined to his home
for several weeks with an attack of the
flu. in a very serious condition, and
continues thus into this week-
FA KM Kit'S WEEK
§ This week is Farm
er’s Week at the Geor
gia Htate College of
Agriculture. All county
agents uttend this con
ference tlie whole week
each year. Muny farm
ers und preachers at
tend All are welcome
- „ and invited to attend
as much of the time as possible. Sev
eral from Rockdale county will at
tend a part of tlie conference there,
especially on Saturday-
Rockdale Wins
I have received copies of three let
ters from tlie State College to three
members of tlie Five Acre Cotton Con
test of Rockdale County. These let
ter 1 were addressed to the following
men. a copy of tlie letter sent to them
follows L A. Bowen, W. H Ogletree,
1. L- Brisendine.
“We are pleased to inform you that
your record in our "Five Acre More
and Better Cotton Per Acre Contest
is such that you are entitled to receive
one of the prizes. We wish to congrat
ulate you on the splendid record which
you have made.
“You are requested to be present at
the Georgia SHate College of Agri
culture Saturday morning at nine
o’clock, January “G, to receive your
award- We hope it will be possible for
you lo spend all of Farmers’ Week
with us. We think we have a good
program, copy of which is enclosed.
With best wishes and assurance of
esteem, I am
Very sincerely yours,
ANDREW M. HOULE, President.”
The letter does not state what the
prize is, or whether it is for quanti
ty or quality of cotton, but it is a
great honor to receive any of, the
prizes offered in either part of the
contest as a state prize.
As the quality of cotton enters in
determining the prizes in the state
contests, and as this county has state
rules as county rules, and as it is the
most accurate way and agreeable to
the contestants, and those interested
in the contest in this county, tlie col
lege is asked to make tlie placings of
our county prize winners of this coun
ty also, according to their records and
State (and county!) rules. We will
know in a few days who our prize
xvinners are for the county-
The college has complimented this
county on the large number of records
sent in to the college. It is hoped that
we will win a prize offered for the
county sending in the largest num
ber of records of any county in the
state- If this prize is won the money
for same xvill go to the county agent-
However, the county agent volunteers
to give the money to the ‘“Rockdale
County Scholarship Fund," if the
prize comes to old Rockdale county-
ERNEST D- HOLMES, County Ageiit.
WOMEN have been too long
the burden bearers
WHEN you think of the hard drudgery, the back'
straining work involved in pumping or drawing
water for all household needs from an old-style well ... is
it any wonder that the health of many housewives is im
paired?
For centuries such heart-breaking labor was unavoid
able—but not now. For a few cents a day you can employ
a Paul Water System to do this fatiguing heavy work.
Only a few cents —and the work is better done, more
quickly done. Your wife has time to enjoy life, to be a
wife in a truer sense than when she is tired with useless
> drudgery.
\ Banish This Drudgery
You can easily! You can have flowing water in your
house, in the barn. For 2c a day a Paul System will pump
water for the needs of six people water for kitchen, bath
and laundry ... and give you fire protection at the same
time. 2c a day will pay for pumping water for 18 head of
cattle, for 3 5 sheep or for 3 5 pigs! When the cost is so
little there is no reason to deny yourself and your famify
the help a Paul Water System means.
SPECIAL TERMS
for a limited time only
You need pay only $lO down, iff) 'jit
and you can have 18 months I V
—a year and a half— to pay f cf |
the balance! But you must I
not delay. This offer is lira- K
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LORRAINE
Feb* 18-Mar* 18-April 15
Honey Creek
Feb* 19-Mar* 19-April 16
SHEFFIELD
Feb. 20-Mar. 20-April 17
MILSTEAD
Feb. 21-Mar. 21-Aptil 18
All other dates not listed above I
will be in Conyers.
Closing date May first.
BARTOW WALKER, T. R.
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