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4 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 SI BS< RIITHInTIN Al>\ \NCK Om* year sl.* r >i* > Mix month* THE HOCKI)ALI. IlKnildi o miihc no responsibility for views exprc -<•<! by correspondents or contributor-* \ll copy submitted for publication must In* slants! by the author. 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 j 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 Georgia #P§ POWER COMPANY A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE \ j Tax Receivers Rounds 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. IN THEIR BEST Ilk ...DIALOGUES... “Foujl Talk” "Black Opinions” f jpf NC. 41140 'Billy Beard zAI Bernard __ R r d.s. I OKEII PHONOGRAPH CORP., 25 West -15th Street, Nov York, N. Y. SOLD BY Henson Furniture Company Conyers, /. Georgia WEDNESDAY. JAN. **>2l)