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Vol. 11. No. 2
The Mercer Quartette
Went Over Splendidly
The "Faithful Four,” Mercer Quar
tette, sponsored by our school athletic
association, appeared at the school
auditorium Friday evening before a
fairly good audience, but much smaller
than should have cooperated with the
*move toward building a school gym
nasium. to say nothing of patronizing
a splendid entertainment. The enter
tainment was well advertised days in
advunce and yet, some of our people,
evidently most of them, knew nothing
about it- Conyers has been ueeustomed
to a cow bell parade and unless we
hear one, we turn in early and when
we do, even old Siren doesn't disturb
us. Now Conyers should outgrow the
requirements of fog horns, portable
bill posters, and cow bell announce
ments for its shows and entertain
ments.
The entertainment was good, equal
to most of our best Lyceum attrac
tions, being made up of men trained
together for four years in college, con
sisting of director and second tenor
singer Horace H Harwell, senior min
ister student, u letter man who grad
uates in June. Mr- Harwell is serving
several pastorates in and around Ma
con. Walton W- Cook, president- and
second base singer, now doing post
graduate work in Emory University
and serving several pastorates in the
meantime, in and around Columbus,
Ga-, Mr. Barnard Brooks, manager
and first base singer, senior, and now
serving as assistant pastor and music
director in the East Side Baptist
church at Macon and last but not
least, Mr- Opher R Cooper, first ten
or and secretary, who is well and fav
orably known throughout this section
by reason of previous engagements as
evangelistic singer and his present
connection as principle and athletic
couch of the Conyers high school. Our
town and school pride should comiiel
us to lend a helping hand in such en
deavors as this, but not even a great
number of our town and school offi
cials lend their presence, every time.
It takes concerted action to put a thing
over- Anybody can “concert” when ev
erything is pretty, but it takes a good
actor to keep on when the crowd is
leaving, in fact the crowd ain’t going
to leave when you have a good actor
tightly wound up, unless he is too
tight We need to snap out of this
spirit of dormancy and don’t listen for
a cow Hell to announce all important
events in doing it. Now, don’t get the
idea that we dislike cow- bells, for we
love their musical tones for what they
used to mean to us and often stop in
passing a drove of cows to see which
one is the bell cow. We regret very
much that our cows are getting out of
the habit of wearing a bell. It used
to mean milk and honey to us, not
that they gave both —w-e already had
the honey. The only thing we disliked
about being a cow-boy was touting a
basket of shucks in a strong wind from
the crib over to the lot.
We understand that the Mercer
Quartette is willing to come back in
the spring for a return engagement-
We trust they will and if they do,
Conyers will redeem itself and our
boys and girls w-ill still believe in us.
Tribble and Sellers
Open Up New Business
Mesdames Mack P- Tribble and E. J-
Sellers, opened np anew business in
Conyers this week —a sewing room,
wherein all manner of sewing will be
done, both fancy and plain. Dress
making and gent’s garments will be
featured. Altering and mending—hem
stitching and pecoting. Gent’s gar
ments, shirts, underwear and sleeping
garments made to measure.
Mrs. Tribble needs no introduction
to the people of Conyers and Rockdale
county, neither does Mrs. Sellers, ex
cept to say that before marriage she
was Miss Hester White- Mr. and Mrs-
Sellers, moved to Conyers last week
and have rooms with Mr- and Mrs. N-
T. Street- Mr. Sellers is employed by
the Langford Motor Cos. The Rockdale
Record joins in with their many Con
yers friends in welcoming this splen
did young couple into our midst and
homes.
MERRY NEEDLES CLUB
On Thursday afternoon, January 24,
Mrs- Waldo Bowen was hostess to the
Merry Needles club and several invit
ed guests at a lovely party.
The home was beautifully decorated
with ' winter honeysuckle and pot
plants-
After tfco business session the hos
tess entertained her guests with pro
gressive Rook. Miss Josephine Smith
won the prize for top score.
Mrs. Bowen, assisted by Mrs. Bald
win. Mrs. Hardeman and Miss Mar
tha Ramsey, served a delicious salad
course with hot tea- _ , _
* h*s II- Marston Ordinary _____
THE ROCKDALE RECORD
Look What Our
Grand Jury Did
Captain Roy Elliott, clerk of the
Grand Jury, proposed that it would be
idee of the six “city bred” members
thereof to entertain at dinner Wed
nesday, the other sixteen “country
bred” members thereof. (Now don’t
laugh when we tell you the names of
those six “city breds”) which are, the
Captain himself, the honorable fore
man, Geo W. Crumbley, .1. Fred Da
vis, lOdd L- Cowan, W. E. Bailey and
Geo. A- Owens, none of whom ever had
on a pair of drawers until they were
eighteen or more years of age- Cap
tain Roy wrote the other sixteen
names on slips of paper and these six
Main street guys drew out three
names each, which resulted in the fol
lowing countrymen being stall fed one
time at least.
Messrs. Steve Potts, C- E- Ray, G.
E. Johnson and Carl Granade were
drawn by the Captain. Drawing Steve
served the Captain right for it was he
who proposed the proposition. Steve
can eat as nutfh as any grand jury we
ever saw —lie and I ’et up a Baptist
association up at Tucker. Ga., once-
Messrs. M. C. Corley. J- M- Mitcham
and Dewey Corley, were drawn out
by Foreman Geo. W. Crumbley- Messrs.
A- C- Giles. J. T. Farmer and Solicitor
General Major Smith were drawn out
by .T- FPed Davis —the reuse>ii why
Fred drew the major was because they
were in the war together, not because
the major was a countryman. You can
tell the way he questions a witness
that the major knows nothing about
horse i>ower except in electrical terms.
However, Fred would have fed him
on gubers if the major had ever been
a second lieutenant.
Messrs. C. O. Cook, J. D- Dennard
and W- R. Burnley became the dinner
guests of Edd L. Cowan. Now Edd
ain’t married yet and he was fortun
ate in drawing three men who could
eat sardines, cheese and crackers it'
they had to- Messrs A- Baggett, J. F.
Mitg-hell and double E. F. Dennard,
the Bailiff, and by the way, it was
this man who came down for us to
appear before that august body non
Deplume and we don't care if Geo-
Owens did draw him for dinner- You
can imagine us going before that hotly
of men rebutless for we lgid no idea
what they had learnt- We never will
firgive Fred for not offering us a
smi'e of encouragement —reminded us
of the night we joined the Ku Klux
—even Geo- Crumbley talked like he
was pronouncing tlhe benediction.
Messrs. R L. Oglesby, Gus Peek and
J- A. Ricks, went home with W. K
Bailey.
We have not heard from those six
wives who had to prepare these din
ners, nor have we heard from those
men who had to eat their cooking.
This day and time, so many wives
have been school teachers, milliners
and office holders, you cannot lie too
careful about turning them loose in
a sack of flour. However, we hope ev
erybody had a good dinner.
When Were You Born?
Now, we don’t mean how old you
are, but according to Mrs. R- S. Jen
nings. of 590 Bona vent lire Avenue.
Northeast, Atlanta, Ga., if you were
horn any time after January 20th, up
to February list, why it’s no fault of
her’n that you are an Aquarius, or
the man in the moon, ruled by Uranus
and Saturn. Asa matter of fact they
are no worse than the Democrats and
Republicans, even though Uranus is
a symbol of Egyptian sovereignty and
Saturn is an ancient Italic god of the
agricultural department whose prodi
gality carried him some 886,000.000
miles beyond Jupiter, the supreme Tu
telary of ancient Rome’s bull fights
and the fifth home-steader from the
sun. If you were born during these
ten days, you are supposed to be of
pleasing disposition and sympathetic
nature, good hearted and generous,
socially inclined and of great pleasure
to others, given to good judgment and
clever reading of other people's
thoughts and intentions. Now, except
for reading our thoughts, we know of
no women people that were born with
a rainbow around their shoulder. Mrs.
Jennings explains further, that they
should have a strong affection and
can love—oh. boy, how they can love,
but she goes on to explain that they
become cruel and treacherous —possi-
bly on account of our present day
apartment system of living —when
once you double cross them. They arc
supposed to have a good memory and
talk too much- This part sounds like
we know some of them, however, we
went around about town but found no
one wlio’d admit they were born on
any of those dates, or that they talk
ed too much. We were born on July
*3Lst, and will thank Mrs. Jennings
to rend our palms and explain what
we like best and how to get it.
(dtnyto’s. (ieordid, Wednpsd Hy , Jan. .‘SO.
Did Woman Suffrage
Change Human Nature
Woman suffrage was supposed to
have improved our voting, but it looks
to us like it only increased it. for two
out of three is a majority, just like
six out of nine is. We elected Repub
lican presidents before just like we
have since. Our women use to have
ums|iial rights—now they have equal
rights if they can gel them- We used
to give them things —now they have
to take them, if they can- No, they
were deceived somewhat like the dog
was when walking across on a foot
log and dropped a hone for the shad
ow thereof. They were supposed to
purify our elections, Out we notice sev
eral senators and congressmen, whose
election is refused confirmation by
Congress. Why, wc even have a Sen
ate committee whose entire time is
taken up investigating crooked elec
tions. Now. we don’t say the women
are responsible for this increase in
fraudulent elections, but we do mean
to convey the idea that such condi
tions seem to lie oil (lie increase. An
other tiling, you used to could always
find mother at home, also the children,
before she took hubby's job up town.
On Mondays she did the wash. On
Tuesdays she did the ironing. On
Wednesdays she did the children’s
sewing, (hi Thursdays site went to the
Missionary society- On Fridays she
stayed in bed with the svk headache
and on Saturdays she washed ever
last one of us. But now. well you'd tie
surprised at the ever increasing num
ber of homes that are run by proxy,
while at the same time our clubs and
apartment houses arc increasing even
faster, neither of which arc a suit
able substitute for the home- All apart
ment house is a good place for lots of
tilings, hut not much of a place to
raise children in. Woman at her best
is in the home with about an even
number of children for an audience,
and not in flic club room before an au
dience of rivals”A dozen children will
crown her Queen, while a dozen riv
als will crown her with thorns.
We notice where the Woman’s Club
of Atlanta. MU mothers, representing
ran hollies, held an ‘>UI)KUI.\ elec
tion under the supervision of superior
court Judge JllO. D. Humphreys and
two other court officials, during which
time they elected Mrs- Hornad.v presi
dent, thus declaring Mrs. Goodman’s
election last fall 1" have been irregu
lar and illegal. But. does that settle
the scrap? Yes. if does not. This long
seige of charges and counter charges
lias disturbed the life, peace and hap
piness of a thousand homes, all of
which may or may not be of interest
and concern to our women folks, but
our men folks are terribly interested,
especially so long as we must dig in
finally and resent by force if necessary
the cris-crossing insults and indigni
ties heaped upon our better self, or
half, as it were. And, too, we are in
terested in their efforts to firing about
election reforms without male super
vision. There are a great number of
things our wife can do that we can’t,
in fact it would be extremely ridicu
lous for us !v> try to get along with
out a wife and likewise or visa versa,
she would be in a bad fix without a
husband, at least she thought so once
upon a time and so far as we know
she ain't changed her mind, out loud
to say Hie least of it. Therefore, as
necessary as a wife is. we must con
tend that she is only 90 per cent of
all there is. So Mother dear, if you
will keep house for us. we will buy
We Huy mid Sell Country
• Produce, Chickens, & Eggs
l 50 Lb Can Kingan’s or Swifts Pure
I Lard - - $7.50
l Kingan’s Reliable Sliced Bacon, per
lb - , -40 c
• ——
i All-Pork Sausage, Something good,
• Lk . . . 25c
\ 6 large boxes Swan Matches_._lßc’
j Can Mackeral, better than Salmon
; Can . . . 15c
j Blue Ridge Coffee, Lb. . . 33c
\ Bell’s Banner Coffee, Lb. . 35c
\ Good Bulk Coffee, we grind it 30c
\ FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS
I FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
i BELL’S CASH GROCERY
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* Phone 25 Conyers, Ga. We Deliver
Sheriff Appoints His
Mother-in-law Deputy
Sheriff Hatton of Tampa appoints
his mother-in-law as his deputy- We
have always heard some wonderful
jokes on in-laws and this particular
one seems to have suffered greatest
ill this respect, hut this sheriff is
good, only he is too public in express
ing liis likes and dis likes. We recall
that King David, the great general,
publicly expressed liis great adtnira
tioii once upon a time by sending a
certain young man rigid up to I lie
front line trenches, in what afterwards
turned out to lie. a disgraceful sa•■•ri
fle** in I lie interest of peace at homo-
Now, a front trench soldier lias a
chance, if in no other way, he can
be shot down and still live to draw
a pension, hut whoever heard tell of
a deputy sheriff dicing shot down un
der the rules and regulations of the
18th amendment and live to explain
the whereof’s of the fracas. Now. it
may be that this niotlier-in-law will
only have* jurisdiction over visiting
husbands at apartment houses, and
that the son-in-law meant well in her
appointinenl. but its bard to believe
a deputy sheriff is thought any too
much of- Rockdale county lias its right
ful portion of these in-laws, all ol
whom seem to be satisfied to let. well
enough alone, but we would like to
see some of them serve on the petit
jury of Judge Irwin's city court- Oth
er counties use them for jury service,
why don't we?
Our Colored Friends
Appreciate the Record
ATLANTA, Ga.. Jam iM. b',129. Mr.
Editor, kind sir: Please accept this
letter of appreciations from me. I
know you will appreciate it even 11 to
writtne liy colored hands and even
more, when you learn that 1 am from
your own home town, horn there- Mr.
J. P- Billups, general passenger agent
of the Georgia road, of whom 1 am
employed, has passed many and many
good compliments <in your good work
l for’ '-A ■ 'Georgia road, as well as lor
Conyers, the town in which ymi 11lh —
lie has given me several copies'of your
good paper, the Rockdale Record,
which is very entertaining to me, as 1
love to hear and read of the good
progress of my home town. I hope
every citizen will cooperate in helping
Conyers to grow and I also trust 111"
colored people will lake more inter.-si
in helping keep the place clean and
making a greater and better Conyers,
Ga.
HOWARD KELLEY, Col. Servant.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Billups, Atlanta. Ga
We are glad Howard told us about
our reception in Atlanta, and Unit Mr-
Billups, the boss, thinks well of us and
our efforts to boost' Conyers. Rockdale
county and the Georgia railroad. How
ard used to work in Conyers for Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Langford, as maid and
in' is the only male we ever knew that
made a good maid. Ho is an exception
ally good cook and when it conies to
the needle, he does as pretty work,
plain and fancy, as you can find any
where. We are glad to hear from
those whom we have pleased, both
white and colored.
the groceries and vote as you tell us
to, like we used to do.
Grand Jury
Presentments
We. the Grand Jury drawn and duly
sworn for January, Pd”!) term, Rock
dale County Superior Coiirl, hog leave
to submit tlie following presentments:
We recommend the County New spa
per carrying legal notices should be
filed and bound in sereal order in the
ordinar.v's office-
We find tile Dockets J. P. and N. P.
correctly kept with the exception of
the N. P- Civil Docket at Alilstead,
Georgia, has been destroyed by lire ol
recent date. We also find t lu* books
of the Sheriff, Clerk, Ordinary, Tux
Collector and Receiver and County
School Superintendent correctly kept
so far as wo could ascertain within
the limited time we bad for examina
t ion.
The sale records of Poisonous drugs
are properly kept by the druggists.
We recommend the following ap
pointmonts as N- I*, of Town District,
(t W. Crumbley, J. F- Mitchell. N. I’.
Lorraine District, Ed O'Neal. N. P-
Iloney Creek District. M. C. Corley.
\. P. Sheffield District, W. A. Doyle.
N'. P- Milslead district, Ed L- Peek he
re appointed ns member County Board
of Education.
We find the financial affairs of A lie
county to lie in fair condition.
We recommend Court House i.oraine
District lie moved to spot near Rich
ardson Store. Same to then be put
in good condition.
Piaster in Sheriff's office to he re
paired over head. 4
We recommend toilet down stairs at
Court House lie put in good sanitary
condition. Recommendation for jail
needs- New front door steps. All wood
word inside and outside need painting
with some slight repairs. New win
dow frames needed, also fence around
jail lot needs repairs. Brick work over
back door entrance needs repairing.
\ls<> dining and cook room be paint
ed outside and inside. We recommend
old gallows be torn away, hole in floor
he filled up, iron door bo put in and
room to lie put in condition for use
as jail cell.
We find roads in efinnty in tie in
fair condition- We recommend stretch
of road at or near home .1. M. Mitch
am he soiled, more e j.w-'Kj'y tin* •slide
muddy places- Also bridge at 1101110
J. D- Dennard lie-s'epftired-
We recommend the continuation of
the present Farm Demonstrator.
011 taking leave of the Court we
wish to express our thanks to liis Hon
or Judge Jim. I!- Hutchinson for his
able charge and thank our capable So
licitor General, Claude'Smith, for his
valuable assistance rendered in our
work.
We recommend that a copy of the
General Presentments he kept on the
minutes and same published in Rock
dale Record and be paid $lO-00 for
U. B. KI.IJUTT. Clerk
(i. W. CUITMBLKV, Foreman.
Rockdale Superior
Court Adjourned
1/1 i Treadwell who shot :i ’rjigger
rn:m and threw him in a deep well of
water down near Salem eani|i ground
fall, was tried} convicted and
sentenced to serve 1 two to live* years.
Don't know wlietlier for shooting him
or for throwing him in the well, the
jury didn't comment on that publicly.
Now, litis 'nigger was shot through
the body and also through a front leg
and had to tread in fifteen foot water
all night to keep from getting his
head wet and was instructed to stay
down there until la* became exhaust
ed and drowned- lie climbed up the
Jacob ladder one time and thought lie
saw Air. Treadwell, turned loose and
went to treading water again until
day break —and il takes day break a
long time to reach the bottom of a
fifty-foot well, when he climbed out
and crawled to more comfortable sleep
ing (juarters, where he was found and
taken charge of by a good Samari
tan.
Wo understand Mr. Treadwell lias
appealed for anew trial, but on what
grounds, we don’t know —possibly on
the ground that Ibis nigger was a Bap
tist and that flic water did him good
instead of harm.
Card of Thanks
We wish to I hank our relatives and
triepds, each and every one, for their
kind fleas, shown us in the death of our
wife and mol her, Mrs. J. M. Williams,
also for the beautiful floral offering.
May God's richest blessings rest up
on you' is our prayer.
J. M. WILLIAMS
W. T. WILLIAMS
M. E- WILLIAMS
MESS LILLIE WILLIAMS
B. I). WILLIAMS
Sll bscri pi ion SI ..“>0 Yeti r
The Ebeneezer Church
Installs New Organ
The Ebeneezer Methodist church,
11 lie little church in the valley by the
wild woods, with their new pastor, the
Uev. Melton, an elderly man, received
and christened anew organ at the
morning hour lasi Sunday. Ex-Sheriff
S- I Cowan, acting for Mr. It. L. Huff,
who gave l the organ to Ibis congrega
tion. drove up and unloaded the or
gan in the midst of a more or less be
wildered people and to begin the morn
ing servin', presented it. to the congre
gation and wlieii Sam presents a Hi fug,
it is entirely before you- Now, "it’s not
you nod it’s mil me" but its these Cow
an boys. Sam. 1. 11111 and Bob that loves
old Ebeneezer, No sooner (ban Sam
shut up, the entire congregation rose
in mass and voted its thanks to Mr.
Huff who gave them the organ as a
token of esteem and ill the interest of
more and better harmony, at least Mr.
lln f T is somewhat like the old colored
brother, when lie said “Bredern. we
must do something to remedy de Stat
us i.1u0.” tin being asked by “Brudder
Jones, what am de Slates Quo,” the
pastor replied. "Dal, my brudder, am
Latin for de mess we’s in ” Of course
Ibis little church has had its ups and
downs and all that, luit what church
doesn't have them. However, with
r,n>. Melton for pastor, they exjiect to
char the deel: in tile early spring. To
our very great surprise, we found War
ren Thrasher in lliis congregation and
that lie is a real Methodist., All these
years we llumght lie was a Baptist.
Thai goes to how that there ain’t..
iiiiicli difference between dry cleaned
and Inning your sins washed away —
only sound lines 100 much water will
shrink thin-' up. binder make small
er and we don't insinuate that we
Baptists are small either, for as a
matter of fact some of us, are too
big. especially around the belt. Con
gratulations Warren, * we love you in
pile of your faults, even if you have
any and we hope you do.
Miss Willie Sue Stanton is organist
for this church and when she begins
to use both bands and both feet, some
body's got lo either sing or shout. We
believe in progress, but arc uncertain
about what constitutes progress some
what life mother \vas when, her tittle
child .asked her If sue was descended
from a monkey .Mama said “1 don’t
know deary, I did mil know your fath
er' pcoj lo cry well. We do know that
a good | . ini'i in the city, with a baby
grand piano and up to date music,
makes us want to do something differ
ont to what an organ does- Now, we’re
not against progress. Lord knows we
love it, whatever it is, if only we
could keep it out of our religion in
low M, and we do know that the piano
is a handicap along Ibis line as com
pared with an organ.
They have preaching, at Ebeneezer
every third Sunday and we expect to
join their choir and sing with this
organ at an early date, especially at
the ('Veiling service. So come on, you
Cowan boys and extend the customary
invite lo ns. They don’t have a Sun
day school at present- We know some
other churches that don’t, either, but
won't admit it. Now we've been a
iiperintendeiil in a 'Baptist: church,
but unfortunately, we’re out of a job
at present and come offering our serv
in' in case you men and women have
Miiy children small enough to go to
ISutiday i -liooj down therb- If( you
brethren and sisters see an ex-sheriff
ami an ex uperintendent riding up
do v.n there (not not upside down)
some Sunday night, just open the
doon of I lie yhureh and hold to your
song book: -for all we want is to hear
.Miss Willie Sue play on that organ.
Mr. J, N. Warner
Succeeds W. C. Faulkner
Mr. J. X. Wagner, is the new assist
ant manager of the Athens district of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, succeeding Mr. W. ('• Faulkner,
who retired to recoujterate his health,
being given unlimited attention and
advantages in the company hospital
at Ml. McGregor in the Catskill moun
tains of New York state. Mr- Wagner
is a young man of pleasing approach
and ability. He will have general su
pervision over the Athens district and
jusl at this time is seeking an appoin
tee to succeed Mr. M. It- Stephenson,
resigned to go into the hardware busi
ness.
Card of Thanks
We-wish to thank our neighbors and
friends for the many deeds of kindness
and sympathy so cordially extended
I during the illness and death of our
dearly beloved husband, father and
friend.
MRS. W. A. COSTLEY and family
MR. and MRS. COLEY BYRD
MR. AND MRS. J. T. OWENS.