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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 * * 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.