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VOLUME 2
A Citizens-Advisory
Committee for Conyers
Atlanta has a committee of 25 out
standing business and professional
leaders, appointed by Mayor Ragsdale
to study municipal affairs —Civic, in
dustrial, educational and financial.
This is no reflection on the duly elect
ed and constituted authorities of that
little village, lull on the other hand,
reflects credit upon them in tlielr ef
forts to present the strongest imssible
front when the command "forjvard--
mufeh” is given. Why can’t Conyers
have the able jjsshtunce of a similar
body of iuen"‘s-S'he£e would be less
friction aikljlfejjg r complaints and
much greater results. If our honor
able mayor wilt appoint such a com
mittee, tax valuations will he raised
• •-■ . t
uftd will stock when raised- Our school
problems will* be -solved. New indus
tries trill spniigAip. Financial difficul
ties will be solved. Any I "community can
accomplish great things through co
operation- The perpetual friction be
tween the city government and the
school government that is likely to be
come hurtful in any community and
is hurtful in most communities, will
he less hurtful by reason of such a
body of interested property owners- and
tax payers.
What says you about this, Mayor
Still?
Buying New Cars
is Our Weakness Now
When the sap begins to rise and
baby chicks begin to hatr-li, our
thoughts turn to poetry, new automo
biles and accessories, especially if we
are young and more especially if we
are single. Tom Parker, uor efficient
and very obliging mail carrier ex
changed his old car in Atlanta the oth
er day for anew and different model
but when he got home, found they had
slipped him in an old model —and the
only thing they did to him was to
his model- When those other
mule men like Will Signmn, Jack Mc-
Collum and Babe Etheridge began to
snigger at each other right out in j
front of Tom, why, it took the bark
off’n Mr. Tom and he simply inquired
to know just when he should laugh;
He was escorted out to his new 1927
model and told to laugli heartily. In
stead of laughing, Tom gets Lester
Baggett, a young man who ought to
have been a prize fighter or an edi
tor, and hack to Atlanta they go and
immediately returned with a 1929 mod
el and Tom laughed heartily.
Comptroller
Writes Ordinary
Atlanta, 9, 1929-
Hon. Thos. H- Marsfbn, > ■*:
Ordinary, Rockdale County,
Conyers, Georgia.
Dear Sir;
Replying to your letter of tlie Bth
inst. every persons or firm, subject to
the payment of any special or occupa
tion tax payable to the Tax Collec tor
is required to register each year with
the Ordinary and pay to the Ordinary
a registration fee of $h(M) only- For
example, a drug store majj he liable
for the payment of special .'tax on
playing cards, soda founts, said
drug store registers with the*Ordinary
and pays a registration fee of SI.OO.
no matter how many subjects lie is
required to pay tax on.
Trusting that I have made this mat
ter clear to you. I am, V ,
-Yours very truly,
WM. A. WRIGHT,
Compti-oller-Geimu^a
Now I never made this law, hut it9|R
my duty as Ordinary to enforce it tjpl
I am only trying to save you troiiiSjC
as I am compelled to report all
trations and if your name is not oi?
that list, you will he fined. Now. a
word to the wise ought to he suffi
cient.
THOS. H MARSTON, Ordinary-
A Washington county farmer adver
tised sausage for sale in the last issue
of the Progress. Before noon Wednes
day all of them hilfl been sold,.,and or-,
ders poured in for more t hqjp double
the quantity that had been prepared
for market- On the same day another
farmer came to the Progress office so
liciting orders for sausage which he
proposed to make and deliver, but stat
ed that lie icould* not find any one who
wanted to buy- The first farmer ad
vertised : the second did not —San
dersville Progress-
Miss Irline Guest, of the Conyers
grammar school, spent the week-end
with friends in Covington.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD
Civic League
Makes Reply
Conyers, Ga., Feb- IF. 1929.
Mr- ,T. Ms Towns, Editor,
Conyers, Ga.
Dear Air. Towns;
The Civic League, through its trus
tees, is glad of the opportunity to
make clear any doubt as to the owner
ship of tlie Nancy Guinn Library for
Rockdale county. We feel as if the
judgment of the public will place the
ownership after the facts are known-
Years ago the Matron’s club had a
considerable collection of hooks at the
school house, ‘which was to be a nu
cleus for a school or public library.
Those hooks were burned when the
school building was*deslroyed. They
were not replaced except for a few
succeeding years each matron gave a
book, in time making a shelf. This
practice has been discontinued for
three or more years- Mqst of those
hooks have- gone the way of all often
read ones.
After the Civic League had held
several fairs and made some money,
the late Airs. J- A. Guinn suggested
that this organization establish a li
brary for the benefit of the town and
the county- In 1922, after her death
in 1921, this was done without the
help of any organization or individual,
with the one exception of the city
•ouncil- The city council equipped a
room for housing the books. In its es
tablishment there was a tacit under
standing that the library would fill
in’* so far as possible requirements of
a public school library. This it lias
done to the letter- The two past super
intendents were given keys, one of
them two, to the library, which were
lost in a few months. The school con
tinued to use the library by sending
for the librarian's key—thus putting to
no end of trouble. Frequently the key
was not returned. On one library day
the school principal was out of town
with the key in his pocket—at another
time the librarian had to go to his
hoarding house: for the key—then the
librarian's key was lost and tfie prin
cipal took an axe and forced the lock-
The reason that there is no key in
the office is the fact that we cannot
supply them fast enough. The past
school management was told repeated
ly that when a class wen to the li
brary a teacher must accompany them
and the door lie locked upon their leav
ing. This_ request, was rarely heeded-
Asa consequence, several of the best
books were lost, the door and window?
were left open and other books were
injured by rain; also, chairs were brok
en, obscene language written on the
walls, and other depredations. In the
beginning of vacation last summer a
valuable history was missed, the fact
was mentioned, a woman present vol
unteered to search the building. She
returned with the sought volume, to
gether with three others, one of them
having been found on the floor of the
auditorium. For the past few years
the school building ahs been'left open
all of the afternoon —hence the need
of a locked door.
The present head of the school has
been told of the past mismanagement
and that that at any time his schedule
could be arranged to have a teacher in
the library it was their to use- We
gave him an old dictionary as part of
the necessary equipment.
Returning to the establishment of
the library, the League spent seven
hundred dollars on the first install
ment of books. Airs. Tom Barksdale.
Airs. Fannie Freeman and Airs. Paul
AlcDaniell, was the purcliasing commit
tee- For the past few years the li
brary trustees have*. - endeavored to
[spend one hundred dollars annually
fej- books. Hoping*to arouse intreest
Vtml obtain financial support, in 1927
%e wrote a letter to each organization
in* Conyers asking Tor fifty cents per
Mpita. From this request we received
Jhty-two dollars. In 1928, the re
vest was repeated—the. receipts were
t\'iity dollars and fifty cents. Eeacli
those yesSrs'a hundred dollars worth
of books were bought. AVe have given
several bctfcfit.s and it pleases us to
think tha%" those who kindly attended
received some pleasure in return for
tlieir expenditure. Usually only a
small amount was made-
As to the information given to the
State superintendent of schools by the
local superintendent the League is in
no way Responsible.
the city board of
edu<sfi*£ paid the librarian- five dol
lars per month for-S' period of two
school years, the League paying the
other five- At the end of the second
year, the board stopped paying and the
League paid ten dollars per month. At
one time during a period of some
months a librarian served for five dol
lars per month at the League’s ex
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pleted in London for fortress use. The light is nearly 7 feet in diameter
and has a candle power of 3,500,000. A light such ns is thrown by this search
light could be visible for hundreds of miles if the limitations of the horizon
could be overcome.
pense-
Later the county hoard of education
and the city council were appealed to
for five dollars each for a monthly sal
ary for the librarian. This was given
without any instructions or requests;
by the city council and by the county
board on 'the condition that the li
brary stay open.qn Saturday, ami tiiqi;
a trustee he appointed' from’ eabir
itia District. Airs. Alobley accepted
from Milstead, Airs- B- F. Lester from
Sheffield. Airs. Ben Willingham for
Honey Creek- We were never able to
get any one from Lorraine.
After all what does it matter," He
who reads a book owns it ”
The League has always wanted the
city school and the county schools to
receive full benefit of the library.
The following constitute the board
of trustees: Airs. T. A. Elliott. Airs.
J. R. Pirkle, Airs. .Toe White, Airs- C.
R. Vaughn, Airs. AL L. Alobley, Airs-
B. F- Lester, Airs. Ben Willingham
and Aliss Irene Irwin-
AIRS. C- It. VAUGHN, Chairman
IRENE IRWIN, Secretary.
NOTE: Now Mr. Superintendent,
your management should not include
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1 WEEK END SPECIALS |
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•8 Just Received anew barrel (genuine •'
I Cuba Molasses SI.OO Per Gallon
| Compound Lard, per pound . L>c
160 pound Tub, Lb. . . 13 l-Sc > \
I Pure Hog Lard, 50-lb. can . STSO !;
| We have a Rood lot of Seed Irish Potatoes a< a V
price to move them fast—nuf sed. J.
:i Special Prices On Flour j;
| Merry Widow, Capitola, Miss Di&ie j:
| and Double 7 *:
!; If there is any better Flours Ilian these we have •*
| never heard of them. *•
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any pad-locks. You have a dozen as
sistants and they are paid more than
ten ihou-and dollars, trained particu
larly- to handle children and equip
ment. This library is an inqmrtant
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Item in your equipment and should be
and it is entirely up to you to
joed- t-Jiuj.' it is tjsed and that it is prop
’wj'w"*** Vw&bim-'ib’Yer heard of jin
institution whose management was -■ >
ihoiSughi.V 'condemned by (the good
women of the community and it is not
the hoard of education nor the chil
dren at fault, but it's you Air. Superim
teiulent for following tlie . example of
your predecessors. However, you seem
to lie an improvement over some of
them in this respect, for you are not
bursting doors up nor breaking pad
locks, but you have made not attempt
to Install a useful anil workable sys
tem in so far as the library is con
cerned, according to the ladies of the
Civic League- p
Ail grammar grade teachers are paid
the same and all should he required to
work the same number of hours. If
you will require this of your assist
ants, you will have Iwo or three teach
ers all al'lernoon to keep open house in
the library- Our teachers generally
Proof That the Women
Like It Rough
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Feb. 14
(Special)* Dear Air- Editor- Your pa
per, or rather “our" Rockdale Record,
is a source of much pleasure to ihe
and my “pal" who is also in love with
the Conyers people. Now, we can hear
from Conyers, and oh! hoy it's com
ing in fine out here, so clear and dis
tinct as that we far away children
can visualize everything going on- 1
presume dear Ole’ Dad had the Record
sent to me. Well, papa, you did us a
day's work then and we are delighted
with it for it is some paper —keep it
going, please sir-
HATTIE WALLACE VAR NON.
NOTE: Well, lln 11 ie, the rougher we
gel llk l heller they like it. You will
notice Uml our English is just about
as rough as our policies are. Any
way. we're glad you get a kick -ml of
il -several around here are kicking
about it instead of out of it- We take
your complimentary remarks as a Val
id ine'which is altogether vice versa
from what some picture one's intimate.
Aunt Betty, your dear old mother, is
just about blind now, but there is a
light within her soul that's brighter
than the noon day’s sun and she it
happy right on- Says "hello’’ every
body.
Conyers is not growing much right
now —we're supposed to he having out
periodical bard times. The Civic
League, which you loved so much
when here, woke up this week. They
are somewhat like tlie Matron’s club
just holding their own. After all.
that's'(lie safest thing to do in a small
town you know. Our churches are
still having preaching like they did
when you were here and our mission
aries are ,si ill doing personal work
and everybody is satisfied. AVe still
have a mayor and town council and
six members of the hoard of education,
bill not liiuc li money. AVe are figur
ing on closing the race track across
the school campus, if we can figure out
a way to get to town. Come to see
us this summer and bring that little
hospital girl with -you. that you bad
along lasi summer.
prepare their next day's work at homo,
'uiit it could lie done just as well and
easier in a library and at the same
time render continuous and very val
uable service to the entire school.; f)f
•ourse, you would have to break into
habit and custom to do this, but from
reports coining from the Civic League,
ilial would be helpful. As superintend*
cut. this school is under your manage
ment and you might as well step 011-
Ihe gas or take the dust of other
schools. —Ed.
BEAUTY SHOW HOSTESS
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Miriam Stuart, Broadway actress,
lias been chosen from over one hun
dred candidates as hostess of the
National Beauty show which will 6e
held at the Grand Central palace,
New York - , from Alarch 27 to April
5. Aliss Stuart is a petite, vivacious
brunette with large blue eyes.
Mrs. W. F. McDaniel
Leaves for Florida
Mrs. \Y. F. McDaniel, left for Flor
ida tonight for an extended visit at_
the home of her soil, Jno. 'l'. .McDaniel,
at Bradcntown. Dr. Fpaiik AlcDanlel,
the only one of several children oft Sis
•distinguished family remaining* tin
Rockdale county, motored down tbit-li
Ids mother to the land of sun
and hurricanes. Florida lias hatl; a
Cheijktered cancer for i-Vveral years,
but with Jack Dempsey, Al Smith, Her
bert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge rid
ing the waves and Jack Sharkey and
W. L. Stribling entertaining the “tim
! id" bathing beauties, Florida has at
I least started back in a natural strkie.
DUMBER 4
Silver Anniversary
of the U. D. C.
History of Conyers Chapter United
Daughters of the Confederacy—Mrs.
I*. F. Tucker.
'ln the early days of 1904 a group
of the patriot!;' women of Conyers be
gan to discuss the feasibility of organ
izing a chapter of the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy. A climax of
efforts was realized when on March
4, 1904, in the high school auditorium,
a chapter was duly organized known
as "The Conyers Chapter No. 760, Unit
ed Daughters of the Confederacy.”
Mrs. (T. I').) Clyde Bloodworth
O'Kelly was unanimously chosen us
president and Airs. (J. A ) Nancy Gra
ham Guinn as recording secretary.
The first Memorial day observed by
the chapter was held in the Aletlmd
ist church April 26, 1904. Prof Derry
of Atlanta, was the orator for the oc
casion and was introduced by Judge
George AA r . Gleaton. Luncheon was
served to a large crowd, after which
thirty-five graves of the veterans were
decorated with flowers. Airs. Nancy
Guinn was the first delegate sent to
the state convention of the Georgia
division, which convened in Macon
October, 1905. In the twenty-five
years of its existence the chapter has
had nine presidents; Airs. (T. I).)
Clyde O'Kelly, Airs. (John R ) Vanie
Fowler Maddox, Airs. (Al- L ) Emma
liiley AA'ood, Airs. (B. F.) Ida AValk
er Tucker, Airs. (C- B.) Belle Stan
sell Hudson, Mrs. (J- R.) Lizzie Peek
Irwin, Airs- (W. A T .) Nora Kennon Ai
niand and Mrs. (J. AI.) Rosa Callahan
Lassiter. And has had four recording
secretaries, Airs. J- A- Guinn, Aliss Ida
Norman, Aliss Alary Stansell and Mrs
-1- F. Tucker. Airs. Lizzie Peek Irwin
served as president from October,
until her death June, 1923. Airs. Ida
Walker Tucker was elected as
ing secretary with Airs- Belle Stansell
Hudson as president October, 1913 and
has continued to serve In that capacity
even to the present date. There have
been enrolled one hundred and sev
enty five members, of this number 25
are deceased, 98 have been demited,
transferred* or dropped from the roll,
leaving on the roll at present 52 ac
tive enthusiastic women who take
great pleasure in the interests of the
organization not only locally, but state
and general work. The Silver Anni
versary will he held March 4, 1929.
Chick Season Opens
Red, Leghorn, Rooks, sounds like
red headed mama’s, hut what we have
in mind, is the arrival of our baby
chicks. Rhode Island Reds, White Leg
horns and Barred Rocks. The Dixie
Hatchery, operated by Alessrs. Collie
Irwin and Harry AlcElvany, is sitting
or settiiig, and twenty five thousand
eggs began t lie slow process of making
"fluffy” chicks Monday of this week-
They have two mammoth Buckeye
electric incubators in operation that
deliver a thousand or more chicks ev
ery Monday morning. Quite interesting
to la* on hand when the little fellows
arrive and watch Collie and Harry
handle them If we were teaching
school, our class would have an opiatr
tunity to see and understand the
things of every day life, including this
—especially the boys —then they would
know how to handle a ’chicken.
Civic League Holds
Meeting
The monthly meeting of the Civic
League was held at the library Tues
day afternoon at 4 o’clock. Aliss Alary
Ktansell, vice president, presided.
The chairman of purchasing commit
tee reported all funds used and asked
for money to finish paying for a set
of American history and for money to
liny new hooks. The treasurer was
directed to place forty-six dollars to
the credit of purchasing committee
The civic committee will meet Febru
ary 19 to plant shrubs in beds in front
of school Aiuilding. This committee
planted the four beautiful cedars last
yea r.
Tlte librarian reported that 659
books had been loaned since January
1. 404 were borrowed in January; 255
to date in February.
The Civic League is studying citi
zenship. The topic for today was the
Importance of Popular education in
Politics.
After the enjoyment of the ‘‘Zero
Hour” the League adjourned to meet
tlie second Tuesday in March.
They even attend hteatre parties dress
ed in bathing suits down there, pa
yers will seem mighty slow to Doctor
Frank after viewing that peppy situa
tion.