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The Stribling-Sharkey
Fight Set for Tonight
It will be Dixie versus New England
down at Miami Florida, the land of
bathing beauties and dry sharks, to
night. Conyers will be at the fight
and possibly in several. Our furniture
merchant, Mr. W. A. Henson, left on
the accommodation Tuesday morning*
for Miami—rather slow start but he
expects to catch a through freight or
may be something even faster, from
Atlanta—any wey, he will be at the
ringside pulling for Stribling and bet
ting on Sharkey. One thing against
this fight drawing much is the fact
that the brethren and sisters round
about did not hold any protest meet
ings—evidently they don’t think it will
amount to much. Their only objection
is that it is being held on prayer meet
ing night. Dr. E. L. Tribble, optome
trist, put out for Miami over the Week
end through the country, accompanied
by his brother, Mr. Mack P. Tribble,
our genial hardware man, and Mr.
Forrest White. The doctor has a
daughter down there, Mrs. Lois 10. F.
Bolton and a son, R. A. Tribble, whom
they will stop with for several days.
Another party to take ,a sudden vaca
tion is Mrs. M. L. Mobley, Jr., the wife
of our genial friend of the Milstead
Mfg. Cos., who accompanies her parents'
the Hon. and Mrs. John N. Holder, to
Miami for the fight. Mr. Holder en
joys a scrap, been in several and its
getting too quiet in Georgia since Mr.
Tate becomes referee. Mrs. W. K.
Downs is another one down there for
her health just at this time, stopping
with Claud and Lueile over at Clewis
ton. Funny thing how our women folks
run from a fight. They used to faint
from excitement, but now they grow
stale without it.
Miss Margaret Sprayberry, high
school teacher, spent the week-end
with her uncle, Rev. J. A. Sprayberry,
at Barnesville. Rev. Sprayberry is
pastor on the Barnesville circuit this
year.
Miss Coonie Taylor is spending this
week in Atlanta, guest of her sister
and family, Mrs. D. T. Vaughn.
BAILEY’S St
Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes
Millinery
Among the outstanding busi
ness concerns of this section of
Georgia is to be found the Gai
ley Dry Goods Cos., Robert O.
Gailey, sole owner. This com
pany opened business in Con
yers August 16th, 1899, being
now the oldest business house
here.
For thirty years Mr. Gailey
has given himself without re
serve to the task of furnishing
the people of Rockdale and ad
joining counties a first class de
partment store, a place where
they could supply themselves
with good merchandise at rea
sonable cost.
While -Mr. Gailey has made a
success of business from the
standpoint of money gain, this
is not the only phase of his suc
cessful endeavor. He is a man
of sentiment and delights to do
business for the joy of doing it,
for the pleasure of serving. Per
haps no man of this section is
more active in strewing with
roses the paths of his fellow
men, making glad the hearts of
children, raying sunshine where
there otherwise would be shad
ow. Mr. Gailey counts his
friends by the thousand, em
bodying the spirit of the poem,
“Let me live in a house by the
side of the road
And be a friend to man.”
Financially one of the strong
est department stores in this
section of Georgia; Mr. Gailey
being rated in Bradstreet s as
of highest credit standing, and
being in position to buy to ad
vantage and give the customer
the benefit of buying ability,
This house features the well
known Endicott-Johnson shoes,
shoes for the whole family, sell
ing last year enough shoes to
cover every foot in Rockdale
county.
The Gailey’s sales force car
ries Gailey Summers, Pierce
Baggett, Misses Lucy and Laura
Holifield. In trading at Gailey’s
the public may be assured of
capable and courteous service
and a square deal.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD
Rockdale Cos. Marketing
Association Formed
About the moat Interesting thing to
the farmers of Rockdale county touch
ing on the County Agent’s work with
tlie farmers of the county is a recent
and active cooperative marketing as
sociation formed. This is the Rock
dale Cooperative Marketing Associa
tion. This division of The Rockdale
County Agricultural Association that
is functioning for the betterment of
the agricultural conditions of Rock
dale county in cooperation with the
Agricultural Extension work of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, the Georgia State College of Ag
riculture, and the Extension Organiza
tion of Rockdale County, Cooperating.
Other divisions of this county agricul
tural extension organization ’art
known to you by the work that has
been done in many ways, as the five
acre cotton contest, in which thirty
five five acre cotton contestants turn
ed in records on one hundred and
seventy-five acres of cotton in this
five acre cotton contest, with an aver
age of over a bale of cotton per acre,
with a profit of near seventy-five dol
lars per acre, with an average cost of
production of less than ten cents a
pound of lint cotton, and won first
prize for the county in the state mak
ing the best showing in the long sta
ple cont£>t, and won second place in
the general contest, for numbers of
records completed. This gave Rockdale
county the best showing of any county
in Georgia, even though it is the small
est one.
Another accomplishment was that
fifty farmers sowed one hundred and
fifty acres to vetch and winter i>eas
for soil improvement last fall, and an
other that a dozen farmers are sow
ing forty acres to alfalfa this season,
fall and spring, another in having the
poultry car to sell our surplus poultry
and many other things that we could
mention.
Now, there is no use for me to say
that this kind of work is proving
very beneficial for this county, for
any one who is interested in the bet
terment of the agricultural conditions
of this county knows that a great deal
of betterment has come to this county
ihis way.
The time lia,s passed when any one
in this county could say he has not
been directly or indirectly benefitted
by agricultural extension work in
Rockdale county. The thing that is
giving the farmers a good spirit and
confidence in their ability an din Rock
dale county in the matter of produc
ing a better cotton crop in 1929 than
they have in ten years is largely the
results of that most wonderful cotton
production demonstration put on by
thirty-five or more farmers in 1928 in
Rockdale county, showing to them
selves and to their neighbors that there
is a better way to make a greater
profit in cotton production. It gives
us a ‘’Grand and Glorious Feeling” to
find that so many farmers are falling
in line with this better method of cot
ton production, and that they are plan
ning to do all their cotton crop this
way this year. They are going to
make more on fewer acres and by hav
ing their crop on fewer acres they
will be able to “fight the grass and the
boll weevil, too.” Now, I want to ask
any one if there ever has been a time
in this county when the farmers went
about their business of farming with
greater faith, and more business meth
ods, and with a greater faith in the
face of boll weevils for the on coming
crop? We are expecting the boll wee
vil and we are including him in our
program for this year. There is no
guess work about this. We know he
has every reason to be here this sprin"
with his family, and we know we have
experience and ability to make a crop
of cotton with him here. Nothing re
mains to check him outside our selves
but the possibility of dry weather next
summer, and of course no farmer can
include a dry summer in his farm pro
gram and feel that he is able to count
on such weather and feel safe at plant
ing time. So the farmers of Rockdale
are facing the conditions as they “now
are” and are planning the safer way
by being able to take care of their
work of cultivation and at the same
time to take charge of the boll weevil
when he attempts to interfere with
them. If any one doubts this let him
talk with a hundred farmers and come
to his own conclusions.
A common practice is simply this,
among the plans of the farmers of
this county for 1929, "Production of
food and feed for themselves and their
farm animals, and plant only about
ten acres of cotton to the plow and
CONYERS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, 1 EH. 27. 129.
7 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY
Olive Hardwick Cross
Former Conyers Girl
At the School Auditorium Friday
Night of This Week
Circle No. 2 Woman’s Auxiliary of
the Presbyterian church will sponsor
a play given by Mrs. Olive Hardwick
Cross, a former Conyers girl, who
since her marriage has made her home
in the east, more recently at Maynard.
Mass. Mrs. Cross is a dramatic read
er of recognized ability throughout the
east, where she has attained great suc
cess and now comes back, to her home
town and first love with her successes
and fame to entertain her own people
for an hour and a half in plays and
humorous sketches that have brought
to her all of this success and fame. She
has a splendid repertoire of plays,
monologues and short stories that will
please even in her home town and that
is the greatest test any one can be
put to. Her comedy sketches include
stories of the old south which she
tells in genuine Negro dialect. She al
so dramatizes true stories of cowboy
and frdhtier life as an artist who haS
lived her part.
Mrs. €:oss is a graduate of Agnes
Scott college and has taken post-grad-
fertilize this cotton well with four to
six hundred pounds of high grade fer
tilizer, and top dress with one to two
hundred pounds of nitrate of soda per
acre and try to make as near a bale
of cotton per acre on their whole crop
as possible, boll weevil or no boll wee
vil.”
Now, this is the sensiblest, safest,
surest, and most profitable way of
doing this business of farming. I’m
glad to see tHe time when farmers are
using as much business in farming as
other business men use in other kinds
of business. I say frankly and em
phatically that “we are growing.”
"We” are the farmers of Rockdale
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1 We Buy and Sell Country j:
I I Produce, Chickens, & •:
WEEK END SPECIALS |i
Fresh BEANS, Gal. . . 50c j
New Irish Potatoes, Lb. . . 7 l-2c
CABBAGE, Lb. . . . 5c :j
SUGAR, 17-Lbs. SI.OO jj
Quart Jar Preserves, all flavors 35c |
Quart Jar Sweet Pickle . • 37c •!
Quart Jar Sweet Mixed Pickle . 37c j;
Quart Jar RED HOT PICKLE . . 45c |
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS j:
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY •:
BELL’S CASH GROCERY |
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Phone 25 Conyers, Ga. We Deliver
uate courses at Columbia University
and Boston college. Several years of
her life were spent in the far west,
where she became familiar with cow
boy and frontier life. She will feature
a matinee Saturday afternoon of this
week tit the American Theatre, also
sponsored by the Presbyterian hulks,
with "Story Telling Hour," by "Little
Sister," for which admission will he
ten and twenty-five cents.
The following program will he giv
en Friday night of this week at the
school auditorium:
(1) Negro’s contribution to Ameri
can Literature. Angelina.
a. True story of the war, by Joel
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Chandler Harris. Reminiscences, by
Irwin S. Cobb. A Blue Grass Widow,
by Walter Ben Hare.
Music (5 Jninutes)
2() Story of the Opera Madame
Butterfly, by John Long.
Music (5 minutes).
(3) The Importance of Being Cloth
ed, a one-act play, by Rachel Croth
ers.
Musi? (5 minutes).
(4) A group of children's poems, by
A. A. Milne.
a. Independence, Disoliedience, My
Three Chairs. Vespers.
Admission 10, 25 and 35 cents, 8
o’clock (FT).
county. "Forward” is our slogan. We
will win out by good sound business
principles in our farming business on
faith, good judgment and strong de
termination, as any other business.
Yours for n prosperous 1929,
ERNEST D. HOLMES, County Agent.
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Lee attended
the funeral of her brother in law, Mr.
H. L. Francis, in Atlanta, Sunday. Mr.
Francis was quite a young mail, be
ing only forty-one years of age, but
had suffered for a number of years
with a leaky heart.
Conyers Caugh Flat
Footed Last Sunday
With our water works department
broken down on account of an electric
al blow out of our motors Saturday
night, we were at the mercy of fortune
Sunday and luck was with us. Dr.
I*. S. Smith, pulled a nice little fire
in his offices over Hewlett and Downs
store that we controlled with our
chemical equipment. Had this nice
little fire been a night hawk like we
editors, and started on its journey late
at night when everybody was asleep or
out of town, old sirene would have
moaned in vain. Just a ten minute
start and it would have run rings
around our little chemical works and
that’s all we had. We been telling you
folks that those two machines up at
the plant could not last always. This
is a more definite warning. You city
fathers had better not wait until we
are caught napping again. Not much
damage was done this time.
Rockdale News
Last week-end being pretty weather,
it good many made good use of it by
going to church.
On Saturday morning tlie ladies had
their W. M. S. meeting at ten o’clock,
preceding preaching. The ladies have
good programs. They gave a program
on missions, and it was greatly en
joyed.
Preaching started promptly at 11
o’clock. The pastor, Rev. I. G. Walk
er, had as his subject “Temptation.”
His sermon was interesting and help
ful and was enjoyed by a good crowd
for Saturday meeting.
On Sunday morning Sunday school
was held at the usual hour, 9:45 with
Mr. W. H. Granade acting as superin
tendent. Mr. Granade is a great in
spiration to our young people. His
tglks are always interesting. We were
glad to have our superintendent, Mr.
G. S. Potts, with us. He has been ab
sent for several weeks on account of
sickness. The pastor preached at 11
o’clock. His text being “Choice and
Influence.” He delivered an excellent
sermon on this big subject. Sunday’s
attendance was larger than Satur
day’s.. Most of our people find it hard
to attend church on Saturday. The
quartet consisting of Mr. J. B. McCul
lough tenor, Miss Georgia Walker, al
to, Allison Bowen, bass, and Clifford
McCullough, soprano, met after
preaching and practiced several songs.
B. Y. P. U. was held at 7 o'clock
Sunday night, with the president, Dean
Smith, in charge. Group two, with
Adell McCullough, as captain, render
ed n fine program. We had lots of
visitors and were glad to have them
meet with us.
Next Sunday being the first Sunday,
Sunday school will be held at 2 o’clock
in the afternoon, followed by preach
ing at 3. All hours central time. Our
superintendent and pastor cannot have
Sunday school and preaching services
without help, so let’s all try to come
and help them all we can.
Rockdale always extends a hand of
welcome to all visitors.
Richard E. Byrd Claims
A New Country for Us
Vast territory in Antarctic discover
ed by Commander Richard E. Byrd,
which lie names after Ids wife. Must
tie a Bird of a country. We under
stand that it is only eighteen hundred
feet under ice, otherwise it is ready
for immediate cultivation. Since our
Marines must act as election manag
ers, we suggest that they follow up
Mr. Byrd and elect him dictator or
whatever it is lie would like to lie
down there. We suggest that Mr.
Byrd stay down there until that ice
melts and we will give him half of
what he makes the first year.
Dr. C. R. Cannon Goes
On a Fishing Trip
Mr. R. H. Foy, our French critic and
English admirer, has invited Dr. Can
non to join a little fishing expedition
doped up for next week down south.
We were heartily invited also, but
there's too many things already out of
the water that we like better to be
bothered with a sucker. Of course,
we'd like to be with Representative
Mr. Cannon and ex-superintendent Mr.
Foy very much, intelligent, well read
men they are and in their presence
we’d feel vocabulistically free and all
that. but.
Now, when we say but, with a per
iod, we mean that’s all.
Popular nt Home and Abroad
Conyers Pulled an
Electrical Blow Out
Conyers had a real blow out last
Saturday night about the time we
made up our mind to take a hath. In
fact, we had a series of blow outs.
First, the American Theatre staged a
vaudeville, and we mean a real live
affair, made up of six or seven men
and two ladies that made you glance
over to see if your wife was watching
you or the stage. All of them were
musicians, that is they all played a
guitar a piece. We had heard a gui
tar before so it wasn’t anything new
to us, kinder like tlie picture they had
which wasn’t exactly new either, but
we waited patiently for a change of
scenery and believe us, it came. No
use telling you what the change was
for we couldn't describe it, but you
remember a fuse blew out Saturday
night don’t you. Well, It was dark
and awful stuffy for a long while, but
we finally got to going again and felt
well paid for the long agonizing wait.
You beard about the transformer blow
out up at (lie plant, well that was soon
fixed hack, hut when our water works
blew out, it was all off for the week
end. We don’t know whether the vau
deville caused all the blow outs or
whether il was our threat to take a
bath, hut we do know they ain’t pump
ing no water this week.
Presbyterian News
Mesdames J. G. Newton and R. H.
King were joint hostesses to the Wom
an's Auxiliary of //the Presbyterian
church Monday afternoon. Mrs. New
ton had charge of the program, with
Scripture lesson from the 24th Chui>-
ter of Luke’s Gospel. Mrs. Carl Wait
er lead the devotionals. Miss Jennie’
Joe McCollum gave an interesting pa
per on schools and colleges. An in
teresting paper on Jerusalem to Jeru
salem was presented by Mrs. H. C.
Cowan. Mrs. W. H. Tucker gave an
interesting paper on Echoes from Day
of Prayer. Christian Education was
presented by Mrs. It. A. Wilkerson.
Seven members from circle I were
present and nine members from cir
cle 2 were present. Annual reports
will he submitted at our next regular
meeting, which will he held with Mrs.
W. H. Tucker on Monday, Marchl. On
Monday, March 25, an unusually inter
esting meeting will he held at the Pres
byterian church at which time Mrs.
J. A. Craig, of the Atlanta Presbytery,
will install the newly elected foficers
for the ensuing year.
Mrs. Newton was assisted by Mrs.
King during the social hour in serving
a most delicious salad course with hot
tea.
Those present were Mesdames R. W.
Tucker and N. T. Street us visitors and
the following members: Mesdames Joe
L. White, J. W. Hollingsworth, W. J.
Weber, H. C. Cowan, R. A. Wilkerson,
E. O. Leftwieh, Carl Walker, W. H.
Tucker, Jack McCollum, Harry L.
White, W. S. Almand, Ida Beaty, Mol
ly McCollum, Hugh White, It. H. King,
J. G. Newton and Miss Jennie Joe Mc-
Collum.
Mrs. Standard Dies
Mrs. Herbert G. Standard, aged 45,
died at her home near Salem Monday
afternoon after a few weeks’ illness.
She is survived by her husband and
the following children: Harvey, James,
Lottie, Annie Lizzie, Grady, Sarah and
Willie Standard. One brother, Mr.
Oscar Nolan, of Covington, and one
sister, Mrs. Addie Biggers. Funeral
was held from Salem church Tuesday
at 2 o’clock. Interment was in Salem
church yard. White and Cos. in charge.
Gladstone Dickerson
Succeeds Coley Bird
Mr. Gladstone Dickerson, of Athens,
arrived in Conyers last week to become
technologist for the Panola district
under superintendent Edd L. Cowan,
and in a way, succeeding Coley Bird,
resigned, whom we regret very much
to lose. We hasten to extend Mr.
Dickerson a most cox-dial welcome to
our town and the Panola district and
trust he will find it both profitable and
pleasant in our midst. From his pre
tentious given name we judge this
young man to he a descendant of the
late right honorable William E. Glad
stone 1809-IiB9B Gladstonian period of
Irish freedom. However, we shall re
fer to him hereafter as just plain Dick.
We always did like snappy nick names
like Dick. Bob, Hank and Jeff for
men and Saphenous, Matildy and Mir
andy for women.
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