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Wednesday, March 13, 1939 ILUCKNER ■ |ffie£EA| ■devil ■ ran Now Appearing in The Rockdale Record VH <* |ft 0 FOR GROCERIES Phone No. 8 On Time Every Day We pride ourselves upon the promptness of our Delivery Service Groceries ordered to be delivered at a certain time delivered on time. Asa Test of This Promptness PHONE NO. 8 W. E. HARDEMAN Phone No. 8 CONYERS, GA. ROCKDALE RECORD, CONYERS, GEORGIA Much Sound Wisdom in Tagalog Proverbs Following are proverbs of ancient repute among the Tagalog people In and around Manila: Nothing hut rust destroys Iron. Thorns thrust deep when the step Is swift. Though you be far behind, wit may put you ahead. A drunken man may be twitted with impunity; not so he who is awakened from sleep. Noisy waters ure always shallow*. Never seek fortune; if really yours it will come of itself. Even water-soaked wood will burn If left long enough in the lire. Repentance never precedes the folly. The savings of today are the comforts of tomor row. Even a rag, put away in the closet, will turn up for good use. The really wise will always shame him who merely pretends to wisdom. A small stool made of sound wood Is better than a bishop’s chair honey combed with borers. When a pullet begins laying eggs, chickens may be expected. Criticize yourself before doing so to others. Be the aim never so exalted, the shaft goes no farther than the strength of the archer. He who spits at the sky gets the spray in his face. Bounding Wet rice in the mortar only besmears the workman. His Beard Too Close When Tire Blew Out Probably the first man to devise a fluid to make automobile tires punc ture proof was A. L. Dyke of St. Louis, a pioneer in the automobile in dustry. The earliest automobiles had single tube tires, made by bicycle tire man ufacturers and glued to the rims of the wheels. They punctured with ease and frequentcy. When that happened it was necessary to stop, pry off the glued tire, stick rubber bands in the hole and glue them there, put the tire back, glue it to the rim and wait for the glue to dry. Dyke brought out a sticky substance that could be squirted into a tire in place of air. But an Illinois physician, who wore a beard, was inspecting a tire thus filled when it blew out. He threatened to sue Dyke for the loss of his beard, for it had to be shaved off.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Historic English Ports The Cinque ports were originally five seaport towns on the coast of Kent and Sussex, England, called in early times “the five most important havens in the kingdom.” They were enfranchised by Edward the Confes sor. William the Conquerer subse quently granted them the privilege of an almost independent state, under command of a warden, with a court at Dover castle. The five ports were Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, Romney and Hastings. Winclielsea and Rye were added later. Up to the reign of Henry VII their chief function was the sup ply of the country’s naval contingent. Dating from the revolution of 1688 their privileges were gradually abol ished, the lord warden’s jurisdiction ceasing in 3835. No Snakes in Green Isle The Biological survey says that there are no snakes native to Ireland and never have been, so far as there are authentic records. This is due to its geographic position, isolated as it is from the region in which these vertebrates originated and which they now occupy. A few attempts have been made to introduce harmless spe cies, but as yet its records show none established on the island. This may be due to a lack of proper environ ment, climate, disease or other abnor mal condition. The slow-worm or lag worm, a legless lizard which super ficially looks very much like a snake, is native to Ireland, and may account for some of the snake records of that country. Horse Racing Old Sport Horse racing has been called the “sport of kings’’ because it lias been one of their amusements since the earliest dawn of civilization. Tho thmes I of the Eighteenth Egyptian dynasty left a papyrus letter telling of his conquest of Mesopotamia and priding himself upon the acquisition of the racing horse (the Arab) and being the first to introduce him in Africa. Somewhat later the records tell of King Solomon buying horses from Egypt and paying as much as $3,000 for some of them. Among the Greeks horse racing was introduced Into the Olympic games in the thirty- Ihird Olympiad (G4B B. C.). Earned Hi i Tip” Tipping was not unknown 100 years ago, one may see from the following article that appeared in a Pittsburgh paper in 1828: “Mr. Beale received from Philadel phia on Monday last an entire load of oysters, principally in the shell. The wagoner was laden exclusively with oysters. He was 11 days only on the road and he received SIOO carriage. I* consequence of his expedition and his attentive and careful man agement Mr. Beale paid the wagoner S3B more than the amount usually received for the ameunt of lading.”— Detroit News. < . Health Hint Loss of sleep is worse than starva tion so far as its damaging effects upon the body and mind are con cerned. If you keep regular hours there should be no difficulty about sleeping. If there is, find the caust before it undermines you. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Nicholson have with them for several days’ visit their grand daughter. Mrs. Kuthe Flanders, and child, of Norwood. Mr. I. H. Rainwater, former citizen and school official of Conyers, came up from Madison, his new home, Fri day for a short visit with relatives and friends. Mr. Rainwater is not favorably impressed with the idea that Madison is a much better town than Conyers to live in or to do anything else in. Well, Conyers is bad, very bad at its, best, but so is your ’ole The Utmost Care With Prescriptions ! ■ ■ No one, not even the doc tor who writes your pre- v r ~ il scription, realizes more the 1 Ik K m importance of the utmost fIA care in filling it properly. lH •% We use every precaution in carrying out your doctor’s orders as written. We Also Carry a Line of Toilet Articles That will Please You Ride out for a refreshing Drink from Our Sanitary Fount Headquarters for Riverside Golf Club Cards TRY OUR GAS AND OILS Gailey-O’Neal Drug Cos. Phone 71-J JNO. A. WAKKPN, Druggist Milstead, Ga. Plant a Good Staple Cotton We have just received a car load of the famous Mis sissippi Pi Delta and Pineland, No. 4 Cotton Seed. This cotton has been grown in Rockdale and adjoin ing counties for the past two years and has given perfect satisfaction from a stand point of produc tion, lint yield and staple. From 1250 to 1300 pounds of dry seed cotton you can get 500 pounds of lint. This cotton won for Rockdale county in the state con test at the state college of agriculture last year, the first prize for growing the best staple cotton of any county in the state. This cotton staples inch to 1 1-16 inch and always brings a higher price than the short er varieties. Because of its excellent quality of staple. We are very anxious that the farmers grow a good staple cotton in the territory in which we buy cotton. This saves us going west to buy our cotton and thereby enables us to pay the farmer a higher price for his cotton in the local market. These seed are put up in 100 pound bags and are worth $5.50 per bag, which is what these seed actually cost us in car load lots and can be secured from W. O. Mann, our cotton buy er, at Conyers, Georgia. The Milstead Manufacturing Cos. Milsead, Georgia man. Every body loves every body in Conyers, but its different to what puppy love is. We like a dog fight if they’ll keep their hats on and wear a white collar. Conyers ain't never laid a scandalous court case like they had in Madison all last week where one man was suing another man for SI,OOO - damages to his wife. Being a claim agent ourselves, we enn’t imagine how a fellow could arrive at exactly one thousand dollars damage. Our ex perience is, that it would have to he lots more than that or it ought to lie classed as charity. Mr. and Mrs. Chns. K. Galley had for their week-end guest Mr. Geo. 11. Purvis, auditor of the G. M. railroad at Gainesville, Ga. Miss Evelyn Willingham spent the week-end in Ltthonia, guest, of Miss Kaye and other friends. ROOMS FOB RENT... IN MY HOME Mrs. Annie Lee Wade ■■——■■■■■■lilHllllllll PIMII III 111111111111111 WARNING This is to notify the public not to hire or hurlior Henry Loyd, colored ns he is under cotrnct. in writing, with me for 1939. C. W. JOHNSON