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VOL. II
Subscription $1.50
Second Anniversary
of Rev. J. L. Drake
Next Sunday will be the second an
niversary of pastor Drake of the Bap
tist church. Next Sunday will also he
a re-dedication of the Temple service,
by reason of it being the first service
therein since repairs began some four
weeks ago. The walls are beautiful
and hte floors shine as a light unto
your feet. The windows have all been
repaired and many other extensive im
provements made during these weeks
by Mr. Grover Mitcham and most ex
cellent crew of workmen. We under-
Sstand the Methodists hold themselves
*in readiness to join this congrega
nt ion Sunday, either at Sunday school
j&or at the evening service, most likely
Silt the evening service, which will be
given over largely to a fitting observ
ance of Pastor Drake’s second anni-
Tcrsary. In addition to the Method
ists who will be guests upon the oc
ibasion, Opher Cooper will feature the
■■Sbxcrcise with a special musical pro-
Ipram. ii ".pSI
i Our merchants take stock once each
%ear to learn what has been done and
Jh hat remains on hand and its present.
Tiiluo. It seems to us that a pastor
plight summarize somewhat along this
line to see what they have done and
tv hat they have on hand and its pres
ent value. Merchandise will deterior
ate somewhat during the year if ex
posed or left neglected on a shelf, and
■kewise will a church member de
teriorate unless worked and kept
Clean. Our idea of a dormant church
member is that he is somewhat like
a rusty cook stove —cleans off beau
tifully when put into service. Fin
ally some stock becomes worthless and
is dumped to make room for live ma
terial that people want and material
th at will serve some good purpose.
■This anniversary program will lie
extemporaneous or in other words op
en to anything that may be prompted
of the spirit wy way of reminiscences.
OF CONDITION OF
Bank of Rockdale
Conyers, Ga.
close of business March 27, 1929,
as called for by the Superintendent of
Banks. ,
||g. C. Sims, President; R. H. Still,
Cashier.
iPate of Bank’s Charter: October 15,
1921.
Pate began business; June 1, 1901.
-
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $179,744.05
Certificates of Indebtedness
and Bonds and Stocks
IfflDwiied 20,658.19
Banking House and Lot and
'.Furniture and Fixtures _ 6.700.00
Other Real
|Estate owned , 12,440.00
Cash in Vault and amounts
■ Due from approved
Agents 50.058.40
Checks for Clearing and
Due from other Banks _ 2,222.71
Cash Items 2.085.16
Overdrafts 685.78
Advance on Cotton and
jjXother Commodities 6,835.90
Total $280,930.19
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 50,000.00
Surplus Fund 50,000.00
Undivided Profits 6.122.00
Cashiers Checks 2,313.07
Demand Deposits 129,818.47
Time Certificates
iof Deposits 42,676.65
Total $280,930.19
GEORGIA, Rockdale Coulnty.
Personally appeared before the un
dersigned, an officer authorized to ad
minister oaths in said county G. C.
Sims, who, on oath, says that he is the
president of the Bank of Rockdale,
and that the above and foregoing re
port of the condition of said bank is
true and correct.
G. C. Sims, President.
Sworn to and subscribed before me.
this Ist day of April, 1929.
(SEAL) R. H. STILL, N. P.
Rockdale County, Ga.
|ly commission expires January
26tli, 1933.
We, the undersigned directors of
said hank, do certify that we have
carefully read said report, and that
the same is true and correct, accord
ing to tlie best of our information,
knowledge and belief, and that tlie
above signature of the President of
said bank is the true and genuine sig
nature of that officer.
This Ist day of April. 1929.
J. WILL COWAN,
J. W. HOLLINGSWORTH
. ,Si Directors of. said Bank.
@l)c Kodtfale Sltcorft
Stunt Night at
Conyers High School
A program given by the eleven
grades of the Conyers Public school
and the organization and clubs of ftie
town dedicating the beautiful new
hand-painted curtain was enjoyed by
many citizens in the auditorium of
the school Friday evening.
Due to a delay in the curtain ma
terial, the program was given at a
later hour than originally planned.
But this waiting made the stunts seem
all the better and more unique when
presented. Those who came to criti
cise went away to praise.
The curtain was painted by a re
nowned inrtist who has studied in
Berlin and Paris and other large cities
It portrays a woodland scene and
overs the netire wall of the stage,
leaving behind a narrow passageway.
The side wings may be removed if
more space is desired. These can be
folded and stored away with care till
needed. The curtain has been paid
for, the money being obtained by
means of ads, which appear on a drop
curtain. These ads were given by
business men, and hte grades of the
school.
The program was planned by the
superintendent, Mr. C. C. Gilbert. Ev
ery stunt was novel and well pre
sented. and mucli praise lias been re
ceived by the board of education and
by the faculty.
“Billy Boy”, duet by Jackie Cow
an and Byron Roberts —Ist grade.
“I Faw Down ancl Go Boom,” dra
matic solo, by Virginia Huff, 2nd
grade.
Horseshoe Orchestra, “Sweethearts
on Parade,” 3rd grade.
Dialogue—Sarah Jean Pharr and
Carolyn Almand —4th grade.
Gallery of Famous Pictures —sth
grade.
“High Dive” —T. A. McDowell and
Heyward Elliott —6th grade.
“And the Lamp Went Out,” Renie
Cannon, Virginia McElvainy, W. O.
Mann, Jr.. Jim Bob Huff, Sue Bailey
—7th grade.
“Baby Show” —Louise Almand, Bil
ly Patrick, Jewell Brisendine, Ralph
Almand, Nedra Mitchell, Frances Bai
ley— Bth grade.
“Ads” —George Granade, Sarah Ba
ker, Elliott Thrasher, Elizabeth
Wheeler, Frances Mayfield, Gladys
Thompson, Charles Whitaker —9th
grade.
Scene in a Doctor's Office —Horace
Milligan, the patient; Ellyn Connal
ly, the nurse; Keating Pharr, the doc
tor; Mr. Cooper, the surgeon —10th
grade.
Luther Cowan, the cartoonist —lltli
grade.
Water Power —Mr. Homer Irwin.
Police —Mr. Nix.
Board of Education and teachers.
Banks —Mr. Mercer Hull.
Old style teacher —Mrs. Carl Sims.
New style teacher —Miss Agnes Ow
ens.
Lights—Old and new —Mr. Ed Cow
an, Miss Lonizelle Stephenson, Mr. H.
A. Parham, Miss Mary Alice Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Harrison.
W. O. IV. by degree team.
Masons—Mr. Dan Patrick.
Civic League, “Clean Up, Pick Up.
Paint Up” —Mrs. T. A. Elliott, Miss
Cara'’ Lou Elliott, Mrs. S. K. Kelly,
Mrs. John It. Lee, Mrs. Bob Hale, Miss
Irene Irwin, Miss Mary Stansell, Mrs.
John Pirkle, Mrs. Bert Peeples.
Church —Rev. J. R. Jordan, Rev.
Drake, Rev. Burney.
FARMERS —Old and new, County
Agent Holmes and Mercer Hull.
Duet —“My Mocking Bird,” Mr. C.
C. Gilbert, Mr. O. R. Cooper.
Doxology.
“Safety First”
The Junior class will present “‘Safe
ty First” at the school auditorium Fri
day night, April sth at 8:30 o’clock.
This play has been presented in
some of the outstanding high schools
and colleges of the state and has made
* hit every time presented. It is a
three-act comedy and is exciting
throughout.
Jerry Arnold and Jack Montgomery
try to break up a love affair and get
in trouble with a cop. They are car
ried off to jail and the ladies think
they are on a trip to Florida for a
Sliriner's convention.
They are reported to have been
washed overboard and the ladies
mourn their loss.
The boys get out of jail and tell of
their adventure in being shipwrecked.
Everything is found out and reconcil
ed and they live happy ever after
wards.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wright and
family, of Atlanta, spent the week-end
in Conyers, guest of Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Plunkett and family.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3,1929
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY
Mr. and Mrs. Wallis
Move Back to Conyers
Mr. and Mrs. J. Mercer Wallis and
family of six children moved back to
Conyers last week and occupy the old
home place from whence they moved
many years ago. Mr. Wallis was edi
tor of the Weekly Banner, a splendid
newsnaper when it burned up with the
Lee budding back in 1907, having suc
ceeded his brother, J. Fred Wallis, as
editor, just prior to its destruction in
this fire. The Conyers Weekly and
the Conyers Banner were consolidat
ed by Mr. Joe Wallis before his ap
pointment as immigration agent at
New Orleans in 1905 when he turned
it over to his brother, J. Fred Wallis.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallis are the proud
parents, and justly so, of a most in
teresting group of children consisting
of two girls, Florrie, age eighteen and
Anna I.ee, age sixteen and four boys,
Robert. Mercer, Guy and Todd, whose
ages range from thirteen to one year,
all of whom are coming to Conyers to
the very great delight of our young
people. Miss Florrie is an Atlanta
high school graduate and pianist par
excellence, while Miss Anna I.ee is a
June graduate of Fulton high. She
will be transferred to the Conyers
high school for completion, if possible.
It will he interesting to their former
neighbors here to know that Mr. and
Mrs. J. Fred Wallis are the parents
of six children also, five of whom are
living —Stafford, the oldest, who was
named after Bolt Stafford, an Atlanta
first baseman of great ability and
popularity, is married. Harold is con
nected with (lie Atlanta-Lowry Nation
al Bank, Earl is assistant cashier of
the College Park bank, while Laura
Sue and Jeff are still kids. Both of
these ex-editors and Conyers citizens
are still with hte Atlanta Journal,
where they have been since leaving
Conyers. The Rockdale Record is
glad to welcome this most excellent
family back to Conyers.
Baptist Church
When tlie doors of the Baptist
church open next Sunday morning we
will enter to celebrate for two rea
sons. The inside sparkling and spot
less after the painter’s brush invite
us to begin again our regular services.
For three Sundays we have visited
our brethren with pleasure and profit
and now our own church calls us back
home.
Sunday is also the second anniver
sary of the present pastor’s pastorate.
Mr. Drake accepted the pastorate two
years ago while a post-graduate stu
dent at Mercer University and has
been untiring in his efforts in trying
to lead in the Master’s work at this
place.
These two years have been years
of toil and fellowship for both pastor
and people and it is very fitting that
ive celebrate on this occasion. The
celebration service will be at the ev
ening hour.
We have invited our Methodist and
Presbyterian brethren to he with us
at this service and are happy to know
that they are coming.
A special program has been planned
for this service consisting of special
music, talks by various members, reci
tations, and a talk by tlie pastor. We
are planning to make this a real feast
and urge that all who can come and
join us to lie present at seven forty
five o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Almand had as
their Sunday guest, Mrs. Will Cook,
of Atlanta.
We Buy and Sell Country
Produce, Chickens, & Eggs
We think we have one of the
best Flours put up in Merry
Widow and Bake-light* We
are making a Special Price on
these. Try a sack on our
guarantee.
Fresh String Beans, Turnip Greens
Tomatoes, Spring Onions, Etc.
Helll’s Ilaliner Coffee and Merry Widow Flour
BELL’S CASH GROCERY
“THE HOME OF CHEAP PHIECS”
Phone 25 Conyers, Oa. We Deliver
Mr. M. L. Wood Writes
U. S. Senator Harris
on Agricultural Belief
I received a letter from you dated
December 15th, 1928, in which you ask
ed me io write you, giving expression
to my views on public questions. 1
would have answered it at once, but
when it ciime 1 was si k with influ
enza.
As there lias been nothing done in
the way of farm relief by tin* present
session of Congress and as there is
to be a special session called in the
Spring for that purpose, and as I am
a farmer, I decided I would write you
and give you a few ideas on that sub
ject from a Southern farmer's stand
point.
If any class of people need relief
more than any other class in the Unit
ed States it seems to me it is the
farming class. They are the driving
power of all the commerce of the
world. Stop agriculture only a short
while and see the disaster that will
t ffigt
M. L. WOOD
befall the whole system of business;
and still they realize less from their
labors than any other class under the
sun. Everyone who touches their
products after they leave their hands
adds on their profit, and so it is with
>: all who furnish them fertilizer, farm
tools, et cetera, but not so with the
farmer. They are at the mercy of
the balance of tlie world. When they
plant their crops they do not know
whether they will even lie able to re
ceive cost of production or not, much
less a profit. Tlieir products are pric
ed by tlie speculators and if it appears
that there will be a small surplus the
whole crop is priced on that basis re
gardless of how much suffering and
disaster it brings on the farmers.
We are told that it is supply and
demand thin controls the prices. Will
anyone pretend to say that all classes,
including the speculator, suffer equally
with the farmers? No, (hey are all
able to demand and get a profit except
tlie farmers. Is this right? Absolute
ly no! The people who labor hard in
the heat and cold to feed and clothe
the world are entitled to a share in
tlie profits that others get whether
there is a surplus or not. So much
for the farmers’ past and present con
dition.
Tlie lag problem is, how to bring
about permanent relief. Ido not think
that anything Congress lias tried to
do so far will do it. I think if Con
gress would pass some legislation to
give tlie farmers temporary relief and
then help them to help themselves,
this is the tiling to do.
As I see it, from my point of view,
there is nothing but intelligent or
ganization and cooperation that will
ever bring permanent relief to the
Wednesday Half
Holiday Called Off
Due to a late spring, it will be im
possible to begin this week observing
a half holiday on Wednesdays. Our
farmers are late getting started and
our merchants desire to cooperate and
lend every assistance possible toward
getting the new crops started. How
ever, effective first of May, each
Wednesday afternoon will find Con
yers in the woods, on the streams and
gardening. Prospects for an unusual
ly good crop year are outstanding ut
this time. We have jusl had two ex
ceptionally good years and tile people
of Rockdale county are enjoying the
effects of a kind providence as are
but few peoples today. During these
two years of bumper crops, intensive
cultivation and fertilization lias been
characteristic of our people to a great
er exten than of any other people in
Georgia, and thus it is that intelligent
farming will overcome many obstacles
and bring success while those neigh
bors less industrious will continue to
suffer from every attack of tlie com
mon enemy.
Rockdale led the state in number
of farmers to complete the five acre
contest patches last year, although
the smallest county in the state, and
Rockdale also won two of the three
first prize awards for best staple cot
ton produced. These leading farmers
averaged more than a bale to the
acre. Now let’s walk ajpiut and con
tinue the good fight.
farmers, and that must come through
vocational training of the children and
older boys and girls in the rural dis
trict. l want to say in this connec
tion that the preparatory schools at
least must be located in the country.
While it is true that a few boys and
girls in tlie country will over ride all
obstacles and secure an education, the
rank and file are more timid and will
not venture unless the schools are car
ried to them; but with a little encour
agement they will climb the ladder to
the top round, while they are being
taught the importance of building up
their farms and making two hales of
cotton, two bushels of corn, two bush
els of wheat, et cetra, grow where only
one grew before. At the same time
teach them the importance of properly
housing and marketing their f-rops in
telligently and rightly adjusting their
acreage to their various crops. Whpn
Ibis point in their vocational training
is reached we will see an intelligent
organization of the farmers spring up
and tlie thorough cooperation in the
handling of their affairs. They will
inaugurate a system of warehouses in
every town, in every county, in every
cotton state, and they will have a great
warehouse system centrally located in
each of the cotton states for the dis
tributing point for that slate and a
distributing point located somewhere
on the coast for export. Thus their
cotton will be bandied co-operatively
and intelligently through this system
any they will then be prepared to con
trol the acreage so there will be no
over production of any one crop. If
there should be, some years, a small
over production of cotton they can
keep it in their warehouses until there
is a lean year and fill in with it then.
I think the greatest thing Congress
can do to bring permanent, relief would
be to help inaugurate and assist in the
above mentioned vocational education
al and warehouse system. I realize
this will be a slow process but I be
lieve it will eventually come to pass.
When it does, farmers will educate
their children as well, have as good
homes, wear as good clothes, ride in as
good automobiles and have as good
bank ca-ounts and live as well in ev
ery respect as the members of the ex
changes and others who have grown
fat off their labor. In fact, they will
be men among men. Farmers only
want their share; no more, no less.
They are willing to live and let live.
They want to handle their own busi
ness like all other good business con
cerns do and get their share of the
profits of their labor and let the other
fellow’s business alone.
Until through the above process the
farmeis are able to handle their own
business in an intelligent way, I sin
cerely hope that Congress will pass
some legislation that will give us tem
porary relief.
What I have said about, cotton, the
staple crop of the South, of course,
will apply to the staple crops of all
tlie sections of the country.
I heartily endorse your bill passed
by the Senate increasing the appropri
ation for tlie enforcement of the pro
hibition law.
Thanking you for the interest you
are manifesting toward the relief of
the farmers and your constituents in
general, I am
Popular at Home and Abroad
The Publishers Aux.
of 15,550 Circulation 1
Chicago, on Who’s Who
In the weekly review of Georgia,
said:
Towns and Atkinson of the Rock
dale Record are putting their town
oil the Georgia newspaper map. Con
yers, until very recently, has been con
sidered a newspa|er graveyard, sev
eral papers having suspended there on
account of poor support. The Record
last week contained 111 pages, four of
which were n diversified feature sec
tion. Five full page ads and one dou
ble page spread were a part of the ad
vertising carried by tlie home mer
chants. mid the pnjier was chock full
of local happenings. A big well-di
versified newspaper just naturally
pleases everybody and attracts busi
ness.
NOTE: We appreciate the favorable
impression the Rock (la If v Ilecorjd is
making in every section throughout
America. Our merchants and hankers
ar)e speaking to the joutslde world
through the columns of the Record as
never before and thus making it jmis
sible for the Record to become one of
the leading weekly newspapers of the
country.
11. S. SENATOR HARRIS
REPLIES TO M. L. WOOD
I am in receipt of your letter Febru
ary 25tli and have read with the great
est interest your suggestions relative
to agricultural matters. lam so much
pleased with it that I am bringing it
to the attention of Senator McNary,
chairman, senate agricultural commit
tee. Senator McNary is at work on his
farm relief hill that he is to present
at the first of tlie extra session in
April.
It is always a pleasure to serve you
whenever possible and I trust you
will not hesitate to call on me.
Mrs. W. T. Stanton spent most of
last week in Atlanta, guest of her
children.
Mesdaines Henry McCalla and John
Warren are playing golf on Riverside
these days in a way that is surprlsing-
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF
Bank of Conyers
Conyers, Georgia
At close of business, March 27, 1929,
as called for by the Superintendent
of Banks.
W. T. Baldwin, President; M. W.
Hull, Cashier.
Date of Bank’s Charter: November
25, 1964.
Date Began Business: December 19,
1904.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $ 88,943.21
Certificates of Indebtedness
and Bonds and
Stocks Owned 84,477.84
Banking House and Lot and
Furniture and Fixtures _ 4,700.00
Other Real
Estate Owned 9,143.51
Cash in Vault and amounts
due from approved
Reserve Agents 42,581.43
Checks for Clearing and
Due from other Banks 585.21
Cash Items 177.27
Advance on Cotton 7,780.72
Total $238,389.19
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 30,000.00
Surplus Fund 22,700.00
Undivided Profits 3,059.58
Cashiers Checks 866.11
Demand Deposits 137,553.79
Time Certificates of
Deposits 44,209.71i
Total $238,389.19
GEORGIA, Rockdale County.
Personally appeared before tile un
dersigned, an officer authorized to ad
minister oaths in said county M. W.
Hull, who, on oath, says that he is
the Cashier of the Bank of Conyers
and that the above and foregoing re
port of the condition of said bank is
true and correct.
M. W. HULL, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
Ibis Ist day of April, 1929.
H. I). AUSTIN, N. P„
Rockdale Cos., Ga.
We, the undersigned directors of said
bank, do certify that we have care
fully read said report, and that the
same is true and correct, according to
the best of our information, knowledge
and belief, and that the above signa
ture of the Cashier of said bank Is
the true and genuine signature of that
officer.
This Ist day of April, 1929.
R. L. HUFF
W. T. BALDWIN,
Directors of said Bank.
NUMBER 11