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ROCKDALE RECORD
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Some I’jfly Places
Hound About Conyers
Soil It* |MH.|ii<> Will '•< ill ••
street. along our newly I : .
No. 12 tula Innumerable j nt I
in it |o|. aided comlitioii. yards u.oli
*ml away and shrubbery . ••!.♦* sce-l
anil since we don't live on tii.it street
we will agree that many re'id*ine>
along this str et and highway do have
the appearance of being rented out
und that tourist and through travel do
not stop to enjoy the sirtii't\ like they
would in the Magnolia gardens at
Charleston, but it strik* us that a
paved street would ho<* tip a good
many poorly k pt homes along most
every street in town, tnir | ample
should take a wee hit mote pride in
keeping their ground. fend -and
buildings and now i- a good time to
start a clean up and paint tip cam
paign. A number of loiters ar per
mitted to sit in our post office win
dows and play checkers, spit on the
side walk and eat iiedlcrs' oranges and
throw the peelings down on the paved
street in great confusion. We have
called the attention of Chief Nix to
this and trust there will la* no further
room for complaint along this line —
in fact Mayor Slid is contemplating
Designing these fruit pedlers to the
grounds in the r ar of tin* court house
Asa matter of fact lie should prohibit
their sales in the corporate limits, la*
cause it is unfair to our merchants to
load up on week end fruits and then
he leached out of sales by tramp deal
era. Unless it is stopped. Conyers
will soon be inconvenienced to the e\
tent of being denied choice fruits for
merchants cannot stock up in compe
tition with sin-h unfair and unjust
competition as this. However, what
we had in mind was the ugliest place
in Conyers lln court house grounds.
To begin with, the building itself nev
er did excite tourists a being a haven
of rest. It was built when women
wore long ilressi sand men hid them
selves in storm pits every time it
thundered, both women and men prat*
tieing "safety first", but since those
da.vs everything lias changed eonsid
erahly, except that court house Imild
ing. Hut. even if that building is
i|uugmirish. Conyers could make it
look a great deal better, almost like
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jrhe U. S.- A>is onlyja
f few minutes wide
THE Bell System is ever busy reducing the width of
America and the distance between cities. For ex
ample, in the last five years 350 major improve
ments, as well as thousands of others whose aggre**
gate importance mounts high, have been made in
telephone central office equipment.
Improved operating practices have eliminated tho
necessity of your hanging ip” and being called back
in 95 per cent 0# n calls, adding new speed
and ease to your i / ance service. You hold the
wire and the or :v,r does the rest.
Since New \ ear s Day, 1927, the average time for
completing aii out-of-town calls has been cut 85 per
cent and at the same time the per cent of error has
been further materially reduced.
There is no standing still in the Bell System. J3et
ter and better telephone service at the lowest cost
is the goal. Present improvements constantly, going
into effect are but the foundation for the future’*
greater service.
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SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Uncorporated )
Lv. H. l o>. of Syh ester
Appears I ichtin.c Mad
V.l ! -essii,; u% ns e.litol and prg
i, M | .ty Hittett*'. ' a WOT"
trut n* tlmt lie attributes to
i, j,io,ie pt*(*ss<|fi’e Howcwr. in his
ji,vfi f,,i ipc (filler of the ring,
j, %uented a 1 1 *i i*> .. itj *i i merit aiy an
lion iations to way of a few wanton
,ii% ~f u% with AjvJbv in
v, ii. weakness for the
. i , m \ It.. * • >: in likcalileiiess
1 % in *t iat lb liemian in general
\w these ate outstanding traits
..mi dNMM) of grnMa on M has
i-vat turned- failure
, , - ■: %% ,;,s* lit. I.arndes%
i. ... .1 cfi .it * atm- muter
iMtitn*!. How ever, Mr. I\y rent nines
in sew w bat of a tenor voice as be
: iith r*** * nt- on; reference to
- ... ::., ujmu the Wa is
: it a- l-i-.Ui. ,m>t am) ordinary
bunch of %\i.kers We bad referenee
!■• tin kina .f fi'li and not to D<c
-% Cos. -tei Cannon and llarry Mr-
I .my in the luipil-liuient of their
.id* grity a% fishermen We also deny
(tying t.* picture 1r MeKlvany sit
itjg on a -tump out in a eotton patch
ishing We tried to convey tin* idea
hat li had rat hot lean up against a
tump, even though it was far away
. roiii any fishing hole, than to fish
w ithout any tiling to lean up against.
Mr Fo> losed his tirade, most of
Which we 1 •ensured with the follow
ng paragraph: "Now. Joe, we don't
a ant to do you or the Rockdale Rec
ital any grave injustice —hut we did
ai regret that you didn't take that
trip with us. Not that we thought
von would add materially to the edi
t‘cation of those m tin* party or that
you would have caught a fish, hut we
know of smile real dark and deep wa
ter in that river, also happen to know
that you cannot swim with your shoes
on. and we fully intended to try out
your ltaptist belief with a real dem
onstration. We are willing to give
you a chance even now to exalt fish
ing trip, and fishermen, more espe
cially this Wacissa trip and we four
fishernn u."
Well, here's to Col. Charles Car
roll. of Mouticello. Fla . R. H. Foy of
Syhester. tl:i, and Idoctors Chester
Cannon and llarry MeKlvany, of Con
y'et ■ — ill men tin* horn equal, but some
nun mit grow it.
Our Rockdale Farmers
Supply Prize Seed
Rockdale county farmers, l*y coop
erative marketing through W. O.
Mann, of the Farmers Union Ware
house Cos . shipped a car load of five
hundred bushels of tin* famous prize
w inning Pi I lelta and Filmland No. 4
cotton seed to the farmers of Eufauln,
Ala., this week. These seed grew ill
Km kdale county hist year and in ad
a lily in a mild puddle, if something
definite was done to and with those
THK ROCKDALE RKI uku. iuWYERS, GEORGIA
. privtueing extra quantity ami
Halil* of lint sold for #1 AN |x*r bush
el which is al*out sixty cents jer
• nshel more than ordinary seed are
' thug for This is hut further proof
•hat Agricultural relief is not of or
b* legislation You cannot legislate
profitable crops, but you can raise
$1 .’. r > i*cr buslul seed that will pro
duce I tins' liah*> of one inch staple
cotton to the acre instead of raising
fifty cent ss*d that produce a hale
f inferior lint to three a *res. If a
man who planted Inferior s*ed on fif
teen acres hist year and produced five
Pale' of interior lint cannot figure out
the advantages derived from planting
superior seed on five acres to pro
duce fifteen hales of lietter quality
Maple then lie is In need of legisla
tion that will help the blind and not
the farmer The difference between
i plowman and a farmer is about two
I ales of cotton per acre.
With the splendid progress made by
the Rockdale county farmer, there is
every evidence that he will no longer
bank on legislative relief, the weather
or the boll weevil. Those three things
ire negative, just like crab grass with
the real farmer.
Monday Was April
Fool Day in Conyers
April fool day was celebrated with
a school picnic on the part of several
foolish students who got caught in a
spring freshet. We happen not to be
an April fool as we were born in July.
This reminds us of a great April fool
handed Uncle Sam on Saturday, April
6th. 1909 when somebody said they
found tiie North Pole. They are sup
posed to have found it on April the
first, but by the time it reached us
it was April the sixth. Since that
time, several more have been found,
but you can't get a kick out of the
same joke but once unless you hap
pen to be a high school student or an
old maid.
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Four Young Ladies
Take Bachelor Degree
Misses JuliiHte Gratmde, Ijuverne
Stephenson and Mildred Harvey, of
t'ony is, and Miss Mary Park, of
l.ithotiia, are keeping bachelor's ball
in an apartment tit 817 Ponce DeLeon
uvenue, Atlanta. A splendid idea and
example of economy that is growing
in popularity with our working girls
today. The apartment affords home
like protection and convenience in ev
ery respect that thoroughly stabilizes
this unit of our commercial activi
ties. The fifteen dollars per month
railroad fare will more than pay for
their home and greatly reduce the
time going to and from work which
can he used profitably in rest and rec
reation. While Conyers regrets to
lose these industrious women as citi
zens. we rejoice in their betterment
in this respect, and wish for them con
tentment and happiness in their new
home.
FARM WANTED
Want to hear from owner hav
ing good Georgia farm for sale
for fall delivery. Send descrip
tion. F. 15. W., Box 408. Oluey,
111.
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Thanks,
l. O. JORDAN
Conyers. Ga,
Miss Alice Cooper, young daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Coulter, of De
catur, spent several days with her cou
sin, Betty Elliott, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. H. Elliott—Little Alice says
Chapman Tonsorial Parlors
(Next Door to City Fount)
(They All Smile Their Approval)
Tub BATH Shower
Pressing Club—Dry Cleaning
J. R. CHAPMAN, Prop.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1 92s
she doesn’t like Decatur near so wen
as she does Conyers. We understand
that Mr. and Mrs. Cooper feel some,
what like Alice does about tills.