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VOL. II subscription $1.50 m\ Rockdale Son Comes I Home on Mother’s Day I join) H. Wood, of Winder, Ga., lms ■ ni l u rather rugged experience in He was horn Sept. 23, 1865, at Ce- H,. shoals, now Porterdale, Ga., hut father, the Rev. 1,. A. Wood, soon H.,od to Sheffield District, Newton (now Rockdale!, where he Hi, I in 1808. From this time on, hard Hines faced the family of mother and Hx children; but by hard work on Ha nous farms, hiring and renting and Hhinll.v buying a little place, the fam- Hv lived. John worked with the rest H>oai a small hoy until he was nearly His childhood friends and were in Sheffield. He play- H with them, went to school with Hem and to church and Sunday Hhool. He thought then, and he still H>>“ks, that there is no place like Slief- Hi'iil. and there are no better i)eople H the world than are found there. Sil His school j'lteachers during those Hu ll! r years were Miss Molly White, John Harville, Mr. Charles Mc- Halia, Miss Jennie Gay, Col. Felix Hrice. Mr. C. M. Swords, Miss Lucy {Hiller, and Mr. N. H. Capehart. The H>“‘ly attended church and Sunday H'hool, for the most part, at Salem and Hhiladelphia churches. in October. liBBs. Rev. Baxter H Colightly visited Sheffield and a meeting at the Simonton school Inis l , in the section known as Flat ids, and organized Bethel. church Huh 35 charter members, of whom H>hn Wood was one. This new church Has composed of Summerses. Cape- Huts. Smiths, Sigmans, Trimbles, H>wes, Whatleys, Cowans, Borns. Gra- Hms. Woods, and others, and as time Hissed its influence reached almost Hcry family for miles around. ■At this time, John, then nearly Henty-one, began to lay his plans for H' Hf e work. Through the influence H Mr. R. H. Cannon, late of Conyers, ■ devoted friend, he was persuaded to Hter Kentucky University to prepare Ur the ministry. So in September, Hsd, he left for Lexington, Ky., where Hi spent five years in hard work and study. He started on this great Hature with hut $50.00 in hand, and H> place to send for more. He worked Hs way through school. For a year. B was a waiter in the college din- Bg hall; twice he was Secretary and H'easurer of the Boarding club, and Hr two years he was mail carrier for He college. ■He graduated in 1891, in a class of Bventeen, who represented eight Hates and three foreign continues. Of Hese seventeen, thirteen are still liv- Hg ■ During his vacations, the young stu- Hnt taught school at Bethel in Rock- Hile county, and preached as he had Hiportunity. Many of his former pu- Hls are now leading citizens of the Hunty and many nearby cities. He is Hill deeply interested in these men Bid women and in their every effort B do good and to make progress, and He counts them among his dearest B’i en <ls. He held his first meeting at Bethel i August, 1889, with thirteen added ) the churc-h, among these being his rather, Samuel H. Wood, who died Conyers in May, 1920. In 1894 he id the preaching in another meeting t Bethel, assisting the pastor, Rev. 1. L. Shelnutt. In this meeting there •ere fifty-one added to the church, t would be impossible to name all of liese, hut almost all of upper Shef ield was touched by influence of this reeting. Needless to say that his love nr* Sheffield and her people will never case, and he looks forward eonfi fntly to meeting them in the upper nd better country. Most of Mr. Wood's immediate fam l.v are now sleeping in the Bethel emetery. Of the original family, on y he and his oldest brother, Mr. M. Wood, of Conyers, are still living. Mr. Wood’s work has been first of ill pastoral; but in addition to this, ie has organized six churches, dedi cated fourteen, been instrumental in 'reeting nine church buildings, add 'd over 2000 members, married scores ind buried hundreds. Besides this, he aix been engaged as Secretary of his -fate Mission Board for nine years, "'orbed in the interest of the Orphan ige for three years, and gave about ieven years to educational work. He received th elionorary degree of D. " in May, 1922. It has been his pleasure to aid many young men in preparing for the ministry, as well as for other lines' ' f work. He has only held pastorates in four centers, and is nwo with one "1 his first charges. He attributes •"hat success he has been able to at- Stjjif ftochfrale Record An Unnecessary Evil Is Being Patronized We have been harping about our town permitting tax free trucksters teaching uikui the community life of our town and have taken our folks to task for patronizing them in opposi tion to our regular or orthodox chan nels of transportation. It lias develop ed just as any thinking man might have anticipated—in tlnit they would ultimately retail from house to house in opposition to our tax paying or Orthodox mercantile houses. Trucks are already selling our merchants and then peddling the balance up and down our streets. Why should a mer-> chant pay taxes, store license, school and church maintenance fees and then lie leached out of all sources of income by reason of trucksters. Whereof are we saving anything. Be sides the Huckster who is benefit ted. Why kill tlie goose that laid the gold en egg. Who is the goose anyway. Well, we don’t know exactly who is the goose, but we do know it is not the truckster. Why should he help support our schools, our churches or our city government when we don’t even ask him to —it's all free to him. We would like to he mayor long enough to collect $150.00 license out of every one of the dozens of Huck sters that are building this chain sys tem around our community, for if we were mayor of this town, their speed limit would he eighty-five miles per hour as they passed through Conyers. Prominent Educators Visit Conyers Tuesday Messrs. A. W. Baldwin and C. E. Hawkins, superintendent and princi pal respectively of the Covington schools, visited with ye editor in Con yers Tuesday afternoon. These most excellent gentlemen are recognized as state-wide leaders by the schools and colleges of our state and Covington is indeed fortunate and is to be con gratulated upon their continuation with that school. While in the city, we escorted them over to Riverside and followed a hot foursome around, made up with Rev. Drake and Bob Gailey versus Opher Cooper and Jos eph Towns. It was quite interesting to watch those athlets drive and iron out rough places along the way. How ever, Mr. Drake spoiled an otherwise good day by missing an eight inch putt to lose by one hole. It was just one of those sad things that will happen to the best of golfers and there is nothing that you can do about it, es pecially if you happen to be a preach er. And this reminds us of a very strenuous sermon preached by a golf player in Conyers last Sunday night against playing golf on Sunday. It may be wrong to play golf on Sun day, but we notice that they don’t preach against it in towns of five thousand people or more. It may be that people in small towns don't do much condemnable stuff and they have to get onto us about things that wouldn’t lie noticeable in larger places. Anyway, it is one thing to lay a chalk line and another thing to walk it. • |'j Fort McPherson, Ga., May 7, 1929. Honorable L. B. Still, Conyers, Georgia. Dear Mayor Still: I desire to thank you and the citi zens of Conyers for the warm recep tion extended the Twenty-Second In fantry upon our arrival in your city. Our visit to Conyers was the most out standing incident of our march and it was highly enjoyed by both officers and men. Sincerely, LOCHLIN W. CAFFEY, Colonel, 22nd Infantry, Commanding Regiment. tain very largely to the influence and training and ideals of his mother, who was unceasing in her efforts for the right upbringing of her children. To the people of Sheffield he feels that he owes an everlasting debt of gratitude for their love and sympa thy and support in his early efforts. Sheffield is sacred ground to him, and it is his prayer that its people may have the highest degree of success and every blessing that is for their good and for God s glory. Mr. Geo. D. Malcom, Jr., of the Rail way Express Agency in Atlanta, spent Tuesday in Conyers guest of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. D. Malcom. Mr. John B. McCollum left Tuesday night for Atlanta where lie will spend several days with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Plitfikett. CONYERS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MAY S, 1929 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY ! [ MOTHER’S DAY ~~^IS The noblest thoughts my soul can claim, An infant when her love first came H The holiest words my tongue can frame, .n A man, I find it just the same; m J|P Unworthy are to praise the name * Reverently 1 breathe her name, s|l| More sacred than all other. Tho blessed name of Mother. || jjgs ■ \A MHHnp fe w. ■ .... ~... ; - - rnn 3Q-1 • •n-jtirf-iMO • . -WKWHV---IPP > _ S 9 ' 9 \ v . B ' B .ywW"- ~v* ■■. B B sH Mg 'S ■' S I x> b\ Henson Furniture in Their New Quarters The Henson Furniture Cos. moved from Commerce street yesterday to their new store, the Plunkett building, on Center street, opposite Gailey's This double door store room has. been thoroughly remodeled and is now one of the most attractive store fronts in Conyers, and the large floor space provides an unusually attractive dis play of their well selected stock of new goods Of the latest pattern and designs. Conyers is to be congratulated upon bringing this firm here, and as a mat ter of fact, this community has al ready expressed its delight and satis faction through patronage, even to the extent of making larger quarters nec essary. Messrs. \V. A. Henson, Joe D. White and C. W. Hall are outstanding leaders in their field of endeavor, ev en unto a town-wide and county-wide spirit of cooperation that is bound to reflect in a greater Conyers and Rock dale county. Their opening day is set for Saturday of this week and it will be a treat to walk into such a store as this in dear old Conyers. Fool Legislation Would Make Criminals Loss of inspect for governmental and parental authority and of rever ence for the home fireside, was given by Supreme Court Justice Price Gil bert as the general cause for the un precedented crime conditions in the world today, esi>ecially in America. A bunch of reformers met at the state capital in Atlanta this week to stop it all. But how are you going to stop law violations with so much fool leg islation. We have so many laws un til you are a criminal every time you cross a street. A bunch of smart fel lows meet in the capital every sum mer and every one of them want to pass a law and just because they pass it. don’t mean that you are any worse off, criminally, socially or otherwise, whether you obey if or not in fact you've violated the thing before you ever hear about it and then you are a criminal. We are not saved by law. but live and die under the mercy of grace. Two months from now we will have another thousand page volumn of laws. June Graduates and June Brides There seems to be some doubt in the minds of a great many people as to which is the sweeter, a June gradu ate or a June bride. Well, the June graduate and the June bride are both indeed lovely creatures and it would be hard to get along without either, but to our way of thinking, the hand somest thing in creations falls upon the broad shoulders of the young man for whom those divinely lovely crea tures were created. Our imagination runs riot when we look upon the new day for America in their hands. Fri day evening, May 24th, will settle the lovely graduate problem for this year, but as those boys and girls separate never to meet again upon the com mon ground of high school students, they will have taken their first step, so to speak, on a journey that will lead to the four corners of the globe. It is presumed that most of this group will continue and spend toiler years in higher institutions of learning, but they have spent their happiest school days and bend Ijorth there will be more or less a sense of repsonsibility resting upon them that will make life quite diffe&Ont. but not necessarily less happy. We wish to congratulate these splen did young people upon this comple tion of a worthy task and assure them that jp layers is highly honored in their accomplishments. Good luck to you boys and girls and may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob accom pany you on your journey unto greater deeds and accomplishments. Hapeville. Ga., May 1929. Hon. Jos. M. Towns, Editor Rockdale Record, Conyers, Ga. Dear Mr. Towns: I am sure the nice little comment in a recent issue of your paper was quite uncalled for. Most editors are prone to “see things,” always out of a kindly spirit, however; and we lay men must forgive them and thank them for their generosity. Now, here is some comment that is deserved ; You are publishing the best paper that Conyers has ever had. Your ad vertising patronage and support is simply fine, much better than I ever thought Conyers would do again, and your news and editorial comment is far above the average for papers in towns the size of Conyers. The paper’s Poultry Car Leaves Us Without a Cackle Rockdale county disposed of $971.00 worth of tilled out and worn out poultry stock in our sale hist week. With 27c tier pound for hens, many of them brought close to two dollars a piece and the beauty about it is, no questions are asked if they had sited their teeth it was alright or if they limped with rheumatism, it was al right—the man did not even feel of them to see if they had meat on their breast in otherwovds, he just pre sumed they were liens or had been once upon a time and paid 27c for each pound of whatever they were upon that particular occasion. County Agent Holmes worked like a trojan for more than three la nil's in that chicken car and it was the first time be ever had feathers on him. He reminded us-of a hen our Ford car struck once just after she changed her mind about crossing the street feath ers everywhere except where they be longed. County Agent M Mtillan, of New ton, and Agricultural Agent Purcell, of the Georgia railroad, were up with Mr. Holmes this week and congratu lating him over his most excellent sale. general make up is very pleasing. Of course, you and your helpers de serve most of the praise, but with out the help of your merchants you simply couldn’t do it. And here’s my praise for them. They are to be con gratulated on their farsightedness in according you the support sufficient to enable you to publish a paper that is a distinct credit to Conyers. Fellow told me the other day that I lie most pitiable sight in tiie vtfirld is a flat tire. But I don’t think a flat tire can be compared to a town without a newspaper when it comes to matters calling for pity. A good newspaper is simply a tonic for a town and the community it serves, and Conyers seems to be taking on new life of recent months. A town will grow and prosper in proportion to the degree of community spirit it puts forth. One of the first effects of the proper community spirit is proper support for the community newspaper. This is not an opinion. It is a proven fact, whatever the “hard heads” may say otherwise. Well, best wishes to you and your fine supporters. BROWN TYLER. Popular at Home and Abroad Junior-Senior Banquet Friday The Junior-Senior hampiet lust Fri day evening was one of the outstand ing social events of the spring season. Plates were laid for seventy-two and young America demonstrated the lat est methods of going over the top. The junior class lsmsts of sixteen girls and eighteen hoys, one of the largest classes to knock upon the door of elev enth grade wisdom and knowledge in the history of Conyers and one of tlie noticeable things about It Is the fact that there ore more lmys than girls in llu> grohp. This class spread a ban quet upon this occusiou that would have been a credit to any college group and it was served by its own mem bers without a hitch. Rev. J. L. Drake offered thanks and Hits was followed by each young man who stood and Introduced himself and In turn introduced the young lady Whom lie brought as she stood smiling like a June bride. The welcome address was made by Junior Class President Miss Lera Mae Weldon, with the senior class response by Miss Olive Mitcham. The address the occasion was delivered by Rev. 1,. Drake. Mr. Opher Cooper, prin cipal and room teacher in charge of jlu* junior class was toast master and presided in a most acceptable mnn per. The musical program consisted of several piano solos by Miss Florrie Wallis and by popular demand, Caro lina Moon, by Mr. Cooper. | Those present " and going to make kip such a' splendid group of chil dren included the following couples; Hubert Plunkett and Florence Bell: A. L. Dabney and Mary Gladys Al- mand. Walter Giles and WllifaCStte' Stanton. Joseph Tpwhs, Ja., and Mary Alice Rice. Eli Walker and Mary B. Leftwieh. ,1. B. Scarbrough and Mary Reafthn. Foy Camp and Frances Farmer. George Roebuck and .Mary Tucker. Elliott Thrasher and Rosebud Wilson Guy Stowers and Ora Guinn Hamilton McDonald and Marv Potts Howard Walker and Lula Mann Mutt Tribble and Jewell Morris Luther Cowan and Sara Hewlett Horace Milligan and Lera Mae Wel don Klieaton Pharr and Rebie Wllkersou Arthur W. Cowan and Mildred Bowen Brice McDonald and Helen Almand Apher Cooper and Mary Still Ralph O’Neal and Olle Mitcham Norman Walker and Ellen Conley Billy Farmer and Clara Lee Chandler ,1. T. Willingham and Lois Reagan Lewis Kent and Inez Welborn Curtis Rice and Joe Butler Lewis Mann and Florrle Wallis L. B. Still, Jr., and I>onlse McElvany Jno. B. McCollum and Margarett Sprayberry. Rev. ,1. L. Drake and Myrl Walker Stedman Tuck and Rebecca Patrick Willie Maloney and Lucile Bowen Ernest D. Holmes and Ruth Robinson P. .1, Rogers and Mary E. Cowan Walter Huff, Jr., and Louise Almand Frank Stewart and Vida Drake Misses Sara and Jennie Joe McCol lum, Oscar Lee Nelson and J. M. Towns, Sr. The junior class presented their teacher, Mr. Cooper, a box containing shirt, tie and socks, along with their tributes of respect and love. One of their disappointments among their many happy and successful school days was the loss of their dearly be loved teacher, Mr. Cooper, for next year —in fact, Conyers as a whole re grets the loss of Mr. Cooper whose plans carry ldm elsewhere next year. Fort McPherson, Ga., May 6, 1929 Mr. R. O. Galley, Conyers, Ga. Dear Mr. Gailey: May I take this opportunity to thank you for the courtesy shown the members of the 22nd Infantry base ball team during their stay in Con yers. We appreciate this courtesy very much and wish to repay your kind ness. We would like very much to invite your ball team to play a game here, Sunday, May 19 or May 26. We. will furnish transportation and de fray all expenses. Will you please re fer this to the captain of the Con yers baseball team and let me know the decision? Again thanking you for your courte sies and hoping that I may again have the pleasure of renewing our acquaint ance, I remain, - Respectfully, V. D. WHATLEY, 2nd Lieut. 22nd Infantry, Athletic Officer. NUMBER 16