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■niisci iption $1.50
■ir Colored Minister,
Bjorn Kennedy, Speaks
V |i|.,> to do oil the Sabbath (lay,
(ll in iuni criticise most every! hint?
H., |, v < r\ body else does on the Kab
■ ,1,, wo are endeavoring to de
■uiiiio just what is Sabbath day ob-
Hviin.o la one section of our conn
H|| is one thing and'in another sec
|{l it is interpreted another way, and
H,.wisc iii different communities and
different people in communities.
I liliody seems to lie certain of but
■, t |,ing, and that is, it’s the other
Blow and not them. We have an
I Lion from our local colored Pres-
I lerian minister, Rev. Tom Kennedy,
Ij s week and his interpretation
I likes ns as being impartial to say
I if least of it. Hhe writes as follows:
1 ■•What is the Sabbath? There was
I r sahhatli of creation, the Sabbath
I 1 Sinai and the Christian Sahhatli—
I l 0 Lord's day. It is with the latter
I at we are chiefly concerned. The
■riiif'e from the last to the first day
B the week does not annul the Sab-
Ittiili. The r.ord’s Day is the capstone
|(* the law in the redemptive grace of
■liiist. It commemorates the greatest
Bent of time and history —the resur-
Kvtioii of Jesus Christ. Had that
Brat event never taken place, Cluis-
Bianity would long ago have been
Rti-i in the dust of the years. The Die
|tj of Christ is staked upon this one
■vent. Destroy the Lord’s Sabbath and
■mi weaken the belief in the risen
■onl.
“The Sabbath is the basis of our
elijrious work. It is a sacred day, set
part for meditation and worship. The
ay should be safeguarded for its in
ended purpose and rightly used for
lie bem fit of the individual oommun
ty and the nation. What is Sunday. It
s the first day of the week and ac
oriling to the Constitution of the
Jnited States, Article 1, Section 7,
t is the weekly rest day in the Unit
id States. In the face of this fact, we
see so many places oxydized with
vorldliness and indifference to its
anetity. The failure of members of
[■lunches to observe the day and at
tend appointments of Divine worship
is a plain fact in the ease with which
io many leave home for pleasure or
tusiness trips, giving little or no at
tention to their obligations to the day
s most discouraging.
The Lord’s Sabbath is a hallowed
day and should be spent for rest and
worship and not for pleasure and rec
reation. To violate the Sabbath by
taking joy rides up and down the
highways is just as bad as participat
ing in games and amusements on Hie
Dual's Day. We would lie struck w ith
horror to pass a farmer plowing and
hoeing his crops on Sunday, but the
horror is in no wise lessened in see
ing roads full of automobiles filled
with Christian men and women liter
ally flying along the public roads or
to see men and boys spend the day on
the ball field and golf links. The one
is as offensive to the Lord as the
other.
"Some thirty years ago Isaw T a case
hied in a North Georgia county court
against a Seventh Day Adventist, who
was accused of working in his field
on Sunday. The state’s evidence was
furnished by two witnesses. The de
fansi counsel drew from one of the
witnesses the fact that lie had passed
*'}’ the defendant’s farm on that Sun
day hunting hands to work on his own
farm on Monday. The other was car-
Ding a harvester machine home that
iu‘ borrowed during the past week.
All three were violators of the Sabbath
day. hut the jury found the defendant
guilty and the court gave him six
months on the gang. I mention tills
ease to show that because a number of
People are doing wrong, it does not
justify me nor you to do likewise.”
REV. T. L. KENNEDY.
Miss Virginia Pounds, left this week
*" s l )e nd tier vacation from the South
ern Business College, with her moth-
P| > Mrs. L. J. Pounds, at Tallapoosa.
~a - Miss Pounds is one of our beauti
ful and popular young ladies whom
Urn social set refer to as Miss “Va,
Us. Poosa, Ga”.
Miss Clemmie Newton Willingham,
eacher in the Leesburg schools, re
hirned home over the week-end, where
f- will visit her parents, Mr. and
‘i ,s - R. n. Willingham for several
dais before attending summer school
at Asheville, N. C.
3l)e Uochiak tUcorft
Conyers Represented
at the Golden Gate
Mr. Eugene A. Summers, son of Mrs.
M. C. Summers, and native Rockdale
county hoy, has become enthused about
the old home town after reading the
Rockdale Record for these several
months in fa at, he is under the im
pression that Conyers must lie almost
as large as Atlanta from the glowing
reports broadcasted weekly by the
Record. Mr. Summers is planning i
mnke a trip hack home in early fall
before our rapid growth and progres
sive extensions shall have covered up
every semblance of the old town. Well,
Gene, old hoy, on your tour of the old
town, we would suggest that you lake
off from the court house and endeav
or to find your way even to our Grand
Central Railway station without Chief
Nix as an escort. We present the fol
lowing clipping taken from the Los
Angeles Evening Herald of May 23rd:
“Formal opening Monday of the new
building in which more than 15,000
square feet will be devoted to show
rooms and general offices of the Stew
aijLWarnes Salijs Cos., and Alem'te
products, marked another significant
step in the progressive business ca
reers of three of Los Angeles’ promi
nent merchants. Located at 1101-1107
South Hope street, the spacious dis
play quarters are arranged to give ef
ficient service under most inviting
conditions. The officers are C. A.
Roeseli, president; J. W. Garner, vice
president and general manager and E.
A. Summers, vice president and sales
manager, who for the past ten years
have built the organization from a
group of four employes to a payroll of
more than ( seventy-five people, with
twenty-five salesmen serving their
four thousand outlets in Southern
California, with bra’neh offices in San
Francisco and Phoenix.
Many friends were present to con
gratulate the officers and employes of
the company and the showrooms were
banked high with floral gifts.”
This sounds good over here Gene
and comes in free of static, too. We
have other boys and girls over on (he
west coast, like Joe Paul Sims down
at Long Beach, Mrs. T. W. Pyle, over
at Berkeley, Mrs. C. L. McDaniel, up
at Frisco, Idus Langley up at Phoenix
and Mrs. Hattie Wallace Vernon at
San Antonio, all of whom are doing
well and readers of the Rockdale Rec
ord. Congratulations to you kids out
there.
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald
Move Back to Conyers
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fitzgerald have
moved back to Conyers after several
months’ absence, during which time
Mr. Fitzgerald traveled out of Hawk
insville, covering the entire state. Mr.
Fitzgerald will he glad to have his
old friends and patrons call on him
at Gailey’s, where he will he in po
sition to serve them in their every
dry goods need. Conyers is more than
delighted to have Mr. and Mrs. Fitz
gerald and son, Howell, hack and trust
they will find it both profitable and
pleasant in our midst.
Honey Creek News
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Watson motored
to Stonewall, Ga., Wednesday.
Mrs. Nell Loyd and two children
are spending several days this week
with Mrs. Bud Wheeler.
Miss Mary Lou Johnson, of Atlan
ta, sjient Sunday with home folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Watson visited
relatives in Covington Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. Essie Treadwell spent Tuesday
with Mrs. I>. L. Garner.
Airs. Bud Wheeler visited Mrs. Jack
Harwell Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thomas, of
Oak Hill, called on Mr. and Mrs. John
Thomas Saturday night.
Mr. H. G. Moss and Mr. Edward
Lackey spent Sunday with Mr. Willie
Johnson.
Miss Jeanette Watson spent Satur
day night with Miss Ruby Watson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Kirkpatrick visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kirkpatrick
Sunday.
Mr. Jim Watson and sister, Ruby,
called on Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Reagan
Saturday afternoon.
JUNE
Mr and Mrs. I. H. Rainwater and
son Billy, of Madison, spent Tuesday
in Conyers, visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
L . v. Holman and Mr. and Mrs. T.
W. Hicks.
CONYERS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. JUNES, 1929
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY
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Gibson Hull and Joseph Towns, junior champions on Riverside Links. “Dan” Blankenship, club house manager and
caddy master, is a great booster of these young men and is thoroughly convinced that these boys can lieut any com
bination of seniors around these diggins.
Charles A. Lindbergh
Aggrevating to Us
Some of these days Lindy is going
to get lost and wont know it. We got
something else to do beside hunt him
all over American and we move that
one of his wings he clipped so as to
keep him in. We knew all along that
lie and Aline would lie found in Mexico
hut that’s not the idea. We got a let
ter this week from his Mr. Guggen
heim that reads like this. Editor
Rockdale Record, Acting upon the rec
ommendations of Charles A Lind
bergh, the Daniel Guggenheim Fund
for the Promotion of Aeronautics be
gan a campaign last fall for the iden
tification of towns and cities in the
United State by roof markings as an
aid to aerial commerce. To date, of
the 7,500 towns recommended, only 5,-
500 have completed the identification
and Conyers is one of the 2,000 that,
has failed to comply by marking its
name on too of the Georgia Railroad
depot. The work and cost involved in
roof marking are not large and in rec
ognition of its value, Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh has agreed to send a
certificate of appreciation to the party
or organization placing the roof mark
er. We do not believe that Conyers
is unwilling to make this contribution
to aviation, but feel that its impor
tance lias not been adequately present
ed to your community and for this
reason, we are asking for your cooper
ation and assure you that it will be
highly appreciated.
Signed, Harry F. Guggenheim, Pres
ident.
Well, Lindy, old boy, since you have
went and got married, you will not
fly so high as that you cannot tell
where you are and what you are
there for hereafter.
Imports and Exports
of Boys and Girls
Conyers -exports three times as
many boys and girls as she imports.
About the only imports are scattering
school teachers and wives. When we
quit importing teachers, our hoys will
quit importing wives and marry their
neighboring playmates. Among those
exported who are returning this week
for another trial, are Misses Mildred
McElvany, Athens; Mary Granade,
Mansfield: Maggie Mae Hudson and
Hughie Hull, Winston Salem; Mary
Frances Cowan, Elizabeth Guinn and
Emily Hanna, Mißedgerille; Louise
Tucker. Chamblee; Clide Mann, Deca
tur; Elizabeth Almand, Camilla; Mary
Maddox, Athens; Myrle Walker, Eat
onton; Lucile Crumbley, Keanons
ville; and Messrs. Quigg Tur-ker,
Rome; Weyman Tucker, Columbia,
Tenn.; Walker Potts, Athens; G. W.
Hollingsworth, Atlanta; Bernard
Maddox, Americus; Dowman Wilson
and Marion Pharr. Waleska; and Dan
Leftwicli, of Davidson.
Mrs. Carl Walker and daughter,
Dolly, returned over the week-end
from Atlanta, where they spent sev
eral days visiting at the home of her
brother, Mr. and Mrs. Paul O’Kelly.
Five Hundred Acre
Horseless Farm
Messrs. W. E. Hardeman, (J. S.
Potts, Otis Hardeman, W. H. Gran
ade and J. W. Cowan are in Macon
today, along with hundreds of other
men from over the state and a great
host of harvester and cultivator rep
resentatives, to take stock of the great
five hundred acre Whittle farm that
hasn’t a horse or mule on it. We can
not imagine a farm in Georgia de
pending entirely upon mechanical
power. They will witness a Case and
Holt Combine harvesting wheat, equip
ped with a side rake and pick up at
tachment that make a clean sweep of
the harvest. Yancy Brothers will also
demonstrate with a Towers and Sulli
van heavy duty harrow and Faulkner
Jr., 45 cultivator that cultivates seven
rows at a time. John Deere Plow Cos.
will demonstrate the effectiveness of
several plows behind a tractor. The
State College of Agriculture will dem
onstrate with a “Pulverator,” a com
bination plow made by the General
Implement Cos., at Racine, Wis.
Manager Garrison of the Whittle
farm seems to get by beautifully with
only two combination machines on his
five hundred acre farm, cultivating
seven rows at a time at a rate of
about fifteen miles per hour.
Well, our comment is, that since we
have artificial iee, breezs, light, re
frigeration and horses, we can under
stand why a man an dwife appear so
impersonal in their home life and con
duct —they are becoming artificial, too.
If Mr. Hardeman should see any
thing down there today that lie under
stands, lie agrees to tell ns about it.
Rev. J. R. Webb and
Family Visit Conyers
Rev. and Mrs. J. It. Webb and lit
tle daughter, of Wayoross, spent the
week-end In Conyers, guests of her
parents, Mr. and Airs. Tom Hicks, and
other relatives. Air. Webb is presiding
elder of the Waycross district in the
South Georgia conference and one of
the outstanding young ministers of his
denomination. He strikes us as being
a man of great power and ability. His
approach and personality is pleasing
and reassuring, which may account for
IdS elevation so early in life to the
position of presiding elder and in the
leading district of all Georgia. They
visited at the Baptist church Sunday
evening with Air. and Mrs. L. V. Hol
man.
Anther Conyers Boy
of Whom We Are Proud
Mr. Charles Cannon, youngest son
of the late Air. and Airs. R. H. Can
non, who graduated three years ago
at Georgia, received his Master's de
gree at Columbia University, New
Y'ork, this week, following a year’s
travel in Europe and a two year post
graduate course at the university. We
understand Mr. Cannon is booked for
an executive post with Birmingham
College this fall.
Southern Goodyear Day
Planned for Conyers
When the wheels of the new Good
year factory at Gadsden, Ala., the
first major tire manufacturing plant
in the South, start turning, the name
of Conyers might well he imprinted on
them —to mark the expansion of a
great major industry in the South.
For Langford Motor Cos., local Good
year dealers, are among the foremost
in insuring the success of tlie big
plant. This firm is joining with other
dealers in (lie Atlanta territory to
celebrate this new unit in Southern
industrial progress by selling, in ad
vance, an entire day’s output for th>
If you slop at the Langford Motor
Co.’s place of business, you will see
it bedecked for the occasion. If you
talk with any member of the organi
zation, you will lie infected by the
enthusiasm that the Gadsden plant
has inspired.
The Lagford Motor Cos. are all sol
to go —on a one-day drive that will
smash all tire sales records for a terri
tory of this size.
“We are going to make ‘Southern
made tires for Southern-owned cars’
a slogan with a BUNCH,” says Air.
J. F. DnVis.
Tlio Gadsden plant is the fourth
big manufacturing unit that The Good
year Tire & Rubber Company lias pro
jected in the South. A big textile mill
50,000 spindle capacity, has boon in
operation for five years at Cedartown,
Ga., and a so •ond 50,000 spindle plant
at Roekmart, Ga., is nearing comple
tion, and a third 50,000 spindle unit
in the tire textile chain was recenliy
purchased from the American Textile
Mills at Ateo, Ga.
Rev. Harry Holland
Presbyterian Pastor
Rev. Harry Holland, llie new Uros
byterian pastor, a recent graduate of
Columbia seminary at Decatur, lias ar
rived and effective (Ids week, begins
a joint pastorate of the Conyers and
Smyrna churches. He will fill I lie pul
pit at Smyrna each first and third
Sunday and the Conyers church each
second and fourth Sunday. Mr. Hol
land is quite a young man and this is
will hoard some where wijliin Jiis
charge. Our young people seem to he
some what excited over the fact that
lie is a single man, but then we have
had other ministers who were not mar
ried and found that the excitement
soon dwindles down to a very low ebb
and everybody begins to like them. We
have not met this pastor yet, imt re
ports coining to our desk indicate that
he is a most capable and likeable
young man and Conyers is glad to
have him and very proud of him. We
wish him every success and a happy
life in our midst.
session of liis plans, l>ut presume he
his first charge. We are not in pos-
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Tucker spent
last week-end at Hapeville. guests of
Iheir daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Brown Tyler.
Popular at Home and Abroad
Judge E. 1). Thomas, of
Atlanta, Gives Banquet
Judge E. D. Thomas, of the Fulton
Superior court, who is also the most
excellent Worshipful Master of the
Masonic fraternity for the entire fifth
congressional district and active civic
leader tlironghoul the state, was ac
companied to Conyers lasi Friday
evening by his secretary, tin* lion. C.
Percy Taylor, who is also Grand
Scribe of the Grand Chapter of Cod
eia, and Mr. W. B. Bishop, who is
chairman of (lie finance committee of
the grand lodge of Georgia, where a
most excellent spread had been ar
ranged for In advance by Judge Thom
as complimentary to the Masters. War
dens, Secretaries and Past Masters of
Rockdale county.
The banquet was prepared and serv
ed by the ladies of the Presbyterian
auxiliary, consisting of Besdamos J.
W. Hollingsworth. 1- C. Downs, W. 11.
Tucker. Q. W. White, J. E. McClel
land. Harry 1,. While. It. 11. King, A.
B. Wilkerson and Miss Jennie Joe Mc-
Collum. in tlio banquet hull adjoining
the American ’Theatre.
Those present to enjoy the hospitali
ty of Judgo Thomas, along with his
two distinguished friends and support
ers from Atlanta, were Judge J. H. Ir
win, Col. C. R. Vaughn, Dr. F. C. Me
daniel. W. B. Parker, J. M. Towns, J.
W. Carter, Lonnie W. Walters, Dan
Todd, Hurry L. White, Homer W. Ir
win. Joseph Corley, Clius. K. Gailey,
Jack Loyd. Edd L. Cowan, Dan 11.
Patrick, Gist. A. Owens.
Immediately after the banquet the
body adjourned and gathered in Pliil
ologia Lodge to hear Judge ’Thomas in
his explanation of tin* objects of the
proposed Rockdale county Masters,
Wardens, Secretaries and Past Mas
ters Association.
The following officers were elected :
President, J. M. Towns; vice presi
dents, L. W. Watters and Joe Corley;
secretary-treasurer. Geo. A. Owens.
’The by-laws adopted provide for four
meetings annually. The object of the
organization is cooperation in an ef
fort to unify practices and public opin
ion. There are three lodges in Rock
dale county that go to make up the
organization and are ns follows:
Conyers: J. R. Irwin. W. B. Park
er, J. IV. Carter, C. K. Gailey, M. 11.
Plunkett, H. G. McElvany, H. L.
White, F. C. McDaniel, C. It. Vaughn,
H. W. Irwin. J. M. Towns, I>. 11. Pat
rick, Edd L. Cowan, G. A. Owens.
Mllstead Lodge: S. S. Whatley, A.
A. Stewart. J. B. Stewart, J. W. Davis,
D. E. McCluskey, L. W. Watters, R.
D. Todd, S. L. Black.
Zingara Lodge: Rev. J. J. Stephen
son, ’l'. J. Loyd, ,T. F. Peek, J. L. Is
lington, S. P. Piper, J. C. Corley and
O. V. Piper.
Preaching and
Playing Golf
Pastor Wagner, of the Congregation
al church at Minden, lowa, says that
the preacher who complains that golf
is luring his members away from
church, on Sunday is limiting excuses
for his failure as pastor. Pastor Wag
ner has his church full of golf de
votees every Sunday morning. He
plays golf with them in the afternoon
and they in turn meet him at. church
Sunday night in the evening worship,
lie has a membership of l“. r > in a town
of 100 people. Mis greatest, sermons
are played. We know preachers whose
greatest play is their sermon. He
came to Minden four years ago, a big,
strapping giant of a man, football
player and skillful golfer and has
taught his great congregation (hi 1 art.
of playing golf and attending worship.
His day’s work begins with a round
of golf and then in pnstorial work,
visiting (lie siek, meeting with the
various auxiliaries and taking care of
church affairs in general.
It all began when he first observed
liis men working hard every day in
the week, then plan their Sundays so
they could skip out of town for a visit
iri the bigger towns nearby and other
places that carried them entirely
away and out of the life of loeal com
munity interests. Pastor Wagner is
earnest and sincere in ids preaching
on Sabbath day observance and his
wonderful congregation work, play
and pray in unison.
Mrs. W. A. Roberta entertained over
the week-end Mr. and Mrs. Alberta
King, of Avondale, Miss Lois Brock, of
Atlanta, and Miss Foy Wilson, of
Gainesville.
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