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VOL. II
Subscript ion $1.50
premium List for
Octagon Soap Here
,< jninouMcetl by the Henson Fur
iimr, coiiii'iuiy that goods have al-
shipped to them to take
n ' ‘ f ~1l odagon soap premiums In
lotion and a full supply of these
Liams will be kept on hand for the
Lenience of those wanting to easli
ln nll their wrappers and get the val
uable premiums free.
Am l all of us if not over eighty
retn,n,her saving these wrappers when
iu llUr first chilhood and maybe yet.
Leu they had to be sent east for the
numns and then have to wait for
Slime time for the premium and losing
, (inlP s ieep about same. Now things
; ri ,i i, e different and you can—either
in your first or second chilhood—car
ry your soap wrappers to the Henson
Furniture company and get your prem
ium.
This will he a great convenience
and is in line with this up-to-date fur
niture house who wants your business
and goes after it and serves you in
any wav that they can.
Thirty Years’ Service
at Gailey’s Dept.
bailey's Department stoPe are in
their thirtieth birthday this year;
thirty years of service to the people of
l Rockdale and surrounding counties in
which It. O. Dailey, proprietor, takes
a great deal of pride. Thirty years is
a long time for one man to he in the
same kind of business, through had
years ami good and still retain the
confidence of the people.
“Our motto, ‘Low prices and high
quality..” says Mr. Gailey, “is the
foundation of this business. On this
motto the business was built and on
this it stands and lias stood for more
than a quarter century. It is not mere
ly a motto to dray trade, but is the
fcumlation of this business and will
reitmlri as long as 1 own it.” And
I tot’s why Galley's has been, and re-
I Mins the popular store.
Mr. Hollingsworth
Hands in Large 801 l
Mr. G. W. Hollingsworth, one of
Rockdale's/ progressive farmers, has
lumded in a boll of cotton that appar
ently has reached maturity. We do not
know how many acres he has that
Inis reached this stage in growth, but
■ftbis is a fair specimen of the fight
has made on the boll weevil bis
01ie hundred per cent yield is almost
assured.
In this week’s issue lliere appears
“null encouragement ’to the farmers
"Intive fo poisoning and other advice
“Mi'li with the proper application will
doubtless prove of much benefit to cot
"ton growers.
"e wish to call especial attention
P ,m lll 'tiele written by County Agent
"hues, ii, which a real logical view
lN taken in behalf of the care of farm
ail| ls and its enrichment.
F. Kent Seriously 111
- " 1 ' Kent, proprietor of one
ih, popular cafes of Conyers, is ex
ij!" 'hi at his home, his condition
k '"h" become serious within the past
" days. His friends wish for him a
Spe % recovery.
ih Ethridge 111
D- Ethridge, one of the most
sJii 1 Illlil ' h*tter carriers in this
L""' is seri °usly ill at his home
ai| d his friends are very anxious
oVpi , j lilu ' *' lr ' Ethridge is well known
li I(is '" ' "Ere county and especially
'!* " Loni lie lias served so faithful-
L ,m Pe that he will soon
" il h diem again.
I Merry needles club
t° t|j,, ,*' 1 Krisendine was hostess
‘“riteii leriy Needlea club and several
],, ' Sl “' sfs on last Thursday, July
ij*
wit], . ' * * " as artistically decorated
!f rs j, |l ‘ "hi'sion of summer flowers,
wit), ni| ‘ ne entertained her guests
0. , '"."'herestiug contests. Mrs. E.
f °'viui 11 •'hiss Mary Frances
( 'W „ f " !nn,ng the i ,rlz es. After the
iuyi ng dainty ice course. Those en
'l'er*. j, ' Ibrisendine’s hospitality
Pharr \r R °' Carter . Mrs. L. J.
Mrs p , lss - Ma| y Frances Cowan,
hi. ,\i rs Leftwieh. Mrs. IV. U. Bow
<Vllan. M' " 1,1 Cowan ’ M r- Emory Mc
“ip L Jack McCollum. Miss Jen-
Mn P H rollUm ’ MiSS Mary
ton. J hurnton, Mrs. W. A. Hen-
Ojjettflchtoilc llctorft
Mr. J. M. Towns
Resigns as Editor
It is with regret that we have to ac
cept tin 1 resignation of our former edi
tor, Mr. J. M. Towns. He has faithful
ly performed his duty and lias written
fearlessly in behalf of community in
te ‘ j sts and for the upbuilding of ttie
h* Record. We shall miss him
gr.-v j t is possible that our read
ers will 4>n more. However, it
is our best ns. ' * we shall lie as
sisted by tlie pum. 0 A • deling such
news items as will terest to
tlie readers. We insist ... each in
dividual who learns of an Item of in
terest to turn it in to tlie paper and
by the cooperatio nof all we hope to
maintain its appreciative readers.
It will work a hardship on us to care
for all the details of tlie office and
at the same time do justice by tlie
newsgathering, especially as we are
in a large measure a stranger in tlie
field, so we earnestly request your
aid.
The policy of the paper will remain
the same in that we expect to he out
spoken for the things width mean
most for Conyers and Rockdale coun
ty. condemning at all times tlie things
we believe to be wrong and praising
that which is good.
AVe regret to lose Mr. Towns as edi
tor. however, lie lias agreed to fur
nish us with many future articles un
til we get in financial shape where
we can afford to pay him for his
services.
Hewlett & Downs
Offering Specials
Hewlett & Downs, popular mer
chants, are offering for the next few
days some specials in dress goods for
the mid-summer season in pongees,
voiles and organdies, as well as many
other attractive fabrics that are pop
ular and comfortable for the warm
weather. They are also offering some
attractive prices in many other lines,
including their immense stock of shoes.
W. E. Hardman, next door neighbor
and friend of the above firm says that
he has some attractions for the mid
summer season in the grocery line.
Many specialties in his lin£ being quite
appropriate for the hot weather to
keep the “better half” out of the kitch
en. These are two good places to trade
—try them.
Over Rockdale County
M. L. Wood has fine prospects for a
good cotton crop this year. He is a
large land owner, has a large acre
age in cotton, has good stand, cotton
is fine, clean, with boll weevils under
control. Mr. Wood believe in giving
his cotton a cliancg. He fertilizes well.
toi dresses, cultivates clean and of
ten and poisons for weevils.
E. J. Eidson, a tenant, has demon
strated the value of taking care of
the soil he cultivates. Not a terrace is
broken. He has a fine crop. He ma
sons, cultivates, fertilizes, and has a
reason to expect good yields. His
neighbors say “Eidson is a good farm
er, and when any crops are made at
all he makes a good crop.”
Uncle Ike Treadwell has one of the
best cotton fields in the county Uncle
Ike believes in soil building, entensive
cultivation and fertilization, living at
home, and having something to sell
all through the year, and he is happy
doing it.
H. C. Moon, S. 11. Mitcham and M
L. Wood say of their alfalfa, “It’s the
best paying acreage I have on the
farm.”
Uncle Billy Parker says “There
ought to be a hundred farmers in
Rockdale county start growing alfal
fa.”
Beenian Lester, son of B. F. Lester,
is a promising young fellow. He has
an excellent corn patch, and a fine
registered Jersey heifer for which he
recently paid one hundred and fifty
dollars. He is now fitting his heifer for
the show ring this fall. He will be
hard to beat there. He is a member of
both the corn club and calf club.
Fighting 801 l Weevils
Right now and the rest of July is
the most important and effective time
for fighting boll weevils that we will
have from now on. Many farmers have
been fighting some time and have the
I>est under control, and expect to make
cotton. They realize that it is not safe
to let the weevils get a start on them.
Those who are just now starting the
fight should dust thorouhgly and fol
(Continued on last pa7e)
CONYERS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY hf 1929
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY
Can We Keep On?
llow much longer will it take nature
to teach us a few lessons that we
must learn? Who gains anything by
going against nature without losing
more than lie gains? Yet we keep on
trying to do tilings contrary to tlie bas
ic laws of nature and for a while fool
pur selves by thinking we profit by
temporary gains in spite of reason ami
nature —and then what hapi>ens? We
lose sooner or later. This is not only
true in a moral sense. This is true in
all nature. If a man injures his own
health he must pay for tlie injury lie
lias brought, upon himself. He pays for
violating tlie laws of nature. If a
farmer abuses productive soils they
become less productive and he begins
to get less for his labor until finally
lie begins to igiy for Ids errors, and
the longer and more lie is in error
the more has to he paid by him for
his errors until lie loses or changes
his ways. There is no getting around
tlie laws of nature that are ours to
deal with, who’s laws are more pow
erful than man.
"When will we come to realize that
nature is a progressive force? That na
ture is God’s ways of doing things?
and that nature will keep, enforce,
and continue her own laws whether we
win or lose?
Whether we win or lose depends on
whether we work with tlie laws of
nature or against them, We choose our
own fate in tli* matter.
No man is so completely enveloped
by the laws of nature in his work as
is the farmer. He should, therefore,
he tlie more careful that he is in har
mony with nature.
What have'these facts to do with
tlie farmers of Rockdale county, and
other counties similarly situated?
They have a lot to do with us, and
the sooner we realize it tlie better off
we will tie.
Are we as farmers afraid to face
the inevitable? Are we afraid to look
ahead and reason as to where we are
headed for in the face of tilings that
are ours to deal with? When will we
think?
Can you, by using reason, imagine
that it is all right with nature for
man, as a farmer, to take her rolling
soils, which are highly susceptable
to erosis, and continue to keep all nat
ural growth, and variety of plants
away and substitute a single kind of
plant, continuously, and keep the soil
clean and naked, year after year, sum
mer and winter, subject to beating
rains, erosion, hot sun shine, and loss
of plant food and life, until finally
this soil is too poor to support a nat
ural growth to shade, protect and re
build her own fertility? No! And still
that is the way these soils have been
handled, and farmed for two or three
generations in die methods that have
been practiced by us, our fathers, and
grandfathers, with every hill a cotton
field, year after year, and when tlie
soil could no longer support tlie crop
began the practice of supply artificial
ly tlie chemicals for the plant food,
pouring them into the naked bleeding,
starving soil, until she could no long
- Social and Personal Items -
Mr. Tharpe Baldwin, our popular
banker, is playing good golf these
days. He beat R. O. Gailey 4-up.
Riverside ,golf club is bringing lots
of friends together for games of golf.
This course is recognized as one of
the best in this section of Georgia.
Mr. A. I). Summers is spending two
weeks in training at Officers Reserve
Camp at Fort McPherson, Ga.
Miss Addie Caldwell, of Roswell,
Ga., and Miss Alice Farrill, of Atlanta,
s))ent the week-end with Misses Lucy
and Laura Holifield.
Miss Enid Downs, of Covington, is
spending tin- week the guest of Mrs.
S. .1. Kelly.
Mrs. G. A. Almand was a visitor in
Atlanta Tuesday.
Mr. R. L. Hale, of Atlanta, siient
Sunday at his home here.
Mrs. John M. Cunningham, of Kirk
wood, Atlanta, is the guest of her
mother, Mrs. E. J. Granade.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McClelland, Mr.
Fred Randall and Miss Verda Harper
spent Sunday at Tallulah Falls.
or yield a cotton crop fvitbout ai
tificial, chemical fertilization, and
rather poorly with it. And yet some
insist on carrying this destructive
practice on —as long as a little more
can be eckal out of this suffering,
dying soil. Why lie such brutal mur
derers and robbers of our mother
earth, upon whom our children and
grand children must depend for food
and clothing? Who will finally pay for
all this?
Wo are now beginning to pay for
this foolishness. Look till around you
and he convinced of it. Look at tlie
hills all around you that suffered
these tortures, and gave up all that
could lie forced from them, until tlie
unmerciful farmer could no longer
force any more from tHis to his own
purse, or for his own stomach or back,
and he had to leave them —left them
poor, bleeding and unproductive. Their
fight is over with Unit farmer. Now
you see nature soothing tlie womnls of
those abused soils, and giving them a
new coat, and a cooling shade, and
they are slowly recovering from the
struggle they went through. It will
take nature many years to bring about,
their complete recovery, and it is ours
to watch the process, and not harvest
again from those once productive soils
until nature lias healed them. And yet
we feel no remorse for tlie abuses we
practiced. We act blind to it all and
call ourselves good and ask the Lord
to bless ns and keep us aide to con
tinue to abuse tin* soils and get all we
can from them. No wonder we have
Doll weevils and hoppers and fleas, and
wilt. etc.
Now let’s so arrange our cropping
and farming systems so that we can
cooperate with nature, and let her help
ns to maintain and build our souls.
Let’s raise more things than cotton
alone —some feed and food crops for
ns and our animals and the old farm,
and let's give our soils some variety
ami s change, by practicing more ro
tation, and let’s iiermit some of the
soil a covering of trees and some of
grasses and tlie clovers that will help
rebuild the soil, and let's let some oth
er crops help make us a bit safer, and
lie a lilt more reasonable with nature
and ourselves than having a one crop
system alone, and see if we can't bring
back some of tlie values of our soils
we have been losing. Then we will
have reasons to expect better tilings,
for us as farmers, because we will
have the great force of nature aiding
ns, instead of sucii an uncertain strug
gle.
Now, why not begin now before we
get any further wrong. And 100, wo
have a chance to he happy in doing
these tilings —not altogether because
we have to, hut because we are will
ing to, and like to, knowing that na
ture lias an iron hand for those who
heed her not, and a merciful hand
for those who will befriend her.
Assuring you that this all comes di
rect from my heart, and imping these
thoughts and facts will lie of benefit
to you, I am,
Most sincerely yours,
ERNEST I). HOLMES, County Agent.
Mrs. T. W. Ivey had as her spend
the day guests Thursday Mrs. E. J.
Granade and Mrs. John M. Cunning
ham, of Kirkwood, Atlanta.
Mrs. Arthur Langford and daughter,
of Dallas, Texas, are the guests of
her father and other relatives in Con
yers.
Mr. Cox and Signmn Cox were the
week-end guests of Miss Alice Sigrnan.
Messrs. Lee, Felton and Vernon
Kent, of Detroit, Mich., have been to
the bedside of their father, Mr. A. F.
Kent, who is seriously ill.
Mr. Charles Elliott, son of Mr. S. F
Elliott, is visiting Mr. Henry McOalla
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Bowen. Air. and
Mrs. F. C. Almand and Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Dempsey and Mrs. R. L. Hale en
joyed a delightful picnic at Costley’s
Mill Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant Starr, of Atlan
ta, were the week-end guests of Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Allen.
Misses Margaret Mackey and Louise
IMrkle and Elizabeth Young were the
| guests of Miss Verda Harper Monday.
County Agent Holmes
Gets in Fight
Not as a pugulist did lie have to
scuffle from rope to rope, nor was the
time counts each three minutes and
then a rest, hut it was man for man
until tlie fight finally came to its long
and tiresome end in tlie cattle pas
ture of Mr. Guss Giles in tlie Sheffield
district a few days ago.
Tlie masculine nature in tlie beust
was much in evidence when Mr.
Holmes found tin- predicament lie had
been caught in. ids mind's first pre
sentation was to use lus trotting tal
ent, but this lie soon saw had not been
exercised in recent days sufficient to
cope with the situation, then, too, lie
realized what damaging effect this
might have on the young hull and that
if the animal was victorious in the
campaign it would likely develop ids
determination on others of tlie human
race, so the fight began. Holmes claims
success in Hie single bout.
The Barber’s Two
Dimes
•
Some people t liiiik the barber’s
charge of 20 cents for a shave is too
much. They don't stop to reckon up
what they get for two dimes when
they have their features manicured in
n modern barber shop.
First, the well-trained, agreeable,
skillful operator seats you in an ex
pensive, comfortable, operating chair
which lie adjusts in a manner to suit
your physique, and in which you re
lax and enjoy yourself. Then he drapes
around your up|ier anatomical surface
a nice clean cover, tucking it in ten
derly .around your neck with a soft
and affectionate touch. Remember at
this point that it costs money to laun
der that lied spread after it lias been
used for your comfort.
Next the lather, produced from nice
ly scented, high priced cream, is ap
plied'at just the right temperature,
and you close your eyes in luxurious
enjoyment while your face is massag
ed to rub in tin* lather.
Then come the hot, clean towels, rt -
taxing the whole system with their
soothing effect. More laundry expense
for the barber, more comfort for you.
Now the final application of lather
and the job begins, as you drop off in
to a doze.
Can anything eyual the Inmost im
perceptible touch of a keen razor In
a skillful hand? You are scarcely con
scious that the unsightly growth of
whiskers is being removed. Once over,
and more hot towels. Then the close
up, and your face is anointed with oil.
The filial hoi towel, the application
of sweet incense, a delicate dusting
with cooling talcum, and you are ready
for the neck shave, saving you tlie
trouble of washing It.
Furthermore, if you are a regular
customer, your barber studies your
dermatological peculiarities and serves
you accordingly. He is personally im
maculate, and It costs money to keep
clean. He maintains an expensive, at
tractive place of business that it is
a pleasure to visit.
Any man who isn’t two dimes wortli
more efficient for the day because of
a morning call on his barber is pretty
cold clay. You step out of the shop
smelling like a rose and feeling like
a million dollars, ready for the day’s
work and looking on t lie* world as
your own, particular oyster.
Yes, sir. the braiier gives more for
two dimes than you can get anywhere
else.
ROCKDALE BARBER SHOP
Rockdale News
In the absence of the superintendent
of Rockdale Sunday school last Sun
day Mr. W. E. Atkinson of the Rock
dab* Record was asked to take charge
of the Sunday school and you can rest
assured of the fact that Atkinson is
on tin* job. He knows both how and
what to do and say to make the les
son interesting and profitable.
We want this good man to know that
his message was both enjoyed and
appreciated by the whole Sunday
school and he will he more than wel
come to old Rockdale any time.
EDITOR’S NOTE—We are grateful
to the writer of the above paragraph
and if our feeble efforts can be of any
assistance to this or any other com
munity within the borders of this
county we stand ready to serve in any
capacity that we are capable to ren
der. It gives us much enjoyment to
meet and get acquainted with the
good people of the county.
Popular at Home and Abroad
Revival at Christian
Church in Progress
The revival services at the Chris
tian church which have lieen in prog
ress since Monday night is growing in
Interest and reports have il that much
good is being done in reviving inter
est in that faith.
WitD the revival at the Christian
church marks the third attempt in
Conyers this season to bring its people
to a full realization of their duty to
God as well as that of their fellow
man. If the Christian church can
bring about a condition which will be
noteworthy and at the same time pro
duce lasting good in our community,
then all denominations within the
circle of a Christ like life should doff
their hats and shake hands and praise
God that the message lias come to a
needy people.
Fish Fry at Oak
Grove Saturday
Tlie Parent-Teachers Association
will sponsor a fish fry at Oak Grove
Saturday of Ibis week at noon to
which the public is cordially invited
and when the I*. T. A. undertakes to
have a fish fry they have one. Go out
Saturday and enjoy a dinner that will
be second to none.
Velta News
Miss Ruby Slocumb, daughter of Mr.
Joe Sloeuinh, of Rockdale, is spending
lids week with her aunt, Mrs. 1. N.
Joyner.
Mr. IV. I. Sawyer spent lasi week
with Ids daughter, Mrs. Frank Under
wood, of Salem.
Misses Martlm and Josephine Alex
ander were the week-end guests of
Miss Winifred Whitaker.
Mrs. Ollie Hardin lias as her guests
lids week her brother, Mr. O. S. Head,
and family, of Abbeville, Ala.
Miss Margaret Cowan spenl Tues
day with Miss Helen Hanna, at the
Conyers level. j
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Sawyer hud as
tlieir guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Underwood and family, of Sa
lem.
Mr. Miles Brown and family, form
er residents of Velta, now of Anniston,
Ala., are visiting friends and relatives
here Ibis week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Cochran and fam
ily spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
T. N. Joyner.
Mr. and Mrs. George Malloy had as
their guests Sunday Mr. Malloy’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Malloy, of
Porterdale.
Mrs. Ollie Hardin and son, Frank,
attended the singing at Bald Rock
Sunday.
Miss Ruhye Slocumh, niece of Mrs.
T. N. Joyner, spent Sunday with Miss
es Elizabeth and Leo Sawyer.
Among those who attended the sing
ing at Bald Rock church Sunday from
Velta were Mrs. Ollje Hardin, Mr. and
Mrs. A. Whitaker and family, Mr.
Horace McCullough.
In Memorium
In loving memory of our husband
and father, Judge E'. F. Cook, who
passed away one year ago today, on
July 18, 11)28.
MRS. E. F. COOK ANI> FAMILY.
Conyers, Ga., July 18, 1929.
BAPTIST CIRCLES MEET
Te joint meeting of the W. M. S. of
the Baptist church meets at the church
Monday, July 22 at 4 p. in. A full at
tendance is urged. Circle No. 1 has
charge of the program. Please come on
time.
SACRED HARP SINGING
The Sacred Harp Association held
an all day singing last Sunday at Bald
Rock church. A large crowd attended.
In the afternoon a memorial service
was held for the members who have
passed away within the last year,
namely Judge E. F. Cook. Hon. W. U.
Almand and Air. Stevens.
LOST—White Gold Bar Pin. fancy
lacy design, without stones. Reward.
Clide. Mann.
Mrs. Candler Daniels is spending
several days in Lithonia this week, in
the absence of her husband, who is in
Athens on a business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. John It. Lee are on a
two weeks’ visit to Mr. Lee’s mother
in Florida.
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