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mJME 11 31
Eg, George Brown To Speak
E Voters Here Saturday P. XL
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H 1 ill. ml''' 1 " r lu ' r I’anipaign
\m tlmt w' ll address
M (if ~anl.v at the court
KC' l salm. lay afternoon at :i
W ‘ ,1,11 h time "he proposes to
S' Ill'll.f" > hel'ore the people
IK, nil) .a,' l tell them why she
iKL.'.-'riit to Congress.
■Till"''" i! ‘- , i uit, ‘ a 1,0001,1 for
\M to have held an elec
w;,„. She has been active in
■L, heforo the legislature of
V mail; V ears in the interest
V", 1,1..1 la IS’ rights bills and
Khs eth.-i- legi' hition for the bet-
W p;ltll fihr lab" ing and the poorer
IK Com>i is a very interesting
■ , a burn campaigner and
mi--'" her speech will miss a
Ht. 'flu- ni.wd that greeted her in
~,ulit\ was reported to have
K,t that many people to listen to
Hi„ a email county she has some-
and important to ini.
K the citizenship. She says that
lie : "me votes polled against
she is a woman, but if
he expects to—talk to
H, rV mi.r in the district that they
vote for her.
Hfr. Bwv n has the distinction of
■riieih,. only gold card issued to a
Hpanin (Im.i gia admitting her to the
Krofthc House. This was issued
HwiiiK the birth of her daughter,
Hga eighteen years ago, and is
Hurt"i by all Legislatures.
B?L Robert bam.'peck, Decatur, the
H htliti candidate for the Septem-
H primary. has not opened his cam-
Hii as yet, being a member of the
Hue of Representatives from De
■ 6 County, but will make an active
Hpajgn beginning next Week.
Bottom Next Week
BGins Are Ready
■'Die Electric Ginnery and the Pat
■ti- Ginnery announce that they are
for the first bale of Rockdale
■kity cot ton and those to follow
■the fanned in Conyers this fall.
■ it is nol at all unlikely that Conyers
■': have the tirst bale next week as
■iti'iii in opening in several sections
■ the county. The crop this year is
■ting variously estimated and it seems
■tbetlif consensus of opinion that the
■°P this year will be as large as the
■opi'f last year, with a possibility of
being larger.
9 The past few weeks have been ideal
■* cotton and with a few more 'days
■'gsi.il weather Rockdale County will
■ ready for an unusually prosperous
■NI business.
I ZEKE GETS THE MONEY
B Zeke Mathis, porter for the White
■Undertaking Company, was awarded
jar of money Saturday evening by
■die City Pharmacy. Zeke’s guess was
■•OS and the actual amount in the
■ was $5.07.
■ The money was given away at the
■se of the opening day by the City
Bwrmaey and drew a large crowd.
■ e guessing varied jirom $3.00 to
■nearly SIOO.OO and drew a large crowd
interested people.
■ T. P. Hardeman, who has just begun
pbe City Pharmacy, is very optimistic
| oTer the prospect for business.
For Congress
To the People of the Fifth District:
latn1 atn a candidate for Congress to suc
teed the late Congressman Leslie J.
teele subject to the rules of the White
eniocratic Primary to be held Septem
ber 11th, 1929.
ta 1911 and 1912 I was employed
ashington, part of the time in the
ouse of representatives and part of
e time as secretary to Honorable Wm.
Howard, then Congressman from
ls district. This experience together
many years service in other pub
lc Positions leads me to believe that 1
** dualified to render effective service
” th" people of the Fifth District.
I e lected, I promise the district faith
service and it will be my purpose, as
as possible, to carry out the plans
i.late Congressman Steele during
onexpired term. Mr. Thomas L.
J?" 1 ?’ w ho was Mr. Steele’s secretary,
11 he associated with me in the same
opacity.
support and influence will be
peat 'y appreciated.
Respectfully,
ROBERT RAMSPECK.
®l)* Uochi)cilc fktori)
jersey Sale Next
Week at Madison
Jay & Mason’s sale of fine register
ed Jerseys on August 2G at Madison,
Da., is and should be of special inter
est to many farmers and others inter
ested in fine registered Jersey cattle
of Rockdale County. In order that all
interested may know some true and
impartial facts concerning this sale
1 am giving you here below a copy of
letter sent me by Mr. Frank W. Fitch,
Extension Dairyman, of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture. The
letter, in part, is self explanitory:
August 1(5, 1929.
To County Agents:
An unusual opportunity for your
farmers to purchase registered Jerseys
will be presented on Monday, August
26th, at the complete dispersal sale of
the herd of Jay & Mason, Jersey
breeders of near Madison, Ga. The sale
will begin at 12 o’clock noon, eastern
time, and about seventy-five head will
he sold. There will be bulls of vary
ing ages, cows, bred and open heifers
and calves and everything will be sold.
"Special mention should be made here
that many of the cows have qualified
for the Register of Merit in production
and there is one Silver Medal cow.
Theie are eight head of imported
females and several of their offspring
in the sale which should attract breed
ers if there are any in your county.
Several daughters and granddaughters
of Imported Xenia’s Sultan are in the
sale.
You may assure your folks that this
sale will be squarely conducted and
that they can depend absolutely upon
the statements of the owners regard
ing the cattle.
This herd was assembled with the
purpose, not of trading, but to build
a real breeding establishment. How
over, circumstances have arisen which
make it necesary to sell. Folks who
have seen the herd regret that this
must happen.
I am very sorry that 1 will be un
able to attend the sale with those who
attend from this county, but I will
be at Camp Wilkins with the boys
Monday to Saturday of next week.
Those wishing to go with someone
else or wishing to carry someone else
may see Edgar Bailey. The ciowd
will leave from Sims & Bailey’s store
"about nine o’clock Monday morning.
Even if you buy nothing it will pay
you to go to this sale because it will
help you a great deal to get acquaint
ed with what good Jerseys are and
what they are really worth.
Yours very truly,
ERNEST D. HOLMES,
County Agent.
Some Forgotten
Laws
Atlanta, Ca. —Everyone knows that
the states and cities of America have
passed'scores of odd or foolish laws
that no one obeys or even knows about.
But did you ever check up to see
exactly how weird some of them aie .
asked a Georgia lawmaker today of
this correspondent, who is supposed
to be more or less informed on the
subject. The correspondent did not
know, so the lawmaker enlightened
him. . . . ,
In Seattle, for instance, it: is against
the law to sprinkle salt on the side
walk in the wintertime to melt the
.now. Everybody does it. and nobody
knows there’s a law against it- but
the law is there, just the same. In the
old days, it seems, the salt would run
into the gutters, form a brine and in
litre horses’ hoofs. .
Los Angeles has a law forbidding
street car conductors to shoot jack
rabbits from the car platforms.
I„ New York state it is illegal to
travel more than 20 miles to church
o ",fCach U set K it i,
law to travel at all on Sunday ex
cept for charity or necessity. Nee
less to say the law has been forgotten
bv every soul in the Bay State
y ,„ Georgia, it is said to be ~legal
to slap a man on the back.
]n North Carolina the law provides
that twin beds cannot be placed close
together than two feet apart.
California statutes provide that f
vou have a canary you must keep t in
* a ca ge of a definite minimum swe
Portland has made it illegal to tickle
anyone under the chin with a feather
duster. Kansas has forbldd * n
spitting of tobacco juice in public.
CONYERS, GEORGIA AUGUST 23, 1929 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY
j County Audit
Is Completed
The Stringer Auditing Company,
Atlanta, has completed the audit of
tlie books and records of Rockdale
County otricers and is now in the
hands ol the Rockdale County Com
missioners.
I he audit has not been made pub
lic as yet and no information is avail
able as to the standing of the county
affairs. It is not known whether the
audit will he published, hut the com
missioners will probably decide as to
the advisability of this at their meet
ing on the first Tuesday in September.
The publication of the audit would
enable every taxpayer in the county
to see exactly how the affairs of the
county are handled, together with
money on hand, expenditures, amounts
payable and receivable.
Rockdale County has quite a nice
um of money coming in in back taxes
that have not been paid.
FORMER ROCKDALE MAN GETS
TOBACCO MONEY
Mr. W. H. Hammock, former resi
dent of Rockdale, now of Hazlehurst,
Ga., was in Conyers this week renew
ing old acquaintances. This is Mr.
Hammock’s second year raising to
bacco and he is very much pleased wth
his 1929 crop.
Only twenty acres, which is a large
tobacco acreage, was planted by Mr.
Hammock and his sales were in ex
cess of four thousand dollars. The
production cost was about one hun
dred dollars per acre, which shows a
Brilliant Church Wedding
Prominent Young Couple
MISS WALKER WEDS MR. DRAKE
AT CHURCH CEREMONY
A marriage characterized by ex
quisite beauty aid one centering most
cordial interest to a host of friends
was that of Miss Myrle Walker to Rev.
J. L. Drake, which was impresisvely
solemnized at 8:30 o’clock Tuesday
evening, August 20, at the First Bap
tist Church, Conyers, Ga. Dr. Louie
D. Newton, pastor of Druid Hills Bap
tist Church, performed the ceremony.
The church, which was artistically
decorated with palms and ferns, form
ed a picturesque setting for the im
pressive service. Against the altar,
which was banked with palms and
ferns, two floor baskets of pink and
white gladioli stood in bold relief. On
the outer side of each basket was a
branched candelabra tied with tulle
bearing cathedral tapers which cast a
mellow glow over the scene. Amidst
the palms and ferns in the extreme
background a large branched candel
abra holding twenty-eight candles
was placed, in front of which was the
center floor basket. Ropes of southern
anilax garlanded the choir rail. Pews,
which were reserved for the families
of the couple, were designated with
bows of white tulle.
A preliminary recital, consisting oi
Schubert’s Serenade, and “The Vene
tian Love Song” was effectively ren
dered by Miss Emily Hanna. She was
dressed, in a becoming model of peach
georgette and taffeta and wore a
shoulder corsage of garden flowers.
Following this, O. R. Cooper, of Bar
tow, Ga., sang, “O Promise Me,” and
■‘l Love You Truly.”
The approach of the wedding party
was heralded by the rendition of
Lohengrin’s Wedding March. “To a
Wild Rose” was softly played during
the ceremony. Mendelssohn’s bridal
chorus was used as the recessional.
The ushers, who entered first, were
Howard Walker, brother of the bride,
and Walker Potts, cousin of the bride.
The maid of honor was Miss Margie
Walker, sister of the bride. Mrs. Neil
S. Cameron, other sister of the bride,
acted as matron of honor. The brides
maids were Misses Juliette Granade
and Dwynelle Potts, cousins of the
bride, and Miss Allene Epps, of At
lanta and Jefferson.
They entered singly, alternating
with the groomsmen, who were A. G.
Walker and W. W. Cook, of Atlanta,
and Neil S. Cameron, of Lithonia.
Miss Margie Walker was lovely in a
green georgette gown fashioned with
a long, tight bodice, with a skirt of
two circular flounces, gracefully grad
uating to ankle length. She carried
an arm bouquet of pink Columbia
roses, showered with swansonia.
Mrs. Cameron was becomingly
gowned in orchid georgette over pink
satin. The sleeveless bodice was
New Police Are
On The Job
Special Bailiffs Jim Yancey and
Wilson Whitaker, appointed by Ordi
nary Tom Mnrston a short time ago,
have certainly been busy for the past
few weeks, having been appointed to
arrest violators of any of the various
state laws, with special emphasis on
distilling, bootlegging and automobile
speeders.
Nearly fifty stills have been de
stroyed, with quantities of equipment
and finished products. Several arrests
have been made and others will follow.
A number of arrests have been made
for speeding and other violations.
There are probably no two laws that
are more universally violated than the
prohibition and speed laws and the
new police are determined to rid Rock
dale County of these two menaces.
Judge Marston appointed these .bail,
iffs at the request of taxpayers and
they are paid from fines assessed
against violators, drawing no stiplat
ed salary, their remuneration being
regulated only by the amount of work
done and fines assessed in court.
ANNUAL FOOTWASHING AT
BALD ROCK
Next Sunday, August 2f>th, is the
day sot apart for the annual foot
washing at Bald Rock Primitive Bap
tist Chinch in Conyers, and, as usual,
there will likely be a large crowd to
attend the meeting. Elder R. L. Cook
will have charge of the services.
nice profit. All the tobacco was
marketed at the beginning of the sea
son and brought top prices.
basque fitting and attached to the left
shoulder was a scarf of self made
mat rial caught with a rose and ex
tended train fashion to the end of her
full graceful skirt, the bottom of which
was trimmed with small French flow
ers. She also carired an arm bouquet
of pink Columbia roses showered with
swansoni'a.
The bridesmaids’ gowns were pastel
shades of georgette similarly fashion
ed to that of the maid of honor.
Miss Flips wore green, Miss Gra
nade pink and Miss Potts blue. They
carried arm bouquets of garden flow
ers tied with matching shades of
tulle.
The little flower girl, Betty Elliott,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. 11. Elliott,
wore a lovely frock of pink georgette
trimmed with fluted ruffles and
French flowers. She carried a basket
of pink roses tied with pink tulle, and
entered strewing rose petals in the
path of the bride.
Little Dolly Walker, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Walker, wearing a
dainty model of white georgette, the
skirt of which extended from an inset,
yoke, introducing ruffles arranged in
scallops, carried the ring in a white
lily tied with white lulle.
The lovely bride, who entered with
her father, Mr. Bartow Walker, was
met at the altar by the groom and his
best man, C. C. Caldwell, of Atlanta,
cousin of the groom. The brunette
beauty of the bride was enhanced by
her wedding robe of ivory satin, fash
ioning long graceful lines. The inset
“V” yoke of Duchess lace was beaded
with seed pearls. The long sleeves
were a feature of the lovely model.
The full skirt of uneven hemline hung
from a long fitted bodice. A soft
tulle veil showered along the edge
with orange blossoms was caught to
Lhe lustrous hair of the bride in cap
shape beneath a bandeau of orange
blossoms. Her while satin slippers
were also fashioned with orange blos
soms. Her bridal bouquet was of
bride’s roses showered with valley
lilies.
Immediately after the ceremony
Rev. and Mrs. Drake left on their wed
ding tour through the mountains of
North Carolina.
Among the out-of-town guests were
I. M. Walker, of Salem, Va.; Mr. and
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Dodson, Atlanta,
Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Champion,
Greensboro, Ga.; Miss Anna Cooper.
Decatur; Mrs. W. M. Bailey, Mr. and
Mrs. T. F. Drake, Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Caldwell, Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Cook,
Mr. and Mrs. Grant StArr, of At
lanta, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Mann,
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Mann, of Cham
blee; Mr. and Mrs. Neil S. Cameron,
of Lithonia; Miss Ruth Drake, of
Senoia; Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, of
Brookhaven, Ga.; Mis Allene Epps,
and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hardeman,
of Atlanta.
Farm Items Of Interest Over
The County From the Agent
Methodist Notes
Now that our vacations and camp
meeting season is about over let us
get back to our usual church life. We
have had an enjoyable summer. All
our people have had outings and
change from the usual routine. We
ought to be ready to resume our usual
programs. Last Sunday the attend
ance at Sunday School and preaching
service was under the normal, hut it
need not be so longer.
There will be services next Sunday
both morning and evening. The
pastor will preach in the morning on
“The Church” and in the evening on
“The Youth of the Church.”
Let us all be in our place.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES
Rev. Joe Hannah, of Newnan, and
Rev. 11. K. Holland, of the church, are
conducting a series of services—
morning services at 10:30, evening
services at S::0. Mr. Hannah is
preaching at these services. The pub
lic is cordially invited to attend each
sei vice. The meeting closes Sunday
evening.
REVIVAL AT EBENEZER
Revival services are being held at
Ebenezer Church this week. Rev.
J. D. Milton, pastor, assisted by Rev.
J. B. Knowles, of Atlanta, are con
ducting these services. The public is
cordially invited to attend services.
Peculiar Fitness of Trees
as National Memorials
A few trees of the millions which
peonle the forests, farms and towns
of the United States have been sin
gled out by history to play famous
parts and to stand ns memorials to
great events In the life of the coun
try. “Symbolizing fully ns well ns
tablet or pillar could do, some sig
nificant achievement, those trees rep
resent the peculiar Illness of trees
as memorials, and It Is specially ap
propriate that they should have a
Imll of fame of their own,” says Hie
Forestry Almanac of the American
Tree Association.
Some distinguished trees stand out
by reason of their age, such as the
General Sherman sequoia In Hie
Sequoia National park of Californio.
Its age is reckoned at 4,000 years, and
It has a diameter of 23 feet and a
height of 280. Many of the red-,
woods and sequoias are as old or
nearly as old ns this one.
When Charles Sumner was senator
from Massachusetts lie sent to the
czar of Russia an acorn from a free
near the tomb of Washington ut Mount
Vernon. This acorn grew to an oak
in the palace grounds In St. Peters
burg, and an acorn from It wus
planted In the White House grounds
in Washington in 11*04 and is now a
prosperous young tree.
Scotch Chestnut Tree
Bids Defiance to Time
In solitary grandeur on the edge of
the spacious lawn, directly In front
of Bermersyde hull, on the Scottish
border, stands a giant chestnut, tree.
Although it is reputed to he at least
nine hundred years old it still gives
evidence of vigorous growth. It sup
ports Its massive hulk unaided, and,
though some of its larger branches
have been wrenched off by storms, Its
trunk Is Intact, with a girth of fully
eight yards at a height of five feet
from the ground.
A tradition still exists to the effect
that when the lairds of Bermersyde
In the distant past received their
guests they wanted to give them the
right hand of welcome under this an
cient tree. But, be that as it may, it Is
today a peculiarly fitting companion
for the gray old pile opposite, for
they stand together as they were
standing on that momentous day In
1000, when William of Normandy won
a kingdom on Senlac hill.
Chautauqua’* Growth
The first Chautauqua assembly,
known as the Sunday School assera
hly, was In session August 4-18, 1874,
as the result of a plan formed by
Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, and
Rev. John 11. Vincent of New York.
The assembly plans widened rapidly
In successive years. In 1879 a school
for teachers in secular subjects was
opened. Probably Chautauqua Is best
known In connection with the plan of
systematic home reading. The plan
was proposed and explained In 1878.
The first year 7,000 persons were en
rolled, and from that time readers,
varying in number from 8,000 to 25,-
000, have joined the circle per season.
There are now throughout the United
States and Canada more than 550
local assemblies modeled after the
original Chautauqua institution.
It is an inspiration to see Herbert
Chafin’s crop on R. D. Hewlet’s farm
about two miles below Conyers on the
old highway. I reckon we will just
have to hand it to Herbert that he
must be the hardest worker in Rock
dale County. Some of them laughed
at Herbie for starting out to farm a
hundred acres and told him he could
not do it. But he has done the job
well. He planted it all in good shape,
cultivated and fertilized* it well and
fought the weevils at the same time.
He has a wonderful crop. It is clean,
too, and he is still holding the boll
weevils down. When you see it you
will wonder how he did it.
We will sow a lot of alfalfa this
fall. Convenient arrangements will be
made for every one to get lime, seed
and inoculation.
RECORD THREE
A lot of farmers are convinced that
it pays well to sow vetch and Aus
trian winter peas so much that they
are planning to sow a lot this fall.
Arrangements will he made in plenty
of time to get the seed.
Vetch and pea seed are just a little
higher this year than last year.
It appears that peas doubled the
cotton on tests on farms of G. S.
Potts and Carl Granade. You should
see these demonstrations.
Winter peas ami vetch is doubling
the yield of corn at the Georgia Rail
road Demonstration plot at McDaniel’s
Crossing. When you see it notice the
large spot of poor corn in middle of
the field where no vetch or peas were
sown. It is worth a trip to see.
A mighty good way to fight boll
weevils now is to get the young ones
in white cotton blooms. The young
ones go there the first place.
August 26-81 is the week for Rock
dale boys from 10-20 to go to Camp
Wilkins. All wanting to be with us
see me this week.
ERNEST D. HOLMES,
County Agent.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Kent had as
their guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Stephens, of Oxford; Miss
Lucile Carr and brother, Joseph, of
Savannah.
Mr. and Mis. J. H. Almand and
mother, Mrs. G. A. Almand, spent
the week-end in Clayton.
Miss Louise South, of Atlanta, is
visiting Miss Clemmie Newton Wil
lingham.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Patrick arc
spending this week in the mountains
of North Georgia.
Mrs. C. W. Hall and children, am!
Miss Lillian Henson have returned
home after a visit with relatives at
Chattanooga.
Mr. and Mrs. !£, G. Handley, of
Bainbridge, Ga., are visiting their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cowan.
LOST—Coin purse containing check
and some change. Finder please re
turn to Miss Margaret Brewster at
Conyers Hotel and receive reward.
A Source Of
Comfort
/'kNE of the greatest sources of
comfort to those left behind
is the knowledge that the loved
one is protected against the
ravages of time and nature.
That is why we urge the use of
a metal grave vault whenever
possible. We offer such vaults,
guaranteed to give perfect and
permanent protection, at prices
within the reach of all. Inspec
tion of our stock is invited at all
times.
White & Cos.
CONYERS
Phone 26-37
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