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ROCKDALE RECORD
Official Organ of Rockdale County
and Hie City of Conyers
-R. F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher
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LETTERB OP ADMINISTRATION
GEORGIA Rockdale County:
Ordinal v’s office, Sept. 2, 1929.
Mis. S. E. Granger lias applied for
Letters of Administration on the es
tate of J. W. Moore, deceased. This
is, therefore, to notify all persons con
cerned, that the same will be heard on
the first Monday in October next.
TIIOS. 11. MARSTON,
Sept. 6-13-20-27* Ordinary.
FOR GUARDIANSHIP
GEORGIA Rockdale County:
To all whom it may concern:
Mrs. Alie Beard, a resident of this
State, having in due form applied to
the undersigned for the Guardianship
of the person and property of Francis
Beard and Earnest Lee Beard, minor
children of 1.. L. Beard, late of said
county, deceased, notice is hereby
given that her application will be
heaid at the next Court of Ordinary
for said county on the first Monday
in October next, 1929.
Witness my hand and official signa
tuie this September 2nd, 1929.
TIIOS. 11. MARSTON,
Sept. 6-13-20-27* Ordinary.
FOR GUARDIANSHIP
GEORGIA Rockdale County:
To all whom it. may concern:
G. B. Mitchell, a resident of this
State, having in due form applied to
the undersigned for the Guardianship
of the persons of Della Mae and G. B.
Brown, minor children of Zelma
Brown, late of said county, deceased,
notice is hereby given that his appli
cation will be heard at. the next Court
SCHOOL
SUPPLIES
Come here for your tablets, pencils, pens,
paper and everything you need for school.
II ol lings worth’s Candies
We have the agency and there is no better
candy on the market. Take her a box.
Costa’s lee Cream
Come in and enjoy some of the best made.
Prescriptions
Compounded from the best drugs and filled
by a licensed pharmacist. This department
is now complete in every detail.
Easlniiin Kodak Films. Wo Develop them,
The City Pharmacy
Phone 9 Conyers, Ga.
Gin Your Cotton
at
Whitaker Gin Cos.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Conyers Market Price Paid
For Your Seed at Ginnery.
Ginning 50c Per Hundred
Pounds Lint Cotton.
Same old reliable ginner, Mr. Livie Fincher
A. WHITAKER, Manager
of Ordinary for said county on the
first Monday in October next, 1929.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this cptdmber 2nd, 1929.
TIIOS. H. MARSTON,
Sept. 6-13-20-27* Ordinary.
Mrs. Barfield, Mrs. Cougher, Mrs.
Postal I and Mrs. King, of Atlanta,
were guests Monday of Mr. and Mrs.
W. U. Wallace.
Canary Crass Valuable
for Protein Content
The following Is taken from a write
up of the work being done nt the
Waseca vuhstntion In Minnesota. It
appeared In the Milking Whorthorr
Journal:
“Another Interesting experiment Is
with fellnrls grass, or canary grass.
This grows la sloughs and wet places,
yielding 10 tons to the acre of grass
that has as high protein content as
alfalfa. It roots like quack grass,
growing from the shoots as well as
from seed. If the experiment shows
that the grass has everything claimed
for It by farmers in the county that
have grown It, there seems a consid
ernble future for canary grass. The
prospect of a Minnesota farmer get
ting his wet land caught with grass
yielding ten tons to tlie acre of grass
as nourishing as alfalfa, is even worse
than getting his good land seeded
with alfalfa, this Is always having tn
he cut tvhofi he has other farm work
to do.”
Ohio Farmers Walk Many
Miles in Doing Chores
The Ohio farmers walk an average
of 99 miles a month in doing their
chores according to tests made by the
rural economics department at Ohio
State university. To make this test
pedometers were worn by tlie farmers
while doing chores. Of tv© farmers
with exactly th* same number of
horses and cows and approximately
the same number of pigs, one farmer
walked 135 miles a month and the
other farmer 49 miles. The difference
was caused by the relative conveni
ence of the farmstead and facilities
for watering and feeding the stock,
The water pail proved to he excellent
equipment for inducing the farmers
to walk great distances
THE KOCKDALE RECORD. CONYERS. GEORGIA
Severe Tests Prove
Cricket Hard to Kill
Dr. Frank E. Lutz, curator of In
sects at the American Museum of Nat
ural History, and Alfred L. Loomis, u
physicist, pur a cricket through u se
ries of physical experiments that
would have killed most creatures, hut
iho little fellow survived the tests and
teemed to chirp for more, llie Now
York World tells us.
Its first experience was In a Jar
from which the air was rapidly ex
Imiisted until the pressure was equal
lo an all Made of ten miles above sen
level. At first the insect was quiet,
lull in a few minutes It began to
clean Its hind legs. Then Die tube to
tin? Jnr was cut, permitting an Instan
taneous drop to the pressure of the
outside air.
“The cricket,” says Doctor Lutz,
"merely gave a little twitch as though
someone had frightened It n lilt."
'Llie insect’s next adventure was
with compressed air. It was put In
to a tank analogous to caissons used
in tunnel building. The pressure was
quickly raised and then ns suddenly
reduced, n procedure no human being
could have survived. But the vnllurit
cricket paid less attention to these ad
ventures than to the previous ones.
The following day Gryllus, ns scien
lists call the cricket, was treated to
n merry-go-round ride In a centrifuge
that whirled at 1,200 revolutions a
minute for ten minutes. When the
machine stopped the cricket shook It
self and chirped as if In thanks fov
the buggy ride.
Dyers Making Use of
Tree Once Condemned
Every country or section of a coun
try as it grows casts about for more
and more resources that can be con
verted into marketable finished prod
ucts. The American Southwest has
taken the common hedge apple tree
otherwise known as the Osage orange,
the bow wood or the hois d’arc tree.
A row ol’ these trees compose what
farmers call a hedge fence.
In the old days its roots were
smoked by boys to whom tobacco was
forbidden. Otherwise, the hedge tree,
with its manifold fruit of large green
balls, was unpopular. Farmers con
demned it because, when used ns n
hedge, it would not bold their cows
and bogs. Motorists cursed it be
cause It shut off their view nt cross
posts, the hedge tree appeared to be
of little use. A few factories bought
it to make wagon spokes and felloes.
Anew day, however, Is dawning for
the hedge apple tree. It Is being
turned into the hoppers of some of
the country’s large dye factories.
This is developing into a real indus
try in Texas and Oklahoma.
The hedge apple tree Is also excel
lent material for telephone cross-arms
and insulator pins. What is left of
the tree Is utilized in the making of
fertilizer. Long ago the Indian made
bows of tills wood.
Fountain Gushes Wine
In the town of Marino in the Ro
man Campagna there is a fountain
which occasionally flows with wine.
For an hour in the vintage senson
of each year Die thirsty may freely
fill their pitchers.
The custom of free wine Is an old
one. In Die market place near by
stands a gigantic basket filled with
clusters of grapes, its diameter nl
most as great as that of a small
town gas tank. The basket belongs
to Hie town and whatever of its.
contents is left is made into wine
for the free fountain in Hie follow
ing year. Great crowds gather for
the celebration.
Dropping From the Air
Ail the knowledge and nbllity of
the aviator is called Into play when
lie undertakes to come to earth. He
must remember all he has ever
learned, and there are about as many
“dos” as -.“don’ts" for him to follow
There are n thousand things likely to
happen when n machine is about to
reach land, and the aviator must be
prepared to meet any one of these
emergencies. It is essential that he
should know the exact direction ol
the wind and make ids descent square
ly into it. It is fatal to stall the en
gine at tills stage of the flight. The
gentle art of landing Is particularly
trying to the beginner.
Earth’* End Guesswork
According to a statement by the
director of Harvard observatory, mil
lions of meteors strike the earth's nt
mosphere dally, and the annual In
crease of the earth’s mass resulting
from the accumulation of this matter
is about 36,500 tons. At tills rate he
points out that It would take millions
of years to accumulate a layer an
inch thick. On the other hand, there
may he slight losses In the earth’s
mass or in the earth’s atmosphere, ns
It rushes through space, but It Is mere
speculation to talk of what the end
of the earth will be.
Modern Canned Foods
Chemical preservatives are entirely
unnecessary in canned foods if they
are properly sterilized, and further
more the addition of injurious preserv
atives or other substances to any food
Is prohibited by law. The preservn
tion of canned foods Is accomplished
entirely through sterilization by heat,
and sealing the product in an nir-tlgln
container. Artificial colors were for
merly used in a few red fruits, but
have been discontinued since the enn
ners are uow able to retain the nut
ural color of Die fruits without them.
Gingko Tree Only One
That Has No Enemies
Only one species of plant life now
growing in the United States is with
out an enemy trying to take Its life.
Dr. William A. Taylor, chief of the
bureau of plant Industry, reported to
the house appropriations committee
during hearings In Washington.
“Tills unmolested tree is Die Jap
anese ginkgo tree,” Doctor Taylor
stated. “So far qs we know this tree
has no Insect or fungus enemy at the
present time."
On a driveway leading to the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture
buildings the street Is lined on both
sides with the ginkgo trees. In Die
fall they present a striking appear
ance, for as the yellow leaves fall they
heap up on the sidewalks like idles of
gold.
The ginkgo tree lias a fruit, but one
which Die white man scorns. The nut
inside Is rather tasly, hut as Doctor
Taylor said, “it Is surrounded by a
most abominable smelling and tasting
pulp. It smells more like salt-rising
bread in the process of fermentation
than any other tiling. Chinese laun
drymen pick up the fruits, take them
home, cleun them* and eat Die ker
nels.” —Kansas C’ity Star’s Science
Service.
Last British Invasion
French Practical Joke?
The last invasion of England by an
armed enemy force was on February
22, 1797, when a French army of 1,400
men, under General Tate, landed at
Fishguard with an idea apparently of
conquering Wales. The whole affair
proved farcical. Lord Cawdor hastily
gathered together the local militia,
and hundreds of women, dressed In
Die national costume, red mantles and
beaver hats, accompanied their men
folk, whereupon the invaders, conclud
ing that large reinforcements had
reached Fishguard, hastened to make
unconditional surrender. Tate was an
American, many of Ills officers were
Irish, and more than half his men
were convicts released to help to
equip the expedition. There were not
wanting cynics, who declared that the
French government had planned the
whole affair with the sole idea of get
ting 1,4(10 incorrigible ruffians board
ed and lodged at the expense of the
British.
Great Forests on Pacific
Nowhere in the world are there such
magnificent forests as those found
along the immediate coast north of
San Francisco, says Die American
Tree association. West of the Cas
cade and coast ranges the mild cli
mate, heavy rainfall and generally
humid atmospheric conditions have re
sulted in the production of a forest
Hint is more wonderful in the density
of its growth and the majesty of its
development than is to lie found any
where else. The sequoias of Califor
nia are the giants of the vegetable
kingdom. The Douglas firs, Sitka
spruces and the giant arbor vitae
(western red cedars) of Oregon and
Washington are second in size only
lo the sequoias.
Fish-Oil Ice Cream
Ice cream made from fish oil, snow
and sugar recently was an unexpected
winter dish of Eskimos of Alaska. The
odor was strong but the dish is said
to have tasted better than it smelt.
Eskimos caught great numbers of eu
laclion, a species of smelt which is
sometimes* culled the candlefish be
cause it contains so much oil. These
they placed in holes lined with heated
rocks, and after the fish were cooked
they were placed in covered baskets
on which the women trod with hare
feet to extract the oil. During cold
weatlier the oil has much the consist
ency of butter. To make the ice cream,
the oil was melted and sugar and snow
were added, then stirred in.
Why Borah Couldn’t Come
The Golden Book recounts Die story
of how Mrs. William Borah, wife of
the senator, arrived alone at a diplo
matic breakfast in Washington dur
ing the late days of tiie Coolidge ad
ministration when the Kellogg anti
war treaty was still in process of
negotiation. Asked by Secretary of
State Kellogg what had become of
her husbaud, the gentle and literal
Mrs. Borah replied:
“He said that if you asked for
him, Mr. Kellogg, I was to say that
he is at home working on your d—d
treaty.”
One Thing Certain
Some questions will forever remain
unsolved. A back East physician once
told a colored woman who had called
to consult him in regard to an all
goneness, that her vitality was much
run down. “Suppose,” said he, bright
ly, using one of Doctor Holmes’ ques
tions for the purpose, ‘you were
packed in a barrel of snow. How
much of it could you melt?” The
lady shivered. “Ah dunno,” she re
plied fervently, “an’ what’s mo’, All
ain’t never goiu’ to find out.” —Port-
land Oregonian.
Hernandez Found Dahlia
It was in 1570 that Philip II of Spain
sent Francisco Hernandez to Mexico
to compile an official report of the
tree and plant life of New Spain. He
sent seeds to the director of the Roy
nl Botanic gardens in Madrid, who,
says Nature Magazine, disseminated
the dahlia throughout Europe. Hernan
dez found the dahlia, not as a wild
flower, but in the cultivated gardens of
the Aztecs. . u
VOTE FOR
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i # 11
ROBT. RAMSPECK
For Congress
Democratic White Primary
Sept. 11, 1929
He is 39 years of age—in the prime of life.
For the past 22 years lie has been working in various
public, professional and business positions—gathering
valuable experience.
During 1911 and 1912 he was in Washington with
former Congressman Howard. This experience, coupled
with the fact that his Secretary will be Thomas L. Camp,
for the past 3 years Secretary to the late Congressman
Steele, will insure prompt and efficient service to the
District.
Ramspeck Campaign Committee
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