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ROCKDALE RECORD Official Organ of Rockdale County and Hie City of Conyers -R. F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION, IN ADVANCE One year lI.CO Six nioutlu .75 Till: ROCKDALE RECORD assume* no responsibility for views expressed by eorres|sind(‘i)ts or contributors- All copy snl.milled for puldieution must tie sighed Ity (lie author. 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 m fPPI& m ll ', NS** 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 You, too, will be a Satisfied ‘ | ALONG WITH i t OTHERS! GENERAL ® ELECTRIC AUi!BTGEL REFRIGERATOR Of course the G. E. Owner is satisfied! 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