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VOLUME II NO. 41 R. O* Gailey May Be Conyers Mayor My attentoln lias been called to the . le m the Rokdale Record of last 2 touching niKin my prospective candidacy for Mayor of Oonyers. It is needless to say that I appreciate deei> • thig honor and feel called upon to make s ouie reply touching the same. This is a very hard task suggested, unless those interested in our city af fairs will unite and cooperate in their efforts to make Conyers the progres sive city it should lie. Naturally, 1 have given the matter some consideration; but am not pre pared at this time to make a definite answer. Possibly, if sufficient encour agement with promise of future coop eration were given, I might be induced to offer my services. I wish to add, however, that if I should decide to make the nice, that I will give my best efforts to Conyers and her civic affairs. R. O. GAILEY. The above statement from Mr. Gail ey is interesting. Mr. Gailey seems to be willing to serve the people of Con yers, provided lie is assured that he nill have the (cooperation of the i>eo ple of the town. And that is* exactly what is needed. Without cooperation, no individual, business or municipality can succeed, regardless of the effort, or efforts that might be put forth by the leader. From the expressions to the editor of The Record, there has neve r been an article in this paper that has caus ed as much comment as the short statement from the friends of Mr. Gail ey last week that they wanted him to make the race for Mayor of Conyers. The business ability of Mr. Gailey is recognized, by the people of the city, and after all, the oiieration of a town s a business proposition, needing a progressive man at the head to make it a success. This can be done only by the cooperation of the business men and the people generally. Having known Mr. Gailey for many fears, the editor has no hesitancy in saying that he believes Mr. Gailey eminently qualified for the position that his friends have called upon him to sene. He has the matter under con sideration and will make his decision shortly. i E* C. Belcher Dead Hi'. E. C. 'Belche r aged 7G was found dead in bed at Milledgevile, Novem ber 2nd. I The remains were shipped to Con yers, and Rev. H. K. Holland' conduct ed the funeral services Monday after -110011 at (Smyrna Church. Interment "as in Smyrna cemetery with White a d Company in charge. He is survived by his wife and one daughter of Atlanta. Charlie loe, Colored, died November 4tl b and was buried Tuesday after -110011 at Summer Hill. Charlie was one of the big cotton tanners of the county and had lived 011 the farm of Mr. Jim Francis for Rle past twenty years. FOR RENT— A two, three or four orse farm, known as the W. V. Al "lan<l farm in Qsk Grove Community. E. Almand, Monroe, Ga. REGISTER for election Register at the Clerk’s Office if you (are to vote for Mayor, Three Alder ®en an<l Three members of School '"ard in City election to be held on ,atlmJ ay. December 7tlk Books now °Pen. R. B. ELLIOTT, T City Clerk. v ILL, Mayor. Nov - 8-15-22. ( NOTICE tio n aeoount ot the unusual condi his ° Ur <x,unty as tace }ear , i n the matter of road con had Ct * 0n ’ Unt * bridge building We have to Use considerable more money jJ 1 ' 1 " e Rad anticipated and as a con- Uence > we are obliged in order to 1 the obligations soon due urge the taxes at least by December the , as the tax books close that date flQfl pi r as will be issued at once. ease give this your prompt atten- Co n ' *; v order of the boa rd of County ““aussioners. This Nov. stli. 1929. J. J. SIMS, Chairman. H. MARSTON, Ordinary. ®lje Hockftak tkcart Record Pleases Colorado Springs. Colo. October 30th, 15121!. Mr. It. F. Taylor. Editor, Rockdale Record, Conyers, Georgia. Dear Sir :- Please add postoffice box number 218 to thei adklress on this wrapper. I think you are issuing a splendid pa per and the people of Conyers and Rockdale county should be proud of it. Wishing you much success and happi ness, I am, Yours respectfully, Harvey P. Haralson. MISS WHITAKER INJURED Miss Sarah Whitaker, Manager of the IConyers Hotel had the misfortune of falling down a flight of stairs last Thursday evening and she received se vere internal injuries. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. Fox Hunt Mr. Sam Cowan went Fox Hunting Friday and after a chase of over an hour, the eight dogs had the gray fox in their keeping. Mr. Cowan would not, have chased the fox over fiften minutes if Mr. Claud Johnson had been witii him, for Mr. Mr. Johnson would have out-run the dogs. MRS. TOWNS ENTERTAINS Mrs. J. M. Towns was hostess to the Matrons and Fancy Work Club Wed nesday afternoon at her home on MiJsteart Avenue. The living room was decorated with beautiful fall flowers and the Hal lowe'en color a heme of orange and black was carried out. Progressive rok was played through out the afternoon. Mrs. Will McKemie won ton score and Mrs. L. J. Pharr won consolation. Mr .Joe Towns Jr., rendered sever al piano selections. A salad course with hot tea was served on the small tallies. Mrs. Hull and Mrs. McElvamiy assisted Mrs. Towns in serving. The members of the club were nres ent and the guests were Mrs. \\ ill Mc- Kemie, Mrs. 11. K. Holland and Mis. H. G. McEivaney. MISS TRIBBLE HOSTESS Miss Julia Tribble was hostess to class 8-A of the Baptist church. Thurs day evening at the home of her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. M. I*. Tribble. The home was artisticaly decorated in orange and bl.-y-k carrying out the Hallowe’en colors. A good time, including Hallowe'en games and refreshments were enjoyed by twenty-two young people. REAGAN—GILMER Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hansford Rea gan anounce the engaement of their daughter, Huldali Safranees, to Mr. Harry Clifford Gilmer, the marriage to he solemnized at the home of the bride’s parents, Sunday, December 1— No cards. —Atlanta Journal. Miss Reagan is a former popular young lady of Conyers and is the grand daughter of Mr. Kerr Rt-agan. Miss Reagan lias a host of friends vim will Is* glad to learn of iter approach ing marriage. MR. ANI) MRS. J. E. JAMES ENTERTAIN Mr. and Mrs. .J. E. James entertained Sunday at. dinner •" honor of their mother, Mrs. It. I, Scarborough’s sev enty-first birthday. The home was decorated in autumn flowers, The table was beautifully ap pointed, having as its central dera tion, a white cake holding seventy-one pink candles. Those present were Mrs. It. L. Scar boiough. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scarbor ough, Mr. and Mrs. Henry M We, Messrs. Forest and Tom Scarborough. Mr and Mrs. J. E. James of Conyers Mr. and Mrs. Gray Treadwell of Cov ington. Mrs. H. A. Parker and Mrs. T. < Williams of Atlanta were guests Fri day of Mrs. C orgia Cowan. Mrs. N. T. Street is visiting relatives and friends in Atlanta. CONYERS, GEORGIA NOV. 8, 1929 Rockdale Schools Will Keep Going Hon. Arthur Whitaker, chairman of the Hoard of Education Rockdale County, anounced Tuesday after the meeting of the board that Rockdale County would continue her schools de spite the font that funds from the state had not lioen made available. Mr. Whitaker stated that salaries could lie |>ai(l teachers as they became due and if the county cooperated with the Board of Education that there would lie no interruption in the affairs of the schools of the county. This Ls good news. Some of the counties in the state have signified their intention of closing their schools for two months or more until state funds are available. Rockdale schools are like their cotton market —None better. Oak Grove School BOX SUPPER - The tecahers ami pupils are very proud of the money made tit the box supiter Saturday night. The total re ceipts amounted to fifty dbllars and fifteen cents. They appreciate the co operation and support of their many friends who helped to make the supper a success. The First and Second Grades contin ue to increase their number. The Third Grade pupils are very much interested in their Geography notebooks. They have just completed the study of the grain family. They en joyed drawing master wheat, master oats, and King Corn, ‘The Old Mill', the silo, and! other pictures in their note books. The next series of lessons will lie concerning meats and their sources. Each of tliem enjoyed pant onioning the story of ‘Tabby and Rover” in their English lesson. They have several real actors in the Tihrd Grade. The fourth grade pupils are enjoy ing the love affair of Sir Walter Ral eigh and Queen Elizabeth in their history. If any of the fourth grade boys coma in with a muddy coat we will know he has found a ipieen. We also enjoy our geography dis cussions. We enjoyed about thirty minutes Friday afternoon making Hallowe’en masks. We made a spooky impression on the little folks. We passed through their room on our way home. Lottie Bess Plunkett was our old witc-li. She led the procession, followed by a hunch of spooky creatures. We enjoyed the story of “8010 the Cave Boy”. We learned to love him as our little Indian friend. We have just start ml another story now, ‘‘Tom and Sue Playing Circus.” We always look forward to our story period. AVe enjoyed Miss Pinkie Norton’s stay with us Monday afternoon in the absence of our teacher. She was a very good substitute. The fiftli and sixth grade are hav ing exams this week and all are hop ing to make A's. The sixth grade is very interested in theij- map studies. The fifth and sixth grades are try ing very hard to kep their floors and 450 Tons Of Ice Wasted Here Through Faulty Refrigeration Conyers poured 450 tons of melted ice down the drain pipes of its refrig erators during the last year without its housewives getting any good from it. This amazing figure, arrived at by the Leonard Institute of Food Preser vation, is tlie anual ice waste in Con vers due to faulty refrigeration. It is based on a survey of ice meltage in Ro chester. N. Y., showing a pe r capita waste of 500 pounds of ice. The Amer ican pubic is literally pouring water into a Sieve, the water lieing in the form of ice and the sieve lieing the leaky uninsulated refrigerator that does not keep out hot air. The average family should use about 8.000 pounds of ice a year if the refrigerator is well insulated and the .loors fit tightly, according to food siieeialists. This provides for keeping the ice chamber well filled in winter , lS well as summer. Although the aver age family uses only half this amount. ‘,he survey at Rochester, a typical A merican city, showed that an alarming portion of the ire purchased is wasted each yea r in the average home. For Mrs. Nancy Mell Norton Is Dead Mrs. Nancy Mell Norton, age 77 years, died at the home of her son. Mr. Will Norton, Wednesday night, after a few weeks Illness. Funeral will he held Friday morn ing at 11 o’clock at tlm residence of Mr. Will Norton. Interment will he in East View Ceinetierty with White and Company in charge. Mrs. Norton is survived by six sons Oscar, Luther, lam, J. 1., Will, Char lie, one daughter, Mrs. W. S. Ramsey, one sister, Mrs. Tom Ivey, three broth ers, Floyd, J. W., and .1. 1., Denmird, a half brother, E. IF. Dennard and a half sisber Mrs. Beulah Humphries. “Aunt Lucia” Everything is ready for the presen tation of ‘‘Aunt Lucia” at the school auditorium in Covington, Thursday and Friday, November tilth and 15th. ( The flappers are great. The Glee Clue Chorus is also fine. Some of Covington’s best talent is in the play. The play is sjxmsored by the Parent Teacher Association. The play has humorous situations from the opening to the closing. There are all kinds of “cut ups" in the farce comedy. C. OF C. MEETING The Children of the Confederacy, will have their monthly meeting, Fri day afternoon, Noveniiier Ktli, at 4 :<nt o’clock at the home of Mary Parker, with Marcel Willingham, Virginia Cook and Sara M( Dowell as joint hostesses. Tlwe following program will lie ren dered, under the direction of Itebie Wilkinson, Historian of Chapter. Song, “Just Before the Battle Moth er.” Devotional. Business Session, Jot? Butler. Introduction to Program, which is an Armistice Day Program, Uebie Wil kinson. Life of Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Ivey. General John J. Pershing, Renee 'Can noon. General Marshal Foch, Winifred Wil lingham. In Flanders Fields, Marcel Willing ham. Harvest Song, Virginia Huff. Armistice Day, Joe Butler. Reading, "In Flanders Fields”, Sa ra McDowell. Closing Song, America. Rebie Wilkinson, desks clean, and everything tidy. The seventh and eighth grades ar having examinations this week and everyone is trying to make good marks. Mabelle and Mildred Ueagin of the eighth grade are finding their Latin very easy? | The teachers and pupils of Oak Grove School wish to express their thanks for the cross-tie that Mr. L. G. Pi pin 'lls gave us. We also thank Master Jeff Norton and Maste r Ervin McWilliams for cut ting up the cross-tie for us. Mabelle Rea gin. Mildred Reagin. the nation this involves a loss of mil lions of dollars in ice alone, liesidxs the even greater loss in sjioiled food caused liy the poor refrigeration. Purchasers of refrigerators too of ten consider the price alone, say food preservation experts. Like an automo bile, the refrigerator should be pur chased on performance as well as ap pearance. The use of modern all-steel refrigerators with approved insula tion would go far toward doing away with this heavy los, tly*y state. In selecting a refrigerator, one with neither the minimum or maximum ice meltage should be chosen, according ing to the Leonard Institute. Tle re frigerator that consumes the most ice is, naturally, too costly to keep filled and w ill not maintain the desired tem perature of 50 degrees or less,while the one that consumes the least ice prob ably has faulty (circulation and will not do its job of keeping the food in perfect state of preservation. A reason able rate of ice meltage is essential to keeping food good. The ice should never be covered with a blanket or pa per to retard its melting. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY News and Views of Rockdale Progress Oxford District News This week, just preceding session of The North Georgia Annual Confer ence, 'finds the Oxford District, Pas tors and people Itoth zealously and cheerily engaged in the delightful ex ercise of paying out on Pastor’s sala ries and Conference claims. Most of the churches have already paid out on Pastor's salary and the full energies of tlie pivaehera and their committees are being exerted now to bring up a reiKirt of “Benevol ences in full" for announcement upon tlie Conference floor November the 13, nt First Methodist Cluitph, Atlanta, when Bishop Beauchamp shall call this great Conference to order. Avery pleasing and characteristic thing is oc curring, among the fine Middle Geor gia jieople who compose the Oxford District: :Tln y are showing their true lieartedness toward the interests of the church by making some better record than last year in payments, in view of the fact th,-it the crops are better than last year hut by no means of normal volume as yet. All along, the Presiding elder has insisted that just as soon as the farm ing conditions improve the least hit, our jieople would take advantage of it to increase their contributions to church causes in a cor responding de gree. He rejoices that this claim which lie has made for his people is being justified by t-lieir zeal and lilierallty at this, the closing moment of tin* Conference year. Surely Godfs smile of approval will rest upon them for all their fidelity to His cause. Let every church secure 100 ior cent on Benev olence's if sacrificial giving and con stant activity >n the part of our work ers, until th, Pastor leaves for Con ference, can bring it to |wtss. A holy resolve that IT SHALL BE DONE, backed by fervent prayer and brave effort, will do mu ll to bring this about under conditions that would oth erwise lie impossible. Several church es have already done this. The Pastor is the only Steward the superunuated preacher has. At this writing, HO of our churches have paid the Pastor in full, and sew end <>f these have also paid in full the Benevolences. As we close the year, let us remem ber our District slogan, “First of all, prayers.” BAPTIST (HI IM II NOTES Sunday School attendance was splen did last Sunday. We learned at church conference that our financial obligations had been cleared. We feel now, we are ready to go for ward in calling a pastor. METHODIST CHI KCH NOTES Sunday School 10:30 A. M. Morning Service 11 :30 A. M. High League 0:15 P. M. Senior League 0:45 P. M. Evening Service 7 :30 P. M. Prayer meeting, Thursday evening, at 7:45. This is the last Sunday before Con ference and all niemlwrs are urged to Is* present. PRESBYTERIAN NOTES Sunday S-hol 10:30 A. M. Morning Service, 11 :30 A. M. Christian Endeavor 0:45 P. M. Evening Services 7:30 P. M. The puldie is cordially invited to attend servicees. Box Supper There will be a box supper at Smyr na School on Saturday night, Novcm l>er 9th. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mliile ’possum hunting Saturday evening Walker Potts had the misfor tune of walking into a ditch, and was painfully injured about the head and hack. We are glad to learn lie is im proving. ROBINSON COBB Miss Annie Robinson and Mr. Sim Cobb were happily married at the home of and by Rev. T. H. Marston. Sunday, November 3. 1929. M. D Wood is making forty-two hales of cotton with six mules. Mr. Wood believes in preparing land well, planting according to season, fertiliz ing well and top dressing, poisoning fo r weevils, ami always using econo my all the way through the whole year. Mr. Wihhl is a good business man and Ids farming Interests are always caried on on economical business prin ciples. This way Mr. Wood makes his farming business earn him proflts.Thls makes his husines a pleasure to him. Mr. Wood Is a grand old’ man, a clean, upright, dea,. thinking, far seeing, benevolent Christian gentleman. His council Is wist' and his soul is .sym pathetic to his fellow man. Mr. Wood believes that there is a go<*l living, and profit in farming now and In the fu ture for the man who will take ad vantage of the things that are being learned ami adviyubnd by tlu* success fill and practical leaders of modern ag riculture. We need more progressive men like Mr. Wood. L. A. Bowen Ls a man who figures the costs of things before lie gois into them. He figures as closely as possi ble. baaed on Ids own experiences, and observations, what he may expect to profit or save on these things liefore he starts them. Thus he makes Ids farming a business that is pleasant and a paying business to him. Mr. Bowen figures that in Ids farming business it wil pay Idm to build up ids soils, and he is doing this. He has just fin ished sowing seventeen acres to vetch that he will turn into his soils next spring to help build bus soils to make better and more profitable crops. When* you see L. A. Bowen going into a thing, you can put it down that he has figured th thing out before he start ml it, and that he believes it to he a good investment and a good bus iness proposition. Mr. Bowen, then 1 is a good future for the right kind of farming. Soil building and crop ro tation are two things that he is a great believer in. He is proving to him self and to other farmers that such work helps to make farming more profitable and safer, and as his farm keeps getting more productive this proof will become greater. This makes him “headed the right way.” Now that is plain farming sense that we must all learn sooner or later, and the sooner I i the better. Those who wish to sow vetch this fall should try to gd all the scxl in pretty soon now. Now is still a good time, hut the work should he com pleted before the middle of this month. By sowing villi a season in the ground, and using a hag of acid phosphate or three bund red ixmmLs of basic slag (wr ivre we can xp.v*t vetch to do well the first year, because this will take care of the inoculation and fer tilize the vetch for good growth. There is plenty of vetch in Tucker's ware house. Inoculation instructions an* on the can furnished with the seed and Is very simple. Simply dampen the seed with water sweetened with sugar and opu r in the inoculation and mix with the seed. A wash tub is good to use in tliis work. Sow only a few minutes before covering seed, as light soon kills the inoculation. A good place to sow yeti'll is in cotton middles and a spring tooth ha row or a scrape is good to scrateh them in with, just, as you would cultivate pot ton. Nothing hard to do aismt this, is there? G. S. Potts found that he could double crop yields by turning under a cover crop of austrian winter peas this year, and so he sowed twelve acres for this purpose this fall to turn under nxet spring. Our demonstration plot at McDan iel’s crossing abows that vetch and peas were about the same value there as a cover crop followed by corn. The corn made twice as much in each case as was made on the same land on the spot we left out in the middle of the field and sowed no cower crop on. Tills Is proof that vetch and peas help a lot to make thin land produce good stuff, as that land had the soil moved off for soiling the highway. It can lie done and it frays to do it. Then let’s do it. Alfalfa, oats, rye, vetch etc., that w’ere sown a few days aigo are up and looking fine. The seasons we have been having are helping tliem to come up and start off in a hurry. We should sow a lot of fall grain this fall. The prospects seem pretty certain that we are to have a good new big thrasher to serve Rockdale County next sumer. Mr. Hamilton says he (Continued on Ba?k Page)