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VOLUME II NO. 43 R. 0. GAILEY NOT This Is The Time To Join The American Red Cross ' ■:■■ ■::.' :.■ ■■■ .•■ • Mr. A. D. Reiger, Field Representa tive of The American Red Cross of Washington, D. C., was here in the early fall to help the local chapter to become more interested in the Amer ican Red Cross. In 1928 he was head of the Disaster Relief in Georgia, Ala bama. and Florida. The American Red ‘Cross is an or ganization which can aid thousands of suffering humanity and help rebuild that which lias been destroyed. WILL YOU JOIN? You may say no, but I will con tribute to many of the disasters sweep ing our country. Yes, many, ■but not all — Become a part of the Red Cross or ganization and will you aid in all dis asters, great or small, for they an swer every call. If you do not become a member, it is an impossibility to aid in every disaster. In 1928 there were 117 national dis asters, and 156.000 received relief through the Red Cross. At one time 28 States were given relief by this or ganization. During the year they gave relief to .88 states, relieving some of them twice. Did you help? Mr. Henry L. Stinson, Secretary of State of the United States says, ‘When Notice Masons Regular Communication of Phillogia T.odge No. ITS F. A. and M., will con vene Monday night, Nov. 25th, in the Masonic Hall. x Master Degree will be conferred by Decatur Degree team. All Masons' qualified are invited to attend. Refreshments will he served. Geo. A. Owens, Sec., Homer W. Irvin, W. M. Mr* Owens Hurt Mr. Owens had the misfortune of hanging his foot in the trap door of the Henson Furniture Company while delivering the mail Monday morning. Mr. Owens was badly bruised but not seriously injured. Mr. Owens our advise to you is to look where you are going. BAPTIST CHURCH NOT ES Fine attendance at Sunday School last Sunday. There will be preaching services Sunday morning at 11:30 and Sunday evening at 7:30. ®l)c Hoc lift ale HUcorft the American Red Cross extends help to a foreign country stricken by a great calamity, it speaks for the mind and heart of the American people. Such beneficence with, the Red Cross representing the American public, lias made for our country wide-spread good will over the world among people who' have suffered. These are monuments and buildings and names of streets to commemorate this good will in many parts of the world. During the last year, there were a number of instances of this sincere and generous help to countries prostrated, by disaster. For this, the American Red Cross has received warm expres sions of gratitude from the sufferers. To continue and expand these good deeds and to enlarge the field to use fulness in our homeland, the Ameri can jieople should consider it a priv ilege and an opportunity for service to belong to their National Red Cross. The local chapter is helping people in Rockdale County. Are you a mem ber of this chapter? Will you respond to this call of the Red Cross and enlarge its services for humanity? If so, see Miss Irene Irwin, chairman of the drive for Rockdale County. One half of all funds received are kept in this- county. Cotton Ginned Conyers Cotton Market Ims long been known as the best market in this scetion of the State. Ami with the Clash of Wall Street Conyers cotton mar ket clings to its reputation. Tho the yield is not as great this year as last, it is not off as mu h as you might think for Bureau of Census shows there were 8.568 hales of cotton ginned in Rockdale County from the crop of 11)29 prior to November 1. 1929 as compared with 4.103 hales sinned to November 1. 1928. Cannon Honored Representative C. R. Cannon Ims bee appointed on the General Assembly Committee to inspect convict camps. This is quite a compliment to Rock dale’s popular representative as ,llis is one of the most important committee assignments. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES Regular preaching sendees Sunday morning at 11:30 and Sunday evening at 7:30 by Rev. H. K. Holland. CONYERS, GEORGIA NOV. 22, 1929,’ TO RUN FOR MAYOR OF CONYERS I wish to thank my pood, loyal friends for their hearty ap proval of my being Mayor of Conyers for the next two years. This is a high honor for which I feel justly proud, but I have fully ex plained before, that to have a successful administration as Mayor of our city, that it would require an united cooperation of its citi zens. Having learned of the opposition to this high office as Mayor, and knowing what it will take to make Conyers what it should be, I will not make the race, but will be glad to render some service if within my power, to put our little city on the map; that will bring business enterprises here; to make our weekly pay rolls larger and have our population increased. This will lower our tax rates; bring overall and shirt factories and other factories and plants here, free of taxation for a limited number of years, and employ help that now goes to other cities. Another great improvement should be looked into; that is (he water supply. This should be remedied and the fire insurance rate will then be reduced to normal. It seems to me that a yearly report published in our town pa pers. itemizing all collections and expenditures would be a welcome report to our taxpayers, as they should know how the money is being spent and should know the financial condition of our town. Believe me when I say that no town in Georgia has better op portunities if we will only see them and grasp them and unite and cooperate for the good of all concerned. R. O. GAILEY. Huff Only Announced Candidate The above statement from Mr. Gailey will come as a disap pointment to his friends who have been urging him for the past several weeks to make the race for Mayor. Mr. Gailey states that without cooperation that nothing constructive could be accom plished and that he wants toi see the town united and all working for the good of all and this could not be accomplished were the town divided in a race for Mayor. Mr. Gailey’s reference to the city publishing a financial re port is an excellent one. The city’s business is the business of ev ery resident of the city and the taxpayers should know how and for what their money is spent. It is the duty of the adminis trators of municipal, county and state governments to let the peo ple know what they are doing and we know of no better way than publishing the same in newspapers. There have been no formal announcements for members of council, three to be elected, as yet as well as the members of the school board, whose time expires with the present administration. There will probably be some announcements next week for these places. In the Mayor’s race there is but one announced candidate, Mr. R. L. Huff and he will probably be elected without opposition. KICKED Out Of COLLEGE Comedy In Three Acts Conyers School Auditorium November 25,1929,8 P. M. SENIOR CLASS PLAY BOOTLES BENBOW Joe Towns TAD CHESELDINE Opha Cooper LEVITICUS Horace Milligan SCOTCH M’ALLISTER Keating Pharr SHORTY LONG Norrnan Walker SLIVERS MAGEE Frank Stewart BENJAMIN J. BENBOW Lewis Mann SANDY M’CANN Fay Camp OFFICER RILEY George Roebuck MR. GEARS C. T. Bohanan JONQUIL GRAY Louise M’Elvany BETTY BENBOW Mary Evelyn Cowan MRS. B. J. BENBOW Rebie Wilkerson “MA” BAGGSBY l! Ellen Conley MRS. MEHITABEL M’CANN Florence Bell SELINA M’CANN Jeffy Moon MISS JULIET SNOBBS Clara Chandler MLLE MIMI FLEURETTE Lena Mae Weldon SALAMANCA SPIVINS Helen Almand ACT I. A College Boarding House. Booties iirst little wife. ACT 11. Suite in Honeymoon Flats. Booties second little wife. ACT. 111. Same scene at Act 11. Booties third little wife. PLACE— -Any College Town. Miss Mary Frances Cowan, Coach. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY Oxford District News Every charge will have anew preacher and every preacher will have anew charge In the Oxford IMstrict \Vith the adjournment of the Session of the North Georgia Conference. But how can this he, you ask? The answer is this: That .every preacher, at the end of each Conference Year, lias for the time lining, completed his connection as Pastov with the Charge he serves until he is re-appointed. No pastor is npikointed for more than a period of one year at a time. He is subject to change at the end of each year. It is therefore, in view of those fuels, that we may say, even though tin' same limn is returned to the same charge, still each charge has anew pastor and -each pastor anew charge! Now, what shall both the pastor and people do in the lialit of this tradition? First, what shall the pastor do? Ho should certainly adjust himself to the appointment (unless very unusual fac tors enter in) as God's assignment for his field of Inline for another twelve mouths. This spirit will lie felt in every word he speaks and conveyed in ev erything Hint lie does. And we all know how important to a successful pastor ate is a rigid spirit in the preacher himself. This feeling should nlso he shared by Ids family. For the pastor’s family is either a serious liability or a valuable asset in his work. Then, too, the pastor should notify the official members of the chniph when he may he ex neet nl to return from Conference. These good men and true, a (Id tin’s© good women, need this information and are entitled to. If you cannot, reach them by letter or by telegraph, then use the telephone, hut do not arrive un heralded and as an unexpected guest. liOl the people know that you come among them as one who serves and as one who feels that this appointment is God's appointment fo r you and for them for the year. |Second, what shall the people do? They, too, must receive the Pastor as divinely sent. They must wire him a welcome, if posib'c, and certainly, when they know the hour of his arrival, must go in a group to welcome him and it would he a very handsome thing to have the parsonage lighled, heated and replete with, good things to eat, both upon the table and in the larder, with a Committee there also to welcome or to re-wtleoine tlie shepherd of their flock. Many other suggestions will arise in the loving hearts of a truly Chris tian people. MRS. TUCKER HOSTESS Mrs. I!. F. Tucker entertained tho Matrons <’ : lub and a number of guests al her home on Hast, Avenue, Wednes day uf lemon, November 18th. Mrs. If. 11. Elliott, President of the Matrons Flub, presided over the bus iness sesion. Fifteen members an awered to the roll call with a favorite literary gem. The guests also respond ed with appropriate quotations. The minutes of a previous meeting were read and adopted. The ,Secretary read a letter from the Civic League requesting each member to contribute fifty cents toward the upkeep of the library. The ladies vot ed miuimously to comply with this re quest. that the club form some kind of"an or ganization to help keep the cemetery. The prfsident expressed a desire 'lTiis met witl). the hearty approval of the ladies, and it is the purpose of the club to sponsor some work of this kind at, the beginning of the new year. Mrs. It. W. Tucker invited the club to meet with her two weeks hence. After the business meeting, the fol lowing program celebrating Annual Book Week was rendered: -Literature —Thief of the Five Arts — Mrs. J. F. Davis .Sidelights of (treat Authors —Mrs. It. IT. Elliott Choice of Books —Mrs. M. F. Tucker Mrs. Tucker with her assistants served a delicious salad course with hot coffee. Mr. Oliver Kwint and Mr. Aticus Ivey of Atlanta were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Kerr R-ngan. Good hones lor rent, 5 rooms. Sec K. M. Wnrren. WANTED—A GOOD MILCH COW. See J. M. Dillard :<it Rokedale Bar ber Shop. Oak Grove School News First and Second Grades —Tlip First and Second Grade pupils are making Health )>osterf. The Second grade is Welcoming Mas ter Coy 'McWilliams, as anew mem ber of their class. They are helping all they can with the cleaning up of the :<Chool building and play ground. Third and Fourth Grade —Tin* Third Grade members are very sorry to lose two of our class members, J. 11. and Virginia Bartlett. We miss them very much. The New Ford owned by the girls is a few miles ahead of the Hudson own ed by the boys in our arithmetic. Hur ry Imi.vs, don’t let the girls win the race. We are still enjoying, working with our geography note books. It is fun to gather up the pictures to paste in them. It is very interesting to know from whore our various foods come. The Third. Grade inis made some very attractive health posters. Fourth Grade: We had n very inter esting arithmetic match Friday morn ing. 'The class was divided into eipial sides, the “Wild iCnts” and tbo “Bull Dags”. Tli,e ‘Bull bogs” won, Isaac Wurlington being the last one to sit down. We are still finding our health lessons Interesting. We are trying to obey all health rules in orjjer to keep up in our studies. Both the third and four!h,grades have fallen in love with “Flossie and Fred die Boobsey”, two little characters in our afternoon story hook. They are lost now so we are very anxious for them to be found once more. Fifth and Sixth Grade—Tlie Fifth Grade is very interested in its history of Ruroiie. We are trying to clean our yard, hut as fast as we clean up one carpet of leaves another carpet is laid. Little Thomas Cochran of the fiflh grade broughjt us three jnire brush brooms Monday morning. .Seventh and Eighth Grade —The Sev enth Grade pupils are drawing maps of South America. The Eighth Grade pupils are mak ing booklets with poems of Georgia. Mahelle I tea gin. BAITtST W. M. S. Monday afternoon Mrs. M. <!. Sum mers delightfully entertained the W. M. S. with an attendance of sevent-eem The attractive home was made more beautiful by lovely bowls and vases of cut flowers placed on mantles and cab inet R. The topic of the nfternon study was “Our Unchanged Task in a Changing Worl.d” Circle No. 1 find charge of an inter esting program, as follows Opening song: Stand up for Jesus. Prayer: Mrs. B. F. Tucker. Devotional hsl by Mrs. I. O. Ivey. Change in Educational Religion: Mrs. Hillyer Still. The Rising Tide oiß Youth : Mrs. Wal ter Huff. The Industrial Revolution Mrs. J. It. Pirkle. Changing Leadership: Mrs. J. H. Patrick. Prayer: Mrs. Pirkle. During the business sesion many in terest inifi items were discussed and dis posed of. officers for the new year of 1930 were elected as follows: President—Mrs. M. It. Stephenson. Ist; Vice-Pros.,—Mrs. J. It. Cowan. 2nd Vice-Pres. —Mrs. I. O. Ivey. Secretary—Mrs. J. R. Lee. Asst. Sect. —Mrs. A. P. Owens. Treasurer —Mrs. L. It. Still. Sunbeam Leader —Mrs. Jessie Peek. Asst. Sunbeam Leader —Mrs. R. 11. Still. At; the close of-the meeting delicious hot coffee, sandwiches and mints were served by the hostess and her assist ant. Mrs. Smith of Oregon, who is visit ing her sister, Miss Minnie Smith, was a distinguished visitor at the meeting. Box Supper There will bca box supper at Mag net School House, Saturday night, No vember 23, 1929. The public is cordially invited to at tend. i "■ * Attention is called to the advertise ment of Mr. I*7. L. Almand, dealer in buggies, wagons and harness at So cial Circle and Monroe.