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ROCKDALE RECORD
Official Organ of Rockdale County
and the City of Conyers
I{. F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher
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CHURCH SOCIAL
An enjoyable occasion was that at
which Rev. and Mrs. Harry K. Holland
entertained (he members of the Presby
terian church and their families and
also a few sleeial friends at a house
warming at their home last Friday
evening sit H o'clock.
As the guests arrived they were re
ceived at the door by the pastor and
wife in a very cordial manner, and in
\ Red into the spacious living room
which was beautifully decorated with
huge vases of chrysanthemums and ist
:i lowers.
After an hour of conversation the
guests were ushered into the dining
room by Mrs. M. \V. Hull and Mrs. E.
<>. Ix’ftwlch where punch was served
|,y Misses Helen Almand, Louise Al
lsinnd, Ruth Robinosn and Rebie \Vi 1 -
kerson.
A number of guests j;alied during the
evening.
FOII MAYOR
To Hie Citizens of Conyers, On.:
After niut'li cdtpsidernthm, ! have
decided to enter the raw for Mayor in
the City election to he held Saturday,
December 7th, 1929.
Your vote and Influence will he sin
cerely
Respectfully yours,
R. L. HUFF.
Conyers, (Ja., Nov. 14th, 192!).
NOTICE
On account of the unusual condi
tion that our county has had to face
this year, in the matter of road con
struction, and bridge building, we have
had to use considerable more money
than we had anticipated and as a con
sequence, we are obliged in order to
meet the obligations soon due urge the
tax payers of the county to settle
their taxes at least by December the
20th, as the tax hooks dose that date
ami Fi Fas will he issued at once.
I'lease give this your prompt atten
tion, by order of the hoard of County
Commissioners. This Nov. sth, 192!).
J. J. SIMS, Chairman.
THOS. H. M A UNTON, Ordinary.
REGISTER FOR ELECTION
Register at the Clerk’s Office if you
care to vote for Mayor, Three Aider
men and Three members of School
Board in <lity election to be held: on
Saturday, December 7th. Books now
open.
R. B. ELLIOTT,
City Clerk.
L. B. STILL, Mayor.
Nov. 8-15 22.
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Both Had Good Reason
to Be Proud of “Jobs”
Lady Townshend at one time headed
the United Family league, a society
which aimed for better living condi
tions for the working people and an
interesting story Is told of one of their
social affairs.
At a dance at which she was one of
the patronesses, a workingman swag
gered up to her and said:
*‘l don’t suppose you would dance
with me, would you?”
‘‘l should like to very much,” the
marchioness replied.
During the dance !he mnn held her
at arms length, looking her over from
head to foot, and finally said:
“You’re awfully proud of being a
marchioness, nin’t you?”
Lady Townshend confessed herself
confused for a moment before she re
plied :
“What Is your Job?”
"I’m the best steamfitter in this part
of England.”
“You’re proud of It, then, because
you are good at your own Job."
I “Of course.”
"Well, my job Is being a marchion
ess and I’m proud of it because I try
to be as good a marchioness as I know
how.” —Los Angeles Times.
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Co-ed : “Professor Barfield, which of
my feet must I nut under the horizon
tal bar first?”.
Barfield: “It doesn’t matter, they’re
just alike.”
Chatfield: “Will you join me in a
bowl of stew?”
It. Wilson: “Do you think there
would be room for both of us?”
“You keep still tonight”, shquted
the moonshiner as lie departed to at
tend the convention, |< , r i. tid
Mrs. Smith let the can opener slip
last week and cut-herself in the pan
try.
Long List of Beliefs
Based on Superstition
A woman recently died because her
superstition would not allow her to
call In n doctor on Friday. Saturday
was too late. That superstition is
still rife, Is to some extent proven by
the fact that hundreds of thousands
of people still consider Hint it Is un
lucky to walk under ladders. That It
Is unlucky to spill salt. That throe
candles on a table bring bad luck.
That crossed knives spell unhappiness.
That to cut one’s nails on a Friday Is
to court disaster. That (lie new
moon seen through glass Is nn evil por
tent. That to open an umbrella in the
house means misfortune. Similarly,
how many Londoners do not believe
that It Is lucky for a black cat to
cross one’s path, or that to fall up
stairs spells n wedding. There ii#
probably several million people in
England today who exclaim “Touch
wood” on the slightest provocation.
In the country villages of England the
Inhabitants firmly believe that to see
a white horse means the presence in
the vicinity of a red-headed girl, while
a cross-eyed villager Is still an object
of suspicion to be combated by crossed
fingers and a whispered Incantation.
Sailors and Irishmen are unanimously
awarded pride of place among believ
ers in superstitions, nevertheless the
Londoner is hard to heat.—London
Mail.
Ancients Thorough in
Drawing Up Contracts
/ bronze tablet dating back to 117
RG. holds, we are told, the earliest
recorded civil judgment now extant.
Found near Genoa, it represents a
formal judgment of arbitration be
tween two local tribes contending
over the boundaries of their lands.
The record describes the boundaries
in language which is quite comparable
with the technical style of convey
ances used today.
There also exists a Roman ordi
nance dated 105 I?. 0., giving specifi
cations for a contract to build a gate
way In n wall nbutting on a highway
In the town of I’uteolis, and in this
contract are revealed all the expedi
ents of long experience and careful
draftsmanship which we moderns are
accustomed to expect in such trans
actions. The specifications are so com
plete that archeologists have .been
able to restore the entire structure.
Villages Long Buried
Sand dunes shifting in the winds
uncovered what was once a good-sized
village on the North sea island of Sylt.
Some lime ago the,remains of another
village were similarly laid hare on the
Baltic coast of East. Prussia. On the
northern Up of Sylt, In that section
which until a short lime ago was hid
den by the dunes, has been found evi
deuce of u settlement dating back to
the Ninth or Tenth centuries. Among
the finds have, been pieces of pottery
closely resembling that made by Khen-
Ish potters bet weep t lie years 800 and
1000. Other articles disclosed are said
to date back to the Fourteenth cen
tury, thus indicating Hint the settle
ment must have existed for 500 years
or more before being covered by the
dunes.
Full Course Laid Out
Old farmer Gooberpea was trying to
impress his son that chopping wood
was as good exercise as playing golf.
“Oh, no, father,’’ insisted Bozo, who
wanted to play golf, “it is the walk
ing between otrokes that makes golf
such’ valuable exercise; that gives the
legs a chance ns well as the arms.”
“So that’s It, is it?” exclaimed the
old man. An-1 then he went into the
field and placed pieces of wood at in
tervals all around it. Back at the
house again lie handed Bozo the ax
and, patting him affectionately on the
hack, sahl:
“Now, son, go and play the full
cou rse.’’ —Ex chan go.
Wily Elephant
Though tigers and leopards cannot,
ns a class, he said to sham death,
there have been Instances in which
one of these—after having to all ap
pearances, been shot dead—has sud
denly “come to life’’ and been very
much alive, until Anally despatched.
There is an Instance on record of a
newly captured elephant playing the
“artful dodger” so successfully that
It completely deceived its captors, who
releasing its bends, left it for dead;
but scarcely lmd they gone a little dis
tance when, to their amazement, the
creature rose, and trumpeting loudly,
made good its Escape.
Stephen Foster Shrine
Federal hall, the old Rowan home
stead nt Bnrdstown, Ky., where Fos
ter wrote his masterpiece, “My Old
Kentucky Home,” is standing and in
an excellent state of -preservation
The state of Kentucky has made It a
shrine. The house was completed In
1795, and has always belonged to the
Rown family, to which Stephen Col
lins Foster was related. The furni
ture, which delights lovers of an
tiques, Is the came that the Rowans
had selected, many of the pieces be
ing Sheraton, Chippendale, llcppel
white, and Duncan Phyfe.
Avoid Pessimism
Fessimlsm is that cloud of distrust
and doubt that prevents one gettirtg
a proper perspective on life. Things
nre never as bad as they seem, and a
distorted vision will not make them
so. It Isn’t natural to wear a long
face.—Grit f , , , , ... , ,
THE ROCKDALE REUUKU, uuNYERS, GEORGIA
Surprising Number of
Uses for Sweet Potato
A cataloguing of the uses of the
sweet potato sounds as though the
writer had stolen a few of the glowing
paragraphs used by efficient advertis
ing writers.
To begin with, they are highly val
uable in their regular form as human
food, and the cattle will take any left
over with a bovine thank you for the
tasty dish. *
They may lie made into a sirup
which is said to produce a \*cry su
perior taffy. When cut into small
particles and properly toasted until
thoroughly earn moled they make a
fair substitute for chocolate in the*
flavoring of iee cream and covering
of candies. Or If you are avoiding
sugars, they will produce a very fine
vinegar and can lie used as a source
of starch.
Then, leaving food for a time, they
can be used to produce n number of
dies and have uiso been found suc
cessful in (lie produclion of a roofing
paint. They have even boon em
ployed to mend rubber, and have made
good on (lie job.
They will yield up to 100 bushels
an acre, and at the avernge price of
80 cents a bushel bring in SBO, which
is not so bad when compared with
corn and wheat yield.—Washington
Post.
Waterfall That Dwarfi
Famous Niagara Falls
Whore Is the highest waterfall in
Europe? It is in France. More than
ten times as high as Niagara falls, and
the third highest in the world, but that
of the Gave do Pan at Gavarnie has
recently boon especially recommended
to tourists. Only the Grand in Labra
dor, and the Southerland in New Zea
land have a longer fall of water than
its 1,385 feet. When the season is wet,
the. cascade drops in one uninterrupt
ed veil, though in the dry summer
months it strikes a ledge two-thirds of
the way down. The immediate set
ting for tlie fall is extraordinary. It
descends into the .amphitheater known
as the Oircue de Gavarnie. This is a
basin more than two miles wide
which is shut on throe sides by moun
tains rising from 7.0(H) to 0,000 feet.
The proportions of the place are mam
moth, in keeping with the singular
characteristics of this waterfall. Ga
varnie is in tho Pyrenees, not far from
either Pau or Luchnn, —Exchange.
Bible Washington Held
A Masonic lodge of New York city,
St. John’s, has in its possession a high
ly prized memento of the first Presi
dent. It is the Bible on which General
Washington took Urn oath of office on
tho balcony of old Federal hall, in
Wall street. On that momentous oc
casion, so the story goes, die Bible
had been forgotten and it was neces
sary to find one on short notice. Maj.
Robert Morton, the officer command
ing the regiment of honor, was sent
on the mission. Being a member of
St. John’s Masonic lodge. Major Mor
ton bethought himseif of tin* lodge
rooms and promptly returned to Ids
post with the hook. It Ims been of
fered to oilier Presidents for use
at inaugural ceremonies. President
Harding accepted the offer.
Early Railroad Records
As early as 1845 a record was made
in England of 45 miles in 52 minutes.
At. one time (he train was proceeding
at the rate of one mile in 48 seconds,
or “nt (he astonishing velocity of 75
miles an hour.” In the same year the
American Railroad Journal said: “The
other day on the London & Birming
ham, and on the Great. Northwestern
railway, a rate of travel at (he speed
of 05 miles an hour was accomplished.
The express trains on those lines run
nt the rate of nearly 50 miles an
hour, stoppage included.” During IS4S
the Antelope engines on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad made a speed of GO
miles an hour.
Organized Beggary
While hogging in Japan is not (lie
fine art and honorable calling that it
is in some parts of China, nevertheless
in Tokyo and other large cities there
are hundreds who make their living
by soliciting aims in public. Compe
tition incident to a highly commercial
ized age has made it necessary to:
those mendicants to organize, and a
beggars’ guild now enacts and en
forces beggars’ law. The operations
of these persons are limited to three
hours each day, and they have a com
munistic way of sharing their pickings.
Birds That Cannot Walk
All members of the swallow family
•are distinguished by Iheir small, weak
feet, which are used only for clinging
and perching purposes. They cannot
walk or hop on the ground. These
birds spend more of their time on the
wing titan other birds and they feed
chiefly on insects which they catch
while in flight. Even water is scooped
from ponds by the birds on the wing.
Barn swallows and purple Martens are
the most common species of tins fam
ily in America. —Pathfinder Magazine.
Built to Defy Time
Many of the buildings of ihe Middle
ages, after a lapse of 000 or 700 years,
have shown no greater symptoms of
age and decay than an alteration In
the colors of the materials, while
many edifices of more recent date
afford the most melancholy examples
of too general disregard of solidity.-*-
Architectural Association Journal.
Foods Long Considered
Indigenous to America
There lias been much controversy
concerning the foods originally found
In the Americas. It Is generally agreed
Hint In North America were tobacco,
maize, a certain type of pear and a
small variety of tomato. In Central
America and the Islands the early ex
plorers also found tobacco and toma
toes. In South America, particularly
Brazil, wild potatoes were found in
abundance, so much so that in about
1810 it was necessary to import thou
sands of these native plants to develop
in order to save the potato crop of the
world. It was originally thought that
bananas were first found in Central
nnd South America and the Islands,
hut later this theory was the subject
of much debate, and it Is generally
believed today that, while bananas
were originally in flint section of the
world, they were also found in trop
ical sections of the eastern hemisphere
at the same time.—Washington Star.
Ancient Contracts
Written in Assyrian nfter 2000 B.
C„ thousands of clay tablets, that lie
wrnpped in cotton in museums
throughout tho world, show that the
“dotted line” was freely used in Baby
lonia ar:d that in those ancient civ
ilizations every sale of land had to
lie written to lie legal. Before people
knew how to write all contracts were
necessarily o#n! and, for protection in
case of dispute, witnesses were al
ways present when a contract was
made. After writing was invented,
Hie written contract supplemented tho
word of witnesses, who were still con
sidered very Important legally; and
their signatures always appear. The
practice of having witnesses to legal
papers prepared today comes down
from this period.—Boston Herald.
Charging It Up
An Aberdeen merchant called his
son into in's office the other day and
unbosomed himself as follows:
“I haven’t been feeling quite so well
for a few days past, Weelum, and so
I have just made my will, leaving
everything to you.”
“Oil, father,” said the son, “I don’t
like to discuss those affairs with you
at all. I hope you live for many
years yet, I’m sure.”
“So do TANARUS, Weelum, so do I, but I
just called to tell yon that the law
yer’s fee for making out the will is
30 shillings, an’ this sum will be kept
off your next, week’s pay.”
Shah’s Parting Gesture
The shah of Persia, on a visit to
London, was being driven tiirough the
streets in an open carriage, bowing
to the throngs that lined along tlie
sidewalks to greet, him, when lie no
ticed a small boy who had climted a
lamp post thumbing his nose at him.
He at once inquired into the meaning
of this gesture and a confused aid re
plied that it was a signal of respect,
says Living Age. The shah remem
bered this quaint custom, and, upon
his departure, when the flower of Brit
ish diplomacy gathered on the station
platform to see him off, he enthusias
tically thumbed his nose at the group.
Stars as a Time Standard
The use of the sun as a standard
of time measurements is going to the
discard in favor of the us of fixed
stars for th’e purpose. Observations
of stars, rather than tae sun, have
three advantages. There are eight
fixed stars available. The nearness
of the sun to the earth causes a dis
tortion of position because of the at
mosphere clinging about the world.
Moreover, the sun is too large. Its
center cannot he fixed, whereas (lie
stars are like pin points in the sky.
Caustic Tongue
David Beiaseo said in an interview
on his seventieth birthday:
“Poor Ellen Terry had a caustic
tongue. 1 know a thousand stories
about her. Here is one:
“‘Congratulate me, dear,’ an actress
said to her. ‘Young Lord Lacland pro
posed to me yesterday afternoon, and
I accepted him.’ _
“‘And you congratulate me,’ said
Miss Terry. ‘Young Lord Lacland
proposed to me yesterday morning and
I refused him.’ ”
Most, of us get a kick out of life,
hut from .behind.
Now Is The Time!
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Get Your Tires From Us*
And Enjoy Your Hunting Trip.
BENNETT & MANN
Phone 69
Send in Your order for Dressed
For Thanksgiving and get your Fruit Cake
Ingdredients at
R. H. SIMS
Phone 32*W
Unties, Wagons and
Harness
We carry a complete line of Bug*
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low* We deliver all sales*
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Covington, Ga*
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