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VOLUME II NO. 47 They Can’t Get By With It In Conyers You can get held up in broad open daylight in Atlanta, in the white light zone or elsewhere, but they can’t get by with it in Conyers, even after dark. One of those thin skin city niggers pulled a Peachtree street stunt on our suburban storekeeper, Otis Beard, Tuesday night, being in vited to gaze down the barrel of what would have looked like Big Bertha to an Atlanta storekeeper. Mr. Beard has only one small light in his little s ore and could hardly see the pistol much less any funny things down that barrel, so he grabbed up a nail puller and started across “no man’s land” so quick he absolutely flabbergasted his customer-enemy. He frightened the yellow bully to such an extent that he forgot to shoot until he was ef me two hundred yards up the road and still running, he evidently shot then just to take some of the lead oif cf his hind feet. Watch out, Conyers—they may be passing through from day to day en l-outc to’ their Florida winter quar- I ters. ~ Ebenezer News Rev. J. D. Milton filled his first ap pointment of this Conference year, at Ebenezer Sunday. We were glad to welcome him back, and hope much ceod will be accomplished in the com ing year. Mr. and Mrs. George Ivy, who were recently married in Atlanta, came by on their returned honeymoon in New Orleans and spent the week-end with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Frankie Gar ner, before going to Forsyth where they will make their home. Miss Nevelyn McCullough spent last week in Atlanta with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Farmer and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fares Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanton and little girl and Mr. Luther Pierce of Atlanta were the spend the day guests Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Stanton. Mr. and Mrs. Felix Bailey of near High Point have moved into our midst. A number of people in our vicinity are changing homes. Mr. and Mrs. Mummert have moved to Atlanta and Mr. and Mrs. Bud Wheel er of Porterdale are occupying their home. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stanton will move where Mr. John Morris now lives. He will move where Mrs. Ollie Hardin now lives. She will go to At lanta. There are others to make changes later. Grannie McCullough is still feeble. Hope she will soon be improving. Mr. Isaac Stanton and son, Julian, went to Atlanta Monday. In 14 states (he minimum legal mar riage age for girls is 1(1 years. Ten years after Uml>erto Paldechi of Milan began to court Signorita Maria I>aldre vo he shot her because she re fused to marry him. McDonald & Still SS2S£S2SSSSS^SSSSSSSSSSS^S2?-^ Appreciates the Patronage extend ed them during 1929 and wishes for each and every one a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year @!)c Rockdale Record The Conyers Church The Conyers churche includes sev eral buildings where people live and worship—somewhat like our fruit. Apples grow on one tree, peaches on another, etc., but it is all fruit, some delicious, some sour and some dis eased. Some will keep all winter, while seme is good only during warm weather months. You do not have to be a Baptist, Methodist or Presbyte rian to be a Christian any more than you have to have an apple or or a peach to have fruit. Denominational religion was the trouble with the jews back in the beginning of the Christian religion. Pastor Jordan is building his con gregation upon the basis of making everybody a part of the service at his church and you cannot help noticing the increased interest and enthusiasm. His gfeatest task right now seems to be that of enlisting his young people in the song service, and of his great number of splendid young people, he is assured of a most interesting choir at an early date. The Baptists elected Rev. Kelly foi their pastor last Sunday and the Rock dale church will give the matter of a joint pastorate due consideration next Sunday, most likely electing Mr. Kel ly as their pastor. This will make a most interesting pastorate, embracing as it does the two largest congrega tions of that denomination in Rock dale county. Pastor Holland, of the Presbyte rian congregation, is very happy in the joint pastorate with Smyrna, giv ing each church two Sundays per month. In his congregation there are many good voices and under his lead ership they will furnish much enthu siasm when properly enlisted. Wishing everybody a happy Christ mas, with many surprise packages tnd gcod luck during the coming year, we sign off until next year so as to eliminate static during your peacefu and happy Christmas celebraitons. W. O. W. Elect The Woodmen of the World local camp elected officers at their last reg ular meeting. The following were selected to serve for the ensuing year: L. T. Longshore, P. C. C.; M. R. Stephenson, C. C.; L. M. McDowell, Adv. L.; Geo. A. Owens, Banker; R. V. Cornwell, Secretary and Clerk; W. A. Wheeler, Escort; B. R. Reagan, Sentry; J. C. Miller, Watchman; Dr. P. J. Brown, Physician; W. H. Gran ade, chairman Auditing Committee. With the above corps of officers the Woodmen will continue to grow, now being one of the largest Woodmen lodges in this section. THE crimson and greeft of the holly. The candle-light’s dickering gleam. Are opening memory’s gateway, And Bringing s Chr’stmas-lime dream. What matters the years that arc fleeting, I know that your friendship endures, And straight from my heart gocsthegrecting May the season's bert blessings be your*. CONYERS, GEORGIA DEC. 20, 1929 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY can g— ran we SBS ■WISH j FOR EACH and EVERY QNE M—J A MERRY CHRIST MAS and a H APP i NEW YEAR | The Rockdale Record Conyers, Ga. | ‘Til See You Soon” I — . . ——. £ .at Jk. '1 Presbyterian Church Regular services will be held in the Presbyterian Church Sunday at the regular hours. In the morning the pastor will preach a Christmas ser mon using as his text II Corinthians 9:15, “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.” In the evening there will be no preaching service, but the hour will be given over to the presentation of a pageant depicting the story of the birth of Christ. This is under the direction of a committee from the Ladies’ Auxiliary and will be pre sented by a number of the children from the Sunday School. The public is invited to all these services. On Christmas evening the Presby terian Sunday School will have its regular Christmas tree exercises in the church. There will be appropriate exercises for the occasion and the public is invited to attend this ser vice. Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of our precious father who passed away the 10th of December, 1929. May God’s richest blessings be with you all. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ellison. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Cefalu. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Ellison. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ellison. Miss Willie Ellison. NOTICE I will not be responsible for any debts made by any member of my family, or other persons. WILL A. ROBERTS. Dec. 20-27 Jan. 3-10. Mrs. Smith let the can opener slip last week and eut herself in the pan try. | Conyers Beats Winder Going to Winder last Friday, the Conyers basketball team surmounted a number of obdurate obstructions, in cluding an almost impenetrable fog enroute and then a bunch of football players of giant proportions who played basketball like a mad bull in pursuit cf a red rag. Those big Winder mountaineer foot ball players could not turn around fast enough after the Conyers boys got started and their thirteen to six lead melted away to 2 points at the half. From the half Conyers jurped into a victorious lcau and won the game by the score of 36 to 3’>. Horace Milligan, our own Stumpy Thomason, ran the side lines with : reckless abandon that was baffling and dazzling at times. One of those big mountaineers got the game con fused with football and tackled Horace like a pile of brick falling down a smoke house chimney. Horace woke up, rubbed the brick bats out of his yes and ran twenty one points while those giants huddled near the goal post to protect their nice new brick wall against his further charging. The line-up and results were: Conyers Winder Milligan, If—2l Hill, rf—ll Stewart, rf—7 Wiley, If—l 4 Towns, c—4 Maddox, c—4 Walker, rg—4 Weatherly, rg—s Giles, lg— Adams, lg—l 36 35 Substitutes, Conyers, Almand for Walker, Drake for Giles; Winder, Mc- Ever for Hill, Evanson for Wiley, Raggett for Weatherly, Evanson (1) or Adams. This great Conyers team is made jp with the following boys: Horace Milligan, Joe Towns, captain; Norman -Valker, alternate captain; Frank .itewart and Walter Giles, with the following substitutes, who within their own ranks constitute a most excellent quintette, Orel Drake, Curtis 'Rice, Ralph Almand, Cullen Fincher and James Dennard. Conyers has won 7 out of 9 games played, losing the two games by one point each. This splendid record has been made, not by reason of locla support, but in ipite of the fact that the faculty, board of education and community as such has failed to lend a single ton of encouragement. Our civic pride must be at a very low ebb if it does not reach out and include the life and activities of our boys and girls. Now, come on folks. We ain’t mad and you ain’t bad. Let’s take a tonic and wake up. Going to these games is all the tonic you need. Our girls have wone two and lost one game this season, the team being made up with the following girls: Captain, Mary Evelyn Cowan; Sara Stephenson, Ellen Conley, Helen Al mand, Gladys Thompson, Lois Reag an, and lantha Osborne. Mr. Opher Cooper is coach for both the boys and girls and we are very fortunate in having him in the faculty as princi pal and athletic coach. With an ath letic faculty and an athletic board of education, Conyers would have a gym nasium. On the other hand, a faculty and board that never attends athletic events go to make up a line that is hard to buck and about the only way to win out is to take to the air and go over their heads. Winder has a - seven thousand dollar gymnasium and say gate receipts from one or two tournaments will pay for it. Conyers could add a brick | ANOTHER CAR OF I Galvanized Hoofing | IN TRANSIT I $4.00 Per Square I Conyers Hardware Cos. TAX NOTICE Please pay your City Tax as the City needs the money to pay bonds and ex pense of operating school, etc* Books close Dec* 20th, 1929* CHARLEY NIX, City Tax Collector Bob Elliott Looked Down Upon Conyers Bob Elliott came home from* Atlan ta Monday afternoon twelve hundred feet up in the air. Bob says this was the first time he ever saw Conyers people from the top ©t their heads up. Riding in Asa G. Candler’s seven pas senger cabin monopla-ie with Mr. Candler and son John Candlet, ,W. J. Stephenson, of Lithonia, and pilot, Beeler Blevins, took a spin around Stone Mountain, Lithonia, Conyers and Milstcad, visiting all four places in ten minutes from the time they left Atlanta. Leaving Conyers they visit 'd Macon and southwest Georgia, re turning to Atlanta in exactly one hour —making approximate*/ toll miles per hour. Leaving Conyers, Bob says they traveled the rest of the way more han five thousand feet high—explain ing that low travel strikes air pockets l.hat cause the plane to drop suddenly wo or three hundred reet and as a consequence, rough riding, somewhat like Milstead avenue affords, we im agine. We have returned home up in the air several times, but always got several scratches and bumps o|i the head somewhat like jumping out and coming down in a parachute and land ing in a mulberuy tree. . Bob has seen Conyers now ;from every angle except the bottom' and feels sure we are well fortified against the impending panic recently wished off on us by Wall Street. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE * # FIFTH DISTRICT: \ 1 ) Since it is not possible for m$ to do so in person, I wish to take this method of extending to each of you my best wishes for a most happy Christmas. May the year 1930 bring each of you health, happiness and a good measure of prosperity. It is with a heart full of gratitude for the honor conferred upon me-by you that I have entered upon my du ties as your representative in the Na our late lamented Congressman Steele tional Congress. Having succeeded upon the committees on Labor, Civil Service and Claims, I feel that I am in position to serve you effectively. You are invited to call on me for ser vice in any matter in which you are interested. My secretary, Mr. Thomas L. Camp, joins me in-extending to each of you the Season’s Greetings. Sincerely, ROBERT RAMSPECK, House Office Building, Washington, D. C. Norris Ilowerrt of Hedge Ville, W. Vh., was shot and slightly wounded while using his gun as a club to'kill a squrrel. A member of the National Rose So city in London who grew 6,000 plants got only 00 blooms owing to dry weath er. • wall to the rear onto our school build ing, taking in both boys’ and girls’ toilets for dressing and shower bath rooms, covering with tin roofing and hus have a brick enclosed gymna sium with two carloads of brick and a small outlay for roof and floor—lF >ur leaders were leading that way. Christmas holidays will embrace December 23rd to January 6th.