10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO
100 YEARS AGO....
The date for the United States to go “bone dry,” as The Reporter put it, was set at Jan. 16, 1920. Prohibition was set to become part of the U. S. Constitution.
Rockdale’s Dr. I. P Sessions received a “distinguished service under fire” award from the U. S. War Department for his assistance in the Nogales, Arizona, area following a raid of bandits across the border.
From his sick bed at home, while recuperating from the fl u, Reporter Publisher John Esten Cooke endorsed building a new school in Rockdale asking: “Shall we be continued to make out with a veritable bat roost which ought to have been condemned and torn down years ago.
The Texas Supreme Court ruled San Antonio schools could require a small pox vaccination as a prerequisite for enrolling in school.
FORTY YEARS AGO....
Shell Oil Company was soliciting a customer for its proposed lignite mining operation near Rockdale. The plan had recently been approved by the Texas Railroad Commission.
The Rockdale ISD’s contractor took out an $800,000 permit for an 11-classroom addition to the elementary campus.
Rockdale Ministerial Alliance President Rev. Gene Steger warned that “Moonies”—followers of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s cult—were on Rockdale streets soliciting donations.
The Rockdale Tigers’ 23-game win streak came to an end at the hands of—who else?—Cameron.
TWENTY YEARS AGO....
A two-year-old boy died after he was struck in the parking lot of a convenience store, an accident termed “unavoidable” by Rockdale police.
The new Roger Hashem Juvenile Justice Center on Ackerman Street was instituting a new mentoring program to assist its young residents.
In one of the more bizarre crime incidents in area history, a 47-year-old Houston man was arrested for attempting to impersonate Milam County Sheriff Charlie West.
Janet Havelka’s Lady Tiger cagers were 7-0 in district play after defeating Elgin and Manor and needed a win over Caldwell to post a perfect district season.
TEN YEARS AGO....
With the recent closing of Alcoa’s Rockdale Operations, the unemployment rate in Milam County had soared to 8.8 percent, an increase of almost four percent in four months.
Two Rockdale sisters were killed in a one-vehicle rollover in Burleson County just across the Milam County line of Texas 36.
An investigation concluded an 80-year-old Gause man accidentally bled to death. The man, who suffered from diabetes and lived alone, apparently cut himself while changing foot bandage, according to investigators.
Lance Loewe’s 3-pointer in the final 24 seconds was the difference as Rockdale won a thrilling, three-overtime basketball nail-biter over Madisonville, 83-80.
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