100 YEARS AGO
The Rockdale Gun Club has been organized with sixteen members, officers have been elected, by-laws adopted, shooting grounds secured, a trap provided and a stock of “blue rocks” or “clay pigeons” purchased. Regular weekly shoots will be held each Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock, the grounds being at the extreme south boundary of Fair Park. The general public is invited to witness these weekly shoots, and new members of the club will be gladly received. Membership fees and dues are nominal.
Dr. J.P. Sparks tendered a moonlight picnic to his Sunday school class Tuesday evening, which proved one the most enjoyable social affairs of recent years. Dr. Sparks’ class consists of about twenty- five young men and ladies, and one this occasion the attendance was more than fifty, invited guests responding eagerly to the invitation. The affair was planned and carried out by Misses Pearl Henry and Mabel Turner, members of the class, and two of the most charming young women Rockdale has ever been able to claim. The they made unusually efficient hostesses, and Dr. Sparks, an unusually good picnic provider, will be attested by all present.
Rockdale High School defeated Taylor High School on the local diamond last Monday 12 to 3, in the first game between the two teams this season. Green, local pitcher should have registered a shut-out, but an error at a critical time gave the visitors three runs. The local team will play Cameron in Cameron Friday, and the lads from the county seat will return the game next Wednesday. These games are expected to be hotly contested and should prove to be close as the local team has improved nicely, and with track practice out of the way, they are due for a further improvement. Wednesday’s game will be called at 4 o’clock.
40 YEARS AGO
For the seventh time in the past eight years, the RHS Big Blue Band earned a Sweepstakes Award., highest award presented to high school bands in Texas.
Alcoa Texas Area manager Jack Drake presented a $7,500 Alcoa Foundation check to the City of Milano for the Charlie Martin Memorial Park, under construction through volunteer efforts. Accepting on behalf of the city were City Councilman Lee Keen, Mayor Roger Hashem, Councilman O.T. Bullock and Councilman Jewel Griffin. Hashem said the grant would be used to finish two tennis courts, complete a family picnic shelter and make other improvements to the new park.
20 YEARS AGO
Rockdale residents will go to the polls Saturday to choose a new mayor. John Shoemake and Bill Avrett are vying to replace Wallace Jones who did not seek reelection after six years as mayor.
10 YEARS AGO
Rockdale’s oldest cemetery— which includes graves of Civil War veterans and a victim of the 1888 Mundine Hotel fire—is getting a “sprucing up” from a joint effort by local volunteers and the City of Rockdale. The Old City Cemetery—just south of the railroad tracks on Main Street—which dates from the 1870s, has become clogged with limbs and has some dead trees.
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