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A big holiday crowd saw the Rockdale High Tigers defeat the Elgin High School football team on the Rockdale High School field Tuesday, as the big attraction of the Armistice Day holiday. The score was Rockdale 31, Elgin 0. The Tigers were in fine form, and early sensing the weakness of their opponents used the game principally as a medium for the practice of trick plays and new formations.
The Junior Class of Rockdale High School will present at the High School Auditorium on Saturday of this week, Nov. 15, the annual Junior Play. It is to be a three-act farce-comedy under the title of “A Poor Married Man,” and deals with the trials of a college professor who married a girl with a headstrong mother. Many ludicrous situations follow as his mother-in-law is mistake for his wife.
Compl iment ing the Rockdale “pep squad” Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simms entertained Tuesday evening of this week in honor of the Rockdale and Elgin football teams which played that afternoon. With Coach Comer the entire Elgin football squad remained over for the evening and were royally entertained. Tables were set for “42” in the big living room, while others so inclined, indulged in dancing to the music of the Victrola on the front veranda. Still others enjoyed piano, violin and cornet music. Punch was served throughout the evening, and at a late hour the gather broke up after voting the affair a decided success.
In a letter to The Reporter dated at Georgetown, Nov. 9, Monroe Hopkins, the popular tent theater man, says that he will be in Rockdale with show within the next few weeks. The show is playing Elgin this week. When in Rockdale about a year ago, Mr. Hopkins made many friends, and his tent theater was packed full every night. He has a good, clean show, the kind that is not ashamed to come back to a town a second time.
40 YEARS AGO
The City of Rockdale has received official notification that it will receive partial funding of a federal grant application for drainage and sewer work in northeast Rockdale. Mayor Bill Averett said the city will receive about $180,000 of its $500,000 original application. “This will be enough to do the drainage and sewer work but no paving,” he said.” City Manager Elizabeth Fenter said, “We can apply at a later date for the paving funds, but this is something that needs to be done first.
20 YEARS AGO
Thursday was official ground breaking day for the 99,500-square-foot Super Walmart now under construction o ff U S 7 9 a cross from Allday Street. A large crowd of city officials, members of the community and well-wishers turned out. Construction is expected to be complete in February 2005 with the store opening in March.
10 YEARS AGO
Rockdale-area veterans began Veterans Day Tuesday with a breakfast at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6525. It was the start of a day of activities which continued with a luncheon at Rockdale Junior-High School and concluded with a community-wide tribute in the RHS Gym. That was moved from Tiger Field due to the cold weather.
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