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Final examinations are now in progress and the Rockdale Public School will close a very successful year’s work next week, the final graduation exercises occurring Friday night, May 29. On Friday night the graduates will receive their diplomas and listed to the annual class address which will be delivered on this occasion by Dr. Frederick Eby, Professor of History and Education of Texas University. The senior Class of 1925 is the largest in the history of Rockdale Public School, there being twenty-seven graduates, ten young men and seventeen young ladies.
A crowd estimated at more than eight thousand people attended the massed band concert in Taylor Sunday afternoon, which was held in the new city park. The concert was given under the auspices of the Taylor Municipal Band and the Retail Merchants Association. Prof. E.A. Peterson of Taylor, and Dr. C.E. Wisecup of Rockdale, two well known eminently successful directors and proficient musicians were in charge of the concert and directed the music. The program, which consisted of classical music interspersed with popular marches, was well arranged and the musicians performed as if they had been rehearsed repeatedly. After the concert, which lasted from four to six o’clock, the musicians and families were royally entertained with a picnic at the baseball park. The Taylor Ice Company furnished ice and the Thompson Ice Cream Company treated the boys to three big freezers of ice cream. Two hundred pounds of barbecued meat was furnished by the Retail Merchants Association, while bread cakes and pies were brought by the different bandsmen and families.
The entertainment given at the High School Auditorium Tuesday evening by the children of the Primary Department has been pronounced as one of the prettiest and best presented children’s entertainments the Rockdale Public School has ever had. The little tots showed to have been unusually well trained, the costumes were wonderfully pretty, and the stage setting could not have been more appropriate.
Mrs. H.H. Coffield charmingly entertained at her new apartment home Tuesday after-noon when she named as honoree Mrs. Skinner. An ice course, consisting of strawberry cream and angel food cake was served.
40 YEAR AGO…
Spring storms are something central Texans learn to live with, but an early morning thunder-and-lightning display turned violent Tuesday around the Praesel Addition. When Andy’s Restaurant owner Mike Liles came to work he discovered a number of trees uprooted, limbs twisted off and a power line down. “The back windows were blown out and it just blew dishes all over the place,” Liles said. The wind storm also caused damage to carports and trees in the nearby Praesel Addition. No injuries were reported as a result of the storm.
20 YEARS AGO…
Rockdale post of f ice employees collected a total of 3,325 pounds of non-perishable food items Saturday for the Rockdale Christian Services Food Pantry which serves the needy. “This surpassed our total last year, and we are grateful for all the support by the community,” letter carrier Tom Guthrie said. City and rural letter carriers made the collections, and the project also involved the help of postal clerks and other personnel and Pantry volunteers.
10 YEARS AGO…
Two Main Street venues will host an auto show and rockand- roll dance Saturday, making downtown Rockdale the place to be on the first full day of spring. There wasn’t a Tejas Fest this year, but the Rockdale Downtown Association’s eighth annual Auto and Cycle Show—always held in conjunction with Tejas—will return in a new location, the parking lot of the One-Stop Center, 313 N. Main. Across the street, the restored Kay Theatre will host an evening throwback rock and roll dance following the car show, and will show automotive- themed films during the morning and afternoon.
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