10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO…
The Reporter is requested by the Internal Revenue Department at Austin to announce that a deputy collector from that department will be in Rockdale on Saturday, February 23 to assist anyone desiring his services in making their income tax report. This deputy will be at Rockdale State Bank, and his services are free to the public. If any of our readers have any income tax troubles, take them to this gentleman on that date.
The City Cemeteries Association met with Mrs. I.P. Sessions Tuesday afternoon and elected the following officers: Miss May Donaldson, president; Mrs. Hill Marshall, vice-president; Mrs. C.M. Sessions, secretary; Mrs. E.B. Phillips, treasurer; Mrs. Henley Murphree, chairman entertainment committee. The ladies of the association are pledged to the care and beautification of the two burial grounds, the Old City Cemetery and New City Cemetery, and are planning a campaign for funds for building an iron fence around the Old City Cemetery. Further announcement will be made later. Following the business session, the hostess served light refreshments which were greatly enjoyed by those present.
Those who worshiped at the Methodist church last Sunday were delighted with the addition to the choir of a new violinist, Mr. Billie Clark, who rendered Shubert’s “Ave Maria” for an offertory with exquisite skill and finish. Mr. Clark is a son of a former citizen of Rockdale, Mr. W.I. Clark, and is now making his home here with his aunt, Mrs. I.P. Sessions, while employed at the oil mill as bookkeeper.
In answer to the public criticism of Carlyle Post #358 because we did not come out as a body to do honor to our late Commander- in-Chief, President Wilson, we wish to state that we were unable to come out in body because we were given but three hours’ notice, and that we were expected to attend the funeral services, which was insufficient time to call our organization out to attend in body.
40 YEARS AGO…
John Hughes, who guided the Rockdale Fair Association to its most successful year ever in 1983, has been re-elected RFA president. Last year more than 13,000 people packed Fair Park the final night of the 1983 for a concert by country music superstar George Strait, an all-time park record.
20 YEARS AGO…
More than 120 volunteers turned out Saturday at Veterans Memorial Park and assembled three state-ofthe- art playscapes in a massive community undertaking spearheaded by the City Parks Committee and Alpha Tau Delta.
Alcoa’s Rockdale Operations and Audubon Texas are teaming up to offer a special Valentine’s Day present to area bird watchers Saturday morning, and 97 persons had signed up at mid-week.
10 YEARS AGO…
Money and water were hot topics at a Rockdale city council workshop held Jan. 21 at city hall. Council members got to hear information about how the hotel-motel occupancy tax funds the city receives could be disbursed and who would go about disbursing those funds.
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