10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO
The all-day street working holiday pulled off in Rockdale was one of the biggest days from a get-together standpoint that this city had ever seen. Indeed, we felt safe to say no town ever pulled a more successful get-together stunt than was pulled here in Regal Rockdale on the day of our Lord March 7, 1923. Furthermore, a wonderful amount of work was done on the streets from a dollars- and-cents standpoint. The day will probably go down in history as the most productive day the old town had ever seen in street work. To the boys of Carlyle Post Number 358, American Legion, belongs the credit for all that was accomplished. Originators of the plan, the Legionnaires—100 percent strong—got busy and put the proposition over with the full cooperation of the City Council, Chamber of Commerce and the citizenship in general.
On March 3, Mrs. W.A. Coffield was hostess to the Matinee Musical Club. Eleven members answered the roll call. As befitted the nearness of Texas Independence Day, the program for the afternoon consisted of Texas composers and Texas compositions. In the game of composers and artists, whose initials formed the word Texas, Miss Merle Lucas was most efficient and was given a lovely pot plant.
Emory Crump, Rockdale farmer, was jingling $2,657 around in the pocket of his jeans as the results of the sale of his 1922 cotton crop. Melvin Weems was the buyer. There were 16 bales in the deal and the price was 30 cents per pound. The 16 bales represented Mr. Crump’s entire cotton crop.
40 YEARS AGO…
An open house was scheduled at the new Richards Memorial Hospital professional center and the RMH main building, according to administrator Charles Upshaw.
Qyn Hughes of the Rockdale High School chapter of Future Farmers of America was the high-point individual in the livestock judging at the Houston Livestock Show, scoring 337 out of a possible 350 points, according to Billy Hall, FFA sponsor.
20 YEARS AGO…
A six-person jury in Twila Harris’ Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace office returned a “not guilty” verdict against two Milano men, putting an end to 15 cases arising from a Sept. 8, 2002, street fight in Milano.
Lower Colorado Ri ver Authority reached a settlement with Alcoa over a proposed state discharge permit that Alcoa requested for its proposed 3 Oaks lignite mining operation in Bastrop and Lee counties.
10 YEARS AGO…
Milam County residents without insurance, without prescription drug coverage or with prohibitive deductibles, were able to benefit from a new, free card that was distributed in Rockdale and Milam County. Milam clinics and pharmacies now had the Coast2Coast card, a discount card endorsed by many pharmacy chains and approved earlier this month by the Milam County Commissioners Court.
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