100 YEARS AGO…
A community party was to be given by the Parent- Teacher Association at the city hall. Admission was 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children over 10 years. Games, music and bedtime stories for the little ones were to be held, with music, “42” and other attractions for the elders. Everybody attending would be helping a good cause.
In commemoration of Mother’s Day, the Matinee Musical Club was to present a special program at the Methodist Church. All the churches of the city recognized the event and called off t heir n ight s ervice, a nd a large congregation was thereby assured.
Sheriff Drue S. Rogers arrested two boys named Burkhart and Martin in Thorndale, charged with burglary in connection with the burning of the Fisher store and Thorndale State Bank last February. We learn that the boys, upon being arrested and confronted with some of the evidence in the hands of the sheriff, at once confessed their guilt and assumed responsibility for the fire. According to their signed confessions, the boys admitted having entered the Fisher store for the purpose of robbery, and to cover their crime they then set fire to the building. It would be remembered that not only the Fisher store burned, but a vacant brick building on one side of the Thorndale State Bank building, entailing a loss of approximately $50,000. It also learned that some of the goods stolen from the storehad been recovered. Sheriff Rogers was making a splendid reputation as a detective since assuming office and this haul as quite a feather in his cap.
40 YEARS AGO…
May would be the month in which volunteer firemen find out from the city council where their proposed new fire station was to be located. Councilmen, meeting in regular session at City Hall, have promised a special meeting later in the month to settle the question, assuming negotiations produce a solution agreeable to firemen and the city.
Government-surplus food giveaways in South Milam County were nearing the 250,000-pound mark, according to Rev. Don Box who said 19,700 additional pounds of cheese were distributed at St. John’s United Methodist Church. Also distributed were 9,000 pounds of butter and 200 cases of Frito-Lay snacks.
20 YEARS AGO…
The traditional Cinco de Mayo celebration was commemorated at three Rockdale ISD campuses. Folk dancers Maria Castillo, Norma Romo, Flor Ibares, Christina Mora and Amanda Cortez performed in the RHS auditorium and again at the junior high commons.
10 YEARS AGO…
For the second time, Rockdale’s Building Standards Commission had ordered the Cameo Building demolished. Meeting at City Hall, the board unanimously ordered owner Gloria Thrasher to secure the building within 14 days and demolish it within 30 days.
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