100 YEARS AGO…
In line with the proclamation of President Coolidge, calling upon the nation to observe the day of the funeral of President Harding as a time of mourning and prayer, Mayor H.C. Meyer of Rockdale, issued a proclamation asking that all business housed in Rockdale and all labor of whatsoever kind cease for an hour and that the citizens of the city assemble themselves together at the municipal flag pole for an hour of programs suitable to the occasion.
Hope Camp, the wellknown planted and ginner, bought a controlling interest in the gin at Hicks, about seven miles south of Rockdale. Associated with him in the enterprise were the Messrs Low Bros., J.W. Sides and W.E. Alexander, all of Hicks. Mr. Alexander had active management of the gin.
Mrs. M.R, Summers entertained the Tuesday Bridge Club, in compliment to her house guest, Naomi Hunt, of Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Long Hudson carried off first prize, an attractive wall picture. Mrs. Henry G. Murphree received guest prize, a hand-painted pottery wall vase. Miss Hunt, the honoree, was presented a pair of white silk hose. A tempting salad course was served.
“Hobby,” the hero dog of the disastrous flood of 1921, was run down by a car and was instantly killed. The accident happened on Main Street in front of John Kestenbaum’s place of business. Hobby was the only survivor of his master’s household in the flood that swept Brushy bottom in the fall of 1921, and had since been cared for by Mabel Turner, whose brother, Bailey Turner, lost his life in the same flood.
40 YEARS AGO…
Rockdale had a one-week total of 4.12 inches of rain.
A 56-year-old man fatally shot himself in the heart twice—once while in the grasp of a policeman—after shooting a woman in the head. Pronounced dead on arrival at Richards Memorial Hospital was Navidad Flores, from two self-inflicted .25 caliber pistol wounds to his heart, according to Police Chief Felipe Martinez. The woman, Susie Gallegos, also of Thorndale, was treated at Richard Memorial Hospital and transferred to Scott & White Hospital, Temple, where her condition was listed as stable.
20 YEARS AGO…
City of Rockdale recently learned it had received grants totaling $350,000 from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, City Manager Sue Foster announced. Monies from the Home Investment Partnership Program would go to fix up or repair five owner- occupied houses for “special needs” clients who meet age and income requirements.
Bennie Taylor Sr. of Rockdale, Milam County Precinct 2 constable for the past seven years, received an appreciation plaque for his four years service as state chaplain for the Texas Justices of Peace and Constable Association.
10 YEARS AGO…
What promised to be one of the largest fundraisers ever in Rockdale was set at the KC Hall for 3-yearold Dustin Pickel. It featured a barbecue lunch and a massive auction, offering everything from vacations to handmade furniture to sports memorabilia autographed by Texas icons.
Dustin, son of Jeff and Kelly (Shoemake) Pickel and the grandson of former Rockdale Mayor John Shoemake, and wife Sharon, had endured a large malignant tumor, chemotherapy, had his right kidney removed, a stem cell harvest, high blood pressure, daily injections, a stroke, a relapse of his cancer causing a blood clot on his brain, surgical removal of that blood clot and had a port placed in his head to allow radioactive dyes to be injected into the fluid around his brain.
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