100 YEARS AGO
Looking to the proper handling of athletics in the public school and in order to stimulate interest in high school athletic sports of all kinds, the Rockdale High School Athletic Council has been formed with the sanction of the school board and at the request of the superintendent. The council consists of a board of five Rockdale businessmen appointed by the school board as follows: Messrs. H.C. Meyer, T.S. Barkley, T.B. Ryan, Ed Simms and Branch Lewis. Superintendent W.A. Franklin and Coach W.T. McGee, representing the school faculty, and John E. Cooke and C.M. Sessions, president and secretary of the school board, are ex-officio of the council.
Next Tuesday, Nov. 11, is Armistice Day, a generally accepted legal holiday all over the United States. Rockdale will celebrate the day by taking the usual all-day holiday, The day will be featured by a good football game on the home field between the teams of Rockdale and Elgin High Schools.
Saturday afternoon little Misses Mabel Louise Davenport and Nellie Gray Pruett celebrated with a birthday party at the home of Mrs. J.T. Pruett, Mabel Louise having reached her 12th milestone, while Nellie Gray was six. The home was decorated in Hallowe’en colors, and the large gathering of children enjoyed frolicking and games until a late hour, when they were invited into the dining room. The two birthday cakes, all aglow with pink tapers were placed at either end of the table and elicited the admiration of each child present. Here ice cream, cakes, candy and fruit were served. The little hostesses received many well wishes for their birthdays and were the recipients of lovely and useful gifts.
Ackerman Street, on which the citizens and the city dads together spent a lot of money last spring, is now the worst street in Rockdale. Either the quality of the surfacing material used was unusually bad or else it was improperly handled, for the street in now nothing more than a series of bumps and holes. In the opinion of The Reporter the material was poor quality surface stuff, and it look now as if the only was to remedy it will be to plow up this street after it rains, regrade it and surface with either gravel or schist. Something should be done at the earliest possible time to protect the money already spent on Ackerman Street.
40 YEARS AGO
Barring any last-minute delays, the bribery-perjury trial of former Milam County Judge Phil Smith will get under way Tuesday in the 20th District Court Smith is accused of practing law in his own court while serving as county judge, then attempting to cover up a state investigation into his conduct. He faces a total of 28 charges ranging from aggravated perjury to bribery.
20 YEARS AGO In what may have been one of the largest crowds ever to attend a sporting event in Rockdale, an estimated 6,000 persons packed into Tiger Field on Friday to witness the 50th Battle of the Bell between Rockdale and Cameron. Yoe won 35-6. School officials compared the crowd to that of the 1997 Tiger-Yoe game which was also estimated at 6,000.
10 YEARS AGO
Sherill Small was found guilty of capital murder after an eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated just over four hours Tuesday in 20th District Court. An automatic life without parole sentence was imposed. Prosecutor Bill Torrey didn’t seek the death penalty and that’s the only other possible punishment with a Texas capital murder conviction. Small, was charged in connection with the death last year of 2-year-old Alex Hill at the Rockdale home of Small and her husband, Clemon, who were providing foster care.
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