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City Attorney E.A. Camp on Monday showed the editor a band draft from the Rockdale State Bank to the County Treasurer of Milam County for the sum of $76,870.97, being payment in full for the road bond issue of Road District No. 10, plus accumulated interest. The money had that day been received from the bond purchasers and was being remitted to the county treasurer. This means that the road money is in the country treasury now, and it only remains for the State to come across with the promised aid for funds to be available for the building of the Reagan Highway paralleling the I-GN Railway through the District. The county engineer completed the survey some weeks ago, and it is hoped that action may be had on the work early in the new year.
News from the Texas Conference is that Rev. J.L. Massey has been transferred from Rockdale to Carthage and that Rev. A.A. Tharp, recently of Groveton, has been assigned to the pastorate of the Rockdale church. Rev. Massey and wife have returned and are now engaged in packing up to leave for their new home. Rev. Tharp is expected to arrive the latter part of the week. The Reporter joins with the citizenship of the city in bidding the new pastor welcome and the old one Goodspeed.
There will be a Thanksgiving Service held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock at the Baptist Church. Sermon will be preached by Rev. D.C. Wallace of the Presbyterian Church. Invitation is extended to the entire town. Come and give thanks unto the Lord.
Mrs. William Reiger was killed and her husband seriously injured as the result of an accident that happened on a street in Thorndale at 6 o’clock Sunday afternoon when he lost control of the car that he was driving and smashed into a telephone post. Mrs. Reiger’s skull was fractured, and an ambulance was called from Taylor at once. She was rushed to the Taylor Sanitarium but lived only an hour. The young couple had been married only two weeks.
40 YEARS AGO
Richards Memorial Hospital will celebrate its 10th anniversary from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday with an open house and RMH Administer Charles Upshaw invited the public to share in “the observance of a decade of service to this Central Texas area.” The 47-bed hospital opened in December 1974 and has since added a professional building and expanded its medical staff, which will include 13 physicians by Jan. 1, Upshaw said.
20 YEARS AGO
City Manager Sue Jones, who helped guide the city through some major changes in the past 12 years, will retire effective Dec. 31. In a Thursday meeting that included two executive sessions, the council also voted to purchase equipment for its new sewer plant and extended a reduced-rate rental contract for Crossover Theater for use of the Patterson Civic Center.
10 YEARS AGO
Just about every day is “turkey day” for Salty resident Doug Caffey. He raises turkeys and grows a lot of them. There are 15,000 in each turkey house and Caffey has four. While the Thanksgiving- Christmas holiday period will see a lot of turkeys on dining room tables, and some of these birds will undoubtedly end up there, it’s a year-round occupation for Caffey and other turkey growers in Milam County. During the course of a year, he will move about 192,000 birds to a Waco processing facility. Caffey has been in the turkey business for 23 years.
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