10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO
100 YEARS AGO....
With Prohibition now the law of the land, noted Anti-Saloon League speaker Dr. Madison Swadener of Indianapolis had booked a speech in Rockdale as part of his tour in Central Texas.
Scarbrough & Hicks paid H. H. and W. H. Camp of San Gabriel $39,302 for 221 bales of 1919 cotton. The winning high bid of 40.5 cents per pound was submitted buy R. L. Hale, manager for the Rockdale-based company.
Milam County Commissioners Court send a commissioner and the county engineer to inspect the effects of recent heavy rains on the Faubion Bridge over the Little River near Gause. They reported damage of at least $5,000 to $10,000 and warned the entire structure might collapse into the river.
Club Lake—the former Henry Lake—a six-acre body of water on land owned by Dr. H. T. Coulter was drained completely when a dam collapsed due to the weight of excess water causes by recent heavy rains.
FORTY YEARS AGO....
The Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library was moving, at least temporarily. Books were being moved across the street to the second floor of the old Rock-dale State Bank building while the library underwent an extensive renovation and expansion.
Enrollment in the Rock-dale ISD was 1,953, almost half of that total on the elementary campus.
Gause ISD trustees okayed a $400,000 bond election to construct a new elementary school. Board members framed the election as a “rebuild, close or consolidate choice.”
Jerry Franklin’s Rockdale Tigers posted two road district wins to run their season record to 21-4 and set up a showdown with hoop co-leader Madisonville.
TWENTY YEARS AGO....
A grand opening for the new Brookshire Bros. store was scheduled for Feb. 9, marking almost 18 months after the Rockdale super market was destroyed in a July 7, 1998, landmark fire.
Milam County residents would soon be able to call the sheriff’s office in Cameron toll-free ending decades of the call acquiring long distance charges from Rockdale and throughout the county.
Rockdale’s typically mild winter was interrupted, in the space of two days, by sleet, brief street flooding, lightning strikes (one knocked out a transformer) and a few snowflakes.
Rockdale and Cameron were together again as redistricting placed the Yoemen in an eight-team district with RHS, Manor, Giddings, Caldwell, Elgin, Hearne and Taylor.
TEN YEARS AGO....
The construction crew working on an outage (repairs and maintenance) at the Sandow 4 Power Unit grew to 1,200. Workers were installing anti-pollution equipment.
Early voting locations in Rockdale and Thorndale were changing in the upcoming primaries. That’s because locations were justice of the peace offices and both J-Ps were on the ballot.
An oil-drilling rig being hauled under the Texas 36 railroad overpass on Milano didn’t make it, striking the bridge and causing an extensive traffic tie-up for several hours.
Big change in redistricting as Thorndale moved up to Class 2A and found itself in the same basketball district with Cameron, as Yoe moved down into 2A.
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