100 YEARS AGO...
Attesting to the fact that the farmers of Milam County were really interested and stirred by the cotton marketing problem which stared them in the face, was the large crowd of farmers and business men which assembled in the city hall auditorium and heard D.E. Lyday as he explained the plan of the American Cotton Association, of which he was vice president and general manager of the Texas Division.
The first quarterly meeting of the recently-organized Milam County Bankers Association was held in Rockdale.
H.C. Meyer of Rockdale, chairman of the recently organized East & West Texas Highway Association, a body organized for the purpose of promoting the establishment of the Reagan Branch of the Bankhead Highway, running east and west from Texarkana to San Antonio, met in Rockdale.
Three Burlington stores were robbed and a Ford belonging to Penn World was stolen from the streets of Cameron.
FORTY YEARS AGO...
The Rockdale City Council, meeting in a special session at City Hall, called for bids on the civic center and changed the name to community center. The drive to raise Rockdale’s portion of the $75,000 needed for the project’s completion was due to start before the Oct. 30 bid openings.
Presidents of the Rockdale and Cameron NAACP branches Thursday accused Milam County of having “separate justice systems for blacks and whites,” citing a 10-year prison sentence handed down to a white Brenham man who pleaded guilty to the June 24 rape of a 10-year-old Rockdale black girl.
Plans were taking shape for the fifth annual Rockdale Fair and Rodeo Oct. 17-19.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland was to tour the demonstration “on-the-farm” alcohol fuel plant in Rockdale next week.
TWENTY YEARS AGO...
H.H. Coffield Municipal Airport could be a bustling regional aviation center if not for two principal ingredients—money and land.
Richards Memorial Hospital was in the first phase of Chapter 9 bankruptcy and Terry Andris, the hospital’s new interim administrator was on the job.
A 20th District Court jury awarded seven plaintiffs a total of $2,700,000 after returning a positive finding of asbestos-related illness in the latest asbestos case held in Milam County.
City Council members met Monday and let Central Texas Waste Management Manager Scott Whinery know in no uncertain terms that if service doesn’t get better by Nov. 27, the gig is up.
TEN YEARS AGO...
The 35th Rockdale Fair, which got rolling for good on Oct. 14, featured its largest market show in years.
A Friday raid at a Rice Street location resulted in the arrest of a man that investigators believe was selling crack cocaine from the residence.
In the month before the Nov. 2 general election the race for Milam County Judge generated the most expenditures and donations. Dave Barkemeyer, the challenger, reported expenditures and donations at $12,637.92 while the incumbent Frank Summers reported a total of $9,175.
A 33-year-old man pleaded “no contest” in a case that involved a 2009 vehicle-pedestrian death near Thorndale and the court will decide his fate.
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