10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO
100 YEARS AGO…
Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Vance delightfully entertained the Ye Merrie Wive Club Friday evening. Despite the sudden norther than had sprung up there were six tables of players present, the cherry fires within made one oblivious to the weather without. Bowls arranged with baskets of beautiful yellow chrysanthemums were placed throughout the house.
Scarborough and Hicks was having a big sale with dresses going for $9.75, suits for $13.25, coats for $7.90, blouses for $2.75, house dresses for .75 and women’s “undersilks” for $5.10.
The Thanksgiving turkey trade was very brisk in Rockdale with Wednesday being the big day. Noak & Backhaus handled the bulk of the trade in 1921. The firm bought over 500 birds on Wednesday and more than 1,000 during the week.
40 YEARS AGO…
Marcie Reynolds, Rockdale Chamber of Commerce Director, submitted her resignation to Chamber directors effective no later than January 15. Her husband, Dr. Bob Reynolds, was a former RHS principal, will be moving to Austin where Mr. Reynolds has accepted a new job.
Zeta Rolan and Linwood Mehaffey were honored at the annual Emergency Medical Services banquet held at the EMS building. Mrs. Rolan was cited as outstanding EMS member over the past year and Mr. Mehaffey was named an honorary member and received an award of esteem.
20 YEARS AGO…
The Rockdale High School Drama Department staged its first fall performance ever with the production of “Faith County.” The play, about small-town characters from Mineola—“located somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the South”— featured hard-working farmers and beehive hairdos at the county fair.
The Taste of Home Cooking School sponsored by this newspaper and the Rockdale Chamber of Commerce was an even bigger success than first thought. And the big winner was Rockdale Christian Services who netted $1,073.78 plus over 750 non-perishable food items.
Senior Lady Tiger spiker Crystal Anderson was named MVP “Hitter” and Jessica Gaines was named Newcomer of the Year in the 18-AAA All-District picks for volleyball.
10 Y EARS AGO…
Populations signs have been changed at the entrances to Milam County’s two largest towns and it’s now about as official as its gets: Rockdale is the biggest town in Milam County. That’s what the 2010 Census figures, released in February by the U. S. Census Bureau, indicated. The 2010 count listed a population of 5,595 for Rockdale, just 43 more than the 5,552 living in Cameron. Rockdale gained 2.9 percent over the 5,439 counted in 2000. Cameron lost 1.5 percent from the 2000 figure of 5,634. Prior to the 2010 count, Cameron had logged a bigger population than Rockdale in every census dating back to the founding of Rockdale in 1873. Rockdale’s 2010 population is just 16 short of the town’s all-time census high count, 5,611 in 1980. Populations for other Milam County towns in 2010 were: Thorndale, 1,336; Buckholts, 515; Milano, 428. Milam County’s population was put at 24,757.
Two Rockdale-area teens charged with the shotgun slaying of a 50-year-old San Gabriel woman in April, appeared before District Judge John Youngblood in a pre-trial hearing Monday. Prosecutor Kerry Spears has announced she will seek the death penalty for Brandon Cotton in the murder of 50-year-old Sandra “Sandy” Phillips.
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