100 YEARS AGO… Rockdale hog and dairy men just about cleaned up on the premium list at the livestock show held in Cameron. There was quite a nice display of all kinds of stock, it was said, with some excellent entries in all classes. In Jersey cattle W.E. Gaither mopped up, winning everything offered practically. In Duroc Jersey hogs, R.C. Williams took first money on senior sow, 1st, 2nd and 3rd on junior sow, grand champion on junior sow, first on junior boar, and grand champion on junior boar.
Mrs. W.E. White was charming hostess to the Scrap Book Club. The home was lovely in the combined motif of pink and yellow chosen by the hostess to appoint the hospitality, roses were used throughout the reception suite, graceful baskets and pedestal vases holding masses of the vivid blossoms. The dining room was gorgeous with banks of coral vine and yellow roses. After several spirited games of forty-two were played, a delectable cold luncheon was served beautifully in courses.
In an altercation between Dr. G.B. Kincaid and a restaurant man by the name of Burkhalter or Burkhart, at Thorndale, the former was seriously stabbed in the side and stomach and was lying in critical condition at a Taylor sanitarium. Burkhart or Burkhalter was arrested and taken to Cameron where he made bond and was released. Dr. Kincaid was doing as well as could be expected, but the ultimate results are yet in doubt. His wounds were very serious.
40 YEARS AGO… The grass fire “epidemic” continues in the Rockdale area as approximately 1,300 acres were burned during the past seven days, according to volunteer fire fighters.
A concrete pump truck wit h a 70-foot boom was being used to pour the slab foundation for a 22,500-square-foot Food Land supermarket which would be the first store in the proposed new Waymar Shopping Plaza adjacent to Walmart Discount City off US 79 in West Rockdale.
Marie Yakesch of Rockdale was the second winner $1,000 winner at the Rockdale Piggly Wiggly supermarket in the ongoing “Cut-Up Cash” promotion according to store manager David Becak.
20 YEARS AGO… Ka l l ie Holub, RHS senior, received the traditional bouquet of roses as 2002 Homecoming Queen.
Moving began and continued through the weekend as city hall moved from the old location to the new one (formerly Citizens National Bank) down the street.
Rockdale had its first of two consecutive open dates Friday at Tiger Field, routing a hapless Smithville team that simply didn’t show up by 62-0. It was somewhere between amusing and embarrassing.
10 YEARS AGO… In one of the more bizarre incidents ever investigated by Rockdale police, a 23-year-old Thorndale man was arrested inside a Rockdale Elementary School classroom, after a break-in at the school cafeteria. Police said Aron Gonzales told them he believed he was being pursued from his motel room, two blocks away at the Budget Inn, and shattered a glass window in the school to escape his pursuers.
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