100 YEARS AGO…
Mary Timmerman, wife of John Timmerman Sr., died at the family home in the Bushdale community, aged 76 years. Mrs. Timmerman, with her husband, were two of the oldest Milam County citizens, having settled here in 1872, before the town of Rockdale was established. They were natives of Germany, and were married in 1868, immigrating to this country immediately.
The largest money melon ever sliced open and handed around in this section will be cut by the U.S. Government Jan. 1, 1923, for owners of 1918 War Savings Stamps. This is less than months off, announced by Postmaster H.P. Talley. War Savings Stamps of the 1918 series, bought in 1918 for four dollars and a few cents, mature for payment at $5 each Jan. 1, and each stamp will then have netted every owner not less than 75 cents he pointed out.
Due to general dissatisfaction over the football game between Rockdale and Cameron High School teams as played in the rain and mud the previous week, another game between the two teams was to be played in Cameron on Nov. 24.
The monthly social meeting of the Scrap Book Club was held at the hospitable home of Mrs. Clyde Franklin. The charming rooms were aglow with exquisite roses.
40 YEARS AGO…
Competing among the 22 top Class 3A high school marching bands in Texas, Director Jim Perry’s RHS Big Blue Band received “excellent” ratings from judges at Monday’s UIL State Marching Contest in Austin.
The r e we r e lot s of flag-wavers at the elementary school as VFW Post 6525 and its ladies auxiliary presented students with individual American flags in honor of the traditional Nov. 11 Veterans Day presentation.
20 YEARS AGO…
The five-year “work in progress” that was the Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library expansion for a “just do it” okay when the city agreed to pitch in the final $100,000 at a council meeting. The volunteer library board raised $247,992 toward approximately $400,000 project and pledged to continue trying to raise more funds.
Lights flickered and computers flinched when a utility pole fell at the corner of Bell and Green Streets. Police said there was no accident, the pole crumbled near its base and toppled. Utility crews had the pole replaced and lines restrung by early afternoon.
10 YEARS AGO…
The future of Rockdale’s 332-member, 60-year-old Chamber of Commerce was cloudy after the organization’s board unanimously decided last week it would stop administering the city’s hotel-motel tax after Jan. 1. City council members, meeting in regular session Monday at City Hall, quickly okayed a stopgap application form process, hoping to continue Chamber-involved events such as the Tejas Fest, Milam County Festival Barbecue Cookoff and Central Texas Outdoor Expo, which appeared in jeopardy.
Rockdale Histor ical Society’s annual chili luncheon cleared $1,300 for the I&GN Historical Depot at Fair Park’s New Salem Clubhouse. The event also featured a silent auction. The society had restored the more than 100-year-old structure for use as a museum. It also featured a fully- working blacksmith shop, railroad cars and a spectacular model train room.
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