100 YEARS AGO....
Rockdale High School’s faculty was complete for then 1920-21 school year. Principal was E. S. Guest and other teachers were Mary Catherine Hill, Virginia Ward and Rachael Marshall
Rockdale’s new (volunteer not school) band staged an impromptu concert in front of the Dixie Theater.
Speaking of the theater, here’s what you could see during the upcoming week: William S. Hart, the first big western star, in “The Poppy Girl’s Husband”; Douglas Fairbanks, swashbuckling dramatic idol, in “Knickerbocker Buckaroo”; and Harold Lloyd, acrobatic comedy superstar, in “Bumping Into Broadway.”
Rural school trustees were selling two old buildings, the former schools at Bethlehem and Cattail.
FORTY YEARS AGO....
Local businessman Richard Faver, owner of Faver Jewelry, died in a one-car crash near Rockdale.
Supt. Ed Burleson said 1,870 students were expected to answer the bell on the first day of classes for the 1980-81 school year.
Texas Highway Department contractors were putting the finishing touches on a massive US 79 project through downtown that included a change to four lanes and left turn signals incorporated into the lights at the Main and Ackerman intersections.
Coach Fred Johnson’s Rockdale Tiger football team was set to host Waco Midway in the first pre-season scrimmage of 1980.
TWENTY YEARS AGO....
Rockdale ISD school trustees heard that elementary administrators were investigating the possibility of acquiring uniforms for students on that campus.
A 96,000-square-foot concrete pour was finished at the new home of Tranum Country Ford-Mercury on US 79 west.
Five persons—four adults and a 16-year-old juvenile—were facing felony charges after graffiti was spray-painted at more than a dozen Rockdale locations.
Three teens were charged with recent burglaries at Coats Grocery in Gause.
TEN YEARS AGO....
After a five-month zoning controversy involving the City Council and Planning & Zoning Board, a section of Ackerman Street was re-zoned to commercial to accommodate a business venture.
A sharp-eyed policeman cleared a burglary case while serving as bailiff in Rockdale Municipal Court, when he recognized a tattoo and scar on a suspect.
Milano had a “new” elementary school as the young est grades moved into the historic Works Progress Administration (WPA) building which was constructed in the 1930s.
For the second year in a row, the caution light installed by the Texas Dept. of Transportation on US 79 outside the new (2009) Rockdale Intermediate School malfunctioned on the first day of classes. Rockdale Police directed traffic until the signal was repaired several hours later.
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