100 YEARS AGO...
Rockdale’s population was 2,329, as announced in press dispatches from Washington.
Local dealer received a big, $25,000 shipment of cars and trucks. When the editor drifted into the Ford Service Station he thought that he had suddenly located the Houston branch factory.
Hon. O.L. Kidd accepted the appointment as county chairman for presenting the Near East Orphan Adoption Plan in Milam County early in October. Several prominent oil
Several prominent oilmen were in Rockdale due to a strike of oil in their No.1 well on the Guy Cook farm in Sipe Springs community southeast of town.
FORTY YEARS AGO...
A 34-year-old Brenham man was convicted of the rape of child in June near Rockdale.
Garland R. Bullock, 55, a six-grade teacher at Milano Junior High for two years and a former principal at Waco High School, was named new superintendent of the Milano School District. Bullock was picked from a field of six candidates by the district’s board of trustees.
The 1980-81 budget for the Milam County Tax Appraisal District was sliced another $17,040 to $133,955 and more cuts were being considered, according to Carroll Glaser Appraisal District board chairman, but many Milam citizens continue to voice opposition to new tax values. Recent discussion centered on reappraisals of property which increased accessed property values in the county from around $300 million to $784 million.
The Rockdale City Council approved a one-dollar-per-month rate increase for Rockdale Cablevision and restructured the Airport Board during a special meeting at City Hall.
TWENTY YEARS AGO...
A 39-year-old drifter was in a Georgetown jail before he was transported to Milam County to face armed robbery charges in connection with holdups of Thorndale and Milano convenient stores. The man was arrested in an unrelated drug sting at Taylor motel, but was already a suspect in the two robberies, the Thorndale police chief said. Manor Oaks Nursing
Manor Oaks Nursing Home was back in the good graces of state authorities after a 13-month period that saw 15 of the 16 complaints against the facility substantiated. by the Texas Department of Human Services.
The biggest annual event in Rockdale was marking its silver anniversary. The 25th annual Rockdale Fair promised to be the biggest and best.
Even though the Rockdale Hospital District board members named an interim administrator, the financially troubled hospital was in a “holding pattern.”
TEN YEARS AGO...
With still a month to go before the Nov. 2 general election, the race for Milam County Judge was generating the most expenditures and the most donations. That race pitted incumbent Frank Summers, a Democrat, against Republican Dave Barkemeyer.
The “early bird” weekend of the 35th Rockdale Fair unreeled Saturday with two beauty pageants in RHS Auditorium and there was plenty of action in the Fair Park arena.
A raid at a Rice Street home resulted in the arrest of a man investigators believe sold crack cocaine from the residence. A 32-year-old Rockdale
A 32-year-old Rockdale man pleaded no contest Monday in a case involving a 2009 vehicle-pedestrian death near Thorndale and the court was set to decide his fate.
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