100 YEARS AGO...
“Weighing 90 pounds up, we will buy your hogs the second and fourth Saturdays, the 12th and 26th days of February. Bring your hogs to us and get a top price for them.”
E.E. O’Brien of Hillsboro was here for two or three days getting acreage and drilling contracts in the Rockdale-Tracy oil field. Mr. O’Brien was quite enthusiastic over the shallow oil prospects in the field.
On Friday night, one gray horse 16 hands high, one eye out, branded H on the jaw strayed from a residence four miles north of Rockdale. Reward was $10 for recovery of horse or $25 for recovery of horse and conviction of thief.
Mrs. A. Steinberg, Railroad Street, in Rockdale said: “For many years when I felt the need of a kidney remedy, I have taken Doan’s Kidney Pills. Whenever my kidneys got out of order, I get a lame back and my side hurts. At such times I take a few doses of Doan’s Kidney Pills and I am fixed up in fine shape.”
FORTY YEARS AGO...
A countywide search continued for a bearded man in his 20s who robbed Ballard Furniture of an estimated $600 to $700.
The Third Court of Civil Appeals granted a temporary injunction at the request of six Milam County landowners who were fighting to overturn the county’s central tax appraisal district.
An arrest warrant for a 37-year-old former resident of Rosebud was filed in connection with the discovery of a human skeleton Jan. 26 in northeast Milam County. “We know that this is the skeleton of a man but not much beyond that in the way of identification,” Sheriff Leroy Broadus said.
The Railroad Commission approved an application allowing Alcoa to continue surf mining operations in Milam and Lee counties.
TWENTY YEARS AGO...
Seeking direction from a review of Richards Memorial Hospital’s operations, directors of the financially troubled facility got some welcome news from interim administrator Terry Andris. He said that the hospital could receive about $180,000 per year starting in October, if it qualifies as a “Medicare Dependant Hospital.”
The rush hours around Rockdale High School were going to get a lot more hectic. To accommodate the US 79 highway widening project, the Texas Department of Transportation was set to close the intersection of Childress and West Cameron Avenue for two months.
Rockdale’s Ken Cockrell had a date with destiny. That’s not a figure of speech. The 1968 Rockdale High School graduate was commander of the space shuttle Atlantis which was scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:11 p.m. Feb. 7.
Legitimate organizations are warning businesses and individuals that solicitors selling advertisements “on their behalf” are doing no such thing. Recently the Rockdale ISD had to seek a cease and desist order against a firm selling a sports poster benefiting the school or booster club because the proceeds were not going to the school or club.
TEN YEARS AGO...
Residents of Champions Drive, and other “neighbors” of Luminant’s Sandow 5 Power Plant, was promised that more work to lessen noise from the 581-megawatt power generating unit would be done in the spring. Kathie Bassler, Champions Drive resident, said Luminant officials met with some residents of the street and promised work would be part of an outage “this spring.”
The South Milam County United Way was nearing 40 percent of its $50,000 goal for its 2011 campaign and its president was optimistic the goal would be met.
A 23-year-old Bryan man who pleaded guilty to the Nov. 3, 2006, aggravated robbery of Gill’s Stop-N-Go in Rockdale was back in the Milam County Jail.
Winter returned to Rockdale and Central Texas with a strong cold front dropping temperatures 30 degrees with 50-mile-perhour winds. Several power outages were reported and at least one tree in Rockdale was blown over.
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