100 YEARS AGO...
Rockdale was to have a baseball club and the young men promoting it had everything lined up for a successful season. Considerable work was done on the playing field at Fair Park and the opening game of the season was set for the first week in April with the Thorndale team as opponents. Thorndale had recently completed their organization with a strong team.
The deep test was to go down in Lee County, just about 20 miles south of Rockdale, and eight miles from Giddings, and was being backed by the bankers and businessmen of that place. The rig was under construction and was to be 120 feet high and a rotary.
A pre-Easter wedding of interest of Rockdale friends was that of Miss Tillie Williams to Walter B. Talley in San Antonio on St. Patrick’s Day. The bride was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.N. Williams and had been a resident of Rockdale since early childhood, where by her lovable disposition and charming personality she had gained many friends.
FORTY YEARS AGO...
“It’s the hardest, most difficult, most complicated we’ll have to deal with this legislative entire session.” It’s redistricting, a task which would directly affect the future of the man who made that statement, State Rep. Dan Kubiak, who would see his district— Milam, Falls and Williamson counties—undergo the process.
Ten acts would compete for the first, second and third place trophies and two $50 savings bonds would be given as door prizes when the Rockdale Noon Lions Club staged its annual talent show in the RHS Auditorium.
April 1 was the deadline for submitting names of Milam County war dead to be engraved on a war monument to be erected at the Milam County Courthouse.
Tuesday is the last day to vote absentee for the April 4 city and school district election.
TWENTY YEARS AGO...
If you were to walk down Main Street in Thorndale during the next month and you think you see movie star Dennis Quaid heading into Butts Dry Goods, there is a simple explanation. You’re seeing movie star Dennis Quaid walking into Butts Dry Goods. Thorndale was the site of the movie “The Rookie.”
Alcoa’s proposed 3 Oaks Mine wasn’t home free yet, but after a positive decision by the Texas Railroad Commission it was rounding first base and heading to second.
Rockdale Chamber of Commerce was to host its 2001 banquet March 27 at the junior high commons.
City officials were asking parents of juveniles to voluntarily return stolen street signs after a rash of thefts over the recent spring break weekend.
TEN YEARS AGO...
Gov. Rick Perry’s acquiescence to allow $3.2 billion of the state’s Rainy Day Fund to be used for school finance won’t help the Rockdale ISD this year. That’s the verdict of Dr. Howell Wright, Rockdale ISD superintendent. But seven RISD employees decided to accept the district’s offer of an early resignation incentive, creating an estimated $300,000 in badly-needed savings in the 2011-12 budget preparations.
The city of Rockdale wasn’t requiring its residents to take out home owners’ water line “insurance,” but City Manager Kelvin Knauf said letters mailed out by a firm which listed an Austin address might leave that impression. Knauf said local customers have received letters from “Home Service” with a solicitation for “water service line coverage” and a reply-by date. “Customers have asked us if this is something the city requires,” Knauf said. “It is not.”
Post-Alcoa potential would drive the discussion as the Regional Economic Revitalization and Utilization Planning Council (Rev-Up) made a strategy presentation at the Patterson Center.
Rockdale’s Milam Association for Retarded Citizens expanded its center and changed its name, but not its mission. MARC is keeping its initials but, as with other similar groups across the state and nation, will no longer use the word “retarded.”
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