100 YEARS AGO…
The annual membership meeting of the Rockdale Chamber of Commerce was held, and in connection, as was the annual custom, a barbecue was served. The meeting was held at Mineral Park with the entertainment committee in charge of the eats, and needless to say it was a success.
The Matinee Music Club met in regular session on Saturday at the home of Miss Louise Hale. The club was delightfully entertained by Miss Hale, assisted by her mother, Mrs. Hale. After a very interesting program of Indian music, the game of musical composers was played. Mrs. W.A. Coffield was the lucky member and was given a lingerie set. A delicious salad course consisting of chicken salad, fruit salad, sandwiches and iced tea was then served.
Kennedy’s Café was running an ad for loaves of bread for eight cents each.
40 YEARS AGO…
Rockdale Postmaster S.P. (Sam) Peebles Jr. retired after serving 18 years and four months, a time frame that brought the zip code, the sectional center concept, and ended the era of postmaster jobs being “political plumbs.”
R.C. Wiley and Linwood Mehaffey won top citizens awards and the Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department and the Rockdale Fair Association top organizations at the Rockdale Chamber of Commerce banquet.
Rockdale Emergency Medical Services (EMS) paid off the last installment of its $41,440.35 note this week for its Childress Street building at Community Bank and Trust.
Don Worthy, Rockdale High School science teacher, has been named the outstanding secondary school science teacher for 1982 by the Texas A&M University chapter of Sigma XI, the scientific research society.
20 YEARS AGO…
What started out as a rash of coin-operated machine thefts has become an epidemic. Sgt. J.D. Newlin of the Rockdale Police Department said about a dozen thefts are under investigation, most involving newspaper racks. The latest thefts were at Dutch’s Double Quick, H-E-B Pantry Foods and The Rockdale Reporter.
Rockdale Rotary Club gave a boost to the improvement project at Veteran’s Memorial Park with a $1,000 donation.
Rockdale’s Blade Bassler, now a red-shirt quarterback hopeful at the University of Houston, is already making news both on and off the field. Bassler won the team’s Academic Excellence Award presented at the school’s annual football banquet.
10 YEARS AGO…
Good news, Rockdale. You don’t have to wait until October for “Barbecue Alley” to materialize at Fair Park. The Rockdale Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the first annual Milam County Festival Barbecue Cookoff and 65 teams will recreate the aromatic alley in exactly the same place as the Rockdale Fair’s each fall.
Virtually the entire Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department, personnel and fleet, gathered at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home chapel on Thursday for the funeral of one of their own. Joel New, 53, died March 12 in San Antonio.
Two well-known, and well-loved, stars of the Houston music scene will perform in the third of a spring series of events benefitting the restoration of Rockdale’s Kay Theatre at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Patterson Civic Center. Featured are Houston pianist Glennie Scott and vocalist, Judy England. The event is called “A Celebration of Spring,” according to Kay Theatre spokesperson Leanna Applegate.
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