Last week we had who we thought was the first baby of Rockdale in the paper, Kane Quinney.
We got a call Wednesday morning from a new mom named Candace Timmerman saying her baby, Ella, was born two days before Kane on Friday, Jan. 5. She didn’t leave her number so I couldn’t call her back. Suzy took a message and said she didn’t sound angry about it.
On Thursday morning I got a message from my friend, Sonja Rubio, saying her baby, Kylah Killingsworth, was born on Wednesday, Jan. 3, in Temple.
So unless I get another message that a Rockdale baby was born on Jan. 1 or 2, then Sonja is the winner! And I can see why The Reporter stopped having the contest. —kwc— Last week when I was writing the Looking Back column for this week’s paper from the January 17, 1924 issue, I ran across my great aunt Agnes’ wedding announcement to my great uncle James C. Wallis, who we called Jamie.
I knew she had worked for my great grandfather, but I didn’t know exactly when. She is the grandmother of all my Wallis cousins: Dorothy Ann, Bethany, Brian, Susan and Sharon.
Just for them I’d like to print it here, because I’ll bet none of them have seen it.
Cooke-Wallis
John Esten Cooke announces the marriage of his daughter Agnes To Mr. James C. Wallis On Saturday, the twelfth of January One thousand nine hundred and twenty-four. Dallas, Texas At Home 2823 Hemphill Street Fort Worth, Texas The above announcement was received in Sunday morning’s mail by a large circle of interested friends.
The marriage was the culmination of a romantic courtship of several years. Numerous friends of the couple knew of their engagement, but so well had the secret of the wedding date been guarded that the announcement came as a complete surprise.
The bride is the elder daughter of J.E. Cooke, editor of The Rockdale Reporter, and is a young woman of unusual beauty and ability. She came to Rockdale with her parents when only a little girl. After finishing the course in the Rockdale High School, she attended Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio and the University of Texas, specializing in the School of Journalism at the latter institution. Following her sophomore year at the University she entered the office of her father as local editor of the Reporter, and her connection with the paper will be remembered with pleasure by Rockdale business people with whom she came in daily contact. She is a member of the Texas Press Association, thus forming a wide acquaintance among the press people of the state.
The groom was born and reared in Rockdale and is the elder son of Dr. and Mrs. D.R. Wallis. He too, is a graduate of Rockdale High School, later attending A&M College where he took the cotton classing course. During the World War he served overseas. For the past three years he as been connected with the Hamilton Cotton Company of Fort Worth. Mr. Wallis is to be congratulated on having won such a lovely and charming bride, and their friends here hope for an early return visit, so that they may have the pleasure of their warmest congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy life. They will reside in Fort Worth.
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