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Miss Lula McClintock has been placed in charge of the mosquito control work in Rockdale for this season. The work is being financed this year out of the public treasury through action of the city council, and Miss McClintock has active and personal supervision, doing her own inspection. No better choice could have been made, and she will no doubt make a complete success of the work.
The annual summer camp of the Rockdale Boy Scouts will be held at Randle Lake on the first week in June according to a decision of the Scout commissioners in meeting last Friday, at which time application for renewal of charter was signed. Scoutmaster E.A. Swafford asked for the appointment of an Assistant Scoutmaster, recommending Mr. Homer Turner, and Mr. Turner was duly elected. There are 21 boys enrolled at this time, and all are anticipating the summer camp with great pleasure.
(Editor’s note: I found out that Randle Lake is on the Bud Adams Ranch near Minerva on FM 1600.)
Certainly no lovelier setting could have been found than the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simms for a Spring Party on May 9 in honor of the Thursday Reading Club. The interior of the home, always harmoniously and tastefully arranged, was further beautified by an abundant use of spring flowers of all hues and everywhere. As fortune would have it, the program set for the afternoon was one of the less strenuous ones of the year, a combination of mythology and music. The program concluded, the guests were invited to the luncheon table, spread in the taper lighted dining room. Plates were marked by bluebonnet babies, from which streamers of blue maline led to the centerpiece— an immense mound of the club’s chosen flower, the Texas Bluebonnet. The daintily abundant luncheon consisted of all those viands which make a salad course perfect.
40 YEARS AGO
Kyle Barlow has been named valedictorian and Laura Menke salutatorian of the 109-member Rockdale High School graduating class of 1984, according to RHS Principal Walter Pond.
National Music Week activities, sponsored locally by Matinee Musical Club, ended last week with a variety of concerts and presentations. The fourthgrade choir presented “It’s A Small World” Thursday for fifthgrade students and the public in the elementary cafetorium. Friday activities at Rockdale State Bank included pianist Nonnie Blackburn and a special concert by the Praise Singers, Meadowbrook Baptist’s children’s choir.
20 YEARS AGO
John Shoemake was elected mayor and J.T. Talley retained his east ward city council seat on Saturday as almost 1,000 Rockdale residents turned out in one of the largest city elections in recent years.
10 YEARS AGO
It will be the image that most take away with them from the 103rd University Interscholastic League state track meet. Dustin Strelsky, spokes spinning like a pinwheel down the track, his gloved fist stabbing the air as he crosses the finish line with 19,248 fans on their feet, cheering and clapping in unbridled appreciation. “I was pumped when I crossed the finish line. I was happy,” Strelsky said. “I was more excited than I’ve ever been in my life just to cross that finish line. “This has been one of the best days of my life.” Strelsky became a part of history when he competed in the inaugural wheelchair division of the state track meet.
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