Looking back...

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO.... With Prohibition now the law of the land, noted Anti-Saloon League speaker Dr. Madison Swadener of Indianapolis had booked a speech in Rockdale as part of his tour in Central Texas. Scarbrough & Hicks paid H. H. and W. H.

It’s like avocados

He told me to tell you that Iwas on social media the other day and ran across a project of the Brooklyn Art Library. They call it the, “Artist Sketchbook” project.

RHS softball starts now

Rockdale High School softball fans get their first action of the decade when the Lady Tiger varsity and junior varsity squads face off in an inter-squad scrimmage on Thursday at the RHS softball complex. First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m.

Caldwell native coaches in Super Bowl this Sunday

While many Reporter readers will be glued to their television this Sunday for Super Bowl LIV, a former Caldwell High School football player will be on the other side of that television.

Thorndale squads sweep Thrall for the sixth straight season

If Thorndale basketball teams want a victory, they better call Thrall. For the fourth straight season, the Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs swept their longtime rival after both Thorndale squads won Tuesday evening in Milam County.

District champs recognized

That sales tax

EDITORIAL Where are we on the lingering matter of how to fund the new CHI S t. Joseph’s/ HealthPoint Clinic which has now been open for almost three months? The answer is: About where we’ve been for pretty close to 10 months now.

Spring: When the earth laughs in Úowers

FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE Now that the holiday season is over I am ready for spring. I n the afternoons right now it already feels like spring to me. And now that I have a new yard to plant things in am looking forward to digging in the dirt.

Medical care progressing in Milam County

JUDGE’S COMMENTS t was just over a year ago that Little River Healthcare closed its doors in Milam County. W e lost two small hospitals, emergency rooms and clinics in the county. Rockdale was hit the worst as Little River ran the hospital and the clinic.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO..... The Tracy-Maysfield Oil Company organized. I t owned 1,8 00 acres surrounding those two communities and also in the Cameron area. The company’s treasurer was County Judge W . G. Gillis.