Best face forward

EDITORIAL Imagine it’s, oh, 2024. Jack and Mary have just completed a trip from Round Rock to Jacksonville on US 79. They get out of the car and Mary says: “That was a nice trip. Remember that pretty little town we came through. What was it? Oh, yes, Rockdale.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Liked online podcast with Reporter edit0r Dear editor Last week I sat in an audience. Well, not really. I didn’t go anywhere. I was sitting at my desk listening to the audio on my computer.

‘Buschdale’: Oh say can you ‘c’?

EDITOR’S CORNER Looking through the July 10, 1919, Rockdale Reporter, to write part of the column you can find at the bottom of this page, I saw it again. That little community just northwest of Rockdale. One hundred years ago they called it “Buschdale.” Yep, with a “c.

Six months in, cooperation is the key

JUDGE’S COMMENTS When I began to consider running for county judge, I thought, “What’s the most important issue’?” It didn’t take long to realize it was economic growth. I ran and was elected on that issue.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO.... It was a close call for Rockdale Mayor H. C. Meyer. His car was struck by a train near Yoakum. The mayor was en route to Corpus Christi where his wife and children were spending the summer. Meyer sustained severe bruising but had no broken bones or internal injuries.

Greatest idea

EDITORIAL Freedom ought to be pretty high on the list of our nation’s achievements Not long ago the fantastic director Ken Burns created an equally fantastic television series entitled “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.

Branson performer’s poem perfect for 4th

EDITOR’S CORNER Igot a visit from one of my favorite people the other day. Claude Spence is a Forest Grove resident, a tireless volunteer worker for the Rockdal Fair Association and one of the nicest people you will ever know, as are all the Spences. Claude is something else.

Looking back...

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO.... Bugs were bugging Texas farmers. E. E. Scholl of the Texas Dept. of Agriculture came to Rockdale to instruct area farmers how to combat the Mexican Boll Weevil which had arrived in Texas in 1900 and continued to pose problems for cotton growers.