Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO.... Sad shock followed by a happy one. Mr. and Mrs. Ab White of the Rockdale area received word their son, Albert, doing government work in Alabama, had died. The body was returned by train. The Whites were astounded to see the body was not their son.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to volunteers at Girls Softball fields Dear editor, I drove by the Girls Softball Complex the other day and a thought crossed my mind. How many girls have played softball on this complex since it was built?

Workers made wiener dog races successful

Dear editor, Thanks to all those who made the wiener dog races successful Oct. 6 during the Fall Music Festival. Masters of ceremonies were Dr. David Pendleton and Ward Roddam. Dr. David Pendleton, Joan Ratliff, Pam Warren and Ron Rabinowitz were judges for the race.

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In Germany, he’s appreciating U.S. ideas

SPOILIN’ THE BROTH Grandson Esten Cooke, 17, is a Rotary foreign exchange student, spending the year in Germany.

Are we dumber? No, just multiple choice

EDITOR’S CORNER One of those surveys came out last week, the kind that’s supposed to induce “what have we come to?” tsk-tsking. You know the kind. “Forty percent of respondents can’t find their own front door without an app.

Looking back... Through The Reporter Files

100 YEARS AGO.... Pvt. Jesse Fleming became the second Rockdale soldier to die in World War I. His wife, Tansy Taylor Fleming, received word in a telegram from the War Department. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Fleming of Tracy.

How Great Thou Art!

‘OLord my God, When I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout The universe displayed.’ Those are the words of Stuart K. Hine in his great hymn “How great Thou Art.

Three wrong ways, and three right ways

The Christian has to make hard decisions on a regular basis. We have three battles We fight the world, the devil and ourselves. All three are worthy adversaries. I have a theory about “most” Christians. I think most want to grow, mature and experience God…maybe they are just unsure of how to do it.