100 YEARS AGO
W.T. Magee, principal of Rockdale High School, was here Tuesday from his home in Georgetown and conferred with Supt. W.A. Franklin, members of the school board and football players of the 1924 squad. It was decided that Mr. Magee would hold a week’s training camp for the football players at Randle Lake during the week previous to the opening of school. School will open Sept. 15, so the training camp will start Monday, Sept. 8. Coach Magee asks The Reporter to make this announcement and to say further that he will be in Rockdale on Sept. 3 and 4 and will hold a meting of the athletes who expect to come out for football on the night of the 4th. The boys a requested to meet Mr. Magee that night at 7:30 o’clock at the high school building. At this meeting details of the training camp will be discussed.
Attention of our readers is called to the advertisement of the automobile races to be held in Rockdale Sept. 6. Mr. Scales, the promoter, has been doing considerable advertising over the country, and a large gathering is expected on that day. The event takes place at Fair Park, an admission charge being made. There are six racing cars entered, with first and second prize offered.
One of he prettiest affairs of the week was Wednesday afternoon, when Mrs. Lottye Wallis entertained the Scrap Book Club and additional guests. Amid a setting of handsome ferns tables were arranged on the porch for the game of “42.” With the ladies in summery costumes the scene was as refreshing as an oasis in a desert, so extremely humid had been the weather. The score cards and pads carried out the pink color scheme. At conclusion of the enthusiastic games a two-course luncheon was served.
40 YEARS AGO
The “Old Lockett Home,” a Rockdale landmark since 1900, has vanished from its setting at Bell and Ackerman streets in downtown Rockdale. Called “The Gingerbread House” by generations of children, it has been moved to near Waller for restoration. Houston oilman Bud Adams bought the home for $87,000 in an auction here in 1979. It has been moved for his daughter, Amy. The house was the official symbol of Rockdale’s 1974 centennial. J.L. Lockett came to Texas in 1877 and settled in Rockdale where he opened the Isaacs and Lockett mercantile business with partner Leonard Isaacs. The mansion was constructed for $3,400, including materials and labor, by Henry Struve of Taylor.
20 YEARS AGO
Hundreds of Tiger fans packed into the Rockdale High School gym to meet teams and coaches, munch watermelon and bid on auction items Thursday as the Rockdale Athletic Booster Club held its annual watermelon social. Highlight of the evening was the auction of 32 cakes and pies prepared by members of the Tiger varsity football team. The auction netted over $3,000.
10 YEARS AGO
Boiling eggs on a stove touched off a fire call at 11:20 a.m. last Wednesday for the Rockdale V FD, a s fi refighters in pumpers raced to the Town Oaks Apartments, 300 Childress. Volunteers arrived at the Kim Dodds apartment to find it full of smoke. Firefi ghters entered the building and made this rescue. The RVFD’s Justin Betak located the family’s poodle in the heavy smoke and handed the pet to Fire Chief Ward Roddam whose emergence, dog in hand, brought smiles and a few cheers from onlookers. Roddam said no water had to be used and the RVFD cleared the unit with fans.
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