10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO…
Contract has been made for the sale of the Rockdale road bonds and the bond brokers interested have put up a forfeit and now have their attorneys examining the record. Attorneys Camp and Garner, who have been handling the matter for the Rockdale road district, state that they are sure the record will be found okay and the sale will be completed within the next few days. The bonds are 30-year serials, bearing five and one-half percent; and the fact that the road district is so lightly bond makes them a desirable investment The total amount of the bonds is $75,000.
In an altercation between Dr. George B. Kincaid and Dave Worley at Thorndale, Kincaid received serious though not necessarily fatal knife wounds, and was confi ned to his bed, while Worley was at liberty under bond of $750 with charges of assault and attempted murder pending. Kincaid receive four or five wounds, the most serious of which was said to be in his neck and jaw. This wound required 17 stitches to close.
City Secretary E.T. Kemp issued a city warrant taking up the last remaining of the old City Hall bonds. These bonds were issued in 1904, total amount $18,000, and bore interest at the rate of six percent. Last year it was only necessary to levy a tax of one cent on the $100 to take are of this bond account, and this year, of course, no levy at all.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston H. Perry entertained eight tables of their friends with the popular game of “42.” Tables for the games were arranged on the spacious porch amid a setting of lovely ferns and roses. The score pads and tally cards were of dainty hand painted design. At the conclusion of the games, the high and low prize custom was departed from and instead, the person holding highest score at each table was awarded a prize, these being attractive hand painted articles, the work of the hostess.
40 YEARS AGO…
Rockdale, Thorndale and Milano were well represented Saturday in a “Main Street Parade” held Saturday in Taylor and drawing upwards of 9,000 viewers. Rockdale High School’s 132-member, award-winning Big Blue Band was the largest band participating. And the Rockdale Fair Association was well represented by Miss Rockdale Julie Glaser.
20 YEARS AGO…
A drug raid by the Milam County Sheriff’s Office and the Central Texas Drug Task Force in a remote rural location west of Rockdale at 9 a.m. Tuesday netted $1 million in live marijuana plants and prepared marijuana in what investigators term the largest pot bust in country history.
The Rockdale ISD’s projected $255,000 budget deficit disappeared Monday evening as school trustees okayed a $1.4595 tax rate for the fifth consecutive year. Even though trustees added $90,900 in expenditures, most for the new curriculum effort and additions to this summer’s athletic field projects, the 2004-2005 budget now reflects a $61,429 surplus, according to Arnold Proctor, assistant superintendent for business.
10 YEARS AGO…
The capital murder trial of a 55-year-old woman accused of killing a twoyear- old girl in her foster care last July is scheduled to get under way Monday in Judge John Youngblood’s 20th District Court. Sherill Small, 55, is accused of killing two-year-old Alexandra “Alex” Hill as the result of an incident at the Small home on San Jacinto Street in west Rockdale. The trial, which has been postponed several times, will get under way at 9 a.m. with the jury selection process.
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