10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO
Miss Flora Sharp very charmingly entertained the Matinee Musical Club at her home Saturday afternoon. The club colors, gold and white, were daintily carried out in all the decorative embellishments, featuring the nasturtium as the favored flower. After the business session an enjoyable musical program was rendered, the favorite game of the club, Musical Authors, was played. Miss Louise Hale was winner of the club prize, hand painted book markers. Mrs. Robert Lee Hale was awarded the guest prize, a hand painted blotter. Brick ice cream and angel food cake, with club flower—Shasta Daisies—as plate favors, were served.
Monday night of this week Dr. and Mrs. L.E. Smith, who are medical missionaries to Spanish Guinea, West Africa, and who are now back in their home country on a furlough, were met by an eager audience at the Presbyterian Church and heard with unusual interest. The audience was first surprised and half startled at the same time, as Dr. Smith displayed some curios and relics that he had gathered in this heathen country. Among them were parts of elephants’ trunks with engravings carefully carved and deftly wrought by the cunning hands of the natives.
Announced in these columns last week, the Rockdale Colored School came to a close Friday night with the graduation exercises, at which time six students, two boys and four girls, received their diplomas as follows: Lillian Inez Williams, Jesse Shields, Zelma Lee Hill, Pauline Odom, Laura Moultrie and Booker Chandler. Each of these students delivered an oration, and without exception the papers showed the application of both thought and ability and they were delivered well. The program was interspersed with splendid vocal musical numbers.
40 YEARS AGO
Last Wednesday’s partial solar eclipse drew a crowd downtown as Reporter news editor, and amateur astronomer, Mike Brown rigged up a projection device using one of his portable telescopes. At 10:56 a.m. coverage was approximately 80 percent causing a slight darkening of the late morning skies and about a 5-degree temperature drop. Solar eclipses occur when the moon passes directly between the earth and the sun, Brown said.
20 YEARS AGO
Downtown Rockdale’s first Meet the Merchants Night is set for Friday with many businesses open late, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., and offering prizes to shoppers. The event is the brainchild of the Downtown Business Association which is planning another late-night shopping for December.
The Texas Department of Transportation promises Rockdale area residents a look at a detailed plan of the US 79 loop in a public meeting set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 13 at the Patterson Civic Center.
10 YEARS AGO
Six years ago, Tiffany Commerford was hired for a top school administrative post by Denise Monzingo. It was in Pflugerville. Now, the same thing has happened again, only this time in Rockdale. Commerford is the new principal at Rockdale High School, named to that post Friday in a unanimous vote of RISD trustees.
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