October 22, 1943

One of The Mail’s good farmer friends dropped in the other day to buy a scale book. We wrapped it up, slid it across the counter and he shoved a piece of currency at us. Casually, we opened the cash drawer to make change, then glanced at the bill and it was one of those rare $500.00 pieces of Uncle Sam’s good money! We gasped once or twice, felt our pulse and thanked him for the compliment. ‘Twas the first time in our business career that we have had the opportunity of even fondling, much less owning such a piece of money.

Announcement has been made that the Watson schools will close Friday of this week for a three week period, so that the boys of the school may assist their fathers and other farmers in gathering the corn crop which is now being cribbed in Atchison County. The move will serve a two fold purpose. The boys will be lending aid where badly needed and at the same time will be enabled to earn some cash with which to supply their needs of winter clothing, etc.

October 24, 1968

Rock Port students announced on the Dean’s Honor Roll for the summer semester at Maryville college were Geraldine Ingram, a senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ingram, and Cheryl Horton, a junior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Horton.

A 33-0 homecoming victory was presented Rock Port alumni and a large crowd at the Pierce Rupe Athletic field Friday night by the Blue Jays as they completely dominated the Mound City Panthers. Coach Dennis Gates’ young team scored three on passes and two on runs. The Panthers never crossed the Jay 28 and were held on their own side of the 50 except for two tries. The outcome demonstrated the depth of top material in the Jays’ squad as they started the game with a handicap and added more.

October 21, 1993

Rock Port Police Officer John Hudson has had a busy week with a drug related break-in and vandalism. Stoner Drug, 315 S. Main, was broken into Wednesday night October 14, through a second story window which was broken out after first cutting the telephone lines thus disabling the burglar alarm. Doors were broken down upstairs and flooring ripped up. The person or persons then lowered themselves through to the store area. Once in the store they broke into the safe containing schedule II drugs (narcotics) and apparently took nothing else. Officer Hudson tells us the value of the drugs stolen was around $360. The cost of repairing the damage from the break-in far exceeded the value of what was stolen.