November 16, 1945

• Ed and Ray Noah were in town Wednesday afternoon with a large catch of catfish which they had taken from the Missouri River with a trammel net. Their luck hadn’t been any too good until the final cast, which brought up a lot of fish, two weighing 24 and 25 pounds respectively.

• Johnnie Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Peck, one of the very few Rock Port men who, after entering the service never had even an hour’s furlough with home folks, is back from Italy with an honorable discharge. This soldier was in the army for more than three years, serving the greater part of that period with the American forces in Italy.

• Staff Sgt. Chris Simon, who would have completed three years of army duty on November 23, is back in Rock Port at his post at the Gildersleeve & Simon drug store. He has served for some time in the European sector of war, but has been back in the states and was discharged at Camp Polk, Louisiana, on November 10.

• Willis Burke, who owns what is known as the Ottmann timber tract of land about a mile east of Rock Port, where he some time ago put up cribs and other outbuildings, has the framework up for a new residence which is being built in the timbered section of his farm. This site has long been considered an attractive place to build.

November 19, 1970

• Mrs. Jessie Green is closing her cafe and going out of the restaurant business after 16 years straight at her present location. Mrs. Green opened Green’s Cafe in 1955 at what is presently the Texaco Service Station on U.S. 136.

• The long-awaited moment arrived Tuesday when those having business calls outside Rock Port could pick up their telephone and dial directly across the country without the necessity of going through a telephone operator to get the “number, please.”

• After 11 persons showed up to court to hear their sentences Thursday night, the question of the legality of the ordinances was brought up through two letters by Walter Mulvania, city legal advisor, who was one of those cited. It was discovered that ordinances passed years ago did not specify the speed limits on city streets that were to have been set by city council. Due to this, all cases were dismissed and the city is now going through the process of drawing up new ordinances to cover the situation.

November 16, 1995

• The Rock Port R-II sixth grade students have been studying WWII. On the Friday before Veterans Day, students invited a panel of grandparents and friends to share with the classes some of their experiences during the war. Those on the panel included Dorothy Ingram, Janice Burke, Virginia Burke, LaVona Reid, Hardin Cox, Earl Morrison, B.W. Nauman, and Dorothy Knierim.

• Over 20 members of the Ralph Greer American Legion Post #49 were recognized for their 50 years or more of membership: Lee Schumacher, Richard Amthor, Joe Gaines, Jr., Everette Underwood, Melvin Noble, Ralph Gayler, Harry Lee Cooper, Herb Gebhards, Curt Clifton, Helen Heckel, Katie Watts, Virg Watts, Beulah Carter, C.O. “Bud” Husing, Carl Johnson, Lee Laumann, Wesley Christen, Loraine L. Heckel, George Schomburg, Clyde Shineflew, Robert Harmon, and John Peck.