November 15, 1946

• The Bentley Grain Co. of Watson, which Temple Bentley of Rock Port owns, has purchased the elevators at Corning and Nishnabotna, adding to its string on the Burlington, which also includes the Langdon elevator.

• Gordon Clifton and E.H. Dierks returned home last Saturday from a deer hunt in Colorado. They got to the mountain state in the midst of a heavy snowstorm that dropped 29 inches. However, Clifton managed to harvest a deer.

• If you’ve been wondering where you will get a turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner, the American Legion will help solve that problem. The Legion is advertising a carnival and indoor turkey shoot to be held at the Memorial Building November 21 and 22. There will be afternoon and evening entertainment with all manner of prizes for the public.

• Miss Verna Louise Herron, a student at the University of Missouri, discovered that one of the girls who rooms in the same building and whose home is in Virginia has a father who attended school as a youth in Atchison County. The Virginian’s name is Vandeventer.

• The new county librarian, Mrs. Blanche Jones of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has arrived. Mrs. Jones, who recently was engaged in work in Alaska, comes from the home of the Worley family, who many years ago were residents of Rock Port. However, Mrs. Jones did not know the Worleys were former residents until The Mail disclosed the fact. Having learned this, Mrs. Jones feels that she is, in a way, already acquainted with Atchison County.

November 11, 1971

• The Atchison County University of Missouri Extension Council met November 2 to discuss the acute financial situation the extension program is faced with. The court appropriated $10,500 for 1971, which is $1,185 less than the budget requested and is only $970 more than is necessary to pay for the bare essentials.

• A two-story, six-room house belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ranner was completely destroyed by fire November 8. The Rock Port Fire Department was called to the scene at 2:45 p.m., but the house had already burned clear to the ground by the time they arrived. The Ranners had left home at 1:00 p.m. and the fire apparently started shortly after. The Ranner pickup was left parked near the house but had been moved by some unknown person.

• “Don’t burn your bridges before you cross them” is an old military addage, but in the case of a bridge in Rock Port, the burning was necessary before the city, with the cooperation of the county court, can install a tube and fill structure across Bluff Street. The old bridge was considered dangerous and limited as to weight.

November 7, 1996

• Those who competed the Super Sitter Program sponsored by the Community Hospital Development Council and coordinated by Lisa Freborg were Shae Esser, Tina Davis, Brenda Lutz, Amy Buttercase, Sara Raya, Katy Beth Hecker and Wendy Kuhns. The girls had the pleasure of the company of Corbin and Mitchell Minter, the children of Shawn and Jodee Minter, during the classes.

• Richard and Mary Halliday recently drove to Hannibal, Missouri, where they visited the Mark Twain Museum. Mary presented the museum a copy of a limited edition of Huckleberry Finn. Mr. Henry Sweets, director of the museum, valued the book at $1,500, due in part to the wood-cut illustration by Barry Moser.