December 13, 1946
• P.B. Adamson, Burlington agent at Langdon, advises the Mail that 24-hour service, seven days a week, has been inaugurated at the depot for the convenience of the public and particularly those of the traveling public who leave or arrive on the night passenger trains.
• Rock Porters who have a marked bent for “close harmony” and don’t get to satisfy their desire to yodle will be interested in the fact that a chapter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing is planned for this community.
• Since Rock Port has no street commissioner, the streets of town have become a mess. This is particularly true of Main Street where the pavement and gutters are littered with paper and trash. The city council has tried without success to employ some competent man to operate the street-cleaning apparatus which Rock Port bought some months ago.
• A wide range of prices prevailed at Tuesday’s auction of the Frederick Bergman estate, of which John T. Wells is the administrator. A cow sold for $176 and a horse for $1.
December 9, 1971
• Sheriff’s Report: “A lot of people know that I am a crank when it comes to trespassing. Every fall when hunting season opens, we have problems on this subject . . . To these people, I ask how would you like to be in the shoes of my neighbor, who has lost two cows, a saddle horse, and a donkey, all shot by hunters, in the last two years…”
• Rock Port’s Blue Jay girls’ basketball team took first place in the Mound City Tournament Friday night as they downed the West Nodaway Rockets 41-39. Their other tournament game wins include a 49-21 victory over Nodaway-Holt and a 45-42 win over Mound City. They began the season with a 71-12 victory over Craig and have now scored 207 points in four games for an average of 51 points per game.
• Ten directors and employees were honored at the annual Atchison-Holt Electric Cooperative dinner November 27 at the Coach House Restaurant in Rock Port. The 10 honored, who have served the cooperative for 25 years or more, include Walter Muller, John E. Buck, Peter Blohm, Joe Gaines, Leroy Howell, Ralph Gayler, Duane Minter, William Walker, Alfred Klump, and Bob Hays. Each received wristwatches.
• Making Christmas brighter were checks received in the mail this week by original right owners from the Rock Port Telephone Company. The company mailed out checks amounting to $48,089.51 to 787 right holders, which was about $65 per right.
December 5, 1996
• In Chats: “But Not PC Today – A Chicago man insisted on keeping his hat on in the theatre because a lady in the front of him kept hers on. The man was arrested and the lady – well, she still enjoys unequal rights. Rock Port Atchison County Mail, 9/18/1896” “A new Dollar Plus Store is open next to Breadeaux Pizza. They plan to have it open this week!”
• Aaron Griffin, a junior at Rock Port High School, has won first place in the recently held Optimist Club of Rock Port essay competition. Rebel Herron placed second and Josh Miller placed third. Griffin’s essay will be sent on for judging in the district contest. The winner of the district contest will be awarded an expense paid trip to the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in July for a four-day conference on freedom and leadership.
