June 27, 1947
• Claude Gubser of near Lone Chapel Church in the north part of the county related a story about how he had brought home from a pasture a mile away a cow which was about to calve. During the night she got out and the next day was found in the road near a pasture and a newborn calf was found nearby. A neighbor helped search for the second calf and then before the search was ended a third calf was discovered. Gubser’s Old Bossy had increased the bovine population by three.
• Mr. and Mrs. James Krusor are establishing a new highway enterprise near the wye on the Muinch farm west of Rock Port on No. 275. They will operate a root beer and lunch stand, which they are calling Wayside Oasis.
• Watson’s business district suffered a heavy loss Wednesday afternoon when fire destroyed Herschel Christian’s electrical shop and allied enterprise. The property adjoins Chas. Christian’s service station, which, fortunately, was saved.
June 22, 1972
• Several Rock Port homes have changed hands. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Greenley recently purchased the Dan LaHue home at 701 Stanton Drive. Mr. and Mrs. LaHue are making plans to build a new home on their farm near Langdon. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Amthor and family have purchased a 14×70 house trailer and located in Burke’s Trailer Court. They have sold their home at 506 Warren Avenue to SFC and Mrs. Floyd Butts. Floyd will leave June 28 for Germany for a one year tour of duty. He has served in the Army for 19 years and will retire following this tour.
• The Community Garden Club has been working to beautify the Memorial Building lawn. Mrs. Virgil Million, Rock Port, landscape chairman, reports that the club purchased one dozen euonymous shrubs which were planted in early April. An ornamental red mountain ash, a white candlestick crab and four dwarf Korean lilacs have also been added to the lawn and recently, several dozen petunia plants were donated.
• A familiar figure on Rock Port’s streets during the past month has been that of Kenneth W. Smith, city mail carrier who began work filling in following the death of long-time carrier John Hunt. Bad luck seemed to plague the city carriers and substitutes as shortly thereafter, Ralph Moore fell over a log while mushroom hunting and injured his back and Wesley Christen went to the hospital for leg surgery this week.
• Two hundred seventy FFA officers and advisors from 34 schools of the Northwest Missouri District attended a workshop. Officers attending from Rock Port included Gary McCoy, Dan Stanton, Edward Jackson, Craig Heits, Willis Holmes, and Jim Shelton. They were accompanied by advisor C.W. Shaw.
• Enterprising youngsters started a new business on South Main in Rock Port with the opening of a lemonade stand June 13. The sellers are Mike Burg, Kimberly Scamman, and Monica Cooper.
June 19, 1997
• Ten members and one guest of the Rock Port Garden Club traveled to Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Rock Port United Methodist Church sent 22 members to Jamaica on a mission trip. While in Jamaica, some members put a roof, tin, rafters, etc. on a church. They also built a kitchen and fellowship room. They also treated approximately 320 patients during the four days they operated the health clinic. Some painted a police station and a school.
