April 16, 1948

• The chest X-ray clinics which were to have been held in Atchison County the first of the week had to be cancelled because the truck bringing the equipment here was involved in an upset east of Tarkio Monday morning and the equipment was so damaged it could not be used.

• Rock Port friends of Miss Bessie Capper of Seattle, Washington, were remembered by this former Rock Porter last week by a gift of flowers from her garden: camellias, jonquils, and other pretty blooms.

• The first length of the new cable which the Rock Port Phone Company will install in all parts of Rock Port went underground last week from the telephone building to the Methodist Church corner.

• A monstrous grapevine, which looked more like a log than a vine, was brought in by a brush crew with the Atchison-Holt Electric Cooperative and shown on the parking south of the Golden Rule store for several days.

• The Lone Chapel Church southeast of Hamburg, Iowa, was sold last Wednesday to Mendell Athen. He expects to use the material in remodeling his home. It has been several years since regular services were held there.

• Dr. R.L. Curfman now occupies his new ground floor quarters in the Bentley building on north Main Street, where a suite of offices was constructed to his specifications. He moved from the second story of the Kuntz building.

April 12, 1973

• Recently Rock Port acquired a new Spartacus weight machine on trial to help athletes as they prepare for competition. The weight machine, which costs approximately $3,000, was not purchased at this time. A decision on whether or not to purchase will be made this summer.

• Mr. and Mrs. Don Larson and Randy have moved from the Joe Frede property to the property of Billy Hays in the town of Watson.

• Monday, most of the roads were very hazardous to drive on because of the drifting snow and being ice packed. The springtime blizzard started Saturday as a light misty rain then turned to light fluffy snow. Wind gusts of 50 mph on Sunday caused the drifting. Early Monday evening, the Highway Patrol was turning cars back at the south edge of Tarkio, not to come any farther west.

• Rick A. Meyerkorth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Meyerkorth of Rock Port, was among three juniors in the University of Missouri – Columbia College of Agriculture to be recognized for outstanding scholarship.

• Gravestones have turned up on the bank of a branch of Rock Creek in Rock Port where youngsters were digging in the soft earth. Whether there are actual graves in the area or the stones were just dumped there is not known. At least the youngsters haven’t dug up any bodies so far.  The two stones uncovered were for a Daniel, possibly last name of Goth, born August 9, 1827, and died August 30, 1878. The other was for a Luhrs dated 1842.

April 9, 1998

• The Nu Omicron chapter of Beta Sigma Phi served their annual Palm Sunday Dinner. Over $550 was raised for the family of Steve Skeen. Steve was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer.

• A new media center is now located at the Rock Port Fire Department. The media center was built by donations made in memory of Clarence Thompson.

• Rock Port R-II will be sending two young men, Brent Miles and Brock Bastow, to the American Legion Boys State at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri.

• The Community Hospital Celebrity Waiter Dinner raised $18,500 gross plus raised for special needs at the hospital.