November 18, 1949
• Eat your Thanksgiving dinner at the Conoco Cafe: chicken noodle soup, grapefruit juice, roast duck, baked chicken, or roast beef with oyster dressing, with your choice of cauliflower or green beans and cranberry salad or apple salad, and strawberry shortcake.
• Miss Joan Scamman, a Rock Port High School graduate, has joined the reportorial staff at the Daily Forum in Maryville. She did summer reporting for The Mail last year before finishing her degree in journalism from the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
• Regular fire drills have been instituted at the Rock Port school building and in one recent drill, while Fire Chief Orville Loomis and a state inspector from Kansas City looked on, the building was emptied of the pupils and faculty in one and three-fourths minute.
• Willis Burke and his sons have started the erection of several buildings for the office and housing of a lumberyard, which they will operate at the Burke farm about a mile east of Rock Port on No. 275. Burke and his family did almost all of the construction work when they erected a fine residence, large barn, and outbuildings and because of their familiarity with building operations, they decided to go into the building materials business.
November 14, 1974
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre: Walt Disney’s “Old Yeller” in technicolor, “Bank Shot” with George C. Scott, and “Birth of a Legend.”
• Rock Port High School’s home economics department received four new stoves from Peoples Natural Gas of Tarkio last week. The new stoves have the new continuous, self-cleaning ovens. The class also received a new refrigerator.
• Cindy Markham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Markham of Rock Port, is portraying Annie Sullivan, teacher of blind and deaf Helen Keller, in the Northwest Missouri State University production of “The Miracle Worker.” Cindy had the same role last year in Rock Port High School’s production of the same play.
• Don Ireland, George Burkhart, and Samuel Harris, all of Rock Port, were initiated into the third degree of the Free Masonry by the Moila Shrine degree team of St. Joseph November 9 in Rock Port.
November 11, 1999
• Rock Port Blue Jays won the District 16 title with a 36-29 win in overtime over the Maysville Wolverines. This was the Jays’ fifth consecutive win this season.
• Tryouts were held for the first Rock Port High School Dance Team Saturday, October 30. Jessica Moran and Tawni Gebhards were selected as co-captains and other dancers chosen were Katy Hecker, Jill Webster, Suzanne Hurst, Donna Carroll, Stefanie Dalrymple and Hillary Chamberlain. The sponsor will be Ms. Kathy Moore.
• Ron Stoner lost a barn containing his saw mill operation, a pickup, and other equipment in a fire that left damages in excess of $25,000. The probable cause of the fire was electric.
• Phelps City, once a proud river city and railroad town with a hotel and bank, has gone the way of most small towns in Atchison County. The citizens of Phelps City saw fit to disincorporate in last Tuesday’s election. The city came into existence on November 7, 1878.
