January 13, 1950
• The Watts Style Shop, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Watts, has been busy this week moving to its new location in one of the Helmer buildings, recently purchased from Rex Shandy. The operators expect to carry on a cleaning and pressing business in connection with their stock of merchandise.
• The Burke & Sons Lumber Co., located just east of Rock Port, has lately completed a new 22×48 foot workshop which will be heated for inside work during the winter months. The company also built a 48-foot driveway, which is 17 feet wide.
• Harry E. Biggle, 1900 graduate of Rock Port High School, passed away Wednesday in California. After high school, he secured a clerical position in the Canal Zone at a time when the Panama Canal was being built.
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Law of the Golden West,” “Copper Canyon,” and “Buccaneer’s Girl.” Due to the ever increasing cost of the films and supplies, the theatre is forced to increase admission prices to 50¢ for adults and 14¢ for children.
January 9, 1975
• The first adult farmer class will be January 13 at the Rock Port High School vocational agriculture room. Don Kennel, self-employed mechanic from Hamburg, Iowa, will be the guest speaker and discussion will include the servicing of modern farm tractors and equipment.
• Atchison County’s first heavy snow storm of the winter (six inches) caused dismissal of Rock Port school at noon January 2 and all day January 3.
• Safety Federal Savings & Loan Association of Kansas City will open a Rock Port division of the firm in the early spring in the old Dr. E.B. Settle building on Main Street.
• Mark Edward Howell, 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howell and a 1971 graduate of Rock Port High School, passed away unexpectedly while on vacation in Colorado. He died of a collapsed lung from pneumonia on the way to the hospital. An autopsy discovered that he had only one functioning lung for apparently most of his life. He had been accepted in the Naval Officers Candidate School’s Collegiate program and would have been commissioned an Ensign in active service with the Nuclear Propulsion Submarine Service in Bainbridge, Maryland, upon graduation.
January 6, 2000
• A semi driver whose cab and trailer were completely demolished in a crash was able to walk away unscathed thanks to a seat belt. The driver swerved to miss a deer on I-29 just past the Nishnabotna bridge and ended up in a field.
• Chats: “Susette Meyerkorth has moved on to work full-time in the County Clerk’s office. She has been a real asset (to the newspaper) and will be missed.”
• Army Capt. Cort W. Andrews has been decorated with the Army Commendation Medal. Andrews, a 1989 graduate of Rock Port High School and son of Darlene and Bill Andrews of Rock Port, was a logistics officer assigned to the 6th Cavalry at Camp Eagle, Wonju, South Korea.
• The Atchison County Mail is celebrating 123 years with this issue. Things have come a long way from the hand set, raised letter type to the computer. When the newspaper was started, it was printed in house at the back of the office. All presses at that time were sheet fed by hand.
