February 10, 1950
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Blondie Hits The Jack Pot” and “Barkleys of Broadway” with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
• The Langdon community mourns the loss of one of its best-known and most respected women in the death of Mrs. Herbert W. Cooper, 54. Edith May Rosenbohm was born at Langdon July 19, 1895, and the popularity and respect in which she was held was evident with the record attendance at her funeral.
• Henry Broermann of the Farmers City community, who has been a member of Atchison County’s Highway Commission practically since that body first came into existence some years ago, has been succeeded by Clarence Kirkendoll of Tarkio, recently appointed to a four-year term.
• Rock Port High School has a girls’ basketball team this season for the first time in 18 years. The sextet went to Watson Monday evening and lost to the host team by a score of 15 to 32. Beverly Perry made 7 points for Rock Port while Doris Case had the high for Watson with 17 points.
• Specials at the Rock Port Market include: Cudahey Puritan sliced bacon, 49¢ per pound; ready-to-eat picnic meals, 32¢ per pound; and fresh beef tongue, 27¢.
February 6, 1975
• Marriages started out the new year with 16 recorded in the office of Gorden Clifton, Circuit Clerk and Recorder of Deeds at the Atchison County Courthouse in Rock Port.
• Thieves are getting rather bold and desperate when they will steal property belonging to the judge who will hear their case when and if they are apprehended. Between January 7 and 27, a Caldwell grain-drying unit, fan, and motor were stolen from a grain bin located on a farm belonging to Judge Clark H. Gore.
• The whole hog sausage and pancake supper held February 4 had an excellent turnout with over 500 persons served in the multipurpose room of the Rock Port R-2 School. All money collected will go towards new track uniforms. Consumed by the hungry crowd were: 150 pounds of sausage, 3 cases of pancake flour, 4 cases of milk, 3 cases or 10 gallons of syrup, and a large quantity of coffee.
• The Rock Port Volunteer Fire Department answered 45 fire alarms during 1974, 17 city alarms, and 28 rural alarms. These consist of one crib full of baled hay, 10 house fires, 16 grass fires, one lawn mower and one tractor fire.
February 3, 2000
• Marvin Southard bowled a 300 at the Rock Port Blue Jay Bowl. (A 300 is a perfect score, with the bowler bowling a strike every frame.)
• Rock Port High School junior Nikki Evans won a second place trophy in the prose competition at the Savannah Invitational Speech and Debate tournament held at Savannah High School. Nikki competed against 45 other contestants from 17 schools and moved one judge to tears with her “seamless performance” of an excerpt from the novel “A Day No Pigs Would Die.”
• Mrs. Heits’ fourth grade class at Rock Port Elementary won the receipts contest for January, turning in receipts totalling more than $7,000 for the room parents’ playground project.
• Jim Crawford has joined the staff at Atchison County Outreach and Extension Council as Northwest Region Agricultural Engineering Specialist.
