March 3, 1950
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Call of Canyon” with Gene Autry, “Rusty’s Birthday,” “Roseanna McCoy” with Farley Granger and Joan Evans, and “Hills” of Home.”
• Specials at the Rock Port Market include: Northern tissue, made with fluff, 6 rolls for 39¢; Bisquick, 40 ounce package for 43¢; fresh ground hamburger, 39¢ per pound; Bar Harbor sea mussels, 25¢; Wellapoint oysters, 47¢ per can; and Peter Pan peanut butter, 35¢ for a 12 ounce jar.
• Rock Port’s Future Farmers and Future Homemakers of America held a party at the high school last Friday evening. Several of the girls entered cakes into the Queen of the Pantry contest. Jo Ann Smith’s entry was judged the best. Monty Straight had the honor of being elected king.
• Rock Port is about to achieve its goal of a plentiful supply of soft water, now that installation of new equipment at the pumping station on the bottoms west of town in complete. The improvements have been underway since last August.
• John Gebhards paid for his Atchison County Mail subscription last week, the 56th time he has done so.
• The remodeling operations at the Greenley Market are a point of interest to all. The entire front of the big building has been removed and a false front installed while operations are in progress.
• Fred Bargman of Westboro had a shipment of 48 204-pound hogs on the South Omaha livestock market last week, which brought $17.50 per cwt.
February 27, 1975
• A large service station/restaurant complex is being constructed on the northwest side of the I-29 and U.S. 136 junction just west of Rock Port. To be known as “Trail’s End,” the new business is being built for the Hippo Melvin Oil Co. by Burke and Sons Lumber Company.
• Cox’s Conglomerations: “I always wondered if the ancient Phoenicians invented the phoenician blinds.”
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “California Split,” “Two Lane Blacktop,” and “The Doberman Gang.”
• Blue Jay Corner: Ignorance is . . . “Telling the truth and getting an unexcused tardy slip.” “Sitting in Mrs. Christy’s class one full semester before you realize it’s not a Spanish class.” “Coming to school on a Saturday.”
• Mr. and Mrs. Herb Rolf celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary February 16 with an open house at the home of one of their daughters. The couple was married in 1925 at St. John’s Lutheran Church and farmed near Westboro until 1939, when they moved to Rock Port. Mrs. Rolf ran her own beauty shop in Rock Port for 25 years and Mr. Rolf operated the Rock Port Oil Station, the Conoco Service Station and was owner and operator of the Rolf Tobacco Store for 20 years.
February 24, 2000
• David Michael Anthony, 33, Time Trial and Road Cyclist, is in training for the 2000 Olympic Games in Jackson, Mississippi, by traveling through every state of the continental U.S. on his bicycle pulling a 1,200 pound cart. His ride began in 1998. He traveled through Rock Port Friday, February 18, and enjoyed his one “real” meal of the week at McDonald’s.
• Seventy-five steers were weighed by 4-H and FFA members at the Atchison County Steer Weigh Day February 5.
• Rock Port Elementary has six new students this year: Shelby Findley and Kyle Bradley from Craig, Brandon Cue from California, Tyler Taylor from Wisconsin, Hayley Christian from Reed Springs, and Derrick Cheek from Red Oak.
• Tawni Gebhards and Ryan Hance were named the Rock Port High School Basketball Homecoming Queen and King.
• Former Blue Jay Coach Stewart Cline was inducted into the Missouri High School Coaches Hall of Fame February 18 in Columbia, Missouri. Coach Cline was nominated by his assistant coaches, Wayne Moore and Chris Johnson.
