November 3, 1950
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “In The Foreign Legion” with Abbott and Costello.
• Mrs. Leon Leatherman, young bride of the Methodist Church pastor at Westboro, will be the guest speaker at the regular morning church service November 5. Mrs. Leatherman is a native of Lebanon. Her parents were Armenian refugees in that country. Her father is a Christian minister and she is a graduate of the University of Beirut and the theological seminary at Hartford, Connecticut.
• Due to the unseasonably high temperature that day, a mechanical corn-picker at the Carl Scamman farm west of Rock Port caught fire Saturday afternoon and was destroyed.
• At the partition sale of the lands of the Adger C. Erwin estate held last week at the courthouse, the approximately 600 acres sold at an average of $154 per acre. Successful bidders were F.L. Edwin, Winston Erwin, Richard Burke, and William Sly, who was bidding on behalf of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Holt of Kansas City.
October 30, 1975
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.”
• Seven deer have been checked in by archers at the Taylor Produce Store in Rock Port since October 15.
• Cox’s Conglomerations: “Now-a-days when you say ‘put your money where your mouth is’ you are probably looking at your grocery bill.” “When President Sadat told President Ford we weren’t treating Egypt right, President Ford replied, ‘How could you sadat.’”
• Twenty-three ambitious girls, under the direction of coach Tony Gaines, started basketball practice October 2. There are six seniors, four juniors, nine sophomores, and four freshmen going out this year. Returning lettermen for the Lady Blue Jays are seniors Julie Shineman, Diana Gebhards, and Susan Adamson and juniors Marvetta Leseberg and Marlene Walter.
• Atchison County’s engineering department should be equipped to do a better job on the county roads with the purchase of two new $50,000 graders.
• Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Gray have moved into the new administrator’s home at the Pleasant View Nursing Home recently built by the Atchison County Court. The home was purchased from Jones Lumber Co. for a complete cost of $23,506.
October 26, 2000
• A woman from Busby, Montana, died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle accident on I-29 Thursday, October 19, a half-mile south of Rock Port. A 1995 Chevrolet in which the woman was riding was southbound on I-29 when a northbound 2000 Freightliner traveled across the median and into the southbound lanes, striking the Chevy head on. Three others were injured.
• The children of ABC-123 Preschool finished off their week of fire prevention with a ride on a Rock Port firetruck.
• The Rock Port High School chapter of National Honor Society has reinstated the quarterly award for Good School Citizens. First quarter recipients of the award were Regan Griffin, Bryan Carey, Nicole Evans, and Melinda Meinecke.
• The Rock Port Blue Jays traveled to Tarkio Friday of last week to take on the rival Indians. The Blue Jays won the game 48-13. The Blue Jays, behind junior fullback Brent Dahlin, racked up 245 rushing yards.
