April 20, 1951

• Specials at Bogle’s in Rock Port include: HopAlong Cassidy radio, $12.95; Wrangler jeans, $2.49; ladies’ plastic aprons, 59¢; men’s bib overalls, $2.19; heavy Turkish bath towels, 79¢; and Tide, 28¢.

• A 30-ton car of fertilizer, which was consigned to George Opp for distribution among farmers in this section, arrived in Langdon last Saturday. This farm necessity is much in demand as domestic fertilizer is hard to get. The fertilizer came from Germany by way of New Orleans, having traveled on a cargo ship, the SS Klaus Olendorf. Freight charges on the shipment amounted to almost $500.

• When the Taylor Produce Co. advertised last week that they would give away 10 chicks to each of the first 100 people who visited the produce house Tuesday morning, “Stub” Taylor did not anticipate the public being so eager for the free gift. He opened at 7:30 a.m. and found a line waiting at the door. By 8:00 a.m., half of the 1,000 chicks had gone out the door. By 9:30 a.m., the supply was gone.

• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Stampede” with Rod Cameron and Gale Storm, and “The Milkman” with Donald O’Connor and “Snoz” Durante.

April 22, 1976

• A 24-year-old Nebraska City, Nebraska, man was fined for driving 108 miles per hour on the interstate in Atchison County. Trooper J.E. Lane stopped the driver and asked him to follow him into Rock Port to post bond. However, at Hwy. 136, the driver fled westbound with the trooper in pursuit. He was later stopped by a deputy in Brownville, Nebraska, and came back to Missouri voluntarily rather than face charges in Nebraska.

• Funeral services were held April 17 in Rock Port for Thomas Milton Rash, 82. Mr. Rash ran a grocery store and was Postmaster in Phelps City and became affiliated with the J. I. Case Implement Co.

• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Death Wish” with Charles Bronson and “Blackbeard’s Ghost.”

• Two suspects were taken into custody following an armed robbery of Swanee’s Liquor Store on Highway 275 April 17 around 8:30 p.m. Owner Vada Harbin was working at the time of the holdup when approximately $190 was taken.

April 19, 2001

• Rock Port Telephone Company has selected Melissa Herron, a junior at Rock Port High School, as its representative at the Foundation for Rural America’s annual Youth Tour of Washington, D.C. in June.

• Doug Miller of Plattsburg, Missouri, has been hired as the new high school principal at Rock Port R-II.

• The Missouri Tourism Commission will formally dedicate an official Welcome Center in Rock Port to honor one of the early supporters of the state’s tourism industry, former state Senator Hardin C. Cox of Rock Port. The dedication will be April 21 at the Rock Port Welcome Center, located at the 110 mile marker on Interstate 29. Hardin Cox and his family will be in attendance.

• Ronald McDonald visited Rock Port Elementary April 5. Ronald, who rode in on a scooter, presented “The Amazing Thinking Box.”