November 30, 1945

• Mr. and Mrs. Gus Knierim have been advised under date of November 20th, in a letter from the army services forces of the quartermaster general’s office, that the body of their son, Gussie Knierim, Jr., who died of malnutrition in a German prison camp, has been interred in the U.S. Military cemetery at Margraten, Holland.

• Henry Bredensteiner of the Westboro neighborhood, a member of the jury which was considering the testimony in the case of Mary Good Gound vs. Fred Jewett being tried in Atchison County Circuit Court Wednesday, died suddenly about eleven o’clock that evening in the jury room. He was stricken with a hemorrhage and lived only a short time. Because of the juror’s death, the case resulted in a mistrial. The jury had extended its deliberations until a late hour in hope of reaching a verdict without the necessity of continuing the trial over into Thursday.

• While visiting at The Mail office Wednesday morning, W.T. Sauceman of Westboro told about his three cows at his home having produced five sets of twin calves in the past three years. Mr. Sauceman says he recently sold twin steers, which are past yearlings, for $277.

• The Mail’s editor has been favored with a large crate of persimmons which came from Mrs. Theresa Hagerty of Elk Grove, California. Whereas the local fruit is about as large as a fair-sized marble or golf ball, the California ’simmons are as large as oranges and brightly colored and the flavor is excellent.

December 3, 1970

• Miguel Figarella Orsini of Puerto Rico will be a guest of the Atchison County Cooperative of Rock Port from Friday through Tuesday as he studies the cooperative structure in this area according to Noel Scott, Coop manager. Orsini is an agronomist and technical advisor for the Puerto Rico government and is on a two month tour of U.S. agriculture operations for his government.

• A trailer home on the Cecil Hughes farm, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hawk, was completely destroyed by fire in spite of efforts by the Rock Port Volunteer Fire Department December 1 at 1:45 p.m. The wind had whipped the fire into a grassy lot east of the mobile home, burning up two small sheds. The home and all its contents were destroyed in the blaze, but thankfully, no one was home at the time of the fire.

• Friends and neighbors of Floyd McCall gathered together November 24 to harvest his crops. Folks harvested 60 acres of corn and combined 100 acres of soybeans for McCall, who suffered a heart attack early this fall and was unable to do the harvest.

November 30, 1995

• Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lee Cooper of Rock Port will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on December 6, 1995. Harry Lee and Uldeen (Underwood) were married on December 6, 1945, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Atchison, Kansas. They recall it was a cold winter day with some snow on the ground. Harry Lee and Uldeen recently bought a house in Rock Port after living on their farm for 48 years.

• The home of the Rick Herron family traveled from 807 Burke Circle to 708 W. Calhoun, but the journey wasn’t without complications. The Russian Olive tree on Bluff Street was nearly the victim of a chain saw, but instead a tug-of-war was waged with the movers winning and the tree’s early departure avoided.