November 22, 1946

• Jack Sizemore and Clyde Warren discovered to their discomfort last Sunday that the water of the Nishna are deep and cold. While fishing near the Wm. Beasing place near Langdon, the boys overturned the boat and fell into the chilly waters. Sizemore says he went in up to his chin and is glad the water wasn’t any deeper.

• The Kansas City Star recently ran a tribute to Dr. Richard L. Sutton of Kansas City, who is a Rock Port product, well-known dermatologist, world traveler, and a big-game hunter and fisherman. He is moving to McAllen, Texas. “His conversation is like nobody else’s on earth. Speckled wildcats that romp through his talk, his comparisons – ‘He looked like a nightmare on the way to be dreamed,’ his extravagant figures, combine to make a half hour with him memorable. And is there anyone in Kansas City who ever visited his office without coming away with a small elephant or a Fiji coin or a Chinese box?”

• Everett Shaw suffered a leg fracture in an injury in the closing moments of last Friday evening’s football game with Stanberry. Shaw, a substitute center on the Blue Jay squad, had been in the game only a few plays when the accident happened. He was taken to the Hamburg hospital for treatment.

November 18, 1971

• Mr. and Mrs. Emery Zuck of Watson will observe their golden wedding anniversary with an open house to be held Sunday, November 28, in the church parlor of the First Baptist Church, Hamburg, Iowa. The Zucks are parents of one son, James Francis, of Watson, four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

• The Rock Port R-2 kindergarten schedule has been changed so that each child will now attend a half day session instead of a whole day. The teachers and administrators feel this will be to the child’s advantage.

• Twenty-six members of the Rock Port Community Garden Club took their annual educational tour November 13. They toured Squaw Creek Wildlife Refuge then stopped for lunch at Big Lake State Park. In the afternoon, the group attended a Garden Club show in Mound City.

• They may have been a week late, but all the ghosts and goblins finally made it to town. The mothers of Atchison County must really be talented by the looks of all the homemade costumes which were paraded down Main Street in Rock Port November 6 before a large crowd of spectators.

November 14, 1996

• Local children have been helping locals in need. Ten members of the Cub Scout Den 1 donated cans of food to the Food Pantry October 29. That same day, the Brownie Troop #43 members and Kim DeBuhr’s third grade Brownies gathered coats to donate to those in need this winter.

• A gap in the counter space at Hardee’s used to be occupied by an in-house safe. Thieves  helped themselves to the safe on November 6. They also hit Rock Port Quick Stop.