November 7, 1947
• Recurrent reports have it that a wild animal is roaming the country north and northeast of Rock Port, but efforts to catch or kill it have been unsuccessful. Sunday evening, Mr. and Mrs. George Brindle were coming from the Chas. Meier place northeast of town when a yellowish catlike animal crossed the road in long leaps. They stopped at the Lewis Brindle home on the Ross Notson place to report the sighting.
• A telegram received by C. O. Roberson last Sunday informed him that E. G. Grazier, former Atchison County prosecutor, had died that morning at his home in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Adolph Weber concluded negotiations the first of the week for the sale of his new frozen foods locker system, together with the building occupied by the plant. The purchasers are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bradley of Frankfort, Illinois. The Weber plant is brand new and has 250 lockers.
• Thirteen students from Atchison County are enrolled at the University of Missouri.
• A new idea was put into effect by Halloween pranksters in Rock Port last Friday evening. They smeared grey paint on the latches and handles of store door locks with the result that early shoppers got their hands well mussed before they discovered the wet coating. Windows in stores were generously smeared with soap, causing a general window-washing up and down the street Saturday morning.
• While Jack Lacy, executive secretary of the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce, was billed as the main attraction at the Rock Port Rotary Club party, it was his small son, Jack, Jr., who “stole the show.” Mr. Lacy talked about Indian lore and dances, each of which were exemplified by the son, who went through the strenuous and intricate dances of various Indian tribes.
November 2, 1972
• A 22-year-old Shenandoah, Iowa, man was charged with stealing a motor vehicle after he demolished a 1966 Chevy pickup in a one-vehicle accident October 28 at 1:20 a.m. The vehicle belonged to Ronald Eugene Brown of Tarkio.
• An Atchison County Girl Scouts Court of Awards was held at the Rock Port fellowship hall October 29. Miss Patti McKee received her First Class Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting.
• Dr. and Mrs. Keith Whigham have received travel orders to come home from Uganda, East Africa, after several months of civil disorder there. Dr. Whigham was a Regional Field Trials Officer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Uganda.
• A five-county international luncheon was held October 25 with the Northwest Missouri Extension Clubs and Extension Divisions as hostesses at the Methodist Church in Maryville. Mrs. Larry Pattee of Tarkio presented the program and showed slides of her family’s stay in Egypt.
• Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Powell have purchased the home at 519 Parkview Drive in Rock Port and plan to move sometime this month. The home was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Shelley.
October 30, 1997
• The Rock Port Optimist Club officers for 1997-98 are: Ron Hunter, Bill Andrews, Steve Proctor and Leo Hance, board members; Richard Fentiman, secretary/treasurer; Gary Davis, vice-president; and Jim Roup, president.
• Atchison-Holt Cooperative helped put up the trusses, supplied by Burke and Son Lumber, on the new 4-H building in Rock Port.
• Ralph Gayler was honored for 50 years of membership with the North Star Masonic Lodge.
• Chats: “The snow just barely caught us. Sounds like Omaha got our infamous Halloween storm from a few years ago.” “The Blue Jays won their first district game by defeating the Indians.”
