April 7, 1950
• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Frontier Outpost,” “Mary Ryan Detective,” “Mrs. Mike” with Dick Powell and Evelyn Keyes, and “The Great Dan Patch.”
• Shirley Jean Tolby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Duane Tolby of Rock Port, who weighed only two pounds at birth, is setting a record as being the tiniest baby ever born at the St. Francis Hospital in Maryville to have lived over a month. The baby was born two and one-half months prematurely. As is common with most newborns, she lost weight after birth, going down to one pound 12 ounces, but is now gaining weight and is back at two pounds.
• Lee Vogel had a new street graded through the tract of land just west of his implement and garage building on No. 275. The street enters the tract just east of the Frank Howell property near what is known as the old seminary block in northwest Rock Port. Water pipes are being laid into the tract to provide facilities for a trailer camp.
• Rock Port and Atchison County are to be treated to a real musical treat on Tuesday evening, April 18, when the Drake University band will present a concert at the Memorial Building for a benefit of the Rock Port High School Band.
• Mrs. Rose West, oldest citizen of Rock Port who would have reached her 94th birthday had she lived until July 22, passed away April 2. Rose Shipley was born July 22, 1856, in Rock Port, her home community for almost a century.
• Refrigerators are for sale as cheap as $189.95 and as expensive as $279.95 at Clifton Furniture Store in Rock Port.
April 3, 1975
• An 8-Ball Tournament for junior high and high school students begins Monday, April 7, at the Snak-N-Rack in Rock Port. Prizes include: 1st – $50; 2nd – $30; and 3rd – $20.
• There was a large turnout of 240 people for the second annual Rock Port FFA mountain oyster supper March 14 at the Rock Port High School agriculture building.
• Marriages took a big jump with 24 recorded this month compared with 10 last month according to Atchison County Circuit Clerk and Recorder of Deeds Gordon Clifton.
• Land sold recently at a public auction brought $460 an acre and $680 an acre for two different tracts of land. Mrs. James Hudson of Rock Port bought 80 acres for $460 an acre on March 29, which was tract 1 at the land auction for the Myrtle Greer estate, located northwest of Rock Port. George Burke of Rock Port purchased 28 acres for $680 per acre, which was tract 2 of the Myrtle Greer estate, located one and one-half mile east of tract 1.
March 30, 2000
• Customer demand has been so great that Rock Port Telephone is doing construction to bring additional lines to its customers. The east side of town’s capacity is currently stretched as far as it will go, so Communication Construction, Inc. of Hamburg, Iowa, has been hired to assist the telephone employees in laying the cable to the east side of town and fiber to the Rock Port R-II Schools.
• It was recently rediscovered that Rock Port was the hometown of a well-known artist, Frederick J. Mulhaupt, Dean of the Cape Ann School. Mulhaupt was known for his evocative scenes of the Gloucester Harbor.
