April 13, 1951

• Showing at the Paramount Theatre in Rock Port: “Steel Helmet” with Robert Hutton.

• Specials at Hy-Klas Food Stores and Locker Service in Rock Port: catfish fillets, 47¢ per pound; buttered beef steaks, 59¢ per package; and Break O’ Morn coffee, 69¢ per pound.

• Specials at Rock Port Hardware: divided plastic plates, 6 for $1.59; garden hoe, $1.49; hedge trimmer, 79¢; Rubber Maid dish drainer, $1.29; garden rake, $1.39; 12 ounce plastic tumblers, 6 for 49¢; 53-piece set of Homer Laughlin china, $18.95; lawn mower, $16.95; and 20-piece set of green crystalware, $2.39.

• Two Canadians from Manitoba province stopped at Hotel Opp last Saturday on their way south to get a large number of colonies of bees, which they take to the southern states for the winter and bring back north in the spring.

• Merrill Wright of Rock Port is the latest addition to Atchison County’s owners of airplanes. He has had delivered to him from Emporia, Kansas, an Aeronca two-place plane.

• Rock Port is now 100 years old. Although it was platted by Nathan Meek on April 8, 1851, it was first incorporated by State Legislative Act December 13, 1855.

April 15, 1976

• Donald DeTore of Shenandoah, Iowa, a chef at Trail’s End, entertained 12 children at Atchison County Head Start on April 12.

• The Rock Port Garden Club planted a “Liberty Tree” at the Atchison County Courthouse in Rock Port on April 9 in observance of the Bicentennial and Arbor Day. They chose a hackberry tree because of its qualities of endurance, strength, and beauty.

• The 19th annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held Saturday, April 17, at the Rock Port City Park. The Continental Federated Club has undertaken this project since 1957 when the late Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bertram announced that they would no longer be holding hunts.

• The Snak-N-Rak has recently opened an ice cream parlor in the same building at 317 South Main in Rock Port. The ice cream parlor will cary seven flavors of old fashioned ice cream available.

April 12, 2001

• City of Rock Port Mayor Dale Dickkut and Aldermen Gary Bogenreif and Ann Schoonover were sworn in before the special meeting of the Rock Port Board of Aldermen April 5.

• Dr. Wallace Carpenter of Rock Port was awarded the Missouri State Medical Association’s 50-Year Physician pin during MSMA’s 143rd Annual Convention on April 6 held in St. Louis.

• Country Creek Mall has moved to a new home in the former Town & Country building.

• Sculptor Tom Palmerton has sculpted a statue of former Nebraska Gov. Robert W. Furnas, which will be unveiled at the Governor Robert W. Furnas Arboretum in Brownville, Nebraska. Jeff Broady of Rock Port is a charter member and first treasurer of the Brownville Historical Society and he and his family contributed a $5,000 challenge grant toward the sculpture as a memorial to his late wife, Dorothy.

• Hillary Chamberlain, daughter of Eric and Lynn Chamberlain of Rock Port, has been chosen as the Optimist Club’s Teenager of the Month.