January 6, 1994

• What was once Thompson Library, located on the Tarkio College Campus, is now a vacant building. Lancaster Bible College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, recently took over the library’s entire inventory. It took five semi tractor-trailer trucks to transport the contents of the library back to Lancaster.

January 2, 1969

• Heinold Hog Markets – the world’s largest hog buyer – is constructing a new market in Tarkio, located two miles north of the city on Highway 59 at Windmill Corners. The market will include a hog barn to be 45 by 180 feet, plus chutes and office space.

• The first session of the annual Tarkio High School adult farmer class will meet Monday, January 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school vocational agriculture room. Vern Whisler of the American National Bank, St. Joseph, will conduct a panel on “Farm Outlook, 1969.” Other members of the panel are employees of the St. Joseph Stockyards.

January 7, 1944

• Charles N. Lum, Shakespearean actor, will be presented by the Tarkio College artist course Friday, January 14, at Rankin Hall in “Excerpts of the Classics.” Lum is generally conceded throughout the country as “America’s foremost actor of the classics.”

• Mr. and Mrs. Glen Walkup have moved to the Holliday farm. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ross, who have been living on the place, have moved to town.