November 2, 1995

• Best friends Missy McKinnon and Bobbi Holbrook, both of Tarkio, Missouri, had their first babies on the same day. Both had daughters born October 20 at Community Hospital in Fairfax, Missouri. Missy named her daughter Kaylyn Rae, and Bobbi named her daughter Kamden Alline.

• Splash Entertainment has recently opened for business in the Tarkio and Maryville, Missouri, area and offers a hot tub “softub” for rent for parties and fun. Chuck Linthicum of Tarkio and Danny Johns of Maryville began their rental business October 1.

• “I guess you needed to be there to believe it,” said Tarkio Coach Dave Palmeiro on the Indians’ football win over Rock Port, Missouri, Blue Jays on Friday, October 27. “I don’t know if I have been any prouder of a bunch of players as I was this past Friday night,” he added. The Indians defeated the Blue Jays 39-8, handing the Missouri Class 1-A top ranked Rock Port its only loss of the season. The Indians are now 7-1 overall and 6-0 in Grand River Conference play.

November 2, 1945

• Edgar Powell has leased the Standard Oil Station in Tarkio from the Standard Oil Company and took possession November 1. For the past eight years, Mrs. Ernest Obert and the late Mr. Obert have leased and managed the station. Mr. Powell has been employed there for some time.

• Main Street in Tarkio has been repaired and made practically new. The work was completed this week by men of the Barton County Rock Asphalt company of Lantha, Missouri. The street is now finished from 1st to 10th. After the holes, ridges, and bumps in the street were taken care of, a coat of an asphaltic paving called Baroroc was laid.

November 5, 1970

• The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra will appear in concert on Monday, November 9,  in Schechter Auditorium on the Tarkio College Campus. The program will consist of “Trumpet Voluntary” by Purcell, “Symphony No. 94 (Surprise)” by Haydn, “Romanian Rhapsody” by Enesco, and “Symphony No. 4” by Tchaikovsky.

• Old fashioned midwestern neighborliness was demonstrated as friends and neighbors of Ralph Boyer gathered Monday to harvest and crib his corn crop. Mr. Boyer has been a patient at the hospital since last Monday when he injured his right hand in a combine. Eleven corn pickers, tractors, and wagons were used in the cooperative effort and a hearty lunch was served by the women at noon at the Colfax Community Center.