November 21, 1947

• Miss Beverly Harbison reigned as queen over the Tarkio High School Homecoming activities last Friday night. The queen’s crown was of baby mums and it was made and presented to her by George Chamberlain, Rock Port florist.

• Atchison County donors gave 64 pints of whole blood for use in the treatment of patients at the Veterans Administration hospital in Wadsworth, Kansas, and the Veterans Tuberculosis hospital in Excelsior Springs when a Red Cross Mobile Unit visited the Memorial Building in Rock Port last Thursday.

• Emmet Vance has purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bolin the White Spot Cafe on Main Street.

• Services were held Sunday for 17-year-old J.W. McGinnis, who died in a car crash on the Westboro-Tarkio farm-to-market road Thursday night, November 13, about four miles northeast of Tarkio.

• Miss Mary McQuitty of the Tarkio High School faculty returned to her home here last Friday from St. Francis Hospital, Maryville, where she was placed in a cast from the waist up for treatment of a spine injury and broken neck. The injuries were sustained when she was on a hayride and fell from the hayrack when the tractor which was pulling the hayrack went into a ditch on the Tarkio-Westboro farm-to-market road which leads past the municipal airport.

November 23, 1972

• The annual Chamber of Commerce Pancake Day was held November 7 at the Walnut Inn under the direction of Carl Martin and Lee Grossman. The gross was reported as $450 and it is hoped to realize a net of $180 which will be used to buy Christmas lights and decorations for Main Street.

• A potluck dinner for the Tarkio international students and their host families was held Friday, November 17, in Eppley Lounge at Tarkio College. This year, there are international students from 12 countries including countries in South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East. Samyote Wongphadung of Thailand won a gift certificate from Fields Clothing during a contest to identify the flags of the countries represented.

• Charles LeRoy Smith, who walked away from the Atchison County Jail on June 28, 1972, was apprehended in Morrison, Illinois, in July on marijuana charges. After serving his time there, he was released to Atchison County deputy Wayne Templeton shortly after midnight November 21 to face charges in Atchison County.

November 20, 1997

• Navy Airman Charles W. Stirewalt, son of Kathy Steele of Tarkio, is aboard the USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier that was deployed to Iraq last week. Stirewalt is one of more than 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the ship. The USS George Washington was deployed by President Bill Clinton to join the USS Nemitz in Iraq.

• In conjunction with the recent Red Ribbon Week, Honey Tree Nursery School students released balloons. One of those balloons traveled 206 miles to Eddyville, Iowa. Elaine Haselhuhn’s sons, Mark and Paul, found the balloon on the embankment of one of their farm ponds.

• Roger Masonbrink won a $100 gift certificate from Place’s Store in Tarkio and his name was put into a company-wide drawing for $1,000.