May 28, 1948
• Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ellsworth are building a two-story, seven-room home of Dutch Colonial architecture at the corner of 13th and Chestnut streets in Tarkio. The exterior is of buff face brick.
• Miss Sarah Leap of Tarkio was crowned queen at a coronation ball held at the community building Tuesday night. She was presented with a certificate authorizing her to choose a street costume, slack suit, and formal gown for herself at the Vogue Shop in Tarkio.
• More than 35 managers and supervisors representing the 28 Supply Stores of Missouri and Iowa met in Tarkio Wednesday at the conference room of the First National Bank. Local manager of the store here is Orth Freeman.
• Robert Graf of Tarkio was taken by plane to a hospital in Kansas City Tuesday morning immediately following an accident in which he suffered a six-inch knife wound in the abdomen. Mr. Graf was unloading fresh-killed beef from a truck at the Tarkio Packing Plant. An eight-inch butcher knife lay on a quarter of beef (or was caught in the meat somehow) and when Mr. Graf took a hold of the beef and moved it, the knife cut into his clothing and body.
• Mr. and Mrs. Jim Grebe have opened the former White Spot Cafe under the new name of the Snack Bar. They will occupy the apartment above the cafe on Main Street.
May 31, 1973
• The boys and girls in Mrs. Evelyn Jensen’s Tarkio Elementary room received a call from a third grade class in Alaska. The telephone hook-up was provided by the United Telephone Company of Missouri.
• The Tarkio R-I Board of Education is accepting sealed bids at the office of the superintendent for the carpentry class house located on a large level lot in the new Northview Addition at 503 Linden Street.
• Plans are well underway for the third annual Walnut Hill Art Fair to be held June 9 in the Tarkio Community Building. Guest artist will be Mr. Larry Greenwalt of Shenandoah, Iowa. Mr. Greenwalt’s paintings are very popular.
• Members of the A.G.C. Extension Club recently presented sun bonnets they had fashioned to members of the Mule Barn Museum board.
• Mr. Dean Sparks has been employed as guidance counselor at the Tarkio R-I School District for the 1973-1974 school year.
• At the Tarkio Rotary Club meeting, Bill and Susan Slaughter spoke about their teaching trip to Africa and the Middle East. They taught two years in Alexandria, Egypt.
• Farmers and Valley Bank hosted a retirement open house in honor of Mrs. Ethel Burns last Wednesday at the bank. Mrs. Burns has been employed there for 22 years and was named assistant cashier in January 1972.
May 28, 1998
• The Tarkio High School Alumni Banquet was held May 23. There were approximately 186 alumni in attendance.
• Heather Carr, the 1998 Miss United Rodeo Association queen, visited Atchison County schools Wednesday, May 20, to promote the upcoming Tarkio Rodeo June 12 and 13.
• Kevin McKenna, who played professional basketball with the Washington Bullets, the New Jersey Nets, and the Los Angeles Lakers, will speak at the Tarkio Academy Athletic Assembly May 28 at Heartland Rec in Tarkio.
• Lawrence “Brownie” and Eunice Brown of Tarkio will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary June 4.
