October 22, 1948

• In a transaction completed last week, the Tarkio Candy Kitchen was sold by Mr. and Mrs. Dale Dragoo to Galen McMaster, who took possession Monday. Mr. McMaster has been in the trucking business for some time and last year he was the athletic coach and teacher in Westboro High School.

• New furnishings and decorations at the Walnut Inn hotel in Tarkio made a noticeable improvement in the lobby and upstairs bedrooms. New massive sectional lounge chairs upholstered in a soft dusty rose fabric and new divans with floral slip covers have been put in the lobby.

• Services were held for John L. Nell, 51, of Tarkio Wednesday afternoon. John served two years in WWI and became one of the many victims of the gas warfare. His son, Norman, served in WWII and disappeared along with his plane and nine other servicemen in 1944 in New Guinea. (The wreckage and remains were not found until the early 2000s and after identification processes, the remains were returned to their families in 2007 for proper burial.)

October 25, 1973

• Frank Hopkins, 99-year-old native of Atchison County who was known for his gifts to colleges and other public institutions, passed away in Shenandoah, Iowa. Mr. Hopkins was a Tarkio College graduate, served as a school principal for several years, was a farmer, and served five terms in the Missouri Legislature from 1916 to 1936, representing Atchison County. He had donated $190,000 to Tarkio College in the past three years.

• The Mule Barn Theatre of Tarkio College will welcome Miss Harriet V. Ketchum as its guest director this fall. She will direct the production of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. Miss Ketchum wrote a play “Grotesquerie” which was performed in an off-Broadway theatre in 1971. She performed in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway and appeared in the Ryan O’Neal movie Paper Moon.

• The Tarkio College Campus Women will host a Pie ’N Card Benefit for the school. The event for both women and men will be held October 27 in the Student Center Cafeteria. Along with cards and pies, the evening will feature informal modeling of men’s and women’s fashions by local merchants.

October 22, 1998

• Students at Tarkio High School are celebrating fall home-coming. Homecoming king and queen candidates include Keith Whittington, Jeff Champlin, John Stockstill, Andrea Murphy, Jamie Johnson, and Ambera Wennihan.

• The students and staff at Tarkio Academy will be participating in Make A Difference Day October 14 by painting fire hydrants, clearing the city parks, Main Street, and downtown side streets, weeding the flower boxes on Main Street, helping shut-ins with fall clean-up, collecting winter coats for needy elementary students, and collecting non-perishable food for the Community Food Pantry.

• Bev Jones has decided to move home and open her law offices in Tarkio. She is a general practitioner. Her offices will be located in her home and a ribbon cutting will be held there October 30.