November 19, 1948
• “Angel Street” is now in rehearsal for its production by the Tarkio College Little Theatre on December 2 and 3. Director of the play is Preston Magruder and assistant director is Dorothy Jean McCartney. Jean Sinclair heads the cast with Charles Dick, William Beattie, Victor Buntz, John Skillings, Joan Hornecker, and Dorothy Albertson.
• The Guardsmen male quartet will appear on the chapel stage at David Rankin Hall November 22. Their famous “Lady Killers” routine was organized in 1940 in the Warners picture “It All Came True” starring Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart.
• President and Mrs. M. Earle Collins of Tarkio College will hold an open house in the W. F. Rankin home (the manse) on Thanksgiving Day, November 25. The home is a recent gift to the college by the late Mrs. W.F. Rankin. It is the first time that Tarkio College has had a college-owned home for the use of its president and his family.
November 22, 1973
• Gary Pierce Hutton, 25, of Kansas City and a King City native was killed in a hunting accident Monday when he apparently stumbled and his shotgun discharged. The accident occurred at the Mark Gigliotti farm about 10 miles east of Fairfax in a field off Hwy. 46.
• Atchison County judges Orville Mather, Fred Daughterty and Hal Davis inspected the new $12,000 bookmobile now in service by the Atchison County Library. The court defrayed the cost by $10,000 for the facility, which is capable of housing 2,000 volumes.
• The Gospel Associates, a quartet of young men from Craig, Missouri, will perform at the Tarkio Community Building November 30. Comprised of Bill Hodge, Dennis Showalter, Lloyd Whitham, and Mike Quimby and accompanied by Becky Snider, the quartet’s performance is a Tarkio Community Betterment fundraiser.
• French teacher Connie Crapson and her “Groupe Folklorieque,” composed of seven girls and three boys, visited the Tarkio Rotary Club November 13. The Groupe sang several songs, all in French, and danced two numbers.
November 19, 1998
• Tarkio Academy is asking for the community’s help in providing a Christmas gift for the 215 boys on the campus.
• Kansas City Young Audiences will present Missouri Cultural History December 4 at the Tarkio Elementary School. Dave Para, Cathy Barton-Para, and Bob Dyer use songs, slides and stories to present the work of musicians Scott Joplin, Count Basie, and Charlie Parker and the painters G.C. Bingham and T.H. Benton.
• Heavy winds downed a pole on Highway 59 on the north edge of Tarkio. The pole fell onto some wires.
• The second annual Tarkio Mayor’s Food Drive saw a bunch of items collected for the Tarkio/Westboro, Missouri, Community Food Pantry in Tarkio.
• Tarkio Academy students put up the flags for Veterans Day. The students and staff are responsible for hanging and taking down the flags in the city on special occasions.
