December 9, 1949
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Rusty Leads The Way” and “Carson City Raiders,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” with Jimmy Stewart, “Task Force” with Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, and Wayne Morris, and “Loves of Carmen” with Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.
• Electricity customers served by the Missouri Service company, although unaware of it, received “big town” type of service Monday morning. While 22,000 volts of electricity flowed through the three conductors, a Missouri Service line crew replaced a pole south of the Tarkio Rendering Works, without a break in service.
• Pfc. James Wesley Asbury, who has been with an Army artillery battalion in southern Germany, is spending a 30-day furlough at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Asbury. His furlough was granted because of the illness of his mother. Pfc. Asbury has been in service in Germany for six years.
• A new house will be erected tomorrow at 10th and Maple streets to replace the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Monroe, which was burned down by a fire last Friday morning. The two room residence will be built by veterans in the Institutional-on-the-Farm Training Program supervised by Max Van Hoosier.
December 12, 1974
• Bill Sumpton and Tom Hansen, second place International Foosball Champions, will visit Tarkio this Friday, December 13, and exhibit their skills. They will perform at the half time of the Tarkio High School/Nodaway-Holt boys’ basketball game at the THS Gym. After the game, any player or team wishing to challenge the champions may do so and win a gift certificate if they beat the champs in a two out of three match.
• Members of the Westboro AGC Club made holiday gift items. All money made from the sales will go to the NOWEMO Achievement Workshop.
• An investigation is being conducted by the FBI, the Atchison County Sheriff’s Department, Missouri Highway Patrol, the Tarkio Police Department, and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Department into an abduction of an Iowa man. There are as yet no suspects in the case.
• First National Teller Tells column: “And now, we note by the Avalanche of a few weeks ago that we have been doing this for 25 long years . . . If we are encouraged, we shall try to improve and make the next 25 better.”
December 9, 1999
• Not one but two broken arms in the family. Haley Johnson fell off the new playground equipment at the school and broke her arm. Then, her brother Adam, trying to be like Michael Jordan flying through the air while playing basketball, broke his arm. Their father, Will Johnson, owner and editor of the Tarkio Avalanche, remarked, “The only stat Adam will have for his shortened basketball season is to be the only player to receive a broken bone in the 19 years that Coach Dean Sparks has been at the helm of the Tarkio Warriors.”
• The Tarkio and Westboro communities are mourning the loss of three teenagers, Rose Murray, Miranda Kirkpatrick, and Kelly Cox, all students at Tarkio R-I, who were killed in a two-vehicle car crash south of Shenandoah, Iowa, on Highway 59 Thursday, December 2. Kelly and Miranda were cousins and all three were best friends.
• An iris in front of the Tarkio Nutrition Center on Main Street was in full bloom Sunday, December 5. This is the third time this year the iris has bloomed.
