February 10, 1950
• Showing at The Tarkio Theatre: “Keep ’Em Flying” with Abbott and Costello, “Kazan” with Joe Sawyer and Stephen Dunne, “The Sundowners” with Robert Preston and Robert Sterling, and “Family Honeymoon” with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.
• Mary Cagley will play the blowzy, impoverished mother living on the memories of a flower-scented southern past in the Tarkio College Little Theatre’s production of the “Glass Menagerie,” which will open for two performances at Rankin Hall March 2 and 3. Irish Teachout will play the daughter. Ed Homewood will play Tom. Dean Morrison will play the part of the gentleman caller.
• One of Tarkio’s oldest residents, Mrs. Bertha Spiegel, observed her 91st birthday at her home at 508 Chestnut Street. She came here with her husband, the late Otto Spiegel, in March of 1882 following their marriage in Monmouth, Illinois. An alert woman, Mrs. Spiegel recalls many events in the early days of Tarkio’s history.
• James McIntosh will serve as chief of the Tarkio Fire Department for 1950. Mr. McIntosh succeeds Virgil Harbison. Other officers are: Virgil Hulett, first assistant; Virgil Traub, second assistant; and Joe Andes, secretary-treasurer. George Smith was chosen as a new member of the 12-man volunteer department.
• Tarkio’s thermometer readings ranged from a low of 3 degrees above zero last Friday to a high of 49 degrees Monday.
February 13, 1975
• Jack Rudnay, center for the Kansas City Chiefs, will be the guest speaker at the Tarkio Cub Scout Pack 88 Blue and Gold Banquet February 17.
• An eight-room tenant house owned by Ray King along Highway C two miles outside of Westboro was burned to make way for the new construction of the road from Highway 59 to Westboro.
• Ray Hintlian, junior high science teacher, has a 400-year-old toad carved from a seashell by the extinct Hohokan tribe. Hintlian and his daughter found the toad two years ago in Arizona.
• Annual Pinewood Derby winners were Keith Atkinson (1st), Kevin Sands (2nd), Craig Livengood (3rd), Mike Vette (4th), Bob Sturm (5th), and David Vietze (6th).
• Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, has formed a chapter at Tarkio College. One of their first efforts was washing and waxing the Tarkio fire trucks and police patrol car.
February 10, 2000
• David R. Colflesh of Tarkio has been named “Agent of the Year” in the Greater Kansas City Office of New York Life Insurance Company. A New York Life Agent for 21 years, Colflesh received the award in recognition of outstanding sales achievement and exemplary client service and professionalism.
• A recent change in the way the Tarkio Post Office receives incoming mail for distribution took effect this week. The Mail Processing Center at Kansas City, Missouri, has added Tarkio to its list of presorted mail. That means a certain percentage of Tarkio first class letters will be worked on optical character readers, the addresses being read electronically, and trayed directly to the carriers, both on the city routes and rural ones.
• Gerry Vawter, a 1978 graduate of Tarkio High School, is in Chile consulting engineers about a new waste water treatment plant in Pucon, Chile. The new plant is the first activated sludge plant in Chile.
• Tarkio R-I Superintendent Mike Mendon discussed the new elementary building addition with the public Friday, February 4, to answer questions the community might have about the project.
