April 27, 1950
• Showing at The Tarkio Theatre: “Stampede” with Rod Cameron and Gale Storm, “Rose Of The Yukon” with Steve Brodie and Myrna Dell, “The Boy With Green Hair” with Pat O’Brien, “Montana” with Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith, and “My Friend Irma” with John Lund and Marie Wilson.
• Summer made a visit to Tarkio last weekend when a near-record April temperature of 91 degrees was recorded at the local U.S. Airways Communications Station. A wintry chill returned, though, and the mercury dropped to 27 degrees at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.
• Mrs. Linnius Doughty has been hired to fill the new post of director of music and art in the elementary school for the next school year. This will bring the school’s faculty to 23 – 14 teachers in the high school and eight in the grade school.
• A mystery comedy “Stranger in the Night” is the all-school play being presented Friday, May 5, in the Tarkio High School auditorium. Mrs. Curtis Fay is the director.
May 1, 1975
• The Westboro Lions Club held its 27th anniversary meeting at the Methodist Church. Ninety-three people were present to enjoy a full course meal, listen to Dr. Glenn Bargman of Burlington Junction, Missouri, speak on the “Advancement of Educational System of Today,” and to hear Rev. Roger Wreath, pastor of the Tarkio and Westboro Methodist churches, sing two solos.
• Boy Scout Troop 88 held a campout at Big Lake Friday through Sunday morning. Thirty-seven Scouts along with Scoutmaster Carl Martin and seven other adults cleaned up the entire camping area of litter and fished.
• The young people’s Christ Ambassadors of the Assembly of God Church in Tarkio held a rock-a-thon Friday night, April 25, to raise money for a missionary project. There were 26 people who climbed into their rocking chairs and started rocking at 8:00 p.m. watching a film to help pass the time. There were only seven people still rocking at 11:00 a.m. the next morning.
April 27, 2000
• Ten month old Kyle Wigley of Tarkio won a huge stuffed Easter bunny and basket full of goodies from Pizza Hut in Tarkio.
• A large crowd of children attended the Nu Sigma Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi’s Easter Egg Hunt in Tarkio on the soccer field near Heartland Recreation Center.
• The Tarkio Avalanche is featuring a new, twice-monthly magazine beginning in today’s edition. “American Profile” celebrates hometowns, unsung heroes, great home-style cooking, and the unique qualities of American hometown living.
• Mildred Kirk of Rock Port was pictured with several large mushrooms she “hunted down” recently. Some of the mushrooms weighed over one pound each. Mildred has been hunting mushrooms since she was five years old and although she wouldn’t say exactly where she found them, she did say that they were found on the bottom land.
• The Tarkio congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses warmly invites anyone in the community to an open house May 6 at Kingdom Hall in Tarkio. The building at 711 North 6th Street, which has served as the center of activities for local Witnesses since 1952, was recently renovated.
