September 29, 1950

• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “The Gunfighter” with Gregory Peck, “Blossoms In The Dust” with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, and “The Fighting Kentuckian” with John Wayne.

• Former Missouri Governor and current U.S. Senator Forrest C. Donnell spoke to a crowd of people on Main Street in Tarkio on Wednesday afternoon. Also in attendance was William C. Cole, who is seeking election as representative to Congress from the third district.

• Pvt. Joan Gigous, daughter of Mrs. Lynath Wells of Tarkio, is now serving in the general headquarters message center at Fort Lee, Virginia. She is the first and only WAC ever to have been assigned to that department.

• Veterans of Foreign Wars plans to furnish funds to aid in the beautifying of the city park by planting trees and to create a Tarkio College athletic scholarship to a member of the 1951 graduating class of Tarkio High School.

• Squire Ice Cream Co. in Tarkio advertises its new soft frozen dairy treat called Whirla-Whip, made from pure milk, thick cream, and other dairy products whipped and mellowed to a yummy, rich smoothness by the Whirla Whip machine.

October 2, 1975

• Bernard Napier has accepted the position of Director of Security for the Tarkio College campus. He supervises a staff of 17 campus patrolmen.

• Kyle Field was the scene of the 1975 Tarkio High School football homecoming Friday night. Queen Susie Postlewait and king Pat Ryan were crowned after the game. A dance with the theme of “Remember When” took place at the Tarkio Community Building that night.

• Evelyn Jenson, elementary teacher at Westboro and former teacher at Tarkio, has received notification that her article entitled “My Nouns are Blue” will be published in Teacher magazine later this year. The article was written as a result of a teaching method developed by Mrs. Jensen while teaching at Westboro.

• “Dark of the Moon” will be the Mule Barn Theatre’s season opener. The ingenius set design includes a series of ramps and platforms, congruous to mountain cliffs and gulleys, with twin spiral staircases formed as parts of two trees. The original Broadway play is an adaptation of the Smokey Mountain ballad “Barbara Allen,” a haunting story of a witch boy’s love for a mortal girl.

• Tarkio residents have welcomed to the community officers and noncommissioned officers of the Army and Air Force and their families who have come to Tarkio College to complete their degrees under “Operation Boostrap,” the Military Degree Completion Program. These men have come from Fort Benning in Georgia, Griffes Air Force Base in New York, Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska, and Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.

September 28, 2000

• The Missouri State Highway Patrol recently announced several personnel changes. Trooper Shane M. Hux has been assigned to Zone 1 in Tarkio. Trooper Hux is a native of St. Joseph. Trooper Harold G. Vernon has been assigned to Zone 1 in Rock Port. Trooper Vernon is also a native of St. Joseph.

• A pumpkin, gourd, and day lily sale was held September 22 in front of the Flower Mill in Tarkio to raise funds for the Tarkio Resource Center.