October 6, 1950
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “The Fighting Kentuckian” with John Wayne.
• The Reverend and Mrs. E.R. Bayley and daughters, Julia Belle and Alice Josephine, have moved into the Tarkio Methodist Church parsonage. Rev. Bayley began his duties as pastor at the church September 24. He is a veteran of two world wars.
• Richard Grebe leaves October 14 for Fort Lewis, Washington, having received his orders Wednesday. Grebe, who was a motor sergeant with the field artillery in the last war, has been employed as a welder at Troy Shaw’s blacksmith shop here.
• William Huckfeldt of Elkhorn, Nebraska, has purchased the Tarkio Locker Plant at 112 N. 3rd Street in Tarkio from the Rorick Construction Company of Omaha, Nebraska. He has also leased the Tarkio Packing Company from Melbourne Youel of Tarkio.
October 9, 1975
• The fifth anniversary of Northview Manor in Tarkio was a gala affair Sunday afternoon with a large crowd of patients, relatives and friends attending an open house.
• The 93-year-old school bell has been erected outside of the Tarkio Junior High School. The bell hung in the bell tower of the old junior high building located on 7th Street that was torn down in 1974. The bell was cast by The Buckeye Bell Foundry and sold by Vanduzen & Tift of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1882. Its first home was the grade school on Elm between 7th and 8th streets. The school was torn down in 1925. The bell was then moved to the first high school on 7th street, which later became the middle school.
• It may not be the world’s biggest pumpkin, but it’s the biggest we’ve seen in our community this year. It was grown by Harry Meier on his son’s farm near Tarkio. It weighed 80 pounds.
• The Tarkio Junior High and High School bands each placed first in the Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree in Clarinda, Iowa. The high school band was also selected to perform in the field competition.
• Heidki Mauyama is a foreign exchange student from Kofu, Japan, who is attending Tarkio High School this year.
October 5, 2000
• Ag Partners Cooperative, Inc., officials in Tarkio reported that its corn storage facility was nearly full as of Monday, October 2. “We have never been this full at this time of year before,” said Stan Butt, Ag Partners Cooperative official. “It’s only the first of October and there’s still a lot of corn to be hauled in.”
• The Tarkio High School Marching Indians placed third in the Class 1A Division at the Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree Saturday, September 30.
• Many friends and family members came to the aid of Carla and David Ripley of rural Tarkio on Sunday, October 1, to help him harvest his crops. Approximately 190 acres of corn and 140 acres of beans were harvested that day. David is currently undergoing treatment for cancer.
• The Tarkio FFA Chapter members poured the concrete foundation of the bathrooms being constructed at Niedermeyer Park in Tarkio.
• Bill and Barb Lee of Tarkio are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Megan McKenzie Lee. She was born at Community Hospital Association in Fairfax September 22. She weighed six pounds and 10 ounces.
