December 1, 1950
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Road To Rio” with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, “The Arizona Cowboy,” “Music In The Moonlight,” “Pretty Baby,” and “Where The Sidewalk Ends” with Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney.
• M.F. Patterson, chairman of the street decorations committee for Tarkio, is wondering if someone has mistaken “Tarkio” for “Tokyo” and sent all the Christmas lights he ordered to Japan. Although the lights were shipped from Parkersburg, West Virginia, November 6 and the bill has been received, the lights have not yet arrived. Efforts to trace the freight have met with no results.
• The move of the Tarkio Truck and Tractor company from the present location to the beautiful new building at Sixth and Main will be started next week. Dimensions of the building are a roomy 82 x 96 feet. This new structure has beautiful walls of gloss finish tile and fluorescent lighting throughout. From a small heating plant, the building will be heated with the use of heavy commercial grade fuel oil.
• Miss Marian Farquhar, Tarkio College 1941 graduate, was interviewed last Tuesday morning on Tommy Bartlett’s “Welcome Travelers” show over NBC. She is a missionary from the Sudan in Africa and formerly lived near Coin, Iowa.
December 4, 1975
• Evangelists Benny and Sherri Ferguson will be at Tarkio Assembly of God Church December 1-14 beginning at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Pastor H.H. McDonald welcomes everyone to attend.
• A business property auction and antique sale at the former Withrow Drug Store, located on Main Street in Tarkio, will be held Saturday, December 13. The auction and sale will include the building, antiques, furniture, and miscellaneous.
• Tarkio R-I takes great pride in congratulating Mrs. Carlotta White for having been selected as a candidate for Missouri Teacher of the Year. Mrs. White has been a first and second grade teacher for 15 years at Tarkio Elementary School.
• Firemen were called to the Ted Nixon residence at 801 Main Street in Tarkio Saturday night about 10:20 p.m. to rescue Mr. Nixon from a 13 foot deep, 6-8 foot wide cistern into which he had fallen in the dark on his way from his house to his vehicle. Once the fire department arrived, a ladder was lowered into the hole and Mr. Nixon was able to climb out, miraculously uninjured except for severe scrapes, scratches and bruises. There was no water in the cistern, only mud.
November 30, 2000
• Nineteen Super-Sitters from Tarkio are now available as trained child care supervisors following a two-day Super-Sitter training program sponsored by the Community Hospital Fairfax Development Council. Stacie Clevenger was the instructor, providing her volunteer time, knowledge, and services toward training the 5th-8th graders.
• The Tarkio High School Agriculture Department recently received 150 tilapia fingerlings. The fish came from a farm in Tennessee that raises tilapia for commercial production. The fish will be grown in the ag classroom in a 400-gallon fish farm. The students will also have a hydroponics table that will be used for growing plants.
• The Tarkio R-I bus barn is a total loss from what is suspected to be an electrical fire in an interior wall. Five buses were also completely destroyed.
• The roof on the new restrooms at Niedermeyer Park in Tarkio was placed Tuesday, November 28. The Atchison County Highway Department assisted in the roof placement.
