December 22, 1950
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Holiday Inn” starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, “Tarzan Triumphs” with Johnny Weissmuller, “The Black Hand,” Walt Disney’s “Cinderella,” and “Red Stallion in the Rockies.”
• The local fire department was called to the C.L. McAdams home at 203 Walnut Street where a burning shed at the rear of the home threatened the residence itself. Several household items and some fuel stored in the shed were destroyed, but firemen put out the blaze before it spread to the home.
• Neighbors and friends of Henry Walter joined in a full day of corn shucking last Friday and with the help of two pickers, an elevator, and other equipment, covered about 30 acres owned by Mr. Walter seven miles northeast of Tarkio. Mr. Walter’s son Albert has been in the hospital after undergoing an operation and the family got behind with farm work. Mrs. Walter and daughter, Ella, served dinner to the workers.
• Temperatures the past week ranged from 35 degrees on December 16 to three above zero on December 20. Winds were 20 miles per hour on December 17 with a trace of precipitation.
• Virgil Harbison entertained school children at a movie Wednesday afternoon at the Tarkio Theatre. Eight cartoons were shown. The children were admitted upon presentation of a jar of fruit or some such item given to the welfare board for distribution to the needy.
December 25, 1975
• David Lane sold the largest amount of donation tickets for the Tarkio Junior High School’s benefit turkey drawing. He sold over 70 tickets at 50 cents each. The turkey was donated by Mr. John Abbott, manager of Tarkio Hy-Vee, and it was won by Frank Staashelm of Westboro.
• Mr. and Mrs. Wayman Park of Tarkio will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary December 28 with an open house at the First National Bank in Tarkio. The Parks are the owners and operators of the Park Leather Shop in Tarkio.
• The mercury rose to a comfortable high of 52 degrees last week on the 19th, following a frigid low of four degrees below zero on the 18th.
• The first class of commissioned and noncommissioned officers of the “Operation Bootstrap” program for military personnel and veterans received their degrees at Tarkio College. Graduates included: M/Sgt. Calvin Lee from Lackland AFB, Texas; M/Sgt. Robert Dorsey and M/Sgt. Robert Stewart from Offutt AFB in Nebraska; S/Sgt. Andrew Henderson from Griffis AFB in New York; and Captain Ray Dent and Captain Gabriel Couroux from Fort Benning, Georgia.
December 21, 2000
• The Tarkio Chamber of Commerce’s Elf commercials, greetings, and auction were a great success. The auction raised over $4,000, which will be used to pay outstanding bills that have been due since the C.A.B.A. World Series was held back in August.
• The Tarkio Resource Center had a successful weekend of fundraising, bringing in $1,462 even with the horrible weather.
• Betsy Chapin of Tarkio was the lucky winner of a dinner for eight at the Wayward Inn in Tarkio at Elsie Fae Rhoades’ home.
• The Tarkio City Council has voted to put a request of a 1/2 cent sales tax ordinance on the Tuesday, April 3, ballot. The revenue would be put in the general fund with proceeds going to the street department.
