January 19, 1951

• Showing at The Tarkio Theatre: “Mark of The Gorilla” with Johnny Wiesmuller and Trudy Marshall, “Powder River Rustlers” with Allan Lane, “Marine Raiders” starring Pat O’Brien and Ruth Hussey, “Three Secrets” with Ruth Roman, Eleanor Parker, and Patricia Neal, and “Watch the Birdie” with Red Skelton and Arlene Dahl.

• Join the Booster Club at a round/square dance at the Tarkio Community Building Friday, February 2, from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. Admission is 60¢. Music will be provided by the Got-No-Rancho Gang.

• Master Sgt. T.D. Profitt, Jr., has been transferred from Lackland Air Base in San Antonio, Texas, to Sampson Air Base in Syracuse, New York, where he will attend officers’ training school.

• Officers elected at a meeting of the Atchison County Farm Bureau were: J.P. Scamman of Tarkio, president; Albert Rolf, vice-president; and Mrs. S.M. Burke, secretary-treasurer.

January 22, 1976

• Controlling interest in Iowa State Bank at Hamburg has been purchased by Harold Boatman of Tarkio and Dan Boatman of Hamburg. Dan Boatman will be president and director and Harold will be executive vice president and director. They will be joined on the board by Tom Boatman of Langdon.

• The high and low temperatures of the week were recorded in a 24-hour period. The mercury rose to a balmy high of 49 degrees on the 20th, followed by a low of 3 degrees.

• The 90th birthday of Mrs. M.M. Hopkins will be celebrated with an open house at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Straub, in Fairfax Sunday, February 1. Mrs. Hopkins was born January 31, 1886, in Illinois and moved to Atchison County with her family when she was six months old. She lived in Tarkio for 45 years, Fairfax for 40 years, and has lived at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Rock Port the past five years.

• Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Currie of Tarkio will observe their 60th wedding anniversary at an open house at The Farmers and Valley Bank community room Sunday, January 25.

January 18, 2001

• Singers from the music ensemble Meli Melomane performed at Heartland Recreation Center on January 9. Meli Melomane is a group of eight college-age male singers from the island of Haiti who perform folk music.

• Perry Sybert and Shane Hux killed a bobcat while hunting pheasants outside of Tarkio. They were walking a ditch when they came upon the bobcat eating a rabbit. The bobcat made a pass at the men’s hunting dog so it was shot. It weighed 25 1/2 pounds.

• Doug Summa, owner and operator of Summa Pharmacy in Tarkio, is the new president of the Tarkio Chamber of Commerce.

• A fire destroyed a house and everything inside at 805 Pine Street in Tarkio around noon Thursday, January 11. The occupants, Sara Kay Driskell and her four-year-old daughter, Paige, were uninjured.

• The Most Caring Person Award was presented to Tarkio High School senior Tanya Riley, Tarkio seventh grader Lindsey Hicks, and THS aide Lois Wiley.