March 9, 1951

• United Telephone Company has purchased from the A.J. Roberts estate, the Atchison County Telephone Company. Management here is being assumed by the Nodaway Telephone Company.

• A mercury dip to nine degrees above zero occurred yesterday morning in contrast to the 69 degree reading of Monday, March 5.

• Funeral services were held Monday in Fremont, Nebraska, for Joseph P. Hansen of Tarkio. Mr. Hansen, 60, was the owner of the Hansen Food Market in Tarkio.

• In the near future, the Hy-Klas Market Basket will be in operation in the beautiful new building recently constructed at 608 Main Street in Tarkio. A feature attraction planned by the Hy-Klas Market Basket is the sale of pre-packaged fresh meats that will be cut and wrapped prior to sale and displayed in 36 feet of open refrigerated cases.

• Three to four thousand persons attended the opening of the new building of the Tarkio Truck and Tractor company last Wednesday. There were 3,160 doughnuts served, many gallons of coffee consumed, and a full house present for each of the  two shows afternoon and evening.

March 11, 1976

• The 10th annual Community Betterment Awards Banquet was held Monday night. Gavin Doughty and Roy McIntosh were both selected as “Citizen of the Year.” Kenneth Lindsay was chosen as “Employee of the Year” and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Ryan are “Farm Family of the Year.” Mrs. Jerry Hill recognized Mrs. Leslie Sabol for her winning slogan for Tarkio – “A town called ‘Home.’”

• Funeral services were held March 10 for Mrs. Maxine Herrick, 54. Mrs. Herrick and her late husband, Ferrill Herrick, owned Herrick Feed and Produce in Westboro for over 30 years. Mrs. Herrick was the owner and operator of Torrey Pines restaurant in Tarkio at the time of her death, and had been in business with her son, Kim Herrick, in the Herrick Fertilizer Company in Tarkio for two years.

• Eight Tarkio College students and their leader are traveling and exploring throughout upper Egypt. This is a part of the program conducted each fall and winter term by Tarkio College on its overseas campus of the Shutz American School in Alexandria. The first excursion via school bus has them hitting historical spots important to Egypt’s long history of civilization.

March 8, 2001

• Fred and Janet Wennihan of Tarkio will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on Monday, March 12. The couple was married March 12,1976, at the First Baptist Church in Tarkio by Reverend Robert Collins.

• Ask Elsie Fae: “The Chamber’s Spaghetti Dinner at the Walnut Inn was a success, but I was annoyed. They took me to a back corner to seat me, but I told them I was Elsie Rhoades, not little Jack Horner. That bit of information got me a table in the center of the room. Bill Smith had table trouble, too, but he finally found someone willing to sit with him.”

• The Tarkio High School Lady Indians Basketball Team captured the District 32 Championship and then went on to also claim the regional championship.

• The Missouri Soybean Association elected Brooks Hurst of Tarkio as its president.