March 30, 1951
• In the past week, the mercury rose to a 76 degree maximum on Monday compared to a 22 degree minimum on Saturday. Precipitation was 1.17 inches.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Edward Currie of Tarkio are the parents of a baby daughter born at Fairfax Community Hospital on St. Patrick’s Day. The little girl, named Patricia Ann, weighed six pounds and is the first child for Mr. Currie and his wife, the former Dorothy May Moore of Tarkio.
• Mrs. Morrell Bell and Mrs. John Wells have leased the American Legion Building in Tarkio and will open a dining room there. Meals will be served daily to the public from 7:00 a.m. through the evening hours, including Sundays. Until recently, the two women were operators of the Walnut Inn Coffee Shop.
• Specials at Hansen’s food store in Tarkio include: pork chops, 49¢ per pound; Campbell’s tomato soup, 9¢ per can; Break-O-Morn coffee, 79¢ per pound; Pard dog food, 2 for 29¢; chocolate covered cherries, 39¢ per pound; and carrots, large bunch for 9¢.
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Tarzan’s Desert Mystery,” “The Blazing Sun,” “Crisis,” “Rawhide,” and “The Toast Of New Orleans.”
April 2, 1976
• Nikki Giovanni, “The Princess of Black Poetry,” will appear Wednesday, April 7, at Schechter Auditorium on the Tarkio College campus. Ms. Giovanni is acclaimed for her fiction and poetry books and for her records, which are backed by the gospel music of the New York Community Choir. She was the winner of the National Book Award in 1973 for “Gemini.”
• This week’s special at Torrey Pines in Tarkio is a chicken dinner complete with two pieces of chicken, French fries, cole slaw, and a hot roll for $1.50.
• Mike Peregrine is working on his ag welding project of making a low boy in advanced welding. The low boy is 16 feet long with a tilt bed. When finished, Mike estimates the cost will be around $550. The main use of the low boy, when finished, will be to haul equipment and hay.
• The Tarkio Community Building was the scene for some 250 enthusiastic 4-Hers and their families participating in the Atchison County 4-H Carnival last Saturday evening. Seven Atchison County 4-H Clubs participated. Shawn Minter of the Lucky Clovers Club was named king and Julee Lair of the Northern Highlighters won queen.
March 29, 2001
• Funeral services were held at Tarkio First Baptist Church for Margaret Kathryn Clement on Saturday, March 24. Margaret, 83, and her husband, Richard, managed the Pleasant View Rest Home in Rock Port six years and operated and owned Clement Grocery in Tarkio for a few years, as well as farmed.
• The Tarkio High School Chapter of National Honor Society recently made a donation to the Tarkio/Westboro Food Pantry. The group of students had collected specific items needed by the pantry.
• Tarkio High School junior golfer Laurie Whittington has been invited by International Sports Specialists, Inc. to represent the State of Missouri in the 2001 Down Under Games in Australia this summer.
• Jason Sundermann placed third in the All-Conference Academic Bowl held recently in Fairfax. Tarkio’s team placed fourth in the 275 Conference competition.
