June 8, 1951
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Captive Girl” with Johnny Weissmuller, “Convicted” starring Glenn Ford and Broderick Crawford, “I’d Climb The Highest Mountain” with Susan Hayward and William Lundigan, and “The Fuller Brush Girl” starring Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert.
• Dr. J.A. Gray of Watson, Missouri, age 68, a Republican representative from Atchison County serving his ninth two-year term in the state legislature, died of a heart attack Wednesday in Jefferson City. He was the doctor in Watson the past 48 years.
• Virgil Traub, a 46-year-old Tarkio resident and volunteer firemen, was helping to fight a fire at the Emmett Vance residence Sunday night when he collapsed and died from a heart attack while helping to rig up a hose. Only the walls of the Vance home were left standing following the fire.
• Large enrollments were reported at the Bible Schools held in Tarkio last week and this week. The Union Bible School, consisting of the Christian, Presbyterian, and United Presbyterian Churches, averaged 84 pupils. The Methodist Bible School had 92 and the Baptist Bible School had 81.
June 10, 1976
• Dr. William I. “Pop” Ferguson, a resident of Northview Manor in Tarkio, celebrated his 101st birthday Sunday, June 6. The birthday cake was chocolate angel food with white icing and the words “Happy Birthday, Pop” in red.
• The Tarkio Bicentennial Commission will sponsor a tour of five houses Sunday afternoon, June 13. Homes to be shown are the Tarkio College Manse at the top of Main, the Ray Schmidt home at 1201 McNary, the Melvin Smith house on Highway 136 and YY, the late Elizabeth Kaufman property at 801 Elm, and the Gary Watson residence at 311 N. 5th.
• Motorists traveling along Interstate 29 will at long last know where Tarkio is. Two years of effort finally came to fruition Tuesday with the erection of a 10 foot high sign 15 feet in length on the west side of the roadway on the Orville Barnhardt land.
June 7, 2001
• Construction of the new water tower in Tarkio is nearing completion. The top of the tower was put into place Friday, June 1. The new tower will hold more water than the old one.
• The Atchison County Health Center in Tarkio recently received funds from the Margaret Dunham Memorial. The late Mrs. Dunham of Westboro, Missouri, supported and served on the board of the Atchison County Health Center.
• Betty Bussard was this year’s Tarkio Rodeo Parade Grand Marshal Saturday, June 2. Betty was crowned the 1959-60 National Rodeo Queen in Lewistown, Montana.
• Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 6, for Donald Schick White of Tarkio. Donald, 78, served in the United States Army as a medic overseas during WWII in Germany and the Battle of the Bulge. Following his honorable discharge, he and his wife, Carlotta, returned to Tarkio to farm and they had five children.
• The Tarkio Assembly of God Church has called Reverend Tommy Mapes to serve as the new pastor of the church.
