March 24, 1944

• The dock terminal of the Williams Truck Line is being enlarged to accommodate new trucks. The rafters on the inside of the building will be raised, permitting trucks of larger proportions to be housed.

• Virgil Harbison, president of the Tarkio Chamber of Commerce, presided at the first meeting of the organization held this year. Meeting in the Cosmo room of the Walnut Inn last Friday night, the 48 businessmen considered highway problems and post-war planning.

March 20, 1969

• Grand opening of the Friendly Boys Lumber Company is slated for this Friday and Saturday. The new company, located at the site of the old Tarkio Lumber Co. on Main Street, is owned by Melvin Smith, L.W. Johnson, and Lonnie Nance. Fred Knizley is the manager for the new lumber company.

• Five Tarkio Girl Scouts received the God and Community Award, the highest honor in scouting at the First Baptist Church in Tarkio Sunday, March 9, 1969. The candlelight ceremony began at 7:30 p.m. and featured Mrs. Jack Arnold, District Advisor, of Trenton as guest speaker. The awards were presented by Rev. Paul Patton and pinned by Mrs. Patton to Cadette Kay Kemerling, Cadette Jeanie Jones, Senior Karmen Jean Vette, Cadette Charlotte Reeves, and Cadette Karla Clark.

March 24, 1994

• Father Augustine Dreilling announces the dedication of a new sign for St. Paul Catholic Church in Tarkio in memory of Katie Chambers.

• There is a new Girl Scout Troop in Tarkio this year – Brownie Troop 61. Members include Johnna Hospodka, Angela Hancock, Molly Whittington, Amy Higgins, Crissy Meier, Alisha Kimes, Rachel White, Ashley Wennihan, Ashley Knierim, Alex Baruth, and Brittany Hogue, with leaders Pam Hancock and Brenda Kimes.

• The Tarkio Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for the Barnes Realty branch office that recently opened in Tarkio. People on hand included Rick Barnes, Barbara Simmons, and broker/salesperson Tom Simmons, who cut the ribbon.

• The Tarkio College Museum was put to good use March 9, when Robert M. Secor, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, was in town doing research for a book he’s writing on Wallace Carothers, one of Tarkio College’s most famous graduates. Carothers graduated from Tarkio College in 1917 and later went on to become a “team teacher” at Harvard with James Bryant Conant. Carothers later accepted a position with Du Pont where he did advanced research in neoprene synthetic fibers or “polymers” which eventually led to his discovery of nylon.