May 31, 1946

• Refinishing of the interior and exterior of the Texaco Motor Service at the junction of Highways 59 and 4 has been completed and new battery charging equipment is being installed.

• A tornado last Thursday wreaked heavy damage in its path across Nodaway, Holt, and Atchison counties, tearing up homes and buildings around Skidmore and Dotham and killing much livestock. The Phillip Close family living eight miles west of Skidmore lost their home, car, buildings, and 20 hogs.

• Delegates attending the General Assembly here this week will be guests this afternoon of the Tarkio Chamber of Commerce, which has planned a 50-mile tour. Delegates will see the old David Rankin barn and home, the James Scamman farm, the property of Mrs. W.F. Rankin, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Centerpoint Cemetery, Centerview Rural School, municipal airport, reclaimed swamp lands, Burr Oak Ranch, and the only producing oil wells in Missouri.

June 3, 1971

• Services for Richard C. Altman, 67, veteran newsman of Rock Port and a writer for the Avalanche over a long period of years, were conducted Saturday afternoon. He was stricken with a heart attack shortly before noon at his home as he was writing his weekly column for the paper.

• Teaching careers for two long-time teachers have come to an end. Miss Ruth Wallace is retiring from teaching, terminating 39 years of tenure in the Missouri schools and eight in the Tarkio system. Mrs. Florence McMillan is retiring after 21 years in the teaching profession, 14 1/2 of those spent in Tarkio.

May 30, 1996

• The building which formerly housed Confection Connection on Main Street in Tarkio is being torn down. This will be part of the space used for the incoming Place’s Store.

• Tarkio College faculty and staff have received their first paycheck from those due them from the institution at the time of its closing. Tarkio College was forced to close in May 1991 after the U.S. Department of Education demanded some nine million dollars be returned to its department under Title IV education funds. College officials were unaware that the college’s programs were not in compliance with the government standards, and the college auditors, which were hired by the board, failed to do proper auditing which would have indicated these non-compliance programs.