June 29, 1951
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Frisco Tornado” with Allan “Rocky” Lane and his stallion Black Jack, “Pistol Packin’ Mama,” and “Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town” starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. If your phone number is 17F12 or 882W call the box office for a complimentary ticket for your family to see any one show in this ad.
• More rains the past week brought a total of 3.63 inches of precipitation for the past week’s period, bringing the total for the month to 8.13 inches. The high temperature was 90 degrees on June 27 and the low was 56 degrees on Monday.
• Miss Mary McNeal will teach next year in Puerto Rico, having accepted a position in the science department of Antillies Dependents’ School, U.S. Naval Station, San Juan. Miss McNeal has taught here for three years in the high school and two years at Tarkio College.
• Pictures of E.S. (Sheriff) Austin and George Ryan of Tarkio will appear in The Chicago Journal of Commerce and The National Petroleum News along with a feature article in which a good bit is said about Tarkio as the popcorn center of the country. The article can also be found in this week’s Avalanche in the Continental Oil Company’s ad.
July 1, 1976
• The Tarkio Elementary Bicentennial Chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Sid Cooper, will be performing Saturday, July 3, at the North City Park. The chorus has received recognition throughout the area and performed on KQTV-St. Joseph earlier this year, radio stations KXCV and KMA, the Sweet Adelines Spring Show, and at other numerous community events. They have also made a record.
• July fourth marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of St. John’s Lutheran Church northwest of Tarkio. There will be a two-day festive observance July 10 and 11. An auction sale will be held, a demonstration of oat harvest by hand with Fred Daugherty’s team of work horses, a box supper and country hoe down, and a “big tent” worship service.
June 28, 2001
• The Tarkio Family Practice Center and the Rock Port Family Medical Center welcomes Aron Burke, M.D., and Joanna Burke, P.N.P. Dr. Wallace Carpenter will continue working full-time through July 15 and then will have a reduced work schedule. Dr. Burke is a 1992 graduate of Rock Port High School.
• Ask Elsie Fae: “Having worked hard for years to amass enough money to pay my funeral expenses, I decided to take a vacation with my children…We went to Siesta Key, where trousers on men and dresses on women are sights you won’t see. When I wondered aloud why men and women my age were wearing outrageously skimpy clothes, Jane explained that years ago, a scantily dressed elderly couple came down from New York. The Island Ancients, deciding the New Yorkers were wearing the latest fashions from The Big Apple, copied the style, and a new and lasting trend in undress was born.”
• Sixty children and workers were in attendance at the First Baptist Church’s vacation Bible school. The children went on an adventure journey through the deserts of Egypt and the Middle East in a search for the secret of the Stone Tablets.
