October 5, 1951
• Showing at the Tarkio Theatre: “Down In Arkansaw,” “Night Unto Morning,” “Mr. Belvedere Rings The Bell,” and “California Passage” starring Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, and Estelita Rodriguez.
• Tomorrow will be the grand opening day of the Flower Bowl at 501 Main Street. Mrs. Earl Sons, owner, has remodeled and redecorated the shop, which is located in the Loren Coe building. All visitors will receive corsages for the women and boutonnieres for the men.
• Mr. and Mrs. Max Wolford will open a ceramic studio in Tarkio Friday evening, October 12, and Saturday, October 13. The Wolfords will conduct a course of six lessons in ceramics.
• The Conception Seminarians will provide a program of varied numbers at the annual bazaar sponsored by the Altar Society of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Tarkio next Wednesday evening at the Community Building. In addition, Mrs. Arlene Pridgen will be heard at McCarty’s electric organ. Supper will be served and there will be a number of booths including fancy work, candy, and the like.
October 7, 1976
• Ramona Jones and the Folks Back Home will open the 1976-77 Tri-State Artist Lecture Series at Tarkio College October 9. Ramona is one of the finest fiddlers in the country. She sings and plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and autoharp. She has appeared regularly on the Old Dominion Barndance and has been featured on Hee Haw with her husband, Grandpa Jones, and has toured with the members of Grand Ole Opry.
• The swine flu shots will be given to Atchison County residents by the automatic hypospray jet injector gun instead of the old fashioned needle shot.
• Tarkio Pelleting reports that the corn market closed Tuesday at $2.35 with soybeans at $5.95. The week’s high for corn was $2.40 and the soybean high was $5.95.
• Temperatures spanned 64 degrees this week. The low was 38 degrees September 29 and the high was 93 degrees October 1.
• A bell tower was recently added to the North Polk Schoolhouse, now on the property of Tarkio College. The building was first erected in 1899. More than 500 pupils, representing over 200 families, attended the school from 1899 to its closing in 1954. It was moved to Tarkio last fall.
October 4, 2001
• Something new this year at Tarkio High School, inspired by the movie “Bring It On,” is Tarkio’s own spirit stick. A friend of Tarkio student Britney Laur made the spirit stick to give to whatever class yells the loudest at the pep rallies.
• Helen Scamman of Rock Port, Missouri, a resident at Northview Manor in Tarkio, celebrated her 104th birthday on Tuesday, September 25. She was born on September 25, 1897.
• Students from Honey Tree Nursery School in Tarkio visited the pumpkin patch at the rural Tarkio home of Louise Scamman. The kids got to choose and pick their own pumpkins.
• The Tarkio High School Marching Indians earned third place in the Class IA division of the Southwest Iowa Band Jamboree in Clarinda.
