October 21, 1993

• Marshal Oswald was crowned Favorite Fellow and Rachel Sefrit was crowned Chapter Sweetheart at the annual FFA and FHA barnwarming at Fairfax High School.

• In Bits & Wits by Uncle Fud – J Highway is open again with one-way traffic. A person usually thinks of having to stop coming into a town, but in Fairfax you have to stop when leaving town to go west. The two traffic signals have been named Muri and Chegwidden – you can pick which is which.

October 17, 1968

• A deadly spark from a short circuit in new wiring at the Fairfax Manufacturing plant resulted in an estimated thousands of dollars in damage by fire, smoke, and water to merchandise, fixtures, and the structure about 9:30 p.m. last Friday night.

• Emphasizing Fire Prevention Week, a fire drill and rescue demonstration was conducted at Fairfax School. At the sound of the alarm, students filed out of the building to a vantage point across the street where they observed a mock rescue demonstration from an upper window performed by the firemen. Rick Harrington played victim.

October 22, 1943

• A large black walnut tree in the yard at the R.L. Dills home produced an unusually large crop this year. Five bushels of the tree’s product were sold to a local store, about three bushels were given to friends and relatives and enough are still on the tree for Mr. and Mrs. Dill’s use.

• N.F. Dragoo has in his stamp collection an envelope that bears eight ten billion mark stamps, or a total face value of stamps of eighty billion marks. The envelope was one in which a letter came from Germany to Gus Krutz of Corning and was mailed in 1922. Since a German mark previous to World War I was worth just a little less than 25 cents, the postage on this letter alone, at its face value, was close to 20 billion dollars or approximately one-fifth of the cost to the United States of conducting the present war for one year. Could any example of uncontrolled inflation be a better warning of what such a condition would bring about?