October 28, 1993

• The Fairfax Marching Band, under the direction of Bill Wells, placed 1st in their category at the Northwest Missouri State University Homecoming Parade in Maryville and finished 2nd overall.

• The medical staff at Community Hospital, Fairfax is pleased with the new appointment of Miss Valerie Ballard, MSN, RN, CS as the first Family Nurse Practitioner for the hospital and Atchison County.

• Bauer Financial Reports, Inc. of Coral Gables, Florida, a bank research and rating firm, is pleased to announce that The Exchange Bank of Fairfax has been awarded its five-star rating for 18 consecutive quarters (4 1/2 years) since the inception of the awards. Only 792 banks out of 11,333 banks nationwide.

October 24, 1968

• Fairfax, for the third consecutive year, was named 1st place winner in the 500 to 1,000 population category for the statewide program of Community Betterment at the 5th Annual Missouri Community Betterment Awards Banquet held at the Ramada Inn in Jefferson City. Ten individuals received the 1968 Leadership Award, including Earle E. Sims of Fairfax.

October 29, 1943

• One hundred twenty-five friends and relatives paid honor Sunday afternoon to Mrs. Minnie Wendele by calling at her home to wish her a happy birthday and many more like occasions. This remarkable woman, the oldest citizen in this part of the county and one of the oldest in Northwest Missouri is a native of Stalp, Germany, about 40 miles from Berlin. She was born October 21, 1849, as Wilhelmina Staus. Karl Frank August Wendele, who was to become her husband, moved to America in 1871 and when he got enough money together, sent it back to his sweetheart he had left behind in the old country so she could come to the land of opportunity. She arrived at the farm in the spring of 1869. When they moved to a farm east of Fairfax, there were only three other families living in the immediate neighborhood and there was no Fairfax then, but the town was established several years later. Mrs. Wendele says she marketed the first produce that was sold in the town and bought the first order of groceries from a man named Walker, who had just opened up the town’s first store in a tent.