March 15, 1946

• Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jorgensen have purchased from Mrs. Eva Wilcox the Wilcox Cafe and building on east Main Street and announce that the place will be open for business Saturday of this week. The cafe is one of the nicest and best equipped in this part of the state.

• Rain which started in the early evening Thursday changed to snow in the morning hours and whipped by a brisk wind drifted badly, so that highways and roads were blocked, especially those running east and west. Some eight inches of snow is estimated to have fallen. The storm played havoc with telephone and electric power lines in this community and it will be two weeks or more before all damages are repaired and all phones are operating again.

• Advertised in the classifieds: “Pencil sharpeners – first available since the war. Automatic Giants, $2 each, Forum Office”; “Radio phonograph combination sets just arrived, Holden Appliance Co., Rock Port, Mo.”; and “To loan: A few pairs of good home-raised 3-year-old mules, for 4 to 8 months.”

March 18, 1971

• A “new look” will greet patrons of Gary’s and Danny’s barbershop in Fairfax this week. Walls have been painted and paneling will be installed along a back partition. New cabinets with formica tops and new barber chairs add to the overall cheerful atmosphere and convenience.

• The new Community Hospital administrator, Mr. Roger VanderBoom, began his duties Monday. VanderBoom comes from Clinton, Indiana.

• Atchison County 4-H Carnival Queen is Nancy Hull and king is Glen Blackman. One of the biggest crowds ever attended the carnival at the Tarkio Community Building.

March 14, 1996

• To climax the Youth Enrichment Program, the Fairfax Optimist Club held a pizza party February 28. The first week there were less than a dozen students in the program, then it grew to over 40. This program was a success and many students were helped.

• Over The Back Fence by Nancy Gaines: “I knew my coffee drinking habit was good for something. A recent study suggests that women who drink coffee might have a lower risk of committing suicide than those who do not.”

• Don Kerr recently attended a sale at Mount Vernon, Missouri, and as he was going through his boxes of junk as he referred to them at home, he discovered he had an Atchison County find among the things. It was a book of stamps, Series E gummed ready for use, with 12 views of the community of Tarkio. Among the views were the Rankins’ Deer Park, Main Street, Tarkio College, the first house in Tarkio, an air view of the town, and a farm land scene of Tarkio on one page. On the next page were Old Mill, residence of W. Rankin, feeding cattle lot, Tarkio school building, Midland Manufacturing Company, and the Tarkio churches (eight of them).