January 24, 1947

• Stock stories about the absent-minded professors must now give way to that of a pistol packin’ superintendent, who probably in a nervous tension over the results of the coming basketball tournament, shot one of his pupils in the arm last Thursday. Si Skelton, superintendent of the Fairfax schools, was admiring the new weapon, which is one that is used to end basketball games. He was doing a little expert demonstrating when he pulled the trigger, not knowing it was loaded. Georgia Hathorne was unlucky enough to be in the gun’s range and suffered painful burns on the left arm.

• Last week’s Fairfax High School basketball and volleyball tournament broke all attendance records and brought into the school’s activity fund the largest amount of cash of any similar event in the school’s history. Craig won the basketball tournament and Martinsville won the volleyball tournament.

• A fire which started on the roof of a residence on the E.R. Whitford place, 2 1/2 miles south of Fairfax on Hwy. 275, about 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, destroyed the house which was occupied by the J.T. Whitford family. Neighbors on hand helped the family get most of their possessions removed from the house before all was destroyed. Numerous small articles were lost, as well as all of the family’s canned fruit and vegetables.

• J.O. McClintock, a native of the Fairfax community and vice-president of the Continental Grain Company and vice-president of the National Association of Commodity Exchanges and Allied Trades, Inc., was elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade at an election held Monday of last week, according to an article in The Chicago Tribune. McClintock got his early experience in the grain business when he operated the Fairfax grain elevator. “The election of McClintock was one of the most hotly contested elections on the exchange in recent years. The total of 950 ballots was the largest in the history of the exchange.”

January27, 1972

• Walter M. Miller, Jr., author of the highly renowned science fiction classic, “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” will speak in Fairfax Saturday evening, January 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fairfax High School Gym. His topic will be “American Mythology,” a consideration of the role of myth in our national history.

• Dottie Wasserfallen has been named Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow for 1972 from Fairfax R-3. She was chosen on the basis of her score in a written knowledge and attitude examination taken by senior girls on December 7 and will receive a specially designed award charm.

• The Guardian yearbook staff has been chosen: Kathy Cleveland, Editor-in-Chief; Gale Seymour, Assistant Editor; Gail Steele, Business Manager; and Stephanie Sly, Assistant Business Manager.

January 23, 1997

• The Fairfax girls and the Rock Port boys won the annual Fairfax Invitational Basketball Tournament held in Fairfax last week.

• The winners of the 1996 Fairfax Kiwanis Club Corn Yield Contest were: 1st – Jack Fries with 203.25 bushels; 2nd – Tim Oswald with 187.05 bushels; 3rd – Brett Johnson with 185.99 bushels; 4th – Katrina Ball with 169.56 bushels; 5th – David Gomel with 167.84 bushels; and 6th – Kirk Hawkins with 106.60 bushels.

• Over the Back Fence by Nancy Gaines: “…At the Thursday night entertainment at the Ice House, our neighbors to the north and west were stars of the show. Will Johnson, owner of the Tarkio Avalanche, plays a mean guitar and his red chaps were outstanding. Meanwhile, Mr. W.C. Farmer of Rock Port was outstanding twirling rope.”