December 12, 1947
• Another thrilling display of basketball was staged at the high school gym Friday night when the Fairfax American Legion team edged out the high school basketeers by a one point margin. With the score 35 to 36 in the high school’s favor and less than one second to go, E. W. Wake hit the basket, winning the game 37-36 in favor of the Legion.
• Services were held for David Franklin Johnson, 26 years old, Wednesday at the Nazerene Church in Craig, Missouri. Burial was in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Johnson, who was a technician sergeant fifth grade, was killed in Germany March 12, 1945.
• Hayden Pyeatt, vocational ag teacher in the Fairfax High School, has submitted to the state department of education for approval for the most extensive program of supervised farming ever attempted by the local school.
• According to the Missouri farm census for 1946, Atchison County is again the number one corn county of the state in both bushels and acres. Figures state that this county produced 8,198,100 bushels in 1946, almost two million more than its nearest rival, Nodaway County, with 6,408,700 bushels.
• A 1928 Model A Ford, belonging to Melvin Cole, burned on the road just south of the river bridge west of Fairfax Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Cole and their three children were coming to town when suddenly the car burst into flames and the occupants narrowly escaped injury.
December 14, 1972
• Santa’s Christmas tree forest moved into Fairfax last week and fills a half block on each side of Pearce Gift and Hobby Shop. Many trees have moved to homes and businesses to be decorated for the holiday, but others are still waiting to spread Christmas joy.
• The picturesque, neoclassical home in Tarkio donated to Tarkio College in 1946 by Mrs. William F. Rankin has recently received renovations. The home, in which over 3,000 guests are entertained every year, has had the exterior refinished for the first time in 25 years.
• The Fairfax seniors will present their class play “The Antics of Andrew” Friday evening, December 15, in the school auditorium under the direction of Mrs. J. Hayden Pyeatt.
December 11, 1997
• At the Fairfax Sorosis meeting held Monday, December 1, at the home of Mary Catherine Ball, the program was “The Beauty of Christmas Ornaments.” Marie Emrick shared the story of the earliest blown glass ornaments and passed around a basket with blown glass ornaments made by the Old World Christmas Co. Mary Catherine shared angels and told the story of each one, some of which had been beautifully crafted by her mother and son.
• Phyllis Hawkins of Fairfax entered her “Holiday Sugar Cookies” in the recent Wal-Mart cookie bake-off contest “Lovin the Oven.” She was the first place winner and also the recipient of a Black & Decker mini chopper and t-shirt. She will be entered in a national contest and get her recipe in the “Children’s Miracle Network Cookbook.”
• A house owned by Ethel Stoner was purchased by the Fairfax AF & AM Lodge and taken down in less than a week. The house, which is next to the lodge property, was once an apartment house. Doc Peterson owned it at one time and then Beuford and Ethel Stoner bought it.
