December 26, 1947
• Two men who had broken into the Fairfax Variety Store about one o’clock Sunday morning were frightened away before they did any stealing, but they left a broken plate glass window in their hurried get-away. Night watchman John Nauman noticed the lock on the basement door had been pried loose. Evidently, while he was investigating, the burglars saw the light from his flashlight, thought they were trapped, and picked up a card table near the window, knocked out the glass, and made their escape.
• Approximately 350 children were in Fairfax to meet old Santa on his annual visit Saturday afternoon. Each child present got an orange and one-half pound of candy. Right after the visit, there was a free picture show at The Fair Theatre for the children.
• Robert W. Puett, seaman second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Puett of Fairfax, is a crew member aboard the USS Iowa. The ship just completed a two-week’s operational cruise off the coast of California. Six hundred army officer instructors and students from the General Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth, and many civilians, were permitted to witness a landing the ship made on San Clemente island and two full-scale landings, simulating a full war-time operation, made at Alison Canyon in the Camp Pendleton area.
December 28, 1972
• Navy Fireman Jerry L. Driskell, husband of the former Miss Nora E. Farley of Fairfax, is a crew member of the fast combat support ship USS Camden, a unit of the Pacific Recovery Force for moon mission Apollo 17. The Long Beach, California, home-ported ship assisted the primary recovery ship USS Ticonderoga in picking up the spacecraft at the splashdown site near American Samoa in the Pacific.
• For about six months, many people have observed an elk roaming in fields with cattle a short distance south of Rock Port and the situation still exists. Steve Harrington has spent a great deal of time and film photographing the animal with telescopic equipment and offered a photo to run with this article. Conservation agents say it has been at least 100 years since elk roamed this area and are bewildered to explain how this particular specimen strayed this far from its now natural habitat.
• Winners in the home decorations contest included: a nativity scene in the Don Kerr yard; overall beauty winner was the Hayden Pyeatt residence; most unusual was the Christmas card at the Earle Sims’ home; best yard decoration went to Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Sly; best door decoration was awarded to Mr. and Mrs. James Irvine; and best decorated lamp post Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ball.
December 25, 1997
• Last week, the Fairfax City Park Board treated the art class at Fairfax High School to a pizza party as a thank you for painting the bulldog on the cook shack at the north city park. The project took about a month to complete.
• Rod McEnaney, Atchison County Farm Bureau President, accepted an award for the county from Blake Hurst, District 1 state board member. The county achieved 1997 membership quota of over 383 member families this year and six gold star awards for conducting outstanding programs.
• Over The Back Fence by Nancy Gaines: “Things are ticking at my home. The York grandfather clock my dad built is now keeping time at my home, along with my cuckoo clock that plays “The Happy Wonderer” and my other clock going “boing! boing!” It has taken me all this week to get used to all that ticking and chiming.”
• Kiwanis Corn Yield Contest winners are: 1st, Jack Fries, 192.92 bushels; 2nd, Tim Oswald, 182.21; 3rd, Brett Johnson, 181.08, 4th, Katrina Ball, 165.64; 5th, David Gomel, 164.24; and 6th, Kirk Hawkins, 111.13.
