April 9, 1948
• The Mobile Blood Unit from the Veterans Hospital at Wadsworth, Kansas, arrived in Fairfax Wednesday morning. Seventy-four blood donors were registered and from that number, the county’s quota of 50 pints for this visit will be obtained.
• Lightning struck the residence of Raymond Umbarger Tuesday evening. It seemed to follow an electric light line into the house and ignited window curtains and shades in a northwest bedroom. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Slemp, who live in the upstairs apartment, smelled smoke and investigated, finding the curtains burning and threw them outside. Walls and woodwork were also scorched.
• About a dozen members of the Fairfax Kiwanis Club attended the meeting of the Tarkio Rotary Club Tuesday evening to hear noted scientist Harold Vagtborg.
• The St. Joseph News-Press carried an interesting story and pictures in its Sunday edition on the activities of some Fairfax and Tarkio hunters who killed 124 coyotes this past winter using airplanes and 30 dogs. Jim Steele spots most of the coyotes from the plane and often is able to direct the dogs to the trail of the coyotes from the plane.
April 12, 1973
• Mrs. Frances Creed received a letter from former resident Wm. P. Bear of California. In reminiscing: “When I was 15 to 16 years old, I used to drive a wagon load of hogs to Fairfax for market and in those years I used to ride on a stockman’s pass to Chicago.”
• Missouri Beef Packers in Phelps City hopes to start production again Monday. Production was halted at the large facility April 9 because demand for beef had sharply decreased. Local outlets have said they’ve only met minor resistance to meat prices by buyers.
• The Bradfield TV and Fairfax Pepsi bowling teams participated in the Missouri State Bowling Tournament in Columbia and Moberly Saturday and Sunday. Those making the trip from Fairfax were Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bradfield, Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Umbarger, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Miller, Kevin Smith, Jim Martin, and Paul Hubbard.
• St. John’s Lutheran Brotherhood completed harvest of its 22 “Friendship Acres” five and a half months after its start. The harvest was halted October 21, 1972, due to rain. There was an 18.9 bu. yield loss. Friendship Acres is a part of the National CROP and Christian World Service program.
• Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Godsey sold their farm in the Dotham community to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Allen Young.
April 9, 1998
• Rob Bowness recently won the Missouri Art Education Association annual members-only art show March 14 in St. Joseph. Rob’s two winning works were portraits, one of his daughters, Jane and Hallie, and one of Steelville, Missouri, native Jack England. Rob, a 1977 graduate of Fairfax High School, lives in Steelville with his wife and daughters.
• The Fairfax High School Band received a I rating in the District Music Contest held in Maryville last Thursday. Individually, the band students brought home nine I ratings and 11 II ratings.
