June 25, 1948

• While plowing corn Saturday, W.D. Foley found a hole about two feet deep, some four inches in diameter, with the corn nearby scorched, indicating that a bolt of lightning had struck there.

• You’d hardly believe it if anyone other than a preacher told it, but the Rev. K.J. Bressler reports he picked roasting ears from corn in his garden Monday. As far as The Forum knows, that may be a record.

• Mr. and Mrs. Mac Flanagan received a letter this week from their son, Maurice, in which he told them he was starting home from Germany. Maurice has been stationed at Frankfort, near Berlin, for more than two years with the army of occupation.

• On Monday, Dale Seymour, one of the ag instructors at Fairfax High School, 25 G.I. students, and Homer Dudley and Blaine Seymour were guests of Don Spaulding at the St. Joseph Stockyards.

June 28, 1973

• Over 300 youngsters registered to win a bicycle at the Fairfax Fair. Jon Erwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Erwin of Fairfax, was the proud winner.

• The Fairfax Fair included a ribbon cutting for the new stage. Miss Sharon Swindler was named Miss Fairfax and Little Mr. and Miss Fairfax were Mark Cofer and Marcy Alldredge.

• Mrs. William Umbarger of Fairfax has a “club idea” featured in the July issue of “Farm Wife News,” a national publication for rural women in the United States and Canada. As a money-making project, the 49’ers Hobby Club serves banquet meals for groups of 40 to 150 people. Members plan the menu, decorate and donate the food, while the sponsoring group arranges the hall space. Proceeds go to neighbors in need in Fairfax.

• Miss Ruth Ann Payton and Raymond Lee Gebhards exchanged wedding vows at the Fairfax Baptist Church May 19 with the Rev. Clyde Hendricks performing the double ring ceremony.

• Mr. and Mrs. Albert Evans were guests of honor at a buffet dinner at the Walnut Inn in Tarkio Tuesday evening, June 19, honoring their 25th wedding anniversary.

June 25, 1998

• Dolores Hawkins hosted a surprise birthday supper for Mary Louise Sims last Wednesday night at The Klub in Mound City.

• Doyle and Esther (Rolofson) Southard will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a celebration July 5 at the United Methodist Church in Tarkio. The couple was married on July 4, 1948, at the Methodist Church in Tarkio by Rev. O.F. Kettlekamp. They lived and farmed northeast of Tarkio for 48 years. In 1997, they moved to a home in Fairfax where they now reside.

• The Fairfax Eastern Star held its Friendship Night Thursday with guests from Oregon, Maryville, Rock Port, and Tarkio. A western theme was carried out and cowboy songs were sung around the old corral and a delicious trail supper was served from a covered wagon. During the meeting, a 50-year pin was presented to John Jones of Tarkio by his wife, Elizabeth.

• Although Phil Weedin never planned a career with the University Extension, he said that he’s had so much fun that the years have just flown by. Phil, who will retire June 30, has used his upbeat, enthusiastic and jolly qualities to benefit generations of 4-H families he’s helped for the past 37 years with 4-H youth development.