February 11, 1949
• Melvin Bros. Home and Auto Supply Store advertised the following: electric heaters, $5.95-$12.50; seat covers, $5.95 and up; Tru-Heat electric iron, $12.50; Firestone electric roaster, $38.95; and a powerful two-cell flashlight, 85¢.
• In school news at Fairfax R-3: the 3rd and 4th graders took a review of all spelling words – 205 – and Ruby got a perfect score; the fifth and sixth graders made Valentine flower pots filled with Valentine flowers to decorate the room; Ruth Dunkle and Marcia Fellows are new band students; the vocational ag class added eight more purebred gilts (purchased from Bob Rankin of Tarkio) to their total projects; and Jackie Wright, Mary Lou Prettyman, and Maxine Gubser are typing 70 words or more per minute in the five-minute timed practices in typing class.
• The 160-acre farm belonging to the heirs of the late John N. and Arminta Carter was bought by George T. and Edith Mae Carter, who bid $20,100 for it, just sightly more than $125 per acre. George is a cousin to the heirs. The land is located one mile east and one-fourth mile south of Dotham and includes a modern, nine-room house.
February 14, 1974
• Mr. and Mrs. Merle D. Barr will open The Dairy Diner Friday, February 15. They will be serving your favorite short orders, ice cream, and soft drinks, as well as Tony’s Happy Hour pizza.
• An excellent response to the mail-in membership drive of the Community Hospital Auxiliary launched two weeks ago has brought in dues from approximately 400 members. The next auxiliary meeting will be February 19 and it is hoped that all communities in the area will be represented as the organization wants to select a project for the year.
• Advantages of high moisture feed, both grain and roughage for cattle and hogs, will be discussed by Rodney Hughes at the Farm Night meeting February 18. Hughes represents the Harvestore Company, maker of glasslined silos.
• The Fairfax Baptist Church congregation held a dedication of their new church bus Sunday, February 10. The bus has been used as transportation for a good many regular churchgoers for several months.
February 11, 1999
• The day of January 30, 1999, brought the farm sale of Doyle and Esther Southard of Fairfax, as well as Doyle’s 70th birthday. Doyle has farmed for 49 years and began with 135 acres. When he retired, he was farming 411 acres in the Tarkio, Missouri, area. The Southards also raised hogs and cattle along with bean and corn crops.
• The Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department purchased a new fire truck and a used fire truck within the last year.
• The influenza virus, better known as the flu, has hit many people throughout northwest Missouri. Several area schools have had to close due to many students being absent because of the flu. One day at Fairfax R-3, there were 26 students absent.
• Tarkio native Todd Graves has announced his intentions to run for Missouri Treasurer in 2000. Mr. Graves plans to seek the Republican nomination.
• Tiffany Taylor, a junior at Fairfax High School, scored her 1,000th career point during the home basketball game against the South Nodaway Longhorns on Tuesday, February 2. Her 1,000th point came on a free throw midway through the second quarter of the game. She finished the game with 20 points and 1,001 points for her career in 74 games.
