February 25, 1949

• In the Milton Community news: Friday evening of last week, a crowd of relatives and friends met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor for a farewell party and supper held in their honor. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, who have lived in this community for 18 years, will soon move to Elwood, Kansas, where Mr. Taylor will operate another farm for Byron Hunter.

• Earl Davenport has purchased the 100-acre farm known as the Miller farm southwest of Fairfax and will move to it to make his home.

• Sparks from a flue that was burning out set fire to the roof of the James O. Combs home in the Rupe’s Grove community Saturday and a hole was burned in the roof. Luckily, the fire was discovered before it had gained much headway.

• Donald L. “Shot” Oswald has sold his trucking business, one of his trucks, and his portable grain elevator to his brother, John H. Oswald, who will operate the business in connection with Oswald Produce. Jim Fisher has been employed by John H. Oswald to operate the trucking business and will start Monday. Shot has decided to farm this season and will be associated with the farm operation of his father, John Oswald.

February 28, 1974

• Community Hospital Association has added a new automatic blood cell counter in the laboratory. The piece of equipment allows for red and white blood cell counts to be completed with far greater speed and accuracy than is possible manually.

• By March 4 when the state’s new maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour becomes effective, every speed limit sign on the state highway system that had formerly read 70, 65, or 60 will now read 55. Reflective plastic overlays will be affixed to the signs instead of taking down the signs, sandblasting them, repainting them with reflectorized material, and replacing them, which would take far too long.

• In Kindergarten News at Fairfax R-3: For Lincoln and Washington’s birthdays, we listened to stories and made log cabins, hatchets, cherry trees, flags, and hats.

• Having decided to quit farming, Lloyd and Lois Taylor will be selling farm machinery at public auction at the farm located just east of Old Dotham Store Site on Hwy. 46.

February 25, 1999

• The United Methodist Church Youth Fellowship members participated in World Vision’s 30-hour famine on Saturday, February 20. The students collected money for starving children, spent the night in the church and went without eating for 30 hours.

• The Fairfax kindergarteners told what they would do if  they were President: Jamie Silkett – “I would make everyone be nice.” Dyllan Mattly – “I would tiptoe to find all the bad guys and put them in jail.” Emily VanGundy – “I would make people be nice to both black and white people.”

• Beth Graves, sixth grade student at Fairfax R-3, participated in the Optimist Oratorical Contest in Maryville February 18. Beth won a medal as first runner-up in the zone and club levels for her speech on softball.

• As Sweetheart Dance King Tim Oswald and Queen Melinda Bradfield danced to “I Cross My Heart,” approximately 30 other couples joined in at the dance February 13. The dance was sponsored by FHA and “I Cross My Heart” was the theme.

• William Creed of Creed & Creed recently won first place in the class AA no-till non-irrigated division of the 1998 National Corn Growers’ Association’s Corn Yield Contest in Missouri. Creed won with 221.3 bushels per acre.