August 26, 1949
• Monday morning at nine o’clock the Fairfax public schools will open for the new year. A large enrollment is expected. Numerous improvements have been made to the school building including a new gym floor, partitions in the main study hall (dividing it into three rooms), a new walkway around the building, and rooms have been redecorated.
• Due to Missouri State Highway Patrolmen having issues reaching the headquarters built in St. Joseph, an automatic repeater radio station has been installed about a mile east of the Atchison-Nodaway county line on State Highway 4. The station is entirely automatic and requires no operator.
• Augusta Louise Nissen Wright passed away at the age of 61 at her home in southeast Fairfax Wednesday, August 17, following a heart attack. She was born July 8, 1888, in Fargo, Nebraska, and came to Fairfax with her husband, Tone Wright, in 1910.
• About all the plastering has been done at the Fairfax Community Hospital. Cabinets are being built, painting is being done, and the things put in readiness for the placing of equipment that will arrive next week. All of the equipment is expected to arrive before October 1 and the hospital board hopes to be able to open the hospital by that date.
• Ralph D. Seymour has purchased the 81-acre farm of Albert Vogler, north of Fairfax. The farm is across the highway from land owned by Mr. Seymour.
August 29, 1974
• Fairfax R-3 welcomed 170 students in grades kindergarten through six and 170 students in junior high and high school when school started Wednesday on a cool and cloudy day.
• Gerald Hawkins of Fairfax has entered the annual MFA Corn Growing Contest. His contest field is located four miles east of Fairfax and was planted May 3. The variety of V-12 and planting rate is 18,900 stalks per acre.
• Mr. and Mrs. Glen Madron of Langdon, Missouri, purchased the residence property of Mrs. Ruth Youel in Fairfax. Mrs. Youel vacated the South Broadway residence several months ago to occupy a Fair Haven apartment.
• Some 300 Masons and guests were in attendance Sunday evening during the celebration and banquet of the Masonic Lodge’s centennial at the Fairfax School. During those 100 years, 71 masters have served the lodge and 29 are still living. Fifty-year pins have been presented to 21 Masons since 1958 when the recognition first started. A total of 425 members have been raised to subline degree of Master Mason.
August 26, 1999
• Several local men gathered at the home of Jim and Polly McConnell of Fairfax August 18, to build a ramp in front of the house. Building the ramp were Wayne Bradfield, K.R. Pennel, Wendell Wasserfallen, Norman Simmons, and Harry Combs.
• Mrs. Marian Frede Douglas will observe her 90th birthday September 2. She was reared on a farm south of Fairfax and graduated from Fairfax High School in 1927. She began teaching in a rural school before her high school graduation and continued teaching in seven other rural schools as well as Watson, Rock Port, and Fairfax town schools for 41 years. During WWII, she and her husband, Don Frede, resided for a time in Omaha, Nebraska, and worked for the Martin Bomber Plant.
• Fifty-two pints of blood were collected at the blood drive held at the Masonic Lodge in Fairfax August 19. Fifty-five people showed up to donate.
• Fairfax R-3 students returned to school on August 23. There are seven new teachers and six new students in the school this year. The new teachers are Kristin Kelly, Skip Twitchell, Bill Slaughter, Melody Barnett, Kevin Mallen, Pamela Simanek, and Beth Graves.
• A new after-school program is being offered at the Fairfax United Methodist Church. Club J.A.M. (Jesus And Me) will be open to all children grades kindergarten through sixth.
