February 17, 1950
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “Smoky Mountain Melody” with Roy Acuff and Quinn Williams and “Mother Is A Freshman” with Van Johnson and Loretta Young.
• Miss Nellie Sample, registered nurse, arrived from Kansas City Monday and will be employed at the Fairfax Community Hospital beginning Wednesday. The hospital now has four registered nurses regularly employed.
• Following a day of rain Sunday, a snow storm arrived that night and brought about four inches of snow to the Fairfax area.
• A half block of business buildings in Mound City were gutted by fire early Monday morning. Due to the freezing, drizzling rain freezing the fire whistle and the volunteer firemen being called one at a time, it was a half-hour or more before they arrived at the scene. Some five or six buildings on the east side and toward the north end of the main north-south street were gutted. Several families were living in apartments above the businesses. Although the apartments were ruined, no one was injured.
• The Maryville State College 65-piece concert band will perform in Fairfax this week. Two of last year’s Fairfax graduates, Maxine Gubser and Irene Bressler, are members of the college band.
• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wennihan last week disposed of the Blue Bell Cafe to Mr. and Mrs. Will Tiemeyer of Rock Port and in the deal acquired an improved farm of 160 acres one mile north and two miles west of Tarkio. The farm is part of the old Whalen estate and is near other land owned by the Wennihans.
February 20, 1975
• Gale Seymour of Fairfax was named “Princess Soya” at the Missouri Soybean Association’s annual meeting this week. The 21-year-old University of Missouri-Columbia junior will spend the year promoting the Missouri soybean industry.
• One hundred ninety-four adults and 26 children were served at the Golden Arrow Bowhunters benefit fish supper Saturday evening. A total of $224 was netted for the Community Hospital Christmas Fund.
• Specials at Hunter’s Hy-Klas Store in Fairfax include: Pet-Ritz frozen pie shells, package of 4 for 89¢; Wilderness cherry pie filling, 21-ounce can for 59¢; and Grade A medium eggs, 59¢ for a dozen.
February 17, 2000
• Kevin Bolton, a 1984 graduate of Fairfax High School, recently donated a series of videos called “The Century” to the high school’s history department.
• Fairfax High School recently received a new scorer’s table in the gymnasium. The table was purchased through a combined effort of the Fairfax Athletic Boosters and the Larry Zirfas Memorial Fund. The table is on wheels and can fold down and be moved in a matter of minutes. The old table was approximately 44 years old. At the present time, Roger and Suzanne Southard are keeping time and score for the Bulldogs.
• The Fairfax FCCLA Chapter kicked off FCCLA Week with a Sweetheart Dance February 12. Sweetheart royalty included: King Thomas Southard, Queen Stephanie Beck, Princess Katy Hunter, and Prince Brice Ball.
• Richard Oswald of Oswald Brothers, Fairfax, recently won first place in the class AA no-till non-irrigated division of the 1999 National Corn Growers Association’s Corn Yield Contest in Missouri. Oswald’s yield was 218.3 bushels per acre.
