May 4, 1950
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “Angels in Disguise,” Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend” with Betty Grable, Rudy Vallee, and Olga San Juan, “The Doctor and the Girl,” and “Law of the West.”
• If you like fishing, just one look at the display window in the Melvin Bros. Home and Auto Supply store will start you out to the fishing hole. The display has a boy seated on a grassy spot with fishing pole and line fishing in a pool of water. The cork on his line bobs continually and sometimes goes nearly under when a “big one” bites. Go see it and figure out what does it.
• How much can children afford to pay for lunch at school? Reports from many states show that participation falls off rapidly when the price is 20 cents or more for a meal of meat, chicken, fish, or cheese, a couple of vegetables, bread and butter, and a half pint of milk.
• Miss Beatrice Straight, 18, of near Corning, Missouri, will represent Atchison County in the Apple Blossom Festival Queen Contest in St. Joseph this week. Fairfax, Rock Port, Tarkio, Craig, and Mound City bands will be marching in the parade.
• One hundred fifty-six women attended the meeting of the Presbyterial of St. Joseph, which met at the Fairfax Presbyterian Church Wednesday of last week. This was the largest meeting of Presbytery women ever held in the Presbytery.
May 8, 1975
• Children are enjoying the new playground equipment at the city park, including the metal slide and spring mounted motorcycle and duck.
• Gary and Danny with the Barber Shop of Fairfax have been chosen to participate in a 48-hour Style-A-Thon in Kansas City May 18 and 19. The project benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The two local barbers were just a few of the barbers chosen from outside the Kansas City area to participate.
• Mother’s Day Special at the Dairy Diner: Buy one sundae at the regular price of 40¢ and get a second one free.
May 4, 2000
• Airbrush artist Tim Cox was at Fairfax R-3 April 26-29 painting a mural on the elementary hallway walls. Tim painted a mural of Southeast Asian animals on the west end of the hallway in 1999 and this time painted African animals on the east end of the hallway.
• Pink flamingoes are “flocking” to Fairfax. Thanks to the Fairfax United Methodist Church Youth Group, residents are finding six pink flamingoes in their yards that they have to pay to get rid of as part of a fundraiser.
• The Community for Kids Preschool students picked up trash around Fairfax on Thursday, April 27, in observance of Earth Day.
• Community Hospital Association employees were recently honored at an awards ceremony. Shirley Mather, LPN, was named the Employee of the Year. Velma Thomas was honored for 40 years of service and Barb Taylor and Lila Norton were honored for 30. Karen Easley and Linda Kemerling were honored for 25, Marsha Straub for 20, Rebecca Heits and Dennis Bowlin for 15, Linda Winkelman and Becky Chastain for 10, and Andrea Carder, Sharion Wilson and Catherine Lee for five.
• The Fairfax R-3 Early Childhood class recently studied ladybugs and other insects and as part of this unit, created bug helmets. They wore the helmets in an insect parade held Thursday, April 27.
