December 15, 1950
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “The Untamed Breed” with Sonny Tufts and Barbara Britton and “The Lady Gambles” with Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Preston.
• Specials at B.P. Hunter Stores include: Armour beef roast, 65¢ per pound; colored and quartered oleo, 29¢-39¢ per pound; order now for Christmas hams, turkeys, ducks, and geese; Midwest vanilla wafers, 29¢ pound package; and Hy-Klas 3-color ice cream, 49¢ per quart.
• Mr. and Mrs. Hayden Pyeatt and son, Lynn, moved into their new home in northeast Fairfax last week. Mr. Pyeatt is the ag instructor in the local high school and the family had been living in Tarkio the past four or five years.
• Fairfax firemen have been called to the same place four times within the short period of time of 36 hours. The causes of the fires are unknown at the Cline Hawkins property in north Fairfax.
• The Fairfax High School Bulldogs far outclassed the Rock Port High school Blue Jays in their first tangle of the season Tuesday night in Fairfax and won 49-19.
December 18, 1975
• Donnie Smith, representing the Atchison County Pork Producers, presented the Fairfax R-3 home economics department with a ham as a promotion for the pork producers in the county. The ham was prepared by the home ec II class and served to all home ec students.
• Concluding two victorious homecoming basketball games, Greg Smith and Sara Kottman were crowned king and queen at Fairfax R-3.
• Stormy weather Saturday night about midnight caused considerable damage over a wide area as a twister touched down east of Fairfax. Temperatures had ranged near 60 all day Saturday and began dropping drastically in the evening. Ernest Hafner lost two metal storage sheds and a barn and chicken house were damaged. Several trees were downed at the David Cooper farm. A barn and chicken house at the George Carter farm was also damaged.
December 14, 2000
• Four days after temperatures were in the 50s and cars were lined up at the car wash getting cleaned, a winter storm hit Fairfax causing the school in Fairfax to cancel classes.
• Community Hospital Auxiliary members held their Christmas Tea for hospital employees, patients, and visitors on Tuesday, December 5.
• Earl and Carmen Brindle will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Christmas Day. They have lived in Atchison County their entire lives, with the exception of the time Earl served his country during WWII. Earl and Carmen have resided in their present home on Route J east of Fairfax for 45 years.
• Dr. David Scarbrough trapped a rare visitor to these parts, found near Craig, Missouri. He was banding birds for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when he came across a Gyrfalcon, an arctic bird rarely seen south of the Canadian border. The bird was a female and had several broken feathers in one wing, but an Xray revealed no gun pellets in the wing itself.
• The annual Kiwanis Club Corn Yield winners have been announced. They are: Michael Oswald, 218.43 bushels per acre; Dustin Graves, 182.19; Harold Ray, 152.53; and Kasie Morris, 128.64.
