February 2, 1951
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “Roughshod” starring Robert Sterling and “Duchess Of Idaho” with Esther Williams and Van Johnson.
• H.H. Schooler has purchased from Wilbur Stevenson a 200-acre farm located one mile east and one and three-fourths mile south of Dotham. Mr. Stevenson has bought a farm containing 115 acres near Elmo from Lewis Bay.
• A basketball game featuring a Fairfax town team playing a Westboro town team will take place in the Fairfax High School Gym Thursday, February 8. Proceeds will go to the polio fund.
• The Christian Church is hosting a Groundhog Supper Friday, February 2. The menu includes sausage, hash brown potatoes, gravy, green beans, applesauce, hot biscuits, butter, jelly, pie and coffee. Admission is $1 for adults and 50¢ for children.
February 5, 1976
• Clem Peters, 87 years old, has been a familiar figure in downtown Fairfax for the past 64 years. Born in Corning on May 17, 1888, he came to Fairfax in 1912 to work for the Schooler Funeral Home. “I drove the first funeral car in Atchison County in 1916. There were no trucks to speak of in the area back then. One time, A.C. Schooler had 64 bushels of peaches at his store in Corning he wanted hauled to Fairfax. I took the racks out of the funeral car and made two trips down there that night. If people would have known those peaches were hauled in a funeral car, they wouldn’t have bought them,” he laughed.
• A recreational center for Fairfax youth has been set up in space formerly occupied by the local fire department at the City Hall building. Ping pong, other games, and music are available.
• Hunter’s Hy-Klas Food Store, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hunter, is celebrating its 63rd anniversary this week. It was in 1913 when Jim’s father, Basil P. Hunter, went into business at the same downtown corner location. Fairfax Mercantile Co. was the name of the business. Jim’s first job at the store was emptying eggs which farmers brought in buckets and baskets and crates to exchange for groceries and dry goods.
• In celebration of its 63rd anniversary, Hunter’s Hy-Klas Food Store is advertising a wide variety of food for 63¢, including: Swift premium butterball turkeys at 63¢ per pound; vine ripe tomatoes, 2 pounds for 63¢; Swanson pot pies, 2 for 63¢; Coke, Sprite, and grape 64-ounce jugs for 63¢; and much more!
February 1, 2001
• The Fairfax High School basketball homecoming king and queen candidates are Maria Pinzino, Ashley Hawkins, LeAnn Graves, Jenea Kemerling, Nic Smith, Jake Johnson, Jim Pinnell, and Kyle Huffman.
• The Fairfax seventh grade class will be sponsoring a class auction Friday, February 2. The auction will see members of the class auctioned off to work for six hours for buyers. Members of the class are McKale Burke, Sarah Johnson, Bryan Krutz, Michelle Law, Ashley Million, Rebecca Pickard, Samantha Silkett, and Tayne Thompson.
• Reverend Steve Suttill became the new pastor of the Fairfax Baptist Church January 8, 2001. Steve recently came to town from Laveen, Arizona, where he grew up. Steve, his wife Patty, and their six-month-old son Austin have moved into the church parsonage.
• The City of Fairfax experienced its second water main break this month. The break occurred in front of the city’s water plant on Friday, January 26. The break left the city without water for several hours causing the school to close. After being alerted to low water pressure, city employee Alva Stoner went to the plant to see what was causing the problem and found that 180,000 gallons of water had leaked out from the clear well and tower.
