April 5, 1951
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “Bucaneer’s Girl” with Yvonne DeCarlo and Robert Douglas, “Stella” with Ann Sheridan and Victor Mature, and “Barricade” with Ruth Roman and Dane Clark. Look in your popcorn box, it might have a Wednesday-Thursday pass to the show!
• M.A. Williams celebrated his 90th birthday on Saturday, March 31. It is an interesting coincidence that he celebrated his 90th birthday on the 90th day of the year, 1951.
• Melvin Bros. Home and Auto Supply is advertising: roller skates, garden tools, 25-foot garden hose and hose reel, baseball glove, bat, and ball, and a Firestone supreme power mower.
• After five months and 10 days, Charles Waugh was finally dismissed from Fairfax Community Hospital Tuesday, having been a patient following a fall that caused a broken hip.
April 8, 1976
• Fourteen Fairfax Brownie Scouts and their fathers attended an all-day campout at the Boy Scout camp April 4. The girls learned campfire safety, how to tie squre knots, went on a nature hike, and played lots of games and ate lots of food, including enjoying a wiener roast over the campfire.
• The Missouri Highway Department has added a Bicentennial emblem to Fairfax city limit signs. The emblems tell passing motorists that Fairfax has been designated a Bicentennial community by the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.
• Perry Scott was guest of honor at a retirement tea held April 2 at Community Hospital Association in Fairfax. He has been employed in the maintenance department at the hospital for the past 2 1/2 years. Scott is also the president of the Fairfax Kiwanis Club.
• Work began last week in Fairfax on Highway 59 on a new warehouse office building for the local MFA exchange. The insulated metal building will be 50 feet by 125 feet in size. The site is located west across the highway from Fairfax Manufacturing.
April 5, 2001
• Sunshine Alley Tanning Salon in Fairfax sponsored a plush bulldog giveaway to raise money for the Fairfax After Prom Party. Dana Osburn of Fairfax was the big winner. The event raised around $350 due to the ticket selling efforts of Shelby Zirfas and Kaylyn Sly.
• Fairfax first graders learned about pioneers during class and found out firsthand how to make a few food items like they did years ago. The students churned butter and made cottage cheese Wednesday, March 28.
• The 2001 Atchison County 4-H Carnival King is Michael Graves with the Fairfax Wolverine 4-H Club and Queen is Jalainey McMahon with the Rock Port Lucky Clover 4-H Club.
• The Fairfax High School flute trio, comprised of Stephanie Sinkhorn, Rachel Burke, and Megan O’Riley, received a I rating at District Band Contest and qualified for State.
