October 13, 1944

• W.R. Hawkins last week bought the farm of Miss Ann Sillers of 174 acres, located about five miles southeast of Fairfax for $100 per acre. The farm is better known as the John Gorman farm.

• John H. Chandler, who comes from Sidney, Iowa, is to be the manager of the new Fairfax Locker Plant and he and his wife and two children moved to Fairfax this week. They are occupying the rental residence property of Cecil Watts in southeast Fairfax.

• Charles Scarlett and Richard White of the Milton 4-H Club both won blue ribbons on their pigs shown at the Aksarben 4-H Show in Omaha last week. Atchison was the only Missouri county entering the show and entries from this county took more champion ribbons than any two Iowa or Nebraska counties combined.

• James W. “Ferd” Flanagan wrote to his parents that he is in a hospital in England with “a dozen pieces of shrapnel in my legs. I can’t walk, but it is not so serious. None of it hit any bones.” He also mentioned that he, “along with several others, have received the Combat Infantry war badge and $10 extra per month so my total pay is $120 per month now, and that isn’t bad.”

October 16, 1969

• Three hippies from California were apprehended Tuesday picking marijuana near Fairfax on the Bill VanGundy land near the lower Tarkio River bridge by Deputy Sheriff Davison and Marshal Harrington. They were taken to Rock Port and charged with conspiracy to possess marijuana and bond placed at $65 each.

• Thirteen members of Northwest Missouri State College’s first practical nursing class Sunday received diplomas at graduation ceremonies in the Charles Johnson Theater of the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts building. Atchison County graduates included: Mrs. Zella Ann Cook and Mrs. Loretta Kay Walker, Tarkio; Cashie Ploof, Rock Port; and Mrs. Grace Stoner, Fairfax.

October 13, 1994

• Rev. Jonathan Mensah of Tema, Ghana, Africa, arrived in Fairfax around the first of the month. He has preached at the Presbyterian Churches in Fairfax and Craig and has been a guest of the Craig and Fairfax schools and civic organizations.

• Charles Norton, Benne Rogers, Barry Simmons, and Dale Grubb have yards selected as “Yards of the Month” by the Xi Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi for the month of October.