April 18, 1947

• Miss Maxine Gubser, Fairfax High School sophomore, returned Saturday from Jefferson City, where she, with some 70 or 80 other high school sophomores from over the state, made a tour of the capitol building, governor’s mansion, and other points of interest. The tour was sponsored by the Missouri Federation of Women’s clubs and Miss Gubser was chosen by the Fairfax Sorosis.

• Ten steers that averaged a little over 1,000 pounds were killed Sunday morning when the bridge near the McClintock place gave way while it was being crossed by Warren Chamber’s large semi-trailer truck 3 1/2 miles south of Fairfax. The bridge is almost 30 feet deep and the trailer and tractor stood almost upright.

April 20, 1972

• Denny White reports the loss of 11 bushels of seed corn and a battery charger from his farm. He had taken the seed corn to the farm Monday and stored it in a shed. When he returned Tuesday to do planting, he found it gone.

• A showing of 58 original paintings by Marie Browning was held in Desert Hot Springs, California, March 22. Mrs. Browning, wife of Granville Browning and a native of Fairfax, spent her early life in Fairfax and moved to California in the early thirties. Among the attendees was Don Bailey, a widely known artist and teacher in the Palm Springs area. He was very generous in his praise of Mrs. Browning’s work.

• Troubles doubled up on Jim Harbin Saturday night. He was awakened sometime after 10 by the barking of the family dog to find the house in flames. With no phone, he jumped into a pickup and started down the road to turn in the alarm, but due to the slick roads, he went into a ditch. By the time a fire truck was summoned, the home on the Ed Bass farm northeast of Fairfax was a total loss.

• A Ford tractor power train worth more than $5,000 was presented Tuesday to Fairfax High School by Ford Motor Company’s U.S. Tractor and Implement Operations. The donation, arranged by Wright Ford Tractor of Fairfax, will be used to train vocation ag students.

• Fairfax Community Hospital has a new gift shop. A project of the hospital auxiliary, the shop features small gift items and handmade articles with profits being used to provide needed improvements at the hospital.

April 17, 1997

• Gregg and Lori Smith traveled to the Principality of Monaco in the French Riviera this past week. The trip was given by the John Deere Company and included flying into Nice, France, and touring the area of Monaco, including the villages of Eze, St. Paul and the area of Cannes. They were able to meet Princess Stephanie at her shop and restaurant “The Replay.”

• Wes and Beverley (Barton) Slemp of Fairfax will be observing their 50th wedding anniversary on April 20. They were wed on that day in 1947 by the Rev. Kenneth Bressler in the First Presbyterian Church, Fairfax.

• A new business opened on Main Street this week. The Junktique is in the former Blue Bell Cafe building and is owned by Cassie Monroe. She and her son, Wally Elkins, have antiques, collectibles, used furniture, gifts, and “clean junk.”

• The area was hit by a snow storm for three days, with a foot of snow reported in the area on Thursday.