August 22, 1947

• Wayne Stepp and Dale Seymour have been employed by the Fairfax Board of Education as itinerant agriculture teachers and will work in the veterans training program. If plans of the board are carried out, this will make three itinerant ag teachers for the Fairfax school. There are some 40 or more veterans on the waiting list to participate in the veterans training.

• Allowing only one hit and that only because someone forgot to cover first base when the baseman had to field the ball, pitcher Bert Graves pitched an almost perfect game Sunday, shutting out the Crane Auto Supply team from St. Joseph by a score of 4 to 0. Graves struck out 10 men and allowed no free bases.

• Clifford Blankenship, 27, of St. Joseph, Missouri, suffered a serious injury while working with the street sweeper being used by the Land Construction Company in Fairfax, preliminary to spreading oil on the streets. Blankenship was standing on the machine and got his foot caught in a chain gear.

• George DeLong has sold his interest in the hardware store, which has been known as DeLong & Son Hardware, to Glenn McDonald. DeLong has opened a plumbing, tinning, and heating shop in the Taylor building, recently vacated by Bolin Produce.

August 24, 1972

• Possibly the most successful 4-H Livestock Show held in the county was carried out Monday at the Rock Port Pavilion. The most discouraging aspect of the event was the selling price of the show animals at the close of the day’s activities. Debbie O’Riley of Fairfax showed the Grand Champion Steer, which was an Angus. Fifty-eight steers, believed to be the largest offering in the long history of the annual show, were entered.

• Judy Martin was reunited with Eva Kreidl of Germany, with whom Judy lived last summer when she was an exchange student in Germany. Miss Kreidl has been awarded a scholarship at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville for a semester and will be studying English and German.

• The new Exchange Bank is acquiring character these days with a predominance of the brick walls in place. The fabricated roof rafters were being put in place Monday afternoon.

August 21, 1997

• The Optimist Club of Fairfax selected Ben and Marjorie Umbarger as this year’s parade marshals of the Fairfax Fair. Ben was born in rural Fairfax, attended school in Prairie Flower and graduated from Irish Grove. He has made Fairfax his home all his life. Marjorie was also born in rural Fairfax and she attended grade school at Angel Hallow and was in the last graduating class at Irish Grove. They have been married 54 years.

• Jessica Ray was crowned Miss Fairfax at the Fairfax Fair Friday night. Ashley Grossman was crowned Junior Miss Fairfax. Little Miss Fairfax is Kristi Sons and Little Mr. Fairfax is Chase Ilsley.

• Harry Broermann shared a special story on the Star School area. It included facts like: “Star School, the last rural school, closed officially May 24, 1957”; “Lewis & Clark’s expedition passed 1 1/2 miles to the west of the Star School site in 1804 and 1806”; and “Star School is located on the southern edge of the French Colony established in 1836.”