November 28, 1947

• With a yield of 92 bushels and 14 pounds per acres on his five-acre plot, Lawrence Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Campbell, was first in the Kiwanis Corn Yield Contest.

• Some time last night or early Wednesday morning, the Wayside Inn, two miles south of Fairfax on Highway 275, was broken into. The thief or thieves pried the music machines open and from one took between $40 and $50 in quarters and dimes.

• Roy Lester has purchased the property of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jennings, a block south and across the streets from the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings have bought an acreage and home in Tarkio.

• Bob Farris, former Fairfax citizen, now at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wrote in. He says that our milk at 15¢ and bread at 12¢ look pretty low priced compared to milk at 20¢ and bread at 16¢ there; and a regular dinner here at 65¢ would cost $1.25 in Williamsport. He sends a picture of the Freedom train which visited.

November 30, 1972

• The Work was underway at the Community Hospital Gift Shop Tuesday, redecorating the room in preparation for the Christmas season. Members of the Hospital Auxiliary, who operate the shop, have stocked it with many new and novel gift items, including handmade Raggedy Ann dolls. Homemade peanut brittle, made fresh daily by an auxiliary member, will also be available at the shop.

• The Atchison County Library has added another professional librarian to its staff. Mrs. Pauline Hobbs will be involved in “outreach,” taking library materials to people who cannot come to the library, public relations, film programs, and improving the reference collection.

• Beta Sigma Phi sorority is sponsoring a holiday homes tour Sunday afternoon, December 3. Homes on display are: William Sly, J. Hayden Pyeatt, John Wells, Don Maris, and Earle Sims.

• Mud covered fields and a record-breaking Warrensburg University halfback stopped the Fairfax Bulldogs in their tracks for their bid to earn the Missouri Class A State High School Football title. They lost 0-17 in the game Saturday afternoon in Warrensburg.

November 27, 1997

• Twenty students will be working at the Chiefs game selling pop, peanuts, hot chocolate, hot dogs, and frosty malts. After the game, they will be paid according to how many items they sold.

• Fairfax R-3 is full of twins. Six sets to be exact and they range in age from 4 to 17. The youngest set is Alicia and Ashley Clark. Then there is Kelsey and Kourtney Sly, Kory and Orry Paris, Alyssa and Jessica Wiley, Curtis and Craig Vance, and Patty and Trudy Heitman.

• This year’s annual barnwarming was so large that two tractors and one trailer had to be used. Courtney Davis was named Barnwarming Queen and Eric Davis was named King.

• Over The Back Fence: “Thought for the day … ‘one of the greatest pleasures in life is doing what people say you cannot do.’”