November 12, 1948
• Otis Melvin drove to Gordon, Nebraska, Friday hoping to enjoy a couple of days of pheasant hunting, but before he got there, he encountered a winter blizzard with 18 inches or more of snow. So, he returned home.
• Glenn Mitchell lost part of the second finger on his right hand Thursday morning of last week when he got the finger caught in a corn elevator.
• Brick work on the outside walls of the Fairfax Community Hospital was finished Tuesday and only a portion of the east wing of the building is yet unroofed. About half of the floor for the second story has been poured and a few more days should see it finished. Once the roof is finished, the interior work will proceed all winter. It should be finished in early spring.
• Mrs. Carl Brown received a telegram November 2 from the War Department informing her that the body of her son, Pvt. Robert Dean Langfelt, was being returned to Rock Port from Italy. Pvt. Langfelt was killed in action in Italy on May 24, 1944.
• The case of Will Shineman vs. the Tyson-Long company, in which the former was suing for damages caused when an oil transport crashed and burned last April destroying the Shineman family house, has been settled out of court and the case dismissed.
November 15, 1973
• Members of the Fairfax Community Club sponsored a birthday party for Beulah Hunter at the Exchange Bank on Friday in honor of her 86th birthday. Miss Hunter started her business career in the drug store with her brother, Don Hunter, and has been there for 46 years. She had earlier helped her brother, B.P. Hunter, in the general merchandise store.
• The 19th annual Atchison County Band Day will be held at the Fairfax High School Monday, November 19. Students from Tarkio, Rock Port, and Fairfax will participate in the day-long sessions. The ensemble will be led in concert that night by guest conductor Jim Litsch, associate band director of Liberty High School.
• Sophomore halfback Gary Taylor ran and caught passes for 182 yards and scored two touchdowns as the Fairfax Bulldogs stopped the Nodaway-Holt Trojans 19-8 Friday night in Graham.
• About 500 customers consumed around 1,500 pancakes and most of a hog reduced to sausage Thursday night at the annual Kiwanis pancake and sausage supper held at the Bowhunter’s headquarters. N.D. Green was frying cakes at the rate of 15 every two minutes and 40 seconds.
November 12, 1998
• The Fairfax Lady Bulldogs volleyball team was congratulated on a successful season, going 24-5-6. Also congratulated were the Fairfax Marching Pride band and flag corps members. They earned first place in Shenandoah, Iowa, Clarinda, Iowa, and at Northwest Missouri State University’s Homecoming Parade in Maryville, Missouri.
• Frank Jones, “The Ozark Storyteller,” will be at the Fairfax United Methodist Church.
• Esther Southard of Fairfax donated a Fairfax Bulldog afghan to the junior class of Fairfax R-3. Esther made the afghan for her grandson, Thomas Southard’s class, to raffle as a money-maker.
• The price farmers get now for their market hogs is the lowest it has been since 1972 when the hogs brought in 18¢ to 22¢ per pound. The price farmers pay for feed is a little less than they paid last year and the hogs are bringing less than half as much.
