April 1, 1949

• Craven Implement Co. invites all to Lorena Meyers’ presentation of “Frozen Food Facts” at the Blue Bell Cafe dining room (formerly Jorgensen Cafe) in Fairfax. There will be refreshments, door prizes, and extensive showing of I.H.C. home freezers and refrigerators.

• Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Carmean returned Wednesday from a trip through the Southwest, South, and Southeast. They have been gone since about the middle of December and have visited 17 states. They returned here direct from Florida.

• As soon as equipment is available, the Boy Scouts will clean out and make 40 holes for flags in front of business places on Main Street. Jobs will secure money for new uniforms.

• Thursday afternoon of last week, friends and neighbors came to the home of the late Otto McDaniel with tractors, teams, wagons, and elevators and helped finish shucking corn for Mrs. McDaniel. Around 30 farmers assisted.

• Fairfax held one of its quietest city elections Tuesday as a very light vote was polled in both wards, especially the south ward, where only 30 votes were cast. In this ward, Ralph Burke defeated Dr. C.E. Cox. In the north ward, Dr. R.L. Cundall defeated Don Fraser. James K. Hunter and Earle E. Sims were elected to the Fairfax Board of Education.

April 3, 1974

• The rural fire department was called to make two runs Saturday. A fire destroyed a barn at the Carl Williford farm just north of Fairfax. A second call was to the Elmer Mitchell farm in the Corning area, but no buildings were involved.

• Mrs. Cecile Ray left Wednesday by plane for Seal Beach, California, where she will visit her son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ron Ray and daughters. She will then fly to Eulenbis, Germany, April 26, for an indefinite vacation with her daughter and son-in-law, S/Sgt. and Mrs. Richard Jones.

• Fifteen Fairfax High School students journeyed to Maryville to compete in the annual Mathematics Olympiad. The event at NWMSU was attended by 500 top notch math students from 36 high schools. Sophomore Rosalie Graves won first place, defeating 180 other students in her division.

• The Fairfax High School bookkeeping class visited the accounting department at Community Hospital Assocation on March 27. The accounting department demonstrated the posting procedures and bookkeeping system used by the hospital. Some of the students had a chance to operate the posting machine.

April 1, 1999

• Fairfax second grade teacher Ginger Hall won a poem contest through the radio station 106.9 the Twister in Topeka, Kansas.

• Tyler Wheeler, seventh grader at Fairfax R-3, won the 275 Conference Spelling Bee’s seventh and eighth grade division held March 24 in Mound City.

• John Richards Unit 284 met March 22 at the United Methodist Church in Fairfax. A potluck supper was held in honor of the legion’s 80th birthday.

• Fertilizer Service in Fairfax has a new Silver Wheels floater. The new floater arrived March 25.

• Tim Cox, air brush artist, is decorating the walls at Fairfax Elementary.

• Fairfax Sorosis celebrated the closing of its 100 years with a luncheon at the Presbyterian Church March 29. A display table was set up with educational memorabilia, McGaeffey’s Readers, a math test that is 165 years old, and miscellaneous books. The centerpiece was a basket of big red apples. All was in keeping with the theme “Changes in Education in the Last Century.”