August 18, 1950
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “South of Death Valley,” “Air Hostess,” “The Yellow Cab Man” with Red Skelton and Gloria DeHaven, and “Make Believe Ballroom.”
• B.P. Hunter Stores offers back-to-school items: girls’ and ladies’ Kitty Carson jeans, $1.49-$2.49; girls’ white shirt waist blouses, $1-$1.95; boys’ key and big buck Dungarees, $1.79-$2.79; and boys’ polo shirts, $1.50-$1.98.
• James K. Oswald had three steers weighing about 1,000 pounds each that were killed by lightning in the electric storm that accompanied the rain early Sunday morning.
• John Sly has made excavations of a new residence property just south of the house Hayden Pyeatt is building in east Fairfax. When completed, the place is to be occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel. Dr. Emanuel is the X-ray and laboratory technician at Fairfax Community Hospital.
• Twenty-six years ago, a girls’ club was organized in Fairfax with eight members and was known as the Taisez-Vous. Sunday, those eight members got together in Fairfax for the first time in 25 years. They are Josephine Erwin Carter of Ottawa, Kansas, Lyna Mae Helmers Womack of Ravenwood, Missouri, Sadie Mae Neal, who teaches in East Chicago, Illinois, May Stouffer Curnutt of Rock Port, Missouri, Georgia Hedrick, who teaches in Monterey, California, and Virginia McMahon, Mariena Banks, and Marguerite McConnell, all of Fairfax.
August 21, 1975
• A fire at the Wilfred Harmes farm Monday evening destroyed several big bales of hay, but no buildings were involved. The Fairfax Rural Fire District answered the call to help.
• Pearce’s in Fairfax advertised specials on school supplies: The Classifier 2-pkg. padfolio, 55¢; Bic banana pens, 10¢; spiral notebooks, 39¢; and kindergarten rug, $1.98.
• Surrelda Edith (Mavity) Hindman passed away Sunday, August 17, at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Rock Port, Missouri. Mrs. Hindman spent most of her life in the Fairfax community. She served in the central supply department at Community Hospital, Fairfax, for many years and was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Federated Community Garden Club, and the Methodist Church.
• Candy stripers from Community Hospital, Fairfax, their supervisor Debbie O’Riley, and several of their mothers had an opportunity to visit with their counterparts at Omaha’s Nebraska Methodist Hospital, School of Nursing, on Friday, August 15. The group had lunch in Indian Hills Educational Center and shopped at Crossroads and Westroads.
August 17, 2000
• Brooklynn and Emma Morris of Fairfax are happy to announce the birth of their baby sister, Shelbey Lynne Morris. Shelbey was born Friday, August 4, to Billy and Kelly Morris.
• Ask Elsie Fae column: “I see a lot of Beulah Carter these days. She told me that she has crocheted 20 more doilies to give away. Since crocheting is almost a lost art, it’s nice to know there are still those who can make homemade lace.”
• Fairfax High School football team began practicing for the 2000 season on Monday, August 7. The team consists of 12 players and is coached by Dan Sinkhorn.
• Tony and Lynn Musch of Musch Carpentry, Fairfax, recently built and donated a child’s playhouse to the Fairfax Kiwanis Club to raffle during the Fairfax Fair. The playhouse is on display in front of the Exchange Bank of Fairfax. Proceeds from ticket sales will go toward local youth projects.
