June 29, 1951
• Showing at the Fair Theatre in Fairfax: “Comanche Territory” with Macdonald Carey, Maureen O’Hara, and Chas. Drake; “To Please A Lady” with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck; and “Union Station” with William Holden and Nancy Olson.
• J.H. Farm Supply is holding a big celebration for the opening of their new location. Old time square and round dancing will begin at 8:30. J.H. Farm Supply is the Atchison County agency for Ford tractors, Dearborn farm equipment, and New Idea and New Holland farm equipment.
• At an expense of several hundred dollars, the Forum has equipped its typesetting machines with new type faces of the very latest creations in typography.
• The Presbyterian Ensemble will present a program of Negro Spirituals. Solos, duets, and four and five part numbers are to be performed. Mrs. Dale Seymour is the director and Miss Thalia Beck is the pianist.
July 1, 1976
• Friendly Hy-Klas Stores in Fairfax are hosting a July 4th Sale: Guy’s potato chips, 79¢; 8 pack of 16-ounce Pepsi, 99¢; Energy charcoal briquets, 10 pound bag, 89¢; Pik Nik shoestring potatoes, 4 ounce can, 39¢; fresh and lean ground beef, 69¢ per pound; and large Sunkist lemons, 6 for 79¢.
• New swings were placed at the Fairfax City Park by the Friendly Neighbors Club. The three new chain-link swings have a black, hard rubber seat.
• Area residents are reminded to participate in a simultaneous nation-wide ringing of the bells July 4th to herald the country’s entrance into its third century. The bell-ringing ceremony will begin at 1:00 p.m. Fairfax time on Sunday. Communities, churches, fire departments, universities and individuals will toll bells in conjunction with the ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. The time selected is exactly 200 years from the precise moment the Liberty Bell proclaimed the independence of the new nation. The bells will toll for two minutes to commemorate the nation’s first two centuries.
June 28, 2001
• The summer reading program at the Fairfax Library will begin July 5. This year’s theme is “2001 Places to Go.”
• Ask Elsie Fae: “Having worked hard for years to amass enough money to pay my funeral expenses, I decided to take a vacation with my children. Part of it was to be a nostalgic trip back to some of the places we have lived. Heraclitus was right. It’s impossible to step into the same river twice. However, you can drink from the Fountain of Youth twice, and in St. Augustine, Florida, I had my second quaff from the magic spring. And, for the second time, I had the same result: time didn’t turn back in its flight.”
• The family of Melvin and Betty Jo Haer will host a 50th wedding anniversary celebration Sunday, July 1, at their home west of Craig, Missouri.
• Brice Ball was the Fairfax representative at this year’s session of Boys’ State. He was appointed to the job of policeman of ward one, delegate to the county committee and voted into the House of Representatives. After passing a legislative test, he is eligible for two hours of college credit.
• Second Lt. Jacob M. Salmond, son of Jim and Mary Salmond of Fairfax, has been assigned to Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait. He is assigned to the 332 Air Expeditionary Group, Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron, Environmental Element Group as the Environmental Element Chief.
