July 20, 1951
• The Rodgers Cafe, located across Highway 275 from the Fairfax Elevator Co., has been leased by Mr. and Mrs. Seth Smith, who took over the management and operation of the cafe last week.
• The Craven Implement Company, which operates IHC stores in Topeka, Fairfax, and Maryville, is one of the heavy losers in the recent Kaw River flood at Topeka. The high waters of the Kaw broke the dam protecting North Topeka on Thursday and eight to 10 feet of muddy water came into the building too quickly for anything to be salvaged.
• N.D. Vogelsang, new superintendent of the Fairfax schools, has purchased the Agee property, the first home west of the school building. He expects to do some repairing on the place before moving to it.
July 22, 1976
• Bob Jones and Ernest Hafner of Fairfax Comfort Air are installing a solar furnace – the first of its kind in this area – at the home owned by J.D. Umbarger in north Fairfax. The solar furnace unit will be shaped like a 8-foot tall pup tent and is to be placed on a concrete pad west of the house. It will be about 16 feet long and eight feet wide.
• A new sign identifying Fairfax Manufacturing Company was installed last week at the company’s headquarters just north of Fairfax on Highway 59.
• Alta Matilda Peck passed away at Community Hospital in Fairfax July 17. A Fairfax High School graduate, Alta became interested in raising Shetland Sheep dogs and from 1944 to 1957 prominently showed them throughout the country, even having winners at the Westminster Kennel Club Show in New York.
• W.F. Thiesfeld, Jr., 58, passed away Saturday morning, July 17, of a heart attack while weeding beans in a field he farmed, owned by George Carter, about 5 1/2 miles east of Fairfax on Highway 46. Except for four years in the Army, he lived his entire life in this community where he engaged in farming.
• Mrs. Robert Alldredge was welcomed this week as a new addition to The Fairfax Forum staff. A native of Stanberry, Missouri, Marilyn will write society and local news and handle other assignments for the newspaper.
• Attending Cub Scout Day Camp (Camp Straight Arrow) in Tarkio last week on the Tarkio College campus were Fairfax Scouts Billy Jack Luellen, Clint Ross, Chris Rosenbohm, Dayne Sutter, Jay Kennel, Tim Walker, Ross Swinehart, John Brown, and Jamie Roop, who were accompanied by Janice Walker (den mother).
July 19, 2001
• Aaron Scarbrough of Fairfax is playing on the Atchison County Aztecs baseball team that will be playing in the local C.A.B.A. tournament.
• Sarah Scarbrough of Fairfax recently attended Northwest Missouri State University’s 2001 Summer Music Camp of Excellence. The week-long session for sixth and seventh graders included instruction in instrumental music and choir. Sarah sang in the Honor Choir and played first chair French horn in the Honor Band.
• The Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department hosted a retirement supper for James Howard Thompson and Barry “Bud” Simmons on Thursday, July 12, at the Fairfax Community Room. James was recognized for 25 years of service and Bud was recognized for 15 years.
