October 12, 1951
• Schooler Funeral Home has a new combination invalid and funeral coach that Marvin Schooler went to Ohio last week to get. The Superior-Cadillac is an engineering perfection with luxurious interior and beautiful color combinations.
• Work of laying water mains from the city well is well underway and some 300 feet of lines is now going east from the well. The ditch where the line is being laid is through the old river bed and an old city dump and several relics of bygone days have been uncovered.
• A huge number of feeder cattle are making their way to Fairfax by train and truck. Sixty car loads have been shipped to Fairfax by rail and 1,100 head was brought in by trucks several weeks ago. The largest number of cattle has come to Manley Farms, east of Fairfax.
• B.L. Johnson was elected Fairfax Kiwanis president for 1952. James K. Hunter was elected vice-president, Glen Carson was reelected secretary, and Harry Emrick was reelected treasurer.
• Mr. and Mrs. Horace Weltmer from the Panama Canal Zone visited family in Fairfax recently. Mr. Weltmer is a government engineer who has been employed in the Canal Zone for 30 years and will retire in two. He is a native of the Fairfax community.
October 14, 1976
• NOWEMO Fine Swine, Inc., a swine confinement complex, is being built about five miles southwest of Fairfax. The facility is being constructed by Swine Service Specialists, Inc. of Lyons, Nebraska. Deene Lawrence will manage the facility. A tentative date of November 15 has been set for the arrival of the first shipment of hogs.
• Stanley Martin Smith, 44, of Fairfax passed away Tuesday at Community Hospital in Fairfax. Mr. Smith was associated with Tarkio Pelleting Corp. since the business was founded and was also associated in farming with his brother, Max Smith. He was a member of the Fairfax Masonic Lodge, A.F. & A.M. 483, a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite, a Shriner, and a member of the Moila Shrine Patrol.
• The Fairfax Bulldogs defeated the Rock Port Blue Jays on the football field Friday night with a final score of 20-0. Their record is now 5-0.
October 11, 2001
• Stephanie Sinkhorn and Brice Ball were crowned Fairfax High School Football Homecoming Queen and King following the varsity football game Friday, October 5.
• Memorial funds in remembrance of Maxine Oswald, Lea Fair, Virginia Andes, Gertrude Wright, Carmen Hanna, Dale Livengood, and Leveta Stone have been established at Community Hospital Association in Fairfax.
• Steve Phea, a technical writer and software developer, spent two days in the Fairfax Elementary School visiting with students and helping them with the writing process. The teachers also spent 20 hours in training with Steve.
• The Fairfax High School Class of 1961 has established a website, the first established by a graduating class from Fairfax. The site includes history from past reunions, biographies, pictures, section from the 1961 Guardian yearbook, contact information, and a chat room.
• The Fairfax kindergarten and first grades have begun publishing stories. Their newspaper is called “The Paw Print.”
• The Craig FCCLA members, under the direction of sponsor Dana Osburn, made a seven-foot banner that was sent to New York City’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The banner says, “God Bless NYC from Craig, MO.”
