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One Hundred Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 12, 1923.)
Manager John Gray, of the Mount Ayr baseball team, closed a contract last week for a game with the Brown’s Tennessee Rats to be played on the local diamond Friday of this week, September 14.
The game will be called at 3:30 p.m. (The Tennessee Rats were a black baseball team formed in 1910 in Holden, MO by W.A. Brown. Primarily a barnstorming team, they played until 1926. They mostly toured Missouri and surrounding states.)
This team in 1916 broke all semi-pro records winning forty-five straight games. This season they have won forty-one out of 44 games played. The game Friday will be a real one.
Admission including tax is .55 cents; children .30 cents.
Kellerton school enrollment for this year is 181 in high school and 128 in the grades. Mount Ayr had 248 pupils enroll in high school.
Marriage: August 28, Adrian Gooding and Goldeane Chastain…September 2, Fern Gleason and Roy Wright.
Births: Sept. 8, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Davis…Sept. 9, a daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Smith…Sept. 7, a daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Faris…Saturday a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beymer…last week a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Ora Reynolds…last week a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. McKee of Diagonal…last week a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Larson…Monday a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Hughill of Grand River.
Obituaries in this edition were: Aaron Browdy Ogden, Wilmena Christina Schlobohm Miller and Robert A. Robertson.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 9, 1948.)
Two more deaths from polio in the Kellerton and Lamoni vicinities have been recorded during the past month. (Following a year during which the incidence of poliomyelitis was relatively low in the U.S., the disease again occurred in widespread epidemic form in 1948. A total of 27,680 cases were reported in 1948, about 2,000 more than was reported in 1946, but less than the 29,061 cases reported in 1916 to Public Health Services by 44 states and the District of Columbia.)
A new outdoor rifle range has recently been completed on the Izaak Walton area at the old city reservoir, and is being used regularly by shooters of this area. The new rifle range, built by the Mount Ayr chapter of the Izaak Walton league is equipped with six target frames that will accommodate six shooters at one time on the firing line.
Ranges are marked off in distances of 25’,50’, 25 yards and 50 yards, these distances being suffcient for most of the classes used in competitive shooting of the 22 caliber rifle and pistol.
Marriage: August 29, Eula Lawler and Chester Breckenridge…August 21, Bernadene Saville and Denzel Platt…August 28, Mildred Strong and Russell Boyd.
Birth: Sept. 3, a daughter, Connie, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foster.
Obituaries in this edition were: Larry S. Ryan and George Azariah Stephens.
Fifty Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 13, 1973.)
The annual Ridiculous Days started well enough, but the weatherman decided to take a hand and by Saturday evening it was a ridiculous Ridiculous Days.
Rain started Friday evening and continued intermittently throughout Saturday. As a result the appearance of bands in the parade was canceled and only the youngsters marched, 70 entries with about 100 youths participating.
Picked as first place winner in the kids division of the parade was Kelly Woollums, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arvid Woollums of Mount Ayr. Kelly was dressed as a prospector, pulling a covered wagon.
Larry Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clark of Mount Ayr and a 1972 Mount Ayr Com. graduate, enlisted in the US Army Airborne. Since August 22 Larry has been at Fort Bragg, NC where he is attached to the 82nd Airborne Group.
Marriage: July 14, Joan Richards and Thomas Johnston…July 22, Anne Harover and David Sherman…August 31, Ron Davis and Shirley O’Connor.
Births: Sept. 10, a son, Neil, to Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hunt…August 27, a son, Derek, to Mr. and Mrs. Royce Rinehart…Sept. 3, a son, Todd, to Mr. and Mrs. John Maxwell…Sept. 7, a son, JayDee to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walker.
Obituaries in this edition were: Steven Lee Shiflett, Dale L. Lynch and Mildred Geneva Mayo Garner.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 3, 1998.)
Earl Schad, a Ringgold County war veteran recently attended the commissioning of th USS Bridge Naval vessel in Seattle, WA.
Schad first boarded the original USS Bridge on May 29, 1941 in San Diego, CA during WWII. He quickly worked his way up the ranks to gunnersmate by September 1941 and was stationed in the gunnery department of the ship.
Ringgold County has another centenarian, Ruth Faust, who has lived at Clearview Home for the past 13 years, will celebrate her 100th birthday September 6.
Marriage: May 30, 1998 Beth Christner and Noah Carpenter.
Obituaries in this edition were: Ann Marie Clouse Loxterkamp, Homer Leroy “Red” Butler, Harland Earl Sickels, and James Mitchell Wood.
Ten Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 12, 2013.)
The Mount Ayr community football team and Chris and Patty Eaton’s Connor Cares Foundation are teaming up to raise awareness of Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Last week the football team gathered in the gym to shoot a series of pictures of football players holding babies in preparation for a poster campaign about violence done to babies each year. Poster caption “We Wear Helments…They Don’t, Never Shake a Baby.”
Landi McFarland of Ellston has been elected as a delegate to the 130th annual American Angus Assoc. Convention of Delegates, November 18 in Louisville, KY.
Obituaries in this edition were: Rose Marie Slavik Hunt and Kenneth Eugene Wood.