Looking Back

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 1, 1924.)

Voters of Ringgold County who have been anticipating an opportunity at the general election Tuesday, November 4, to vote for or against the proposal to issue bonds for the purpose of building a court house must wait until some future date to decide the question which is of vital importance to the people of the county.

Notice of election on a bond proposition must be published 4 weeks before the date of election, and since the first publication must be 30 days before the date upon which the proposition is submitted, there will not be time to pursue the course provided by law.

Disclosure: Lamoni has the unique distinction of having the only “smokeless” band in Iowa. Not one of the twenty-one musicians is addicted to the use of tobacco.

Marriages: September 13, Grace Darrow and Troy Holloway…September 28, Mabel Cochran and George Kimball.

Birth: September 24, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ward McGehee.

Obituaries in this edition were: Alden Issac Bennett and Martha French Snell Bristow.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 29, 1949.)

J.B. Willey, chief of Mount Ayr Volunteer Fire Department, was elected president of the Iowa Firemen’s Association at the 22nd annual convention which closed Wednesday at Spencer.

Charles Morton assumed his duties Thursday as district manager of the Iowa Southern Utilities Company with headquarters at Mount Ayr. He succeeds W.F. Hutchinson who served the district for nearly seventeen years.

Colored pictures taken by the Aubrey Kirkpatricks, while on vacation trip through the west, will be shown Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Wishard Chapel. The pictures are educational and serve to show the wonderful handiwork of God.

Farms for sale~186 acres, vicinity of Mount Ayr, bungalow house of six rooms, all on one floor, oak floors. built-in cabinets, one and a half miles of pavement on road put to grade for rock, electricity, water pressure in house, $75 per acre.

Marriage: September 17, Reba Woollums and Virgil Schmidt.

Births: September 24, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Hunt…September 16, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Denzil Walker…September 17, a daughter, Nancy, to Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Zercler…September 20, a son John, to Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Spurrier…August 28, a daughter, Kimberly, to Mr. and Mrs. Alan Fisher…September 20, a daughter, Vickie, to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Powers…September 27, a son, Randall, to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lynch.

Obituaries in this edition were: James Clyde Rains and infant John Paul Spurrier.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 3, 1974.)

The Mount Ayr Raiderettes moved into district softball finals virtue of a 5-2 win over Creston at Orient Tuesday night.

The Mount Ayr girls were never behind in the game. They scored single runs in the second and third innings, then pushed a cross three in the 5th for the victory. DeeDee Frost was tagged for six hits, but walked only two and had good support in the field to register the victory.

Jean Irving and Diane Wilson led the attack with two hits each, including a lead-off double by Irving.

Student Ayr~question to students. What do you want to be? Debbie Sickels, I just want to grow up!; Crae Geist, a carpentar, pool shark and bartender; Mike Eason, a live cowboy; Kurt Shaha, a electrician or farmer; Wayne Ward, a pro golfer; Pat Weeda, a farmer; Karen Caldwell, pro cheerleader; Tami Solliday, a airline stewardess; Ron Sickels, a mechanic.

Marriage: September 21, Nancy Worthington and Fritz Rathke…September 27, Ronnie Reed and Tangy Paulding.

Births: September 25, a son to Mr. and Mrs. David Gussman…September 27, a daughter, Brandi, to Gerald and Brenda Babcock…September 27, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Christner…September 28, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Ibbotson.

Obituary in this edition was Frank Leslie Goodman.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 23, 1999.)

A $60,000 grant will mean safer county playgrounds.

The Ringgold County Conservation Board has received the grant from the Roy J. Carver Trust as one of eight southern Iowa counties receiving money.

Six cites have been selected in Ringgold County for playground renovation. They include Redding Community Park, Diagonal Fogle Recreation Area, Tingley Community Park, Kellerton Community Park, Fife’s Grove Park and Poe Hollow Park.

Dr. Keith Miller of Mount Ayr was inducted as president of the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association at the annual convention of the group in Ames September 16-18.

Two Ringgold County families were among 275 farm families presented with the Century Farm Award at the Iowa State Fair by Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, Patty Judge.

 They were the James McCreary farm of Mount Ayr and the Derald and Rollin Noble farm of Mount Ayr.

Birth: September 15, a son, Zachary, to Mr. and Mrs. Jared Murphy.

Obituaries: Rev. Phillip Lee Kinton, Rex Linden Foltz, Arnold Dean Fugate and Elign Bisbey Shidler.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 25, 2014.)

A trio of Ringgold County Veterans will take part in an honor flight to Washington, D.C., next week. They are Harold Cooper, Jim Hullinger and Lorrie Haver.

Ground breaking ceremonies for the new PCSB building being constructed on the old Romano’s Pizza site on Hwy 2 in Mount Ayr were held last week.

Obituaries in this edition were: Verlea Stewart Lantz, Ila Louise Jeanes Jones, Barbara Jean Harl Hutton and Vickie Jane Kimble.