Looking Back

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 3, 2024.)

The trial of Carl Hough, charged with murder of Miss Lillian McKinney whose dead body was found under a bridge west of Bedford in August, is still in progress in the district court of Taylor county and will probably continue until the later part of this week.

The court room is filled to capacity at each session, many bringing their lunches and remaining in the room at the noon intermission in order to hold their seats. Judge Homer A. Fuller of Mount Ayr is presiding.

Every Christmas Seal sold in Mount Ayr will help furnish milk to the underweight children in school.

The first transcontinental tour of a fleet of motor buses ever attempted in America passed over the Lincoln highway across the state last week. Three buses are in the caravan, each carrying twenty passengers. The buses are owned by the Motorway Tours Inc., New York.

They are luxurious in their appointments, with Pullman seats and windows. They are high enough so that a person may stand erect. They travel about 130 miles a day and expect to reach California before Christmas. The fare from New York to Los Angeles is $410 which includes all hotel expenses and side trips.

Marriage: November 20, Ermal Bladon and Howard Taylor.

Births: November 24, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Truman Baker..November 26, a daughter, Marilyn to Rev. and Mrs. R.W. Settle.

Obituaries in this edition are: Edgar Sheldon, Carl Dean Wion (infant), Edith Elda Kopp Keller, Sarah Elizabeth Caldwell Laird, Eleanor Norwood Boggs Burch.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 1, 1949.)

Ralph Long, of Washington township, was elected commissioner of the Ringgold County Soil Conservation District at a meeting of interested persons held Monday evening at the vocational agriculture building in Mount Ayr.

Announcing the new Pontiac at Mount Ayr Implement Co. Five passenger streamliner, six cylinder sedan for $1,773.

Thirteen students from Mount Ayr high school are taking part in the band festival at Creston, scheduled for yesterday and today. Local students who with their instructor, Oren Elmore, are attending the festival are Mary Jane Eddy, Phyllis Johnston, Dorris Toland, Frieda Lamb, Edith Nichols, Geraldine Galloway, Perry Beasley, Mary Kay Hetzel, Mary Ann Davis, Janet Hudson, Jerry Willis, Rex Stuck, and Dean Stuck.

Marriage: November 18, Julia Maggard and Harry Lane…November 24, Lola Triggs and Bob Sheldon…November 24, Elva Dredge and Raymond Haley.

Births: October 30, a daughter, Elizabeth, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Goff…November 18, a son, William, to Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Saville…Thanksgiving day a daughter, Judith, to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnston.

Obituaries in this edition were: Emma Garard Steele and Hattie E. Harr Lutz.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 5, 1974.)

Winter’s first snow storm blanketed the county with about 3 inches of snow Friday.

Busiest place in the county on Monday was the Ringgold County Treasurer’s office. Monday was the day new auto license plates went on sale.

Marriage: October 19, Julie Routh and David Shiflett.

Births: November 27, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Pete Elivins…November 28, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haley…November 28, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Jones…December 1, a son to Rev. and Mrs. Larry Squire.

Obituary in this edition was Clara Iowa Long Wilkinson.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, November 25, 1999.)

A number of awards were presented when the Ringgold County Soil and Water Conservation district commissioners held their annual awards banquet November 19.

Named outstanding cooperators for the district this year were Duane and Iona Triggs and Mark and Lynda Triggs. The Triggs own and operate more than 1,000 acres of farmland.

A Diagonal Community High School volleyball player received honorable mention on the Bluegrass Conference all-conference teams. Andrea Bentley, a sophomore on the squad, received the honor as the Maroonettes only representative.

Mount Ayr Community High school cross country coach, Ron Landphair, has been named southwest Iowa Cross Country Coach of the year by the Iowa Track/Cross Country coaches.

Obituaries in this edition were: Beatrice I. Stam McGinnis and Helen Lucille Lyddon Roudybush.

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, November 27, 2014.)

Joe Ricker became the first player in Raider history to become a three-time 1st team all state honoree. Also named a concensus Class 1A 1st team all starter by both the Register and the INA was Riley Weehler. Joining Ricker and Weehler on the INA 1st team was Tucker Winemiller.

Ringgold County sees first tobacco crop. Approximately 3,300 lathes of tobacco leaves hang in the greenhouse owned by David and Jen Breneman of Mount Ayr. In the coming days the leaves will be picked and pressed into 50 pound bales for shipment to Pennsylvania for sale.

Birth: November 16, a son Aaden, to David and Jen Breneman.

Obituary in this edition was Byrce Daneen Carl Bear.