LOOKING BACK in the Early Files by Lora Stull
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One Hundred Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 10, 1926.)
F.E. Payton sold his farm containing 688 acres, located on the Platte River bottom near Blockton, Taylor County, to Mrs. E.E. Hale of Page County for $68,000 cash.
Benton News: Our high school basketball team has not been so successful. They were handicapped the first semester by ineligibles but are going pretty good now. They managed to win at Diagonal last Friday by a score of 14-13. Diagonal tried every method of winning this game. It was exceptionally rough with most of the fouls being called on the Diagonal team. The crowd showed poor sportsmanship during the first part of the game until the Diagonal coach stopped the game and protested their actions. Williams of Mount Ayr was the referee. We do not blame the Diagonal coach for the rough work of the Diagonal team. The Diagonal second team played a much nicer and cleaner game and won over the Benton seconds 8-2. It was the first game in which the Bentonites had ever played against a strange team and they were excited and fumbled a great deal.
Marriage: Miss Mildred Jackson and Glenn Brooks were quietly married at the Christian parsonage Sunday..February 10, Gilmore Barbour and Theola Bear.
Births: Thursday, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Stephens..Sunday, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Vern Brown..February 8, a daughter, Jeanne, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bayless.
Obituaries in this edition were: Sarah F. Calfee Hines, Annie Mary Doram Moore, Robert Alexander Henderson, and Mrs. Nancy C. Murray.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 5, 1951.)
Ringgold County’s sixth induction call will include seven young men who will report Friday, February 23, in Des Moines.
From Des Moines the inductees will no doubt be sent to Fort Riley, KS, where they will begin their army training. The list of inductees includes the following: Peter James Cunningham, Mount Ayr; Lester Lee Hoover, Mount Ayr; Lester Wayne Scott, Lamoni; Samuel Chris Sickels, Mount Ayr; William Curtis Young, Lenox.
New cars and trucks registered. Maurice Carr, Maloy, Chevrolet; W.W. Oliver Jr., Redding, Dodge; Lawrence Zarbua, Diagonal, Chevrolet; Alvin Swanson, Diagonal, Ford pickup express; Bernard Sullivan, Mount Ayr, Chevrolet; Pearl Warin, Mount Ayr, Chevrolet; Prentis Hatchery, Mount Ayr, Chevrolet pickup 3/4 T; E.G. Cluver, Maloy, Ford; Earl Clayton, Diagonal, Ford; Maddie Mobley, Benton, Chevrolet; Irving Brothers, Mount Ayr, Ford; Amos Ryan, Mount Ayr, Ford pickup express.
Marriages: February 2, Lillian Sickels and Robert E. Guthland..January 27, Ramadean McGraw and Joseph Shields.
Births: February 2, a son, James, to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Richards..January 21, a daughter, Jo Ellen, to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Horne.
Obituaries in this edition were: Catherine Spitznogle Scott and Asa Palmer Bethards.
Fifty Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 5, 1976.)
The first step on what will eventually be a state-wide program to curtail rural crime was taken Monday afternoon on the Ronnie Shields farm in Lotts Creek township about 7 1/2 miles south of Mount Ayr on the sale barn road.
Wayne Sheston of the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation was on hand, along with law enforcement officials of Ringgold and Decatur Counties to demonstrate marking of farm equipment.
Mount Ayr has a new police Chief. He is Robert Hubbell who began work February 1, following his hiring by Mayor Jim Wood, in consulation with the city council.
Hubbell, his wife, Margaret and their sons, Robert Jr. 3 years and James 1 year, moved here from Colfax where Hubbell had served on the Colfax police department.
Lesa Sickels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sickels of rural Mount Ayr and a junior in the Mount Ayr community high school, was installed as worthy advisor of the Mount Ayr Assembly Order of the Rainbow for Girls in a ceremony held Sunday January 25.
Births: January 28, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Alan Culbertson..January 29, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Steven Melvin..January 26, a son, Jowett, to Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Bastow.
Obituary in this edition was: Marjorie Julie Knight Ashman.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 8, 2001.)
Shelly Young was crowned queen and Wes Starlin crowned king at the homecoming ceremony following the basketball victories by the Diagonal Maroons and Maroonettes in Diagonal Friday night.
Costs of county-wide law program jump to $95,000 for Mount Ayr. Costs for county-wide enforcement will jump by over $17,000 a year under a new budget approved by the Mount Ayr city council at it’s regular meeting Monday night.
A Maloy resident returned to Iowa this week from participating in a ten day Christian Peace making team delegation to Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Brian Terrell of Maloy, was among seven deligation members who were detained at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday, February 1, while attempting to deliver a letter demanding that the United States Navy leave the Island of Vieques.
Birth: February 4, a daughter, Elsie, to Mr. and Mrs. Ron Schafer.
Obituaries in this edition were: Mary Frances McShane, Lola Gilbert Maggard, Mary Callista Shay Warin, Inez Clara Hailey Neff, Guy Sheppard, and Robert Wood Sterling.
Ten Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 4, 2016.)
Following the passage of a resolution at Monday’s meeting of the Ringgold County Board of Supervisors, 117 of 224 bridges in the county now have posted weight limits or are officially closed to traffic. However, not all closed bridges in the county are located on manor thoroughfares.
A sewer rate increase, approval of a new vehicle for county-wide law enforcement and progress on city projects comprised the agenda of Monday’s regular meeting.
Hayley England was crowned 2016 beef queen by Megan Warin the 2015 beef queen.
Cal Daughton celebrated his 100th career win with coaches John Ford and Kurt Wallace at the Quad State Wrestling Tournament in Maryville, MO.
Obituaries in this edition were: Chester Vane Munyon and Amon Lee Hunt.