LOOKING BACK in the Early Files by Lora Stull

Sam Davenport, living on the county line, eight miles northwest of Diagonal, had the misfortune Tuesday afternoon to lose by fire a large barn, 30 tons of hay, two sets of harness, almost all his farm implements and many other articles. There was some insurance.

The new road markers were placed on all the primary roads in Iowa last week. The signs are circular, eighteen inches in diameter, with black background and name of the state and number of road in white, mounted on creosoted posts four inches square. Markers are placed at every crossroads and at other places where there might be confusion. Through the cities and towns signes are placed on every block. Primary road No. 15 through Ringgold County will hereafter be designated state road No. 16.

The Twentieth Century Club met Monday afternoon with Mrs. Lawhead and sixteen members present. Roll call was answered to by vacation review. Subject for the afternoon, “Flowers and Shrubs.” Mrs. Campbell, leader.

Garden flowers for indoor bloom and planting bulbs for Christmas bloom was told by Mrs. Freeland in her splendid paper.

Mrs. Smith gave a fine paper on “Perennials and Annuals.”

Mrs. Snedaker being absent Mrs. Tennant read her paper on “Shrubs Suitable for Lawns,” which was very interesting.

Births: Born Thursday a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John England..October 14, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Childers..October 14, a baby to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Richardson..

Obituaries in this edition were: Melissa Ellen Stahl Shafer, John Luther Hickerson and Claudis Stewart McLaughlin.

Three schoolhouses on Highway 169, north of Mount Ayr in Tingley Township, were sold Monday afternoon at public auction for a total of $1,825.

Auctioneer Dennis Owens said the size of the crowd was comparabe to that attending a closing farm sale.

The Cozy Corner schoolhouse was sold to John Bird for $525; the Mount Ayr post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, bid in the Bridge Academy school for $635, and the Eighme School went to Herbert Bastow for $665.

The Birdge Academy school, located one mile west of Tingley, will be left on the present site to be used by the post as a meeting place.

Plans Completed for Mount Ayr High homecoming. Queen candidates are Betty Powell, Gerrie Roe, Barbara Main, Bettye Mahan and Jacque Beaman.

Mabel Rice, who in August enjoyed a trip to Canada and Alaska, was the guest speaker at the October meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s Club. Mrs. Rice, a club member, showed many colored slides and gave an interesting detailed account of her trip with Mr. Rice and Gary.

Marriage: October 12, Mary Jane Fullerton and Harold Reed..October 3, Helen Jochims and Everett Barker.

Births: October 18, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lesan..October 19, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnson..October 19, a daughter, Amy, to Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Stewart..October 19, a son, John,  to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Whittington.

Obituaries in this edition were: Rosalie Fern Giles, Charles Logan Waddel.

Fifty Years Ago

(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 14, 1976.)

A Mount Ayr couple will enjoy a five-day trip to San Francisco, courtesy of General Motors.

Bob Sickels has been named one of the top 10 service managers in the Des Moines zone and has been awarded the trip as a prize. There are about 160 dealers in the same zone.

Marriage: June 26, Brenda Reynolds and Kenny Grose..October 3, Esther Blunck and Paul Trullinger.

Birth: October 8, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Bassett.. October 6, a son, Jason, to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Duckworth.

Austin Adams was crowned homecoming king and Courtney Cannon was crown homecoming queen for the activities at Mount Ayr Community high school last week.

Mount Ayr’s new Halloween season event, the Beggar’s Bash, had a very successful first year when more than 450 people attended the event held at Judge Lewis Park in Mount Ayr Saturday.

The Mount Ayr Community high school’s Raider marching band received a division 1 rating when they traveled to Des Moines’ Lincoln high school for the state marching band contest.

Latest estimates show that investors with cattle program run by George L. Young of Grant City, MO, may have lost $210 million, a lawyer for Young told a bankruptcy judge in Kansas City, MO in the first thorough accounting of the firms money problems.

Young’s attorney Robert Cook told the judge that Young’s operation showed 343,937 head of cattle on its books when it closed August 10 but actually held only 28,784 cattle on farms and feedlots in Iowa., Missouri and Nebraska.

Marriage: May 5, 2001, Jacque Armstrong and Bob Sobotka.

Obituaries in this edition were: Leola E. Byrom Anderson..Jacobie Allen Erickson, Delores J. Embree Milligan..Lena Laurene Duffield Saville, Rachel Maragret Denhart Taylor

From the dress up days to the jersey auction to the parade to the pep rally to the victory on the football field to the after game dance, Homecoming 2016 was another rousing success in Raiderland. Heath Andresen was crowned king and Blair Glendenning was crowned queen.

Tingley will hold their 70th annual Halloween Bash, Saturday, October 29. A full day of ghosts, ghouls and good times is planned with something for any age.

United Farmers Cooperative’s held a “Pink at the Pump” event Monday. They joined forces with the Renewable Fuels Association, Iowa Corn Promotion Board and the National Breast Cancer Foundation to help combat breast cancer through the use of cleaner-burning E15, a fuel comprised of 15 percent ethanol, 85 percent gasoline. For every gallon of E15 purchased at participating stations during the month of October, 3-cents per every gallon will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Birth: September 23, a daughter, Reese, to Mr. and Mrs. Brian England.

Obituaries in this edition were: Theola Maxine Monk Cameron, Joyce Ann Cremeens Rasmussen, James Allen Buchanan, and Phyllis Jean Kinyon Pottorff.