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One Hundred Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 10, 1924.)
Life terms for boy slayers~Life imprisonment was the sentenced pronounced today in Chicago by Judge John Caverly upon Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, confessed kidnapers and murderers of 14 year-old Robert Franks.
The judge’s decision was received by radio this forenoon soon after it was announced.
John, son of Mr. and Mrs. Liffring of Waterloo, seven years old, is a genius. When he was two and a half years old his mother found him riding a baby tricycle around the yard and a robin following him. He was whistling the robin call and the bird was answering him. But now in place of calling just the robin, he talks with all the common Iowa birds and some of the uncommon ones, giving fifty different bird calls.
C.H. Wheeler shipped Saturday one hundred head of Hereford steers which he had been feeding on the Blackmore farm, four miles south of Ellston since December 1st. The cattle were a choice lot and those who saw them the day they shipped predicted they would command a good price on the market. The prediction proved true for thirty head topped the Chicago market Monday bringing $11.25 per hundred. The balance of the shipment sold at $11. per hundred weight.
Seventy-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 8, 1949.)
An unimproved 80 acre farm, northeast of Ellston, and owned by Frank Richards, of Tingley was sold Saturday at public auction to Charles Reed, of Lenox, for $31.50 per acre.
Miss Margaret Turner went Sunday to Maryville, MO, where she will attend the NWMS teachers college.
More than 300 residents of Benton community assembled Sunday at the Benton school house for the annual old time reunion. Represented were the states of Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho, New York, California and Iowa.
The oldest “old timers” present were Will Kling and Mrs. Jane Dailey, both 96 years of age. The youngest was little Kenneth Reece, of Diagonal, six weeks old.
Barbara Keller and Evelyn Pine were placed in the red ribbon class at the state fair on their demonstration “Restlessness to Restfulness.”
Marriage: Sunday afternoon Jean Barton become the bride of Clarence Courtney.
Birth: September 3, a daughter, Lura Corrinn, to Mr. and Mrs. Francis McNeiley.
Obituaries in this edition were: Cecil I. Staats, Etta Pearl Stewart Roberts and Hugh Steele.
Fifty Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 12, 1974.)
A new business opens it’s doors in Mount Ayr Monday.
Adams and Johnson’s Sales & Service will be ready for business in the former Draper Produce building on Hwy. 2 & 169, a block west of Texaco.
Calvin Adams and Kenny Johnson, former employees of Andy Johnson Chevrolet-Buick Co. are establishing a used car sales and automotive service business.
The members of the First Lutheran Church of Mount Ayr laid the cornerstone of their new church at the beginning of their regular service Sunday September 8.
The rain delayed championship races of 1974 Ringgold County Speedway season were concluded Sunday afternoon at the track southwest of Mount Ayr.
Results were as follows: Street Stocks B feature; 1st Jim Webb, 2nd Kenny Newby, 3rd Eddie Overholser and 4th Gary Landman. A feature; 1st Tom Parker, 2nd Jerry Pritchett, 3rd Jim Lund and 4th Gregg Miller. Modified Street Stock; 1st Bob French, 2nd Randy Smith, 3rd Darrell Stewart and 4th Jeff French. Modified Six-Cyliner; 1st Jim Denney, 2nd Lyle Main, 3rd Lloyd Glendenning and 4th Johnny Hiatt.
Ed Reeser took 1st place in the mechanics race for the Modified Street Stocks and Larry Kind won the same class for Modified Six-Cylinder cars.
Marriage: August 17, Kathryn Boyd and Robert Webber Jr.
Births: September 4, a son, Danny, to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lamb…September 6, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stringham…September 8, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Don Stephens…September 8, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Faris.
Obituary in this edition was James A. Miller.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 2, 1999.)
The search for Lyle Leonard is over. Unfortunately the worst fears of family and friends were proved true. The body of the 46 year-old Clearfield man was found Monday by the State Department of Transportation workers mowing along Hwy. 2 just 4 miles from the Main Street Tap in Kellerton where he had been reported last having been seen.
A new headquarters building for the Ringgold County Engineer has been built at the county yard on South Henderson Street in Mount Ayr. The new office building brings the county engineer closer to where county crews store equipment. The engineering staff has moved to the building from the Ringgold County courthouse.
Marriage: August 7, Diana Stuart and Richard Cervetti.
Obituaries in this edition were: Alta Marquerita Johnson Arrington, Ruby Belle Bowen Graham and Mary L. Denhart Hatton.
Ten Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 4, 2014.)
To provide increased services to the Ringgold County aging population Ringgold County Hospital will be opening the Senior Life Solutions program on October 1. An open house will be held Tuesday September 30 from 3-6 p.m. to present the program’s facility to the public.
Representatives from Glendenning Motor Company presented the Chrysler Drive for Kids check for $4,250 to the Mount Ayr Community athletic department.
Katelyn Warin of Maloy was awarded the $5,000 Mark Pearson Memorial Scholarship by Cattlemen’s Beef Quarters given by the Iowa Foundation for Agricultural Advancement during the Iowa State Fair sale of champions.
Obituaries in this edition were: Donald Fredrick Van Laar, Carol Wayne Sobotka, Hulen Lucile Manchester Campbell and Robert “Bob” Allen.