Looking Back By Lora Stull

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, August 4, 1926.) T.D. McGahuey has moved to Redding where he is conducting a blacksmith shop. Threshing is now in full sway in these parts and the oats are turning out from twenty to fifty bushels per acre and of good quality. Relatives received a telegram…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, July 28, 1926.) Word was received in Mount Ayr last week that Earl Kinder, formerly a resident of this city and who for past seven years has made his home in Goodland, Kan., had been held up by bandits who at the point of a gun…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, July 21, 1926.) Sheriff Marion Stephens received last week from the motor vehicle department of the office of Secretary of State W.C. Ramsay a communicaton calling attention to the importance of strict enforcement of the law which prohibits the use of glaring headlights and quoting from…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, July 14, 1926.) Many citizens of Ringgold County have called at the office of County Auditor Clarence Palmer last week to inspect the plans submitted by the architects., Keffer and ones, adopted by the board of supervisors at the meeting July 6 for the county’s…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 30, 1926.) Dance halls are quite common in rural communities, pavilions for this purpose being erected in groves, on banks of rivers or upon lake shores. Being outside of the incorporated towns or cities they become subject to township supervision and control. County attorneys…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 16, 1926.) Ray Shifflett and his famous flying circus have been booked to appear at Mount Ayr’s Fourth of July celebration to be held Monday, July 5, and will be here with something altogether different than has  been seen anywhere in this part of the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 9, 1926.) At the special election held on the day of the primary election, Monday, the proposition of issuing bonds in the sum of $150,000 for the purpose of building and equiping a court house for Ringgold C ounty carried by a majority of 592…

By Lora Stull One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, June 2, 1926.) It may be of interest to some to know that the first grave dug in the Tingley Cemetery was January 5, 1887, an infant of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Berry, being buried on that day. The West Side Service Station,…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, May 26, 1926.) The jury which heard the evidence in the trial of “Big George” Gibson at Creston returned a verdict of “guilty” this morning at 8:30 o’clock and recommended life imprisonment. Fredrick Newton Olliver, highly respected resident of Redding vicinity, dies suddenly. Redding Herald: “The…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, May 19, 1926.) The trial of man charged with murder of union county sheriff opened Monday. The trial of “Big George” Gibson, of Thayer, charged with the murder of Sheriff Fred Collins of Union County March 8, was begun in the district court at Creston Monday…