Looking Back By Lora Stull

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, September 9, 1926.) Investigation of the tragic death of Pansy Turnbull, seventeen-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Turnbull of Diagonal, who was found unconscious on the streets of Clearfield during the street fair the evening of August 26, and who died a few…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, September 16, 1926.) The Taylor County grand jury called to investigate the death of Pansy Turnbull, 17 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Turnbull of Diagonal, who died August 27 at the home in Diagonal after being found unconscious at the Clearfield street fair a…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, September 9, 1926.) Investigation of the tragic death of Pansy Turnbull, seventeen-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Turnbull of Diagonal, who was found unconscious on the streets of Clearfield during the street fair the evening of August 26, and who died a few hours…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, September 2, 1926.) At a street fair in Clearfield Thursday evening Pansy Turnbull, 17 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Turnbull of Diagonal, was found insensible and apparently injured and in company with a strange young man one block east of the business district.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, August 27, 1926.) (The following marriages, birth and obituary were from the August 18 edition: Marriage, August 13, Edith Sawyer and Victor Thompson..August 12, Lena Armstrong and Kyle Miller..Saturday morning Margaret Bevins and Grant Freihage. Birth: August 3, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Charles…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, August 11, 1926.) Tingley News: J.A. Johnston bought S.H. Bevin’s barber shop equipment Tuesday afternoon and took possession at once. Mr. Johnston comes well recommended as a good workman, having conducted shops in Kellerton and Mount Ayr. Mr. Bevin’s failing health compelled him to sell. Chris…

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…