Looking Back By Lora Stull

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, November 11, 1926.) The corner stone of Ringgold County’s new court house will be laid this afternoon with exercises appropriate to the celebration of an achievement which marks community progress. Our neighbor Will Murphy, has met with misfortune, having surffered the loss of a finger, and…

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago (From the Ringgold Record, Wednesday, November 4, 1896.) It’s McKinley! The returns indicate his election beyond all question VICTORY. New York will roll up 300,000 Republican majority, Chicago goes Republican by an overwhelming majority. The states of Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Tennessee and Illinois in the Republican column. The vote of…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, October 28, 1926.) After eleven years of uniterrupted success in the furniture business in Mount Ayr, R. E. Gleason sold his store last week to E. A. Saltzman, the inventory being completed Wednesday evening and the new proprietor taking charge Thursday morning. Just to show folks…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, October 21, 1926.) 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…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, October 14, 1926.) The carnival which was tagged at the school house Friday night for the benefitof the high school athletics was a decided success. A large jovial crowd surged about the school house from early until late, dodging confetti and unwinding themselves from paper…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, October 7, 1926.) Submitting his report for the month of September, which passed into history as the wettest September on record, Alex Maxwell, local co-operative weather observer, calls attention to the fact that one inch of rainfall on an acre of land weighs 113 tons. The…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, September 30, 1926.) The opening football game of the season for the Mount Ayr high school football squad was played on the local field with the Grant City Tigers Friday afternoon, September 24. The local team was victorious with the score of 33-0, and played the…

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…