Looking Back By Lora Stull

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, March 21, 1923.) Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Union Savings Bank building in Redding Sunday morning. The fire, which started in the bank, was discovered about 9 o’clock and had gained such headway that efforts to subdue the flames were futile. The building and…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, March 14, 1923.) Roe Lesan, son of A.L. Lesan of this city, witnessed the Earl Thorst hanging March 9 at the state penitentiary and reported the hanging to the Waukon Republican & Standard of which he is foreman. An extra issue of the paper, giving the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, March 7, 1923.) Locomotive engineers are very much in earnest in an effort to get a bill through the legislature that will compel automobile drivers to slow down when approaching a railway crossing. They claim that watching for speeders at railway crossings is most nerve racking…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 28, 1923.) Fortieth Session General Assembly- The house committee on the suppression of intemperance, of which introduced, a bill that has the endorsement of the senate committee on the suppression of intemperance of which McIntosh, of Decatur, is chairman. It takes into account a great…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 21, 1923.) The Des Moines Bible Association will present a bill to the legislature in the very near future which will have for its object the prohibition of the teaching of any theory that questions the authenticity of the Bible. The burning out of a…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 14, 1923.) Two dramatic debates will be features of Better Citizenship meetings under the auspices of the Iowa Anti-Saloon League, will be observed by all churches of this vicinity Sunday February 18. A corps of Anti-Saloon League speakers will invade the city presenting plans of…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February , 1923) Kellerton News: Bigger and more extensive plans are being made for the carnival which is to be held here this week. Many of the booths are already decorated and everything is to be in readiness to start full blast Thursday evening. There will…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 31, 1923.) H.W. Terrell, who upon his retirement from the office of sheriff January 1, accepted a position as federal prohibition agent, came home Friday for a few day’s visit with his family. Mr. Terrell has been working at Dubuque, where one raid netted 900…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 24, 1923.) Jarnagin’s Weekly: E.R. Harlan, curator of the State Historical Department, has been giving special study and investigation to the historical setting of the Indian tribes who at various stages in the somewhat remote past occupied what is now Iowa. He says that the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 10, 1923.) The failure of a Ford car to negotiate, by reason of the fact the supply of gasoline had been exhausted, near Grant City, MO, a week ago Saturday, led to the discovery that the car was loaded with cow hides, evidently on the…