Looking Back By Lora Stull

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 10, 1926.) F.E. Payton sold his farm containing 688 acres, located on the Platte River bottom near Blockton, Taylor County, to Mrs. E.E. Hale of Page County for $68,000 cash. Benton News: Our high school basketball team has not been so successful. They were handicapped…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 3, 1926.) The town of Diagonal has leased the ground for the water works system from the Great Western Railroad Company and the Lane-Western Company of Kansas City, who has the work as soon as the casings and sand screens for the well arrive. Monday…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, January 20, 1926.) Breezy Briefs from Tingley: D.B. Weeda finished filling his ice house Friday, storing 70 tons of ice. Wayne Overholtzer finished Tuesday with 60 tons in the McCowen ice house. There is in the neighborhood 500 tons of splendid ice stored in town and…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, January 13, 1926.) Neighbors of Guy Spicer to the number of 25 gathered at his home in Rice township and finished husking and cribbing his corn. Mr. Spicer got behind with his work on account of illness of his mother and the injuries sustained by his…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, January 6, 1926.) A business change in Mount Ayr which will be of interest throughout Ringgold County took place Monday when J. L. Kinsell, veteran hardware dealer, sold an interest in his business to C.G Allyn and G.L. Todd. Immediate possession was given and the business…

One Hundred Three Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 27, 1922.) Stories of Great Indians: By Elmo Scott Watson Warrior Tecumseh Became A British General.  (I found this very interesting because my family can trace Chief Tecumseh back in my families ancestry on my paternal grandmother’s side of the family.) In the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 23, 1925.) Iowa leads the U.S. and the world in the amount of sweet corn canned. The past season broke all records, the Iowa canneries turning out 24,000,000 cans or about five for every man, woman and child in the U.S. Mr. and Mrs.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 16, 1925.) A plan to get Iowa out of the mud was announced by Gov. Hamill and the Hwy Commission a few days ago that has an immediate meaning to Ringgold County. Mr. Fred R. White, State Engineer, told me in Des Moines at the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 3, 1925.) To the courage and presence of mind of D.V. Ferris, cashier of the First National Bank of Diagonal, is given credit for the thwarting of an attempt to rob that institution just before noon yesterday. Mr. Ferris was getting ready to leave the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, November 25, 1925.) The Beaconsfield high school basketball team won another victory Friday night when it defeated the Grand River team 19-30 on the Beaconsfield court. This was the first time in the history of basketball that the Beaconsfield high school team has ever defeated the…