Looking Back By Lora Stull
LOOKING BACK in the Early Files
One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, September 2, 1925.) Celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the High Point Church Wednesday August 19, brings to mind the years of long ago, when Ringgold County was engaged in making history. As the county was being settled up, the need of a church was voted.…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, August 26, 1925.) Saturday was circus day in Mount Ayr and the town was thronged with visitors from early morning until late at night. Before the sun appeared a crowd gathered at the station to await the arrival of the Robbins Brothers circus train, due to…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, August 19, 1925.) Brief mention was made last week of the receipt of a telegram Wednesday conveying the information that 60 head of steers shipped by W.P. Turner and sons of Lotts Creek township, were sold that day at $16.10 per cwt. This is reported the…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, August 12, 1925.) After being successfully engaged in the clothing business in Mount Ayr for fifteen-half years. Charles Agee has sold his stock and fixtures to Charles Hetzel and LeRoy Saltzman. The inventory was completed yesterday and the business turned over to the new proprietors. The…
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One Hundred Thirty-one Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Ringgold Record, Thursday, August 2, 1894.) John Dunlap has purchased Harvey White’s interest in the livery barn of White Brothers’ and the busieness with hereafter be conducted by Frank White and Mr. Dunlap. The patrons of the barn may expect to receive the same courteous treatment…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, July 29, 1925.) Narrow Escape From Death: Turning a flip flop in a Ford coupe, tumbling down a 30 foot embankment over a rocky surface into the water below~just like they do to produce thrillers for the movies, except at a higher rate of speed~was the…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, July 22, 1925.) Chas. V. Agee’s Ford coupe was stolen Sunday evening while Mr. and Mrs. Agee were visiting at the Yates home in Pattonsburg, MO. Mr. and Mrs. Agee motored to Pattonsburg Sunday morning, the car was parked in the street and it was while the…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, July 15, 1925.) Frank Jackson of Kellerton, ex-national horseshoe pitching champion and Cecil Freel of Murray, are touring the eastern states pitching exhibition games this summer. Mrs. Bessie C. Evans of Afton was killed and H.M. Polen of Diagonal, was injured Saturday afternoon when the automobile in…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, July 8, 1925.) Probably never before in the history of Ringgold county was the Fourth of July celebrated with a more appropriate program than on last Saturday when the people of the county and adjacent territory met at Mount Ayr to enjoy the celebration sponsored by the…
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One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, July 1, 1925.) The smooth bunch of highwaymen who made a daylight robbery of the Cottage Grove Bank in Des Moines, all of whom are now in jail, “pulled the wool” over the eyes of Paul Brown, sheriff of Gentry County, MO. Arthur Stanley, constable of…
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