Looking Back By Lora Stull

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 11, 1925.) Mrs. Noah Saltzman enjoyed a visit last week with her brother, John McCord of Alaska, who stopped in Mount Ayr enroute home from a visit in the east. For many years Mr. McCord, who is a civil engineer, has been employed in Alaska.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 4, 2025.) Dr. F.H. Landes of Benton purchased Monday the office building on the west side of the square belonging to Dr. William Horne Estate and expects to move to Mount Ayr as soon as possible. Gas was 18 1/2 cents a gallon in Tingley…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 28, 1925.) Kellerton is to again have a moving picture show. Mr. Kremer, manager of the picture theater at Mount Ayr, has men busy preparing the south half of the building owned by the Slentz Estate, formerly occupied by Frisby & Co., expects to have the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 21, 1925.) The train service on the Great Western railroad has been considerably improved, effective January 18 by the addition of train #5 which arrives in Diagonal at 1:49 p.m. leaving Des Moines at 11:25 a.m. This train is a mail train and brings the…

One Hundred Twenty-Nine  Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 16, 1896.) National News~For many years the people of this country have been startled at intervals with rumors of war in Europe which the ever-alert correspondents have said was an event of the near future. The years have come and gone and yet no…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 7, 1925.) Peter Westevelt, an aged man living with his sister in the Grand River neighborhood, was robbed recently of a sum of money and a quantity of Liberty Bonds. Mr. Westevelt was in the habit, it was said, of keeping considerable money around the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 31, 2024). Only three changes in the personnel of officers at Ringgold County will be made at the beginning of the new year. County Auditor E.E. Cornwall will be succeeded by Clarence Palmer, County Treasurer, Earle K. Allyn will be succeeded by Milly Lucy Kidney…

One Hundred  Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 24, 1924.) Near Gravity, Taylor county, J.S. Francis says that in sinking a shaft for coal a piece of wood was discovered at a depth of 65 feet. The piece of timber was embedded in blue clay. It was a small log about 6 feet…

One Hundred Thirty-Two Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 15, 1892.) Long years ago, there was strong opposition to second presidential candidates. Occasionally this opposition assumed the shape of an anti-second term plank, in a political platform, but usually by some third party, or faction. In those days the reasons for it were…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 17, 1924.) Carl Hough of Bedford gets life sentence for the murder of Lillian McKenney. Time will be served at Fort Madison prison. A cut of $25 in the price of the Fordor sedan, one of the most popular of the Ford enclosed cars was announced…