One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 10, 1923.) Frank Lundin, the young Swede from New London, Henry county who last year won the championship in pitching horseshoes and is state champion this year, visited Frank Jackson of Kellerton who previously held both state and national records. The two men gave an…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 3, 1923.) Billie Clark, whose father was the former blacksmith for Ellston, was bitten by a rattlesnake while with his father making fence. He was hastened to Dr. Hill, who applied remedies and hastened with him to the hospital in Creston, where he is being…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 26, 1923.) O.T. Myers of Afton, Union County, says that a few days ago a letter postmarked Ames, IA and addressed to “Jim Saxon”, an alleged dope fiend who is being held in the county jail, waiting consideration of his case, was received at the…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 19, 1923.) Mention was made in the Ringgold Record last week that W.P. Turner of Lotts Creek township topped the Chicago market a week ago Monday with his shipment of Hereford and Angus cattle. There were 49 nice head of market toppers in the lot, instead…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 12, 1923.) Manager John Gray, of the Mount Ayr baseball team, closed a contract last week for a game with the Brown’s Tennessee Rats to be played on the local diamond Friday of this week, September 14. The game will be called at 3:30 p.m.…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Record-News,Thursday, August 29, 1923.) The trial of Fred Stacy, one of the men captured after an exciting chase following the blowing of the vault of the Redding Bank two weeks ago when currency, Liberty Bonds and securities aggregating about $5,000 were stolen, resulted in conviction. The jury returned…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, August 22, 1923.) Five indicted for robbery-Trial of Fred Stacy will begin in district court Friday morning. Stacy is one of the two men taken in charge by the officer a week ago Monday evening after an exciting chase after the five yeggs who burglarized the…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, August 15, 1923.) The town of Redding was a scene of terror between the hours of 12 o’clock midnight Saturday night and 3 o’clock Sunday morning, while a gang of 5 bandits was engaged in looting the Redding bank. The bandits succeeded in their attempt to…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, August 8, 1923.) Mount Ayr will pay tribute to President Warren G. Harding, who passed away August 2, at a memorial service to be held Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Methodist Church. Calvin Coolidge takes oath of office, today August 8 at 2:47 a.m.…
Read MoreOne Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, August 1, 1923.) The daily papers have been printing recently stories about specimens of tall corn in various parts of the state whose entire are lies within the great corn belt of the world, but up to this time no specimen has been reported which…
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