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…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 3, 1923.) Recent sales of Ringgold County land more than confirm the opinion generally expressed that the land deflation as far as this county is concerned has passed, and that we have safely rounded the corner agriculturally speaking and are now on the up-grade. The…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 27, 1922.) Jarnagins Weekly: That “good name is more precious than rubies” is the opinion of the Iowa supreme court as well as of Solomon of old. In handing down a decision in the case of Mrs. Christena Stageman against Claus Paulsen, appealed from the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 20, 1922.) Marion Stephens, who at the November election was elected to the office of sheriff of Ringgold County, announces the appointment of C. U. King as deputy sheriff. The appointment will meet with general approval. Mr. King served as sheriff during the war and…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, December 6, 1922.) The matter of building a new hotel in Mount Ayr was again considered at a meeting of the Commercial Club last Wednesday evening at the town hall and those who have taken the initiative in an attempt to provide this much needed improvement…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, November 29, 1922.) Coach Yearous was very much pleased with his football squad after they gave the Lenox eleven such a trimming. As the score indicates, the game was very one-sided, the outcome being 72-0. The State Board of Health is making up it’s report for…