One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, November 22 1922.) The football game at Bedford reminded us of politics-it consisted of a mud slinging. And with the usual result one party proved to be more proficient in the art and this party was Bedford. The final score was 6 to 18. Mount Ayr…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, November 15, 1922.) The corn husking bee at Floyd Collier farm, four miles northeast of Ellston, Friday was well attended by his neighbors and the American Legion and Auxiliary, who went in a body and husked out and cribbed 800 bushel of corn. Mr. Collier is…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, November 8, 1922.) Jarnagin’s Weekly: A large force of men is employed in wrecking the remnants of the buildings at Camp Dodge and it will not be long until not a vestige will remain of what was one of the greatest army camps in America, capable…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, November 1, 1922.) At a special election held Saturday at Delphos, the Iowa Southern Utilities Company was voted a franchise for building transmission lines and the furnishing of electricity for the town. Twenty-nine votes were cast and 28 of them were in favor of the proposition.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 25, 1922.) Interest in the new hotel project is again being revived with the return of better times and a more hopeful feeling among those who are ably to assist the project in a financial way. Mr. Keffer, of the firm of Keffer & Jones,…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 18, 1922.) Ford announces Price Reduction-The local Ford dealers, Johnston Auto Co., received the first of the week announcement of another reduction in prices of all Ford cars-Sedans, coupes, touring cars, roadsters and trucks. The policy of the dealer is to pass on the reduction…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, October 4, 1922.) The demand for a suitable place in Mount Ayr in which to hold public sales is to be met by the conversion of the H. Middlesworth barn, one block east of the NE corner of the square into a sale pavilion. For some…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 27, 1922.) Road workers have been busy this week changing course of the public road running under the railroad bridge out by the Frances Whitson farm road to Ellston, the big curve being considered dangerous in meeting cars. Jarnagins Weekly: At Oskaloosa a new defense…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 20, 1922.) Quite a little excitement was caused here Saturday afternoon by the capture of three fellows who had escaped from the jail in Albany, MO the evening before. They had been sentenced to serve a penitentiary term for robbery and were being held in…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, September 13, 1922.) A petition asking the annulment of a marriage which was performed at New Market, Taylor County, last week was filed in the district court of Ringgold County and the case was heard Saturday by Judge Homer Fuller, who granted the petition. The court…