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…

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.…