One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, July 5, 1922.) Miss Ruth Michael of Diagonal has been selected by the judges as the most beautiful girl in Ringgold County. Register subscribers have watched with interest the progress of the Register-Iowa State Fair beauty contest. The selection of county winners has bee made from…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, June 28, 1922.) One of the biggest events of the kind ever held in southern Iowa and northern Missouri will take place at Leon on July 2, 3, and 4. $2,000 in purses are to be awarded in a baseball tournament in which four of the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, June 21, 1922.) Kellerton News: The radio installed by Art and Bert Smith in the rear of their store is now in working order and concerts, lectures, and market reports are being received daily from Des Moines, Omaha, and Kansas City. It is proving quite an…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, June 7, 1922.) Jarnagin’s Weekly-Unusal News Items of General Interest Gathered From All Parts of Iowa…Ringling brothers, the great showmen, were formerly residents of northeastern Iowa and it is from that section that they started upon their career. Mrs. Al Ringling recently visited her sister, Mrs.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, May 31, 1922.) The large still captured by Sheriff Terrell several months ago, which at the time of its capture was employed in the manufacture of illicit booze, is to be put to the nobler and more glorious purpose of heating water and such other legitimate…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, May 24, 1922.) A item which failed to get into the Record News last week was mention of the accident in which Ed Dugan came within a small margin of losing his life. Mr. Dugan was driving a large thresher engine across a bridge near J.W.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, May 10, 1922.) Friday night about 12:30 fire was discovered in the basement of the Maloy Mercantile Company Store. The alarm was turned in at once but the building being a frame structure, was found impossible to save. The burning of the building takes away the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record News,Thursday, April 26, 1922.) At the meeting of the Mount Ayr Commercial Club last evening at the city hall, the committee to select site for a tourist park reported favorably to the location of the park on the school grounds or on the lots west of…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record News,Thursday, April 19, 1922.) The Maupin Style Shop was moved Monday from the west side of the square to the Slentz store room on the east side. Airplane passenger service with fares lower than taxi cab rates and with fifteen planes in operation will be available…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, April 12, 1922.) Former resident of Kellerton killed near Jaqua, KS, slayer gives self up to sheriff…One of the saddest tragedies ever occurring in Cheyenne County was enacted last Sunday evening about 5 o’clock when Lewis Scheller was shot to death by John Adams. Both parties…