One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, February 16, 1921.) Red Cross Notes: A thorough fumigation and cleaning was given the Delphos school house last Saturday. Temperatures have been taken this week. We hope to keep the school open the rest of the term. The first cases of scarlet fever will be released…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, February 9, 1921.) W.E. Walter of Rice Township had an experience one day last week that he does not want repeated for fear the results might be more serious. He was on his way to town and when near the J.W. Shiel farm, a colt…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record News, Thursday, February 2, 1921.) The state oil inspectors have instituted a vigorous campaign against the careless custom of putting gasoline in other than red receptacles. Some serious accidents have resulted because of the failure to observe the provision of the law. Notices have been sent…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, January 26, 1921.) One out of every four persons living in Iowa is enrolled in schools. This is shown in statistics prepared by P.E. McClenahan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction at request of P.P. Claxton of Washington, D.C., National Commission of Education. Based on the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, January 19, 1921.) The Diagonal vicinity raised nine hundred dollars for the relief of the starving children of Europe in an organized drive made last week.  In Mount Ayr the Methodist Sunday school has raised a little more than $100 and the Baptist Sunday school…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, January 12, 1921.) Jarngin’s Weekly: Iowa Newsletter; Has an orphanage a legal right to keep secret the names of persons adopting children? A suit is now pending in Polk County district court wherein the Iowa Children Home Society is defendant.  Three years ago, three children…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, January 5, 1921.) Governor Harding is sending out invitations to a National Conference on Parks to be held at Des Moines, January 10-12, 1921.  This is done in cooperation with Hon. John Payne, Secretary of the Interior, and in recognition of the public parks movement…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 29, 1920.) The appeal now being made for funds to save the lives of the more than three and one-half million of starving children in eastern and central Europe is meeting with a hearty response throughout Iowa. The 3,500,000 children are the helpless victims…

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 26, 1895.) The disputed boundary line between the states of Iowa and Missouri is now before the supreme court of the United States for adjustment. The line has been settled by the courts heretofore: but in part of the line between the county…

One Hundred Twenty-Five Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, Decenber 19, 1895.) On Tuesday President Cleveland sent a special message to Congress relative to the Venezuela situation. (The Venezuelan crisis of 1895 occurred over Venezuela’s longstanding dispute with the United Kingdom about the territory of Essequibo and Guayana Esequiba, which Britain claimed as…