One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, May 9, 1923.) Clarence Ives has been chosen as field captain of Diagonal Blue Sox baseball team. The baseball diamond for the next 3 years will be on the Chas. Wing farm east and across the road from the C.G.W. Depot. John C. Crawford left the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, May 5, 1923.) The graduating class of Beaconsfield high school has but one graduate this year, namely Miss Hazel Mae Moore. Manager Kremer has purchased a Gardner Gold picture screen for the Princess Theatre and expects to install it next week. The new screen will improve…

One Hundred Thirty Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, April 20, 1893.) Seth Imus has bought out B.F. Day’s interest in the grocery firm formerly known as Day & Riggs. The firm name is now Riggs & Imus. The most terrific and destructive cyclone that ever visited this section swept over northwest Missouri and…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, April 18, 2023.) The theft of a pocketbook from the home of Clyde Stephens of Poe township was reported to the officers Monday morning and bloodhounds were brought from Creston. The stolen property was located and restored to the owner but no arrests have been made.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, April 11, 1923.) One of the outstanding industries in Iowa is that of the manufacture of cement. The demand for this material as a substitute for lumber, brick and steel in buildings and the large use for paving and road building has placed a heavy tax…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, April 4, 1923.) Fortieth Session General Assembly: There is considerable friction in state game and fish circles over what is claimed to be inequality in the present game law. It exacts a license from hunters but none from those who fish but money obtained from the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, March 28, 1923.) J.L. Sheelsey suffered a severe injury to his hand Saturday when cranking his car. His hand struck the number plate which cut through 2 of his fingers and it was necessary to take several stitches to close the wound. The restaurant of Baker…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, March 21, 1923.) Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Union Savings Bank building in Redding Sunday morning. The fire, which started in the bank, was discovered about 9 o’clock and had gained such headway that efforts to subdue the flames were futile. The building and…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, March 14, 1923.) Roe Lesan, son of A.L. Lesan of this city, witnessed the Earl Thorst hanging March 9 at the state penitentiary and reported the hanging to the Waukon Republican & Standard of which he is foreman. An extra issue of the paper, giving the…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, March 7, 1923.) Locomotive engineers are very much in earnest in an effort to get a bill through the legislature that will compel automobile drivers to slow down when approaching a railway crossing. They claim that watching for speeders at railway crossings is most nerve racking…