One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 14, 1920.) Three towns to get electric lights. The electric light proposition has taken another step forward. Although Shannon City has withdrawn their cooperation in the work, the three towns of Tingley, Arispe, and Ellston have decided to go on with the movement, at a…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News,Thursday, January 7, 1920.) Two young men who attempted to steal automobile, sentenced by Judge Fuller. Thomlinson and Elliott plead guilty to the charge of assault with intent to commit burglary. Each of the young men drew indeterminate sentence of five years, the limit under the law.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 30, 1919) Most of the loot taken from Tingley Bank found in school house near Lorimor. A large part of the property including notes, mortgages, registered bonds, which last night was found in a school house about a mile and a half east  of…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 24, 1919.) Tingley Bank robbed last night. Entrance to the bank had been effected through the rear door, the door to the vault had been opened by the use of an acetylene torch, safety deposit boxes had been rifled and several thousand dollars of…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, December 17, 1919.) Ellston votes for electric lights-the light question has finally ben settled for Ellston. The election for electric light bonds on Friday, December 5 proved successful. Of the 42 votes cast by the men, only 4 were against. The intelligence of the women…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, November 14, 1919.) With the thermometer registering 22 degrees below zero and no prospect in sight for securing more coal within a month; with a splendid system devised in operation for the relief of the situation in Mount Ayr, but with insufficient wood choppers to…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, November 7, 1919.) December 1 marks the beginning of a campaign launched by the National Tuberculosis Association to wipe out tuberculosis.  The following will give you an idea of the terrors of this disease. If every man, woman, and child in this territory would buy…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, November 26, 1919.) At Council Bluffs a band of gypsies was intercepted carrying with them two kidnapped girls, Rosie Mitchell (14) and Sonia Evans (12). The girls were stolen in the suburbs of Philadelphia last March and a nation wide hunt for them has been…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, November 19, 1919.) During the war, the American people gave unsparingly and cheerfully of their time, labor, and money for the people of stricken Europe. Drive after drive was successfully carried through. Charitable institutions here at home have suffered a vast extent in consequence. How…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, October 29, 1919.) An accident which the wonder is did not result in a funeral in addition to property damage happened Sunday night about ten o’clock when a Buick car driven by Truman Dulany and an Overland driven by a young man by the name…