One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, July 16, 1919.) The trial of Roy Emerson, charged with murder in the first degree, is developing some very interesting phases, so many in fact that the large crowd of spectators which gathers in the court room every day to hear the trial will not…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, July 9,1919.) Charged with the murder of his mother, Roy Emerson, for many years a prominent undertaker of Creston, was placed on trial in the district court of Ringgold County yesterday morning. The trial comes from Union County on a change of venue granted by…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, July 2, 1919.) Blockton postoffice robbed..When Postmaster Wildman of Blockton came down to the post office Wednesday morning he found his safe had been literally torn to pieces and the pieces scattered over the floor, together with soap and other evidences of nitro-glycerine. In a…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 25, 1919.) Judge Fuller grants change of venue to Ringgold County… Trial begins Tuesday, July 8…Roy Emerson indicted by Union County grand jury for first degree murder following the finding of his mother, Mrs. Kate Emerson, at the foot of the elevator shaft in…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 18, 1919.) Counterfeiting scheme unearthed. The name of Chester Mallory is mentioned as one of the thirteen men charged with complicity in what federal secret service men say may prove one of the most daring counterfeiting schemes of recent years. The operatives who have…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 11, 1919.) With the Soldiers in Camp Dodge: Eighteen “lost men have been found” at the Fort Des Moines Hospital and communications with their homes re-established, through the “Missing Man Canvas,” which is being conducted by the American Red Cross. Men of whom every…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, June 4, 1919.) With the Soldiers at Camp Dodge: The $25,000  appropriation granted by the last legislature for the comfort of Iowa men in hospitals at port cities is not available to aid the returned Iowa soldiers in search of a job, Adj. General L.…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, May 28, 1919.) Wesley Redhead, an elderly settler of Des Moines, long since deceased, brought the first dandelion seed to this state from his old home in Pennsylvania. In that state and at that time dandelion was grown as a garden herb, the leaves being…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, May 21, 1919.) Officers Make Big Booze Seizure-The largest seizure of liquor ever made in Ringgold County was made Saturday evening by Sheriff Nicholas and Frank C. Lewis, when they captured a Cadillac “Eight” which was laden to the brim with whiskey and beer en…

One Hundred Years Ago (From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, May 14, 1919.) To Editor of the Record News; I see by last weeks paper that Ringgold County must provide a new building for the County Home and that “Taxpayers” suggests the selling of the present county farm and the purchase of a smaller location…