Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 01, 1955

Leo HACKER, agency manager of the Ringgold County Farm Bureau Insurance Service, was the company's highest ranking representative in the state during the past year with 634 percent of his quota issued.

Lyman WALKER II of Ringgold county was announced as a national award winner in Soil and Water Conservation at the National 4-H Club Congress now in session in Chicago. Lyman will received a $300 scholarship in recognition of this of this national honor. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman WALKER of Kellerton.

Neighbors went Tuesday afternoon of last week to the Amon HUNT farm and plowed 40 acres for Mr. HUNT who is recovering from injuries received in a recent corn picker accident. Men who assisted were Elvis HUNT, Alan HUNT, Neil JOHNSTON, Jim JAMES, Bill WASHBURN and Lester WASHBURN. Doughnuts and coffee were served by Mrs. Maxine WASHBURN, Mrs. Jessie WASHBURN and Mrs. Lois HUNT.

Leslie E. THOMPSON assumed his duties as clerk of the town of Mount Ayr on Nov. 18. He was appointed by the town council to succeed Raymond BARKER who resigned. A former sheriff of Ringgold county, Mr. THOMPSON also served the county as maintenance foreman. He has been convalescing for nearly a year after suffering a heart attack.

The two and one-half story home of Senator and Mrs. X. T. PRENTIS, located one-fourth mile east of Mount Ayr on Highway 2, was totally destroyed by fire early Monday morning. The loss was estimated at approximately $20,000. Only a few items of wearing apparel were saved by Mrs. PRENTIS and granddaughter, Barbara WITTMANN, occupants of the home at the time of the fire. Both escaped injury. The fire, of unknown origin, was presumed to have started in a clothes closet on the second floor, according to Mrs. PRENTIS who was awakened about 4:30 a.m. by a noise from upstairs. Upon arising she smelled smoke and immediately wakened her granddaughter and then called the Mount Ayr Fire Department and her son, Richard.

Carolyn LUNGREN of Redding is in Miami, FL this week on a trip she won as the Ringgold County Centennial Queen. Carolyn's and her mother's transportation for the trip is being paid by the Ringgold County Centennial Committee. Her father, Clifford LUNGREN, also accompanied her to Miami.

While Lyle POWELL of Poe township spent six and one-half weeks in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, MA where he submitted to surgery for the correction of a heart ailment, neighbors and friends performed a "good neighbor" deed by harvesting his corn. Men who assisted with the corn husking were Otto FERBER, Richard SALTZMAN, Eugene MOSIER, Bob SWANSON, Jerald WALTER, Charlie MILLER, Duane JOHNSON, George WELLS and Murray SHAHA. Ladies who prepared and served dinner for the men in the POWELL home were the Mesdames Rex SHAHA, George WELLS, Otto FERBER, Jerald WALTER and James E. MAHAN, Jr.

November 27, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ross COMBS, Denver, MO

OBITUARIES in December 01, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Emma Alice BAIRD MALOY   Eliza HOBBS LANCE   Willis Edmund DRAKE

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2012

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