Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 3, 1959

Neighbors and friends went Saturday morning to the Howard SMITH farm in Middle Fork township and picked corn for Mr. SMITH, who is a patient in the Veterans Hospital in Des Moines.

Junior DREDGE escaped serious injury Friday afternoon when a tractor overturned with him about 12 o'clock while working in the timber on a farm in Washington township. He was found about 3:30 o'clock by his nine-year-old son, Duane, who summoned Mr. and Mrs. Clarence MORRISON, Paul and Jim EASON and John BUCK. Mr. DREDGE was freed from the overturned tractor and the EASONS took him to the Ringgold County Hospital, where he was treated for leg injuries and remained a patient until Sunday. Mr. DREDGE said the accident happened when his foot slipped off the clutch.

Glen MOON, who is employed by the McCullough Motor Company in Mount Ayr, suffered back injuries Monday morning about 11:30 a.m. whne a company car he was driving went out of control when he attempted to avoid a collison with a gravel truck at the crest of a hill one mile north of Beaconsfield. He suffered a cracked vertebrae, a fractured rib and cartilage torn loose in his chest.

Officers re-elected for the Ringgold County Fair Association were John D. WARIN, president; John IRVING, vice-president; and W. T. TIMBY, secretary-treasurer.

Dec. 2, a son to Mr. & Mrs. Carnie ANDERSON of Ellston

OBITUARIES in December 3, 1959 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Patricia Marie GARRITY

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2010

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