Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 03, 1956

Emmet R. WARIN, 46, Mount Ayr attorney and land owner, suffered a heart attack Friday night at his home in Sheldon Heights. He was taken to the Ringgold County Hospital, where he remains a patient. His condition is reported as satisfactory.

Weldon C. MAIN, proprietor of the Main Motor Company, was released Tuesday from the Ringgold County Hospital, where he had been a patient since Wednesday night when he suffered a leg injury in a power saw accident at his home. Mr. MAIN was using the saw on a door when it slipped and cut a gash two inches deep just above his knee.

The Johnston Motor Company announces the opening Friday, May 4, of the new Texaco service station on Highways 2 and 169 in south Mount Ayr. The station will be under management of Tim JOHNSTON.

The board of education has elected three new teachers to positions on the faculty of the Mount Ayr public schools for the 1956-57 school year. Mrs. Ilene WILSON of Redding for the third grade to replace Mrs. Bette MISKIMINS. Mrs. WILSON has been teaching fourth grade at Bedford for the past two years.

Mrs. Dorothy WILSON of Osceola for first grade to replace Mrs. Gladys CARR. Mrs. WILSON has taught second grade at Osceola for the past four years. Mrs. WILSON'S husband will be working in Mount Ayr for the REA.

Mrs. Vivian JOHNSTON as high school librarian and teacher of Spanish and English. Mrs. JOHNSTON has been teaching in Blockton for the past four years. The positions of librarian and Spanish instructor are new in this high school.

Thirty-eight men went April 25 to the Howard JOHNSTON farm in Middle Fork township and assisted Mr. JOHNSTON with his spring plowing and clearing away of the debris left when the JOHNSTON home was completely destroyed by fire on April 21. Men who assisted with the work were Loren TRULLINGER, Ted PERLENFEIN, Claud RINEHART, Leslie AYERS, Harold SMITH, Carroll SMITH, Glenn PINE, Arthur DEIBERT, Rollo FRY, John THOMAS, Lawrence KIMBALL, Arthur RAUCH, Roy GLENDENNING, Bill KELLEY, Roy SHEUMAKER, Harold RICE, Homer SMITH, Raymond FROST, and Cloyde BEEDE. Also, Wayne HENSLEY, Ora MILLER, Howard SMITH, Doyle CLAYPOOL, W. H. MORGAN, Kermit MILLER, Lester WASHBURN, Neil JOHNSTON, E. E. BLACK, C. L. NICHOLS, Merritt SOUTH, Albert BAGLEY, Elza FETTY, Albert DRAKE, Sam AUSTIN, Amon HUNT, Victor JAMES, Herman WEBB and Clifford JACKSON.

Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. CALKIN of Washington, D.C., who are spending a two-week vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. CALKIN, and her father, Guy REYNOLDS of Clearfield, were greeting friends in Mount Ayr Tuesday. They and Mr. REYNOLDS were pleasant callers at the Record-News office. A native of Clearfield, Homer's acquaintance was extended in the county when he was elected president of the Ringgold County Historical Society in the early days of the organization 20 years ago.

Bred sows and bred gilts sold for an average of $40 per head at W. P. TURNER & Son's annual spring sale held last Tuesday at the Mount Ayr sale barn. The offering was 100 head of Hampshires. The top sow sold for $57.

May 01, a daughter, Nancy Ann, to Mr. and Mrs. Verdon PAYNE, Mount Ayr

OBITUARIES in May 03, 1956 Mount Ayr Record-News:

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Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012

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