Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, September 15, 1955

Royce and Pearl DAVIS won the two-ball foursome golf tournament played Sunday on the Mount Ayr course, by shooting a 47, which is considered an excellent score. Three of the sixteen couples who participated in the tournament tied for runner-up honors with scores of 50. They were Wm. and Susie CORLL, Sam and Mary NEWTON and Marvin and Colleen REYNOLDS.

Kay RYAN, Virginia BLUNCK, and Myrtle SEVIER, representatives of the girls' 4-H clubs of Ringgold county, will be entered in the home furnishings judging contest of the Saint Joseph Interstate Livestock Show to be held next week. These three girls won the right to participated in the show after being selected as winners of the judging contest held in connection with the Ringgold County Fair. Kay is a daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Amos RYAN of Mount Ayr; Virginia's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Roy BLUNCK of Benton; and Myrtle is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald SEVIER of Beaconsfield.

In recognition of 20 years of faithful and conscientious service with the United Food Market, all of which have been spent in Mount Ayr, Keith (Butch) HARDY has received a Hamilton wrist-watch. The watch, engraved with Mr. HARDY'S name and the date, was presented during a picnic held Sunday at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines for all United employees and their families. Others from the local market who shared the occasion were Mrs. HARDY and Charlotte, Mr. and Mrs. Dan CARYL and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dale EVANS and family and Mr. and Mrs. Tom LAWSON and family.

J. W. TRIGGS & Sons concluded another successful year of showing their Spotted and Black Poland China hogs at various fairs, the Northwest Missouri State Fair and won first place ribbons in every line at all the fairs.

Relatives have received word from Mr. and Mrs. Roy SWIGART of Corvallis, OR that their residence property was recently damaged by fire in the extent of approximately $1,800. The SWIGARTS were absent at the time of the fire but their daughter, Mrs. Fred SHANNON, her two children, Mike, age seven, and LaDolle, age 5, and Mary EVANS, 20 years of age, who reside on the second floor of the home, were trapped by the fire which gutted the interior.

After attracting the attention of neighbors, who called the city fire department to the scene, three firemen carried the two women and two children to safety by the use of ladders, one at a front window and one at a rear window. The fire, which started about midnight in the downstairs kitchen, was caused by too heavy fuses which permitted electric wires to overheat, according to a report from the fire chief.

The SWIGARTS are former residents of Ringgold county.

September 12, a son, Roger Eugene, to Mr. and Mrs. James THORPE

OBITUARIES in September 15, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:

John A. BEARD   Lucille Rachel BALL O'GRADY   Ray Kenneth OSBORN

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012

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