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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 21, 1959
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr Record-News
A shipment of 49 matured pheasants for distribution in Ringgold county, by the Iowa State Conservation Commission,
arrived Saturday in Mount Ayr.
Harold FOLTZ of Mount Ayr purchased the 160 acre farm held in the estate of Margaret J. ROBINSON, deceased, at public
auction sale at the farm last Friday afternoon. FOLTZ made the top bid of $14,400 for the property located four miles
north of Mount Ayr.
Dale HERRINGTON, Mount Ayr Community high school instructor and coach, was elected Lions governor of District 9-C at the annual
convention which closed Tuesday in Mason City. The new 1959 governor succeeds Fred NANCE of Bayard in serving 43 clubs
in southwest Iowa.
Royce DAVIS successfully defended his title in the Mount Ayr Handicap Golf Tournament by beating William CORLL in the
finals, 2 to 1, in a match played Monday night on the local course.
A robbery Wednesday night of last week at the Mount Ayr Produce netted theives $335. According to Billie FINCH, owner, who
discovered the loss the following morning, the money was taken from a drawer which had been pried open. The manner in
which the building was entered is undetermined according to sheriff Warren A. DRAKE, who investigated the robbery.
Loyd HUDSON, who has been head of the vocal music department at New Hanover high school, Wilmington, NC for the past
four years, has been appointed assistant professor of music and chairman of the department at Wilmington College. Mr.
HUDSON is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter HUDSON of this city.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
May 14, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert STAATS, Delphos
May 16, a son to Mr. and Mrs. William HUGHES, Denver MO
May 17, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson HOLMES, Kellerton
May 18, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. JACKSON, Kellerton
May 18, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Laverne NOVAK, Diagonal
May 18, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. TRIDLE, Jr., Benton
OBITUARIES in May 21, 1959 Mount Ayr Record-News:
George A. ARMSTRONG Claude B. DINKEL Charles Isaac SICKELS
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012
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