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RETOLD OLD NEWS
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 24, 1988
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr Record-News
Frank Butler and Annie Oakley get set to match up in their
first shooting contest in an early scene in Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" which will be presented tonight
(Thursday) and Friday at the Mount Ayr Community highschool gymnasium. The musical is a production of all the
fine arts areas at the high school.
It was a night of celebration of the 50th year since the founding of the
Future Farmers of America chapter at Mount Ayr Community high school and the establishment of the vocation
agriculture departmen there. There were 35 FFA members and their advisors and 150 guests,including FFA members
and advisor from Grand Valley and members from Creston, who took part in the 50th annual FFA banquet and program
held Monday night, March 21, in the MACHS Commons. Some of the top awards at
the FFA banquet Monday night went to Ed McCREARY, chapter star farmer; Doug HICKMAN, star chapter
agri-businessman; Elsa McALEXANDER, star greenhand, and Randy HENSLEY, most valuable FFA member.
Sean THOMAS, 16-year-old Mount Ayr Community high school
junior and son of Robert and Jane THOMAS of Mount Ayr, has been accepted as a member of the Iowa State Fair
Singers, a select group of 21 high school vocalists and some 14 instrumentalists.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
March 15, a son to Gary and Darla SOBOTKA, Diagonal
March 22, a daughter to Wayne and Charlotte WARD, Mount Ayr
OBITUARIES in March 24, 1988 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Alice M. DAVIS PUTNEY
Fern Olive GLEASON WRIGHT
Charles Everett MICHELSON
Samuel Edward RHOADES
Chase Lee COMER
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2013
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