Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 26, 1954

Mount Ayr school will open August 30. New instructors will be Mr. Bernice KIRBY, Dean STUCK, Rex MISKIMINS and John SHEIL.

There will be five new teachers in the Tingley school which will begin August 30. Dale McCLEMENTS will teach commerce; Russel BOYD, science; Mrs. Floyd BEAMAN, English and home economics; and Mrs. Cora PRITCHARD and Mrs. Wilbur MILLER will teach in the grades.

Results of the junior livestock show at the fair last week were: baby beef - Larry BROWN, Mount Ayr, grand champion, Gary GROSE, Kellerton, reserve champion; market barrow - Loren MILLER, Shannon City, grand champion, Ross CRAFT, Tingley, reserve champion; market lamb - Ronald WHITE, Diagonal, grand champion, Charles RAUCH, Mount Ayr, reserve champion; market litter - Tom AUSTIN, Diagonal, grand champion, Bill PRIEST, Kellerton, reserve champion; pen of three market pigs - Ross CRAFT, Tingley, grand champion, Bill DAUGHTON, Kellerton, reserve champion.

There were 658 entries in the girls' 4-H department at the county fair this year. Winners eligible to take their projects on to the state fair are: Georgia PUGH, Karolyn SMITH, Karen PAYNE, Joyce GIBSON, Lois HOHLFELD, Shirley BENSON, Sharon STEPHENS, Sue RICHARDS, Kay RYAN and Jo REES.

Mount Ayr Post 8881 V.F.W. will host girls' wrestling matches at the fairgrounds. National TV stars will include Wild Bill Kelley, Pacific coast champion, against Jackie Reed of Omaha, NE and Hillbilly Kate, world's most unique girl wrestler, against Kathee Star, world middle-weight champion. Admission will be $1 for adults; children, 50-cents; reserved seats, $1.25.

Two barns in the Ellston and Tingley vicinities were destroyed by fire Monday evening after being struck by lightning. A barn filled with hay and straw on the Lee CREVELING farm, one-half mile east of Ellston burned around 6:30 p.m. Fire departments from Mount Ayr, Grand River and Afton answered the fire call and were able to save a nearby corn crib filled with corn and oats. About the same time, a barn fire on the farm operated by Howard GREEN north of Tingley was called in. The Afton fire department left the scene of the CREVELING fire to assist with the GREEN fire.

August 23, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Earl ROUDYBUSH, Kellerton

OBITUARIES in August 26, 1954 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Minnie ROBINSON   Perry Martin BENDER
Emily (WROUGHTON) SCOTHORN   Doris (WEEDA) REASONER

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012

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