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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, March 26, 1942
by Chanse Hall, Mount Ayr Record-News
Mrs. Earnest Richards is the recipient for the 14-piece canister set awarded by Horne's Rexall Store to the person having the highest grade percentage in a recent contest quiz.
Lyle E. Goldner, who has been employed for the last five months in the office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. has been advanced to typist in the National Defense Division of the Bureau.
Options held by the state of Iowa on land in Ringgold county were exercised last week when the Iowa State Conservation Commission purchased more than 700 acres of timberland in Rice township. The transfer of titles to the state is a definite step towards the establishment of a proposed 1,000 acre game area for the preservation of migratory birds and animals.
REDDING - Mrs. Clara Showalter has been hired as telephone operator to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. C. M. Wilkerson.
James Arneal, senior student at Tarkio, MO, has been chosen on the first team of the M.C.A.U. all-start basketball teams.
REDDING - Mrs. Clara Showalter has been hired as telephone operator to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. C. M. Wilkerson.
KELLERTON - Lennie Green left last week for California, where he expects to work in the shipyards.
STUDENT AYR - Bob Spence, Ruth Euritt and Ruth Wheelock will go today to Iowa City to represent Mount Ayr in the annual state high school debate tournament. Bob and Ruth Euritt will debate and Ruth Wheelock will partcipate in the high school reading contest as she won a superior in the school contest.
BIRTHS:
LINCOLN - Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Longfellow are the parents of a baby daughter, Patricia Ellen, born March 16, in the Creston hospital.
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2017
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