Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 28, 1941

Raymond Ayers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ayers, of Jefferson township, received the highest score in the county 4-H health clinic held August 18. Raymond Ball, son of Mr. and Mrs. Verl Ball, of Tingley township, was the second highest scoring boy in the clinic. Raymond Ayers will represent Ringgold county at the state 4-H health contest in connection with the Iowa State Fair.

Land north of Mount Ayr, owned by J. P. Fife and his father since 1876, this week was deeded to the state of Iowa. The area, containing approximately 40 acres, is known to nearly everyone as Fife's Grove. It is expected that it will be made into a park site.

A style show , sponsored by the Farm Security Administration, was held Monday in the courthouse assembly room, models which were Betty Jo Stamper, Arlene Main, Doris Deibert and Lavaughn Lovitt.

Loren Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Elliott, is the winner of a $150 scholarship awarded by Sears, Roebuck and Company. The awards are made to farm boys on the basis of scholarship, need, character, desire to study agriculture, records of 4-H and F.F.A. projects and high school, church and community activities. He was valedictorian of his class of 60 members and a member of the state champion commercial team.

Roger Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Brown, of Riley township, showed [missing text] the purebred Shorthorn heifer class of Iowa State Fair, and Robert Lynch, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lynch, of Benton township, ranked high with his three Angus heifers in the 4-H division.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kinder, August 24, a son, Harry Leonard, Jr. Weight, 11 1/4 pounds.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2016

 

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