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RETOLD OLD NEWS
Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, October 29, 1959
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
W. E. KELLEY, prominent Middle Fork township farmer, was re-elected president of the Ringgold County Farm Bureau during
the annual meeting of that organization. Other officers elected were Loren IBBOTSON of Tingley, vice president; Duane
TRIGGS of Mount Ayr, secretary; and Charles BASTOW of Mount Ayr, treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle ANDREW, cancer fund-raising chairman and county chairmen, represented the Ringgold county Chapter of
the American Cancer Society at the annual state convention held Sunday in Des Moines. Jack SPEVAK, M.D., of Des Moines,
in the absence of former U.S. Senator Guy M. GILLETTE, state campaign chairman, gave the report of the educational and
fund raising crusade, which read, in part, as follows: "Of the chapters exceeding their assigned goals, Ringgold,
with Mr. and Mrs. Doyle ANDREW at the helm, topped all records by reaching 169.82 percent of the 1959 goal."
Burl STEDMAN of Redding suffered fractures of both bones in his right leg between the knee and ankle Monday afernoon in
a corn picking accident. STEDMAN and C. L. GARRETT had just started to pick corn when the accident happened on the
GEIGER farm, one-half mile north of Delphos, which is operated by Mr. STEDMAN. GARRETT started the tractor in motion and as
STEDMAN observed the operation of the machine, the wagon skidded, knocked him to the ground and ran over his leg.
Ira J. CAMPBELL was elected commissioner of the Ringgold Soil Conservation District at a meeting held Monday night.
Mr. CAMPBELL succeeds Cecil SICKELS. Other commissioners are Ralph LONG of Mount Ayr, chairman, and Lloyd GOINS of
Diagonal.
Barbara BARKER of Benton and Raymond SHIELDS of Tingley are Ringgold county 4-H members to be honored on the KSIB 4-H
Record Book Award Program scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 31. Barbara, a member of the Rainbow Girls 4-H club, is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence BARKER. Raymond belongs to the Tingley Toppers and his parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Russell SHIELDS.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
October 21, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donald KIRK, Grant City MO
October 21, a son to Mr. and Mrs. David SOBOTKA, Diagonal
October 22, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roy HALL, Grant City MO
October 23, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Philip BERG, Parnell MO
October 26, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Archie TULL, Grant City MO
October 27, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Andy JOHNSTON, Lamoni
October 27, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donald WALL, Blockton
OBITUARIES in October 29, 1959 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Maude GOBLE BEAMER Claud MUNYON
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012
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