Ringgold Record
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Friday, June 12, 1896

IMUS & DONOVAN, the popular, up to-date and pioneer tonsorial artists of Mt. Ayr, are perhaps better known to the majority of the people of Ringgold county than any other knights of the razor and shears within our borders.

L. B. [Lewis Burgess] IMUS came to Ringgold county in 1854, settling on a farm three miles northwest of Mt. Ayr. He began working at the barber trade in this city 22 years ago, or June 4, 1874, and has hardly missed a day from work in all these years - a record we have never known excelled. To-day he is the leading man in all lines and his skill is perceptible to all patrons.

F. M. DONOVAN arrived here 20 years ago and has been engaged in the barber trade 19 years, though not all of that time in Mt. Ayr. He was in Tingley, Osceola, and other places, and numbers his friends and customers here as elsewhere by the score.

It is doubtful if this part of Iowa can produce two more popular men or those who have been so long and successfully in the same calling.

The partnership was formed in 1892. At that time the shop was under the Mt. Ayr bank. In 1893 they moved to their present location, three doors south of the NEWS office. Call on them for a clean, slick shave, elegant hair cut, etc. All work is first-class.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2010