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MALOY, IOWA CENTENNIAL HISTORY: 1887 - 1987
Family & Biographical Pages
CRESTON E. FINCH
Mount Ayr Daily News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
year unknown
Fire Destroys Maloy Store
Memoirs? Not for Him.
[Creston E.] FINCH set up his first general store ownership in Clearfield, but after several years sold out to in-laws and leased
the Maloy Merchantile Store. He operated it until it was destroyed in a fire in 1919. FINCH'S big deal in
Maloy was the promotion of "drag races" -- not like the hot-rod racing of today. Maloy's drag races brought
50 or more teams to town pulling split-log, planed and metal road drags. FINCH still has a hand-bill promoting
the 1916 race. There were 15 prizes for four-horse team, four-mule team, two-horse team, etc., besides the
heaviest drag, the lightest drag. Prizes -- such as a horse collar or $5 raincoat -- were donated by merchants.
NOTE: Creston E[arl]. FINCH was born in 1880, and died May 1, 1970. His wife, Della M., was born in
1877, and died in 1961. They were interred at Oakland Cemetery near Shannon City in Ringgold County, Iowa.
SOURCE: Maloy, Iowa Centennial History: 1887 - 1987 p. 56.
Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library
Transcription and Note by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2011
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