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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, November 15, 2007, Page 16
Two old ways of maintaining roads
Two pictures showing how streets and roads were maintained inthe past in Ringgold county came to the Mount Ayr Record-News office
recently.Above is shown a picture of a group of teams on the Mount Ayr square ready to drag roads and streets. The east side of the square is shown
in the picture along with a number of teams of animals. The square in Mount Ayr had not been paved at the time of this picture. A mechanical method
for grading roads is shown below in this 1931 picture of the first road grader owned by Ringgold county. Wilbur F. Saville is shown with the maintainer. The
brick building in the upper right hand was the Union Savings Bank and the small building is an ice house, according to Mary Cavin, who provided the picture.
The bank building later became George and Maud Griffith's grocery store in the 1940s.
Photographs courtesy of Mount Ayr Record-News
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2015
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