Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, November 03, 1955

Ronald ABEL of Diagonal, Hollis RINEHART of Mount Ayr, and Wendall SOLLARS of Clearfield have been named winners in the Lions Club gilt award program for 1955, announcement of which was made Wednesday evening of last week during the regular meeting of the service organization.

Tommy KNAPP, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gifford KNAPP of Redding, suffered injuries to his right hand Sunday afternoon while playing with an electric planer in his home. He was brought to the Ringgold County Hospital where it was deemed necessary to amputate parts of his first two fingers -- one just above the knuckle and the other directly below the middle section. The thumb of his right hand was also badly lacerated.

Tommy remained a patient in the hospital until yesterday when he was returned to the home of his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank TENNANT, of Saint Joseph, MO, came Tuesday of last week to Mount Ayr and assumed the management of the Clinton Motel, owned by Mabel and Clinton RICE. They succeed Mr. and Mrs. Carson WILLIAMS, who had efficiently managed the motel since their return from Florida last spring.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman FENNEMA will leave Saturday, Nov. 5, for a vacation in Nassau, noted restort in the Bahama Islands, West Indies. They will be guests of the John Deere Co., which is sending to Nassau the dealers and their wives of the Moline territory (Wisconsin, Illinois and part of Iowa), who have met certain stipulations in volume of sales during the past year.

John E. FREELAND has been promoted to the position of controller and general manager of the Schweser's stores, according to announcement by F. G. Schweser, president of Geo. Schweser's Sons, Inc. Schweser Schweser stores are located in Fremont, David City, Columbus, Grand Island, Kearney and North Platte, NE. Mr. FREELAND joined the Schweser organization the first of April, 1951, to assume the management of the Columbus store, after selling his store in Mount Ayr to the W. G. Woodward Co.

A business transaction was consummated the first of the week whereby the Ford dealership in Mount Ayr was transferred from the May Motor to Barker & Webb Motor Co., effective the first of November. The new automotive firm will be operated by Raymond G. BARKER and Harold R. WEBB, who are well and favorably known, having operated as a partnership in a furniture store in Mount Ayr for a period of nine years -- from 1945 to 1954.

Alvin L. VARNER, local manager of the Iowa Southern Utilities, Co., has been named president of the Mount Ayr Lions Club. He succeeds Elmore ERICKSON who resigned preparatory to leaving Mount Ayr to accept the position of manager of the Hy-Vee Food Store at Bethany, MO. ERICKSON was elected in July.

Neighbors went Wednesday of last week to the Clyde DeBOLT farm with corn pickers and wagons and husked corn for Mr. DeBOLT, who has been ill and hospitalized. The men who assisted with the work were Marvin SOBOTKA, Otto SOBOTKA, Ora YASHACK, Lewis ADAMS, Frank PIERSON, Pete PACHA, Johnny TAYLOR, Paul EASON, Junior JEZEK, John SMITH and Edd SOBOTKA. Women who assisted at the noon hour were Avis PACHA, Bertha JEZEK, Myrtle YASHACK, Eva SMITH, Beth EASON and Beulah PIERSON.

November 02, a daughter, Marcia Ann, to Mr. and Mrs. Frankie FLETCHALL, Grant City MO

OBITUARIES in November 03, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Albert Milton HALL   Arthur Ray SHARP   Glade Clare DOWLIN

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2012

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