Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 10, 1939

Loch Ayr, Mount Ayr's new 100-acre lake and water reservoir was approved yesterday during the meeting of the city council, the head and PWA engineers and PWA inspector. The project was financed by bonds in the amount of $40,000 and a government grant of 45 per cent off the total cost of the project. Water in the reservoir was backed up approximately three quarter of a mile and in from the dam the water is 22 feet deep.

Nate Fry recently resigned from the position of local realtor for the Aetna Life Insurance Company and has accepted a position with the Motor Carriers Mutual Insurance Company with headquarters in Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs. Fry and sons, Dwight and Dean, expect to move September 1, to Indianola.

Marion Sheldon began work Monday at Baldner's Cash Market.

Mount Ayr will make a bid this year for the Iowa baby health championship in the statewide contest at the Iowa State Fair. Marcia Mae Dalbey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Dalbey, who placed second in the town girls' division of the ages from 12 to 24 months last year, was one to the finest of more than 700 babies to be entered for this year's contest.

Daily except Sunday passenger motor trains, operating between Davis City, Iowa, and Albany, MO, will be withdrawn from service about September 16, of this year. It is proposed to establish daily except Sunday bus service between Leon and Albany, on which passenger, mail and express service will be handled, effective concurrently with the discontinuing of train service.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2014

 

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