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Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 16, 1955
Lisa Wilson, Mount Ayr
Roy LEPLEY, county centennial chairman, received a telegram from Dwight E. Eisenhower, president of the United States,
congratulating Ringgold county on the occasion of its centennial obserance. The telegram read as follows: "My
greetings go to the citizens of Ringgold county on its 100th anniversary. To all its citizens who gather together
in Mount Ayr for the centennial celebration, I send best wishes for a happy observance of this event, significant
in the history of your state. I hope the residents of Ringgold county will enjoy continued progress and prosperity
in the decades ahead. Dwight D. Eisenhower."
Francis HACKER, Dan STEELE and Bob POTTORFF returned Sunday from Camp Dodge, where during the past week they had
attended Hawkeye Boys State.
C. W. WOOLLARD, pastor of the local Methodist church, has been returned for his third year of service.
Dr. Robert E. WILKINSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy WILKENSON, of this city, was recently appointed to the position of plant virologist
to assist the Israel government in setting up a research program in plant diseases. He will work with the staff at the
Rehovot Experimental Station, which is near Tel Aviv. Dr. WILKINSON has been granted a year's leave of absence from
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where since he received his Ph.D degree in plant pathology seven years ago, he has
served on the staff as a research professor in diseases of plants and vegetables.
Friends of the Fay BRYANTS of Dillon, CO, former residents of Mount Ayr, will be interested to learn that their
younger son, Bob, was graduated June 10 from Colorado A & M College, Fort Collins, with a degree of doctor of
veterinary medicine.
BIRTHS REPORTED FROM RINGGOLD COUNTY HOSPITAL:
June 09, a son, Michael Alan, to Mr. and Mrs. Delbert JACKSON, Grant City MO
June 12, a daughter, Mary Elaine, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry YOUNG, Athelstan
June 14, a daughter, Barbara Ann, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert MARTIN, Kellerton
OBITUARIES in June 16, 1955 Mount Ayr Record-News:
Laura Mildred SPEELMAN
Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012
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