Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, April 19, 1956

Ringgold County Sportsmen's Club was the name adopted for a new organization effected Monday night in Mount Ayr at a meeting of men interested in promoting wildlife conservation and sporting facilities within the borders of Ringgold county. Twenty-three men were in attendance.

The Pollard Grocery Store in Kellerton is attractive in appearance and provides the utmost in shopping conveniences with the completion of an extensive remodeling program and the installation of several pieces of new equipment. More than 300 square feet of sales floor have been added to the Royal Blue Food Store, which is owned and operated by Howard POLLARD.

Janice TODD, who will graduate this spring from Mount Ayr high school, was among a group of 50 Iowa high school graduates selected today frm 144 applicants in statewide competition as winners of three-years nurses' scholarships awarded annually by the Iowa division of the American Cancer Society. She will attend the Iowa Methodist School of Nursing at Des Moines. Miss TODD is a daughter of Mrs. H. P. TODD of this city.

Stanton E. TENNANT, publisher of the Colfax Tribune, was elected president of the Iowa Press Association Friday at its 41st annual convention at Hotel Fort Des Moines.

A. L. (Bert) KELLEY of Clarinda, a former resident of Mount Ayr, was elected president of the Tom Griffith Chapter of Independent Telephone Pioneers at the 60th annual convention of the Iowa Independent Telephone Association in Des Moines last week.

On April 10, final returns of the 1956 Easter Seal Sale for crippled children were tallied. A total of $502.35 was collected by the sale sponsor, the Mount Ayr V.F.W. Auxiliary, under the direction of its past president, Mrs. Harry GUNTER and the entire amount has been turned over to the Iowa State Easter Seal Fund.

Lee CAMPBELL, speech instructor in the Mount Ayr schools, was elected president of the Ringgold county Education Association, during its regular dinner meeting held Wednesday evening of last week in the L.D.S. Church in Mount Ayr.

April 18, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Bervin JAMES, Worth MO

OBITUARIES in April 19, 1956 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Addie McANINCH SHIDLER

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2012

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