RETOLD OLD NEWS
Mount Ayr Record-News Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa Thursday, January 18, 1940
Kasey Dredge, Mount Ayr Record-News
![](../../images/hr.gif)
A committee of five members was recently appointed to serve as the county Tennessee Valley Authority (T.V.A.) Committee.
They are Ray JENNINGS, Union township; Chas. BENNETT, Liberty township; Wm. E. KELLEY, Middle Fork tonship; Paul
RYCHONOVSKY, Waubonsie township; and A.G. MOFFATT, Poe township.
![](../../images/hr.gif)
A new skating rink is in the making for the benefit of the youngsters of Mount Ayr. The football field is being
converted into a rink by flooding, the project being sponsored by the Mount Ayr Businessmen's Club, city administration
and Mount Ayr Volunteer Fire Department.
![](../../images/hr.gif)
Ralph LONG, who had been employed for the past two years at Minidoka, ID, returned home the first of last week.
![](../../images/hr.gif)
Marietta EDWARDS has been granted Senior standing in the College of Education at Drake University in Des Moines. Miss
EDWARDS, who plant to teach, is majoring in primary education.
![](../../images/hr.gif)
Leland CORNWALL, who has been employed for several years in Omaha, NE, has accepted a civil service appointment in the
Bureau of Census in Washington, D.C., the duties of which he assumed January 15.
![](../../images/hr.gif)
Approximately 20,000 fish have been placed in Mount Ayr's new lake since it was built last year.
![](../../images/hr.gif)
A.G. MOFFATT, of Poe township, as recently named by Francis JOHNSON, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, as
a member of the Iowa Pork Producers Stabilization committee.
![](../../images/hr.gif)
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2015
![](../../images/hr.gif)
IOWA OLD PRESS
An
Iowa GenWeb project that collects articles from old Iowa newspapers.
Have a
look back at the lives and times of our Iowa ancestors as reported in early
newspapers.
The home page for Iowa Old Press Project, complete with a searchable
database, may be accessed at:
http://iagenweb.org/iowaoldpress/
![](../../images/hr.gif)
![join](../../photos/ph_h-j/joinourteam.gif)
|