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Mount Ayr Record-News Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa Thursday, March 21, 1917
by Chanse Hall, Mount Ayr Record-News
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At the regular school election held Monday, G. E. Simpson was re-elected as a director and Frank Pine was elected a director to succeed M. F. Byerly.
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Glen Overholser has accepted a position as clerk with the Simpson and Johnson hardware firm. Allen Zantz has taken Glen's place as janitor of the schoolhouse.
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Carl Tennant, of Rice township, left Thursday morning for Kansas City, where he expected to enter an electrical school.
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Orpha Warner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Warner, of this city, has joined the Red Cross and is on her way to Europe.
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At a recent meeting of the Mount Ayr school board, Bert Teale was re-elected as a member of the board of directors and County Auditor E. E. Cornwall was elected treasurer.
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Twenty gallons of booze, all of it whiskey, of various grades except one case of beer - the accumulation of various seizures made by the sheriff and county attorney recently - were destroyed on order of the court Monday. The liquor was poured into the sewer at the courthouse.
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Ira A. Merritt, who has been appointed distributor of Studebaker automobiles for Mount Ayr, has opened headquarters in the storeroom formerly occupied by John Wall & Son on the west side of the square. He expects to give his time exclusively to the automobile business and will establish a service station.
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DIAGONAL - Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Palmer will move about the first of May to Greene, where Mr. Palmer has a position as cashier in a bank.
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KELLERTON - Winners of the declamatory contest held Wednesday evening were: Cecil Lutz, first in humorous; George Mitchell, first in oratory; and Halycon Beggs, first in dramatics and first over all. They will represent the Kellerton high school in the county contest to be held in Mount Ayr.
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Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2017
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