One Hundred Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, April 9, 1924.)
By unanimous vote the board of supervisors yesterday decided to submit at a special election to be held Monday, June 2, on the date of the primary election, the proposition of issuing bonds in the sum of $150,000 to build a new court house.
Eastern Iowa was visited by a dust storm on the night of March 30.
Samples of the dust have been collected by the local weather bureau offices and forwarded to Washington D.C. A similar phenomenon was reported by the Madison, WI weather Bureau office.
Three theories have been advanced as to the possible source of “dust fall”. It is said that the particles may be from some disintegrating planet, that they may have been hurled high into the upper air by a volcano, or have been blown into the upper air regions by the tornado which swept the south that week.
News of Ellston~The new restaurant, under the proprietorship of Joe Branstretter, opened last week for business…Dennis Arnold is suffering from a very sore eye. One of his playmates accidentally threw a clod and accidentally hit him.
Birth: March 20, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Ballard.
Obituaries in this were Nina Marie Steward and Lew Taylor.

Seventy-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, April 7, 1949.)
A new Ben Franklin store will open it’s doors to the public Friday, April 8. Miss Laura Zierke is the store owner. This new edition to Mount Ayr’s retail establishments is said to include in its equipment all the new items and features of modern shopping.
The 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Mount Ayr Greenhouse will be appropriately observed tomorrow April 8. The owner Paul, Blanche, and Garth Teale will hold an open house Friday.
Births: April 2, a son, Robert, to Mr. and Mrs. Vern Marler…March 31, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. Granvill Ryan…April 4, a daughter, Cynthia, to Mr. and Mrs. John Sickels…March 24, a son, Hal, to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hall.
Obituaries in this edition were: Stanton L. Crow, Charles William Sheldon, William H. Thompson and Ada E. Hembry Bedier.

Fifty Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, April 11, 1974.)
The board of education of the Mount Ayr Community school district has voted unanimously to terminate the contract of Russell Boyd as high school principal.
A Shannon City man, Bill Verly, lands a three pound northern pike, an unusual catch in these latitudes, while fishing in the Mount Ayr reservoir Tuesday night.
Dedication service for the new Regular Baptist Church building on east South Street in Mount Ayr will be held Sunday evening, April 14, according to Pastor David Nettleton, Jr.
Faye Stull of Mount Ayr is leading in Class C singles in the Iowa State Women’s Bowling tournament now being held in Waterloo and Cedar Rapids. Faye bowled a 603 scratch series, which also included the high game so far in the tournament, a 247 on March 30.
Births: March 28, a daughter, Heather, to Mr. and Mrs. Don Pine…April 1, a son, to Mr. and Mrs. George Couts. Obituaries in this edition were: Ted Perlenfein and Donald Ellis Jackson.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, April 1, 1999.)
Drug charges were filed against two Pleasant Hill residents after a pickup truck filled with materials to manufacture methamphetamine was stopped near Mount Ayr early Monday morning.
A Mount Ayr resident, Deputy Sheriff Michael Sobotka, was among 39 Iowa law enforcement officers from departments across the state to graduate from the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Friday, March 26.
Nolan Howie, a MACH school Raider basketball team member, was named to the Iowa Newspaper Associations Class 2A boys basketball honorable mention list this year. Howie averaged 16 points a game and grabbed 8 rebounds a game.
The Mount Ayr Video store in Mount Ayr has expanded to include a snack bar and game room. Videos will continue to be rented in the south end of the building, but a large new area of the building has been restored.
Birth: March 18, a son Kyle, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph (Krista Shaha) Driskoll.
Obituary in this edition was: Laverna Joyce Scott Rockafellow.

Ten Years Ago
(From the Mount Ayr Record-News, Thursday, April 3, 2014.)
Unusually dry conditions and extremely high winds in recent days have resulted in a number of fires in the county.
Mount Ayr fire chief Mike Wimer estimates his department has been called to seventeen fires over the past seventeen days alone.
Updated census estimates for Iowa cities and counties have been released by the Iowa Library Services State Data Center. The new estimates include data up to July 1, 2013.
According to the statistics, Ringgold County had an estimated population of 5,072 on July 1. That compares to an estimate of 5,102 on July 1, 2012. The county has lost approximately 1.1 percent of its population between 2010 and 2013.
Jay-Lynn-O celebrates 20 years~Traveling Extravaganza combines golf, friends and philanthropy. What began with 12 buddies on a spur-of-the moment golf trip has blossomed into the traveling extravaganza known far and wide as the Jay-Lynn-O Tour.
Obituary in this edition was, Mary Ann Hoff Mathany.