Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, May 06, 1954

The P.M. Place Store Company has leased the Timby store building on the northeast corner of the square in Mount Ayr. Following a remodeling program, the business operation will be expanded to occupy the double store building. Place stores are operated in eight towns in southern Iowa and northern Missouri. The Mount Ayr store was established seven years ago, and Joe PLACE is the manager.

Congressman Karl M. LeCOMPTE has recommended the appointment of Lyle A. SPENCER as permanent postmaster at Kellerton.

Commencement week activities mark the close of high school careers for 126 seniors -- 58 girls and 68 boys -- in the eight high schools of Ringgold county. Graduates include:

Beaconsfield - Bob BRYANT, Rex WALTERS.

Benton - Delbert R. ADAMS, Robert D. BLUNCK.

Diagonal - Darlene ADKISSON, Eldon ADKISSON, Marjorie BAGLEY, James BUCHANAN, Arlene BUTT, Roland CREGEEN, Sandra DALBEY, Marion GRADNER, Phillip KELLER, Calvin KIMBERLIN, Loren MILLER, Ruth PINE, Clara REYNOLDS, Gerald SCLAPIA, Joan SCHMITT, Bennie SKINNER, Robert STAATS, Reba WATTS, Donna WILEY.

Ellston - Kenneth EPPERSON, Marvin EPPERSON, Duane GLICK, Leroy NORRIS, Alice RINNER, Gayle WALTERS.

Kellerton - Darrel BAKER, Janice COX, Lloyd DRAKE, Jack ETHINGTON, Virgil EPPS, Ernest GREENE, Shirley HEGGS, Caryll Lou HIGDAY, Verlyn HOFF, Mary HOHNEKE, Donna KASTER, Marvin LESAN, Jim MEADOWS, Evelyn O'CONNELL.

Mount Ayr - Anne ANDERSON, John D. BEAMER, Anna Belle BLACK, Jean BRAND, Sharon J. BROWN, Wayne BUCKNER, Margaret J. CARR, Robert J. CLARKE, Joe D. CUNNING, Patricia DAUGHTON, John DeVRIES, Shirley M. EVANS, Everett Lee FARIS, Max W. GLENDENNING, Deloris Mae GRAVETT, Roger W. GREENMAN, Donald Lee GRIEMANN, Phyllis Joanne HALE, Janet HUDSON, Beverly Joyce HYDE, Anne l. JACKSON, Carroll E. JOHNSON, Rose Marie JOHNSTON, Blondena KIRBY, Lloyd l. LAMB, Ronald M. LAMB, Don LeRoy LASSWELL, Donna M. LILES, Perry MAGGARD, Paul A. MAIN, Garry D. McCULLOUGH, William M. MONAGHAN, Ardis R. MORRISON, Gary NOBLE, Sharon PAYNE, Jack PINE, John P. POLLOCK, Edith K. POORE, Albert R. POTTORFF, Marjorie J. PUTNEY, Larua J. RAUCH, Dorothy REEL, Donald D. RICE, Anne RICHARDS, Joanna B. ROGERS, Catherine M. SHEIL, John C. SHEUMAKER, Mack G. SICKELS, Jannie I. STANLEY, Doyle STUCK, Patricia J. STUCK, Mary SWANK, Kay TAYLOR, Richard D. TYSON, William WARD, Robet R. WHEELER, Clair L. WILLEY, Phyllis K. WILSON, Arvid L. WOOLLUMS.

Redding - Billie R. CROY, Nancy J. DRAKE, Francis Jr. HANKS, Billy L. JORDAN, Curtis D. LUNGREN, Marlene K. MURPHY, Thelma E. OLNEY, Shirley D. POWELL, Hazel R. SAVILLE, Dayle Max SHAFER, Alice A. SKINNER, Betty M. STAATS, Gerald O. STERNER, Barbara E. STEPHENS, Sylvester R. WHITENACK.

Tingley - Dean BASTOW, Charles CLARK, Lucy DAILEY, Franklin EIGHME, Darl FERGUSON, Linda RICHARDS, Howard TULL, Dwayne OVERHOLTZER, Louise WEEDA.

April 02, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Amon HUNT, Mount Ayr

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012

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