Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, June 09, 1966

Craig Riggs of Seymour, a patient in the Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, is convalescing satisfactorily from three .22-caliber bullet wounds suffered Tuesday evening of last week. According to authorities, Riggs, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Riggs of Tingley, an employee of the Seymour State Bank, had cleaned out his gun cabinet and a box of bullets, apparently thrown into the trash by mistake, was set off when Riggs started a fire.

Ken Markley of Mount Ayr wond the Mount Ayr Open Golf Tournament Sunday with a 27 hole total of 104, four strokes under par.

Establishment of a new industry in Ringgold county drew nearer this week, following a meeting in Kansas City Tuesday of representatives of Ringgold county Development Corp. and the Pioneer Manufacturing Company.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2016

 

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