Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, October 21, 1954

Marvin TRIGGS, son of Mr. and Mrs. John TRIGGS, was awarded the American Farmer Degree, the nation's top FFA degree, at the national FFA convention in Kansas City, Tuesday afternoon, October 12.

R. C. RUSH, Kellerton, Roger STANLEY, Beaconsfield, and Kenneth WEBB, Mount Ayr, were awarded gilts by the Mount Ayr Lions Club. These boys won their gilts after interviews with the Lions agriculture committee.

County auditor, Roy LEPLEY, a life-long resident of the county, was elected chairman of the organization that was formed to plan Ringgold county's centennial observance in 1955.

Mrs. and Mrs. C. E. THOMPSON, of Mount Ayr, will hold open house on Saturday afternoon, October 23, between the hours of two and four o'clock for the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary.

The first and second-year shorthand girls took a trip to Des Moines on October 11. The girls went on tours of the State House, WHO, Bankers Life and the Equitable Building. Several former Mount Ayr students were working in some of the places visited.

October 20, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth JOHNSON, Mount Ayr

OBITUARIES in October 21, 1954 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Joe FETTY   Mrs. I. A. THOMPSON REYNOLDS   Thomas Stephen SHAY

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012

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