Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, August 22, 1917

Recently, a Barnum & Bailey Circus was given by 10 little girls, who decided to give the proceeds, which amounted to $5.00, to the Red Cross. They are Dorothy NICHOLS, Margaret ROBINSON, Irma JAGGER, Ruth BEARD, Genevieve NICHOLAS, Frances MOWRY, Zoe NICHOLAS, Margaret BEARD, Marjorie WILKINSON and Anna Louise SHUEMAKER.

Attorney Grant L. HAYES has been appointed by Judge H. K. EVANS as a member of the Ringgold county insane commission in place of Homer A. FULLER, who resigned on account of being appointed to the position of judge.

H. M. MILLER, of this city, has been appoined by Governor Harding as a member of the County Defense Committee instead of Frank WILSON, who resigned to enter an officers' training camp at Fort Snelling. Other members of the committee are Charles MOON, C. C. BOSWORTH, John YARYAN, Harry GRACE, Charles BAILEY, E. E. NORRIS, L. O. IMUS, W. E. RHOADES, William GUSTIN, G. A. REED, Sim RICE, Henry SHULTZ, Leonard SHEIL, Ralph SMITH, J. D. CLEWELL, William TURNER and Troy KNOTT.

Diagonal - Mr. and Mrs. Horace HEALY are the proud parents of a little son, who came to gladden their home last Tuesday.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2014

 

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