Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, October 31, 1963

Lloyd ANGUS of Poe Township is the new president of the Ringgold County Farm Bureau, having been elected to that position during the annual meeting of the organization held Wednesday night of last week at the Mount Ayr Golf and Country Club. Approximately 150 persons were in attendance. Mr. ANGUS succeeds Lee DAVENPORT of Lincoln township who had served in that capacity for the past two years. Other officers are Leo MORGAN of Monroe township, vice president; L. H. GRAY of Poe township, treasurer; Duane TRIGGS of Liberty town ship, secretary; and Ansel SAVILLE of Clinton township, voting delegate.

Selected as the Farm Bureau Woman of the Year was Mrs. Cecil SICKELS, who ever gives willingly of her time and talents in promoting the welfare of the organization.

Many hours of hard work, plus the desire to win, found the Mount Ayr community high school Raiders marching band ready to receive a I rating at the Northwest Missouri State College's homecoming Saturday in Maryville, MO. The local organization was one of 36 Iowa and Missouri bands which competed for first place honors.

As a good neightbor deed, 25 men with nine two-row pickers, tractors and wagons went Tuesday morning to the Murray SHAHA farm in Poe township and, between the hours of 7 and 10:30 a.m., picked and cribbed 2,000 bushels of corn for Mr. SHAHA, who had suffered since July from a ruptured blood vessel in his right leg.

Kenneth KIBURZ of Afton purchased the J.P. DAUGHTON Heirs and Charles M. MOON 320-acre farm in Union township at public aucion Tuesday for $127 per acre. The farm is located five miles northeast of Tingley. The sale was well advertised and was conducted by the Carl G. RIGGS Land Auction Co., of Tingley, and Dennis OwENS of Tingley served as auctioneer.

Two mixed quartets of the Grand Valley Community high school, accompanied by their vocal instructor, Jim THADEN, went Saturday to West Des Moines where they tried out for the All-State Chorus. Members of the quartets were Nancy POWERS, Cathy BURCHETT, Dan MOREN, Jim ETHINGTON, Marge PAYTON, Jane SISSEL, Larry HUSS and Tom DRAKE.

The Mount Ayr chapter of Future Farmers of America will sponsor a box and pie supper on November 2, begining at 7 p.m., in the gymnasium. Entertainment for the evening will include various contests, for which prizes will be awarded, and round and square dancing, with Wilbur LAY of Kellerton as caller. Aucioneers for the supper will be Jack and Raymond HUTCHINSON of Mount Ayr.

October 26, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Paul THOMPSON, Lamoni

OBITUARIES in October 31, 1963 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Dora Mae NORTHCUTT SNETHEN

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2013

 

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