Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, December 01 &04, 1914

George SHEPHERD has purchased Ora V. PAYNE'S interest in the skaking rink in the old opera house and is now sole proprietor.

Among those who appeared on the Thanksgiving Day program of the Oakland Bapist Church were Dora SWIGART, Bea FOSTER, Beulah MOSIER, Dona SWIGART, Electa CRAFT, Clyde INGRAM, Mildred MOSIER and Frank WALTERS.

Announcement has been made that the law firm of SPENCE &SMITH will be dissolved January 1, but both members of the firm will remain in active practice. R.H. SPENCE will have associated with H.C. BEARD, who has been practicing law in Mount Ayr for about ten years. Albert I. SMITH has formed a partnership with George L. BARTOW, who has been a member of the firm of BARTOW &BEARD, and who was elected county attorney at the recent election. The new firms will be known as SPENCE &BEARD and SMITH &BARTOW.

High School Notes -- Stella WRIGHT has been chosen by the faculty to represent our school in the county declamatory contest to be held soon.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2015

 

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