Ringgold County Hospital administrator Ken REGER'S resignation was accepted and board member Dick JACKSON was named as acting hospital administrator at the end of an executive session of the hospital board Monday night.

A new addition to the Ringgold county courthouse is the new conservation display on the second floor. Already the display features owls, a turkey, Mallard duck, cardinal and other taxidermied reminders of some of the wildlife that is part of Ringgold county and the display will continue to be added to, according to Ringgold county conservation officer Rick HAWKINS. A historical display is also being developed in the new display area.

TAYLOR Fiberglass of Diagonal will celebrate 25 years of business. The TAYLOR office and workshop is on the main street of Diagonal and employs six full-time and four part-time employees.

Lightning coming into the Glenn POTTORFF home at 807 East Adams Street in Mount Ayr resulted in a hole in the wall and a charred one-fourth of an unfinished attic. The lightning came in on a service entrance near the meter. There was water damage in a bedroom downstairs from where the fire occurred.

OBITUARIES in March 13, 1986 Mount Ayr Record-News:

Dolliver OVERHOLSER   Nicholas DUROS
Charles Christopher COURTNEY   David Alfred STEWART

Transciption by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2011

To submit your Ringgold County items, contact the County Coordinator.
Please include the word "Ringgold" in the subject line. Thank you.

 

IOWA OLD PRESS
An Iowa GenWeb project that collects articles from old Iowa newspapers. Have a look back at the lives and times of our Iowa ancestors as reported in early newspapers. The home page for Iowa Old Press Project, complete with a searchable database, may be accessed at: http://iagenweb.org/iowaoldpress/