Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, September 11, 2003

Both of our schools started August 26.

Timber View has 27 pupils and Middle Fork has 21 pupils.

The teacher for Timber View are Mary BONTRAGER and LeAnna DETWEILER. The two first graders are Mervin (Reuben) and LaVern (Jonas) FROYER.

Teachers at Middle Fork are Martha MILLER and Lucy BONTRAGER. THey have six first graders, LeRoy and Levi (twins) of Albert YODER; Lee, son of Paul FROYER; Eli Ray, son of Floyd PLANK; Ida Mae, daugher of Herman MAST, and Martha, daughter of Alvin BONTRAGER.

The teachers have a full, challenging school term ahead of them. We wish them success in their careers.

Reuben and Ada TROYER, Samuel and Ada BONTRAGER, Viola and Emma BEECHY, Joanna TROYER, Ada YODER, Esther MAST and Mary BONTRAGER attended the teachers meeting in Seymour Friday.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2012