Titonka School Week Activities Highlight Diverse Subjects
The weekly Titonka High School report covers star clocks in science, church windows in geometry, business math on commissions, and electricity moving to sound for seniors. English sees Dickens and plays practice, while freshmen graders review clauses. Senior drama casts announced, including Rev Seils and Dr Baird intrigue. Freshman home ec tours town for house planning, biology dissects a frog, homemaking crafts cereals, sociology questions society, history tests looming, typing exams near, and music notes the mixed chorus performing cantata at Ramsey Reform church.
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High School
Mildred Schuttler
Jagt
Erwin Beenken
Rev. Seils
Carl Gilesking Jr
NEWA
Joel Paster
Ramsey Reformed Church
GOOD HOPE LUTHERAN SERVICES AND SCHEDULE
Divine worship at 11 with Sunday school and Bible class. Special monthly offering during the service. Children bring Lent offering envelopes to Sunday school. Choir practice Tuesday evening April 10. Brotherhood meets Wednesday evening April 11. From April 15 services start at 10 30, Sunday school and Bible close at 8 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Hope Lutheran American Lutheran Church
Alfred
Mardoff
Brotherhood
Immanuel Lutheran Church Announces April Services and Meetings
Rev. Wm. Plant, pastor, invites all to an English service at 10 on the first Sunday after Easter April 8 with Sunday school and Bible class at 9 30. A quarterly church gathering follows. Members may bid for church cleaning and cemetery care. The congregation will revise articles to fit the American Lutheran church model for Iowa district membership. On Wednesday April 5 the Ladies Aid and Mission Society hold a 1 30 birthday party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Wm. Plant
John Ostermann
American Lutheran Church
Iowa
Ladies Aid and Mission Society
Letters From Europe Reveal Siblings in Service
Mrs. H C Snyder of Algona reports letters from sons Cecil and Darl Snyder in Europe, including Darl in Italy in March 1945 recounting a brief visit, shared films, and news of promotions, with notes on PX goods and longing to be closer. Also mentions a Lake Storm eyewitness and the Pfeiffer family endowing Upper Iowa University with 125000 total gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.C. Snyder
Algone
Cecil
Darl
Italy
SeMarch
Shim
Storm Lake Register
Pfeiffer
New York City
Upper Iowa University of Fayette
Henry Pfeiffer
Pteltieva
Home Canning Sugar Program Is Announced
Walter D. Kline of the Des Moines OPA district announced a home canning sugar program for 64 Iowa counties. Applications will be available April 20 with Spare Stamp 13 required. households will receive five one pound coupons after the form is signed, to curb overissuance seen last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
OPA
State Nutrition Council
Walter D. Kline
Kline
Aged Burt Farm Lady Dies Funeral Sunday
Mrs. Augusta Bahling dies after brief illness at home west of Burt. Funeral services held Sunday at Burt Methodist Church with Rev. Andrew G. Heddle. Born June 13 1858 in Watertown Wisconsin she married August Bahling in 1880. Survived by ten children six sons and four daughters, eight grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Burial in Burt cemetery.
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Watertown
August Bahling
Sun Prairie
Wisconsin
Kossuth County
Edith Taylor
Elmore
Minn
John
Henry
Burt
George
Carl
Ames
Frank
Esther Williams
Hattie Brown
Wells
Bessie Perry
Algona
Ben
Bureial
Bahling
Bruns and Penning Wed in Woden Candlelight Rites
Miss Mildred Bruns daughter of Mr and Mrs William Bruns of Buffalo Center married Marvin Penning son of Mr and Mrs B Penning of Buffalo Center last Friday evening March 30 in a candlelight Presbyterian ceremony conducted by Rev Henry Kruse. The double ring service featured duets I Love You Truly and Blest Be the Tie with Thelma Penning as accompanist. Attendants included Harold Bruns and Marjorie Redenius with ushers Alfred Redenius and Kenneth Bruns. A reception for about seventy relatives and friends followed at the Bruns home. The couple will reside on a farm near Woden.
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Thelma Penning
Alfred Redenius
Kenneth Bruns
William Bruns
Good Hope Plans VE Day Service At 8 PM
Good Hope Lutheran church announces plans to observe VE Day with an 8 o clock prayer and thanksgiving service marking the war’s end with Germany. If news arrives after 4:00 p.m. the service moves to 8 the next evening. placards will be posted in local businesses inviting public attendance.
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Good Hope Lutheran Church
Germany
Seventh War Loan Drive Opens May Fourteen Countywide
May 14 marks the opening of the Seventh War Loan Drive while officials report the Sixth drive results. Kossuth County sold 158 percent of its quota in bonds, totaling 1,935,528.00 against 1,278,000.00, with Algona at 215.5 percent and Burt at 100 percent. Countywide, 21 of 28 townships surpassed 100 percent, and two drives are planned for 1945.
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Kossuth
Algona
Burt
Home Canning Tied to Gardens Says Iowa Expert
Larry Grove of Iowa State College notes recent garden activity links to fruit and vegetable canning. Survey shows homemakers preserved over 119 million quarts last year, but efforts lagged 1943 levels. Grove urges a strong gardening season to sustain a successful home canning program with planning steps remaining.
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Larry Grove
Iowa State College
Grove
Fourteen Schools to Compete in Swea City Contest
Fourteen schools with nineteen entries from Kossuth county and others will compete in Swea City high school auditorium over Thursday to Saturday as part of a seven north central Iowa contests. Students perform in bands choirs solos and ensembles with judges from Minnesota and Iowa. Admission is 30 cents per session with season tickets 60 cents. Alexis Farlova of Minnesota State Teachers College will judge.
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Kossuth County
Swea City
Iowa
Grand Junction
Rolfe
Ros«land
Marshalltown
Hampton
Clear Lake
Armstrong
Algona
Burt
Grover
Emmetsburg
Fenton
Graettinger
Lakota
Lone Rock
Ringsted
Seneca
Titania
Ledyard
Ummersburg
B.C
Mason City
Marion
Creston
Storm Lake
Alexis Farlova
State Teachers College of
Mankato
Minnesota
Edward Bierstedt Dies at 72 in Burt Funeral Monday
Edward Christopher Bierstedt died at his Burt home after kidney complications following a heart attack ten weeks earlier. Born January 21 1874 near Burt, he married Anna Wegener February 8 1898 and farmed locally before moving to Burt in 1936. He survived by his widow seven children sixteen grandchildren and four sisters with burial in Burt cemetery. The Lutheran service was led by Rev Keith with pallbearers named Emil Eimers Albert Baas G W Bleich Herman Rachut Herman Bussie and Peter Kollasch.
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Burt Farmer
Burt
Lutheran Church
Edward Bierstedt
Bierstedt
Edward Christopher Bierstedt
Christopher
Dorothea Bierstedt
Lotts Creek Lutheran
Anna Wegener
Fairville
Iowa
Arthur
Lakota
Esther
Raymond
Lone Rock
Leona
Algona
Gladys
Dorothy
Evelyn
Bancroft
Charles Ostwald
Whittemore
Carl Ostwald
Fargo
N. Dak
Rose Bart
Dora Bierstedt
Emil Eimers
Albert Baas
G. W. Bleich
Herman Ra~chut
Herman Bussie
Peter Kollasch
Keith
Ed Bierstedt
Methodist Church announces services and events
Pastor W L Patterson leads Sunday school at 10 and morning worship at 11. A high school mixed chorus performs The Thorn Crowned King at 11. Delores Lady directs. Women’s Society meets April 11 at 2 20 with topic The Church in Europe led by Mrs R C Ball. Doan worship at 8 includes pot luck social hour hosted by Mrs Cliff Hoover and Mrs W J Patterson. Easter envelopes urged for world service apportionment as a plea for aid.
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Methodist Church
W. L. Patterson
Delores Lady
Womans’ Society of Christian Service
Europe
R. C. Ball
Minute Oestriicher
Wm. Peterson
Celta Schutter
George Peterson
Cliff Hoover
W. J. Patterson
World Service
Snow and Wind Clobber Iowa Towns in April Storm
Northern Iowa reels from a heavy snowstorm with a foot or more of snow and strong winds. Cars and trucks stalled, schools closed, and mail disrupted as residents cope with slick roads and drifting highways. A newborn adds a bright note amid disruptions.
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Iowa
Daddy
Newel Brown
Ray Hansen
Norris Keil
Mason City
Ferne Oesterreicher
Wisher
Reinder Krominga
Calla
John B. Sleper
Titania
Use Dormant Spray to Control Scale Insects in Iowa
Dormant sprays applied in early March prevent scale insects from ravaging Iowa trees says Harold Gunderson extension entomologist at Iowa State College. The scale insects include European elm scale oyster shell scale and pine leaf scale attacking elm lilac fruit and evergreen trees. Strong dormant sprays are needed as insects are protected by a waxy coating and lime sulfur or a miscible oil spray mixed per directions is recommended. use oil near painted buildings as lime sulfur can stain paint.
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Iowa
Harold Gunderson
Iowa State College
California trip tale from Hench homeward stopovers
Hench recounts a two month California visit with travel on the Challenger, a stop in Oakland and Albany, a Bay Bridge crossing to San Francisco, and tours of Fishermen's Wharf Chinatown and the Clift House. He notes Navy presence at Treasure Island, Alcatraz, docks, and local industry. The return path includes Walnut Creek views with Mt. Diablo and walnut groves. The piece ends with a note of the article continuing on the back page.
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California
Oakland
Bernard
Marvin
Thelma
Albany
Bernnard
Douglas
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
San Francisco
Oakland Bay Area
Treasure Island
U. 8
Naval Base
Ocean
Clift
Chinatown
Bay Bridge
Walnut Creek
Mt. Diablo
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Titonka School
Darl and
Cecil Snyder
Charlie
Mildred Bruns
Marvin Penning
SWEA
Hench
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