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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1948
Page
4
A compact collection of classified notices and sales ads from Algona area papers. Items include Electrolux demonstrations, farm livestock listings, tractors and implements, pianos for sale, used cars with exchange offers, and a thank you card note from the Miller family. Names and places include DON H. HUTCHINS Algona Iowa Bert Geer des & Son Lakota Titania Des Moines Spencer Woden Lakota. Includes dates not specified and multiple prices.
The Kossuth county licensing period reports 32 new vehicles. Twenty three cars and nine trucks were licensed, with owners including Maurice Bernhard Bancroft and Halvor Flom Jr Wesley among many others.
A Lakota shower for Violet Koppen was held at City Hall on Wednesday night. Hostesses were Mesdames Henry Olthoff Arnold Ray Becker Peter Koppen and Dorothy Koppen. The program directed by Mrs J H Warburton featured selections by the high school band under V A Barrett the girls sextette and trio Harriet Swalve and Jennie Swalve solos a reading by Mrs Barrett and a quiz by Mrs L A Nitz. Violet opened gifts and a lunch was served.
Four couples obtained marriage licenses in Kossuth county last week. Milford A. Gade of West Bend wed Kathleen R. Manhs of Whittemore. Clyde I. Hoggs of Britt married Geraldine Sickmeier of Forest City. Wilbert Ruhnke of Whittemore tied with Evelyn Day of Algona. Vern Walker of Algona wed Bernice Lensing of Bancroft.
Outdoor writer William Voight Jr warns that four billion tons of rich topsoil wash into the Mississippi annually. He notes a conservative silt ratio and that suspended soil increases flood volume, friction, and bank erosion, citing large dams like Fort Peck as examples.
The piece argues dams on headland tributaries curtail floods, noting the lower Missouri’s spring 1947 rampage and that Ohio’s Miami and Muskegon rivers use permanent bottom-open dams. Dr. Graham of the Soil Conservation Service cites soil conservation, contour farming, strip cropping, and terracing as flood prevention. Wildlife benefits follow from heavier ground cover. warns against burning stands and emphasizes keeping soil on the farm to protect downstream water quality.
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