Breens Return From Trip South
Mr and Mrs George Breen completed a 3000 mile journey from March 27 visiting Baton Rouge New Orleans Biloxi Mobile Tennessee Kentucky Mississippi Arkansas and back home. They toured mills and industries saw Huey Longs State Capitol 35 stories tall and the 409 foot Huey Long bridge. Weather was mild with three rainy days and strawberries in season.
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George Breen
Southland
Baton Rouge
New Orleange
Gulf of Mexico
Biloxi
Missisippi
Mobile
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Mississippi
Arkansas
Missouri
New Orleans
Breen
New York Giants
New Orleans Pelicans
Breens
State
Huey Long
Mississippi River
Titonka Adopts Water Ordinance with Metered Rates
The town council of Titonka Iowa passes Ordinance No 45 repealing Nos 44 and 39 section on water charges. Water now metered with 40c per 1000 gallons up to 10 000 and 30c thereafter. minimum 75c monthly. Meters read quarterly. bills due 20 days after reading. delinquent bills may shut off water after 10 days with $1 for reconnection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titonka
Iowa
Yo Lowa
Garden note on radishes and lettuce emerging
A. Missal reported Monday that his garden has radishes and lettuce showing above ground. He recalled last year he had garden up before the frost was out of the ground, suggesting he may be establishing an earlier planting record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Missal
Mr. Missal
THS Senior News Delights In Banquet Plans And Contest Praise
The Junior Class mothers meet at the school house to plan the Junior Senior Banquet on April 27 with Mrs. Bacon as chairwoman. Arnold Rickless returns to school after illness. district music contest results praise Titonka students for poise and musical skill. Titanica high students sell magazines for activities, with team captaincies awarded and rewards for the winning group. First Grade notes include a creamery trip and class reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacon
Arl Doege
Arnold Rickless
Sigwell Wood
Alicea Kuchenreuther
Lewis Larsen
Esther Fritz
Britt Aprilland
Titanica High School
Caroll Reaser
Gerald Huber
Harriet Schram
Robert
Harold
Delores
Janet
Grace
Patay Earl
Fred
Esther
National Air Mail Week Observance Noted Across Nation
This week honors the 20th anniversary of air mail service begun May 15, 1918. Local postmaster Lucy Newville heads a committee with W. Hamstreet as honorary chairman and other members handling publicity education and civic outreach. The piece also recaps 62,826 route miles and 70,006,000 miles flown last year aboard modern aircraft, plus earlier 80 mile per hour planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Mra
Lucy Newville
W. ¥. Hamstreet
Lea O. Wolfe
Alvin Honken
Caroll McEwen
Rose Bonacker
Homer Downs
Town Council Adopts Bills and Appoints Marshall in 1938 Session
In a Monday special session the Town Council approved several bills totaling 1038.17 and authorized a town marshal to earn 75.00 monthly plus the right to take odd jobs in town. Henry Ailts elected marshal. duties include meter reading, pump operation, water lead installation, hydrant maintenance, fire inspection, street grading, and crosswalk care. Committees were named for Water Plant, Sidewalks, Streets, Finance, and Library, with Hagen, Torgersen, French, Fisher, Schutter, and others assigned.
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Ag Board of Review
Grane Co
Chas, Cooper
Dick Baade
Rasmus Hansen
Tal Young
Fisher
Henry Ailts
Hamatreet
iFirst
Hagen
Torgersen
French
Schutter and
Mourth
Winance
Plorence K, Reaser
Mrs Pruisman Improving After Fall at Algona Hospital
Mrs Frank Pruisman Jr. is improving after a fall in Algona last week though she remains in pain. Sunday three of her sons and their wives visited her in the hospital. Harold Bamman of Mason City Heinrich Bamman of Clarksville and Andrew Prussman of Williams were among the visitors.
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Frank Pruisman Jr
Alfony
Algona
Harold Bamman
Mason City
Heinrich Bamman
Clarksville
Andrew Prussman
Williams
Funeral of Walter Whitcomb in Monroe Wisconsin
Dr and Mrs R C Ball and daughter Patricia Mr and Mrs Everett Rippentrop and daughter Colleen attended the funeral of Walter Whitcomb in Monroe Wisconsin Saturday They traveled by car from Titanica and returned Sunday evening Whitcomb aged 54 had been bedfast since January with a heart ailment He died Wednesday evening April 6 in the room where he was born He was superintendent of the Green County Home and Asylum for 18 years and modernized the facility He is survived by his wife one sister and two nephews Funeral services were held Saturday.
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R. C. Ball
Patricia
Everett Rippentrop
Colleen
Walter Whitcomb
Monroe
Wisconsin
Titanica
Green County Home and Asylum
Whitcomb
Green County
Lutheran Church Notes English Service and Choir
Church notices announce Good Friday English Communion at 7 30 p m with arrangements through Mrs Rev H W Schoenlein and Rev Boese in charge Sunday School at 9 English Service at 10 Student Martin Schultz in charge Choir practice Thursday at 7 30 p m Easter offering will be taken
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H. W. Schoenlein
Boese
Martin Schultz
Centenarian and supercentenarian counts in Istanbul
A census shows 380 residents in Istanbul over 150 years old all teetotalers. The city also has 3985 women and 1256 men aged 100 or more. The Band Mothers Club plans an April 15 meeting with Mrs. Jay Budlong.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Band Mothers Club
Jay Budlong
District Court News In Brief Algona Iowa
District court cases feature Greengo of Glenville pleading guilty to making and uttering a false bank check with a seven year Fort Madison sentence. Wier bound over on desertion charges. Brown pays fine or serves jail for license violation. Grell fined for license violation. Roberts fined for speeding. Fraser gets suspended jail for drunkenness. Damages suit in Frombach vs Schumacher yields no recovery. McMahon vs Bauer proceeds with jury selection. several probate filings and one marriage license recorded.
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Algona
W. R. Greengo
Glenville
Minn
George A. Heard
District Court
Fort Madison
Greengo
Palo Alto
Kossuth
Checka
Dulivan
William Francis ‘Wier
Fenton
Kossuth Grand Jury
Justice of Pence P
Justice Danson
Walter Co. Grell
Clear ‘Lake
Owen Roberts
Mason City
Joe Fraser
Sexton
Walter Frombach
Whittemore
John Schumacher
Bancroft
Frombach
Henry Kocklers
Helen McMahon
R. C. Bauer
Wesley
Miss McMahon
Stra Neeling
Ventura
Marty and Butler
Shumway
Kelly
Emmetsburg
Sullivan, McMahon and Linnan
Mervyn Hansen
Titonka
Nellie Wickwire
Joe Schaller
West Bend
Mary Kockler
Emma Ridge
Swea City
Fred Soderberg
Alex Koskovich
Blue Harth
Alice Sasse
Maston
Methodist Church Notes W L Patterson Pastor At Doan Doan sunrise service and church events
Church notes list a sunrise service at 7 00 a m with communion Sunday School at 10 00 a m and worship with baptisms and reception of new members at 11 00 a m Epworth League at 7 00 p m devotional period social hour led by Misa Chittick and refreshments Young people invited choir practice Thursday at 8 00 p m pastor to meet those seeking church membership Wednesday at 7 30 p m Doan services include morning worship at 9 30 a m Sunday School 10 30 a m world service offering and Doan sunrise service Epworth League and Aid Society events choir rehearsal and invitations for Doan Friends to attend Published church notices and time changes
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Epworth League
Misa Chittick
Doan
Friends of Our Doan Church
Epworth
Aid Society
Garning Hood
Tom Hlefson
Legion Auxiliary Sees Active Meeting and Poppy Plans
The regular Legion and Auxiliary meeting at the Young home was well attended. Olive Bruns joined as a new member and 600 poppies were received for the annual Poppy Sale. A Spring Auxiliary meeting is set for Bancroft on April 19 at 2 30 pm. Alice Winter is ill in Buffalo Center’s Dolmage Hospital and well wishes are sent for her recovery.
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The
Legion and Auxiliary
Tom Young
Estella
Rose Bonacker
Olive Bruns
Kossuth County
American Legion
Bancroft
Alice Winter
Dolmage Hospital
Buffalo Center
Immanuel Lutheran Church Adolph Kilian Pastor Announcement
Four miles east and one mile north of Titonka Immanuel Lutheran Church offers Good Friday German services with Holy Communion Confessional services at 10 00 regular services at 10 30 Offering for Missions Easter English services at 10 00 Sunday School at 9 00 Offering for Institutions Saturday Confirmation instruction at 9 30 Announcements for Communion will be received Thursday p m and
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Adolph Kilian
Titonka
Algona news highlights licenses and local events
County Recorder J J Dooley released the annual report on licenses issued in the year ending April 1 detailing 1522 fishing licenses 379 hunting licenses 953 combination licenses 199 trapping licenses 3 ten dollar trapping licenses 9 nonresident fishing licenses and one nonresident trapping license. Compared with the prior year there were increases in most license categories. The report also lists winners of a county dental poster contest with rural and city division winners. Legion plans to support traffic safety with a proposed mandatory $25 fine for drivers in property damage cases of $25 or more. The Quimby building was bought for 16600 by T C Hutchison with plans to rebuild after a fire. Rebuilding of the Barry building proceeds. Kossuth county petroleum retailers formed with H H Wray as president and upcoming meeting April 18. Funeral services were held for Mrs Edward Will 72 and for A T Bradley 63 with burial in Luverne and Minneapolis respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Dooley
H. M. Olson
Leo Thilges
Bode
Jean Putzstuck
Wesley
Wesley Public School
Sylvia Ann Gerdes
Robert Dickmann
Naomi Brayton
Legion Highway Safety
Vic Stueland
Forest City
Legionnaires
Quimby
T. C. Hutchison
Algona
D. C. Hutchison
Barry Buiding
Cowan and Son
Kossuth County Association of Petroleum Retailers
H. H. Wray
Sidney Walburg
iCarroll Johnson
Olaf Solberg
W. A
A. T. Bradley
Minneapolis
General Hospital
Foster Furniture
A. IW. Struve
Chiccago
Chrachilleg
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Florence K, Reaser
Moe
W. F. Hamstreet
Alice Budlong
Donavon Andrews
Carl Snyder
Helen Walk
Irene Schmidt
Russell French
Alice Kuchenreuther
Marieta Huber
Magdalene Eden
Junior News
National — Air Mail
Lenus Isebrand
Deloris
Ben A. Meyer
Marjorie
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
G. Haken
Violet Meyer
Betty Ann Sonnenberg
Tanagers
Cardinals
Bluebirds
Wrens
George
Mary
Gene
Billy Boyken
Richard
Mildred
Leela Krominga
Franz
5. P. Meek
Richard Downs
Billie Boyken
Keith Stott
Robert Jandl
Gerald Bonacker
Irvin Rippentrop
Ernestine Adamson
Carl Giesking
Kenneth Brandt
Howard Batt
Philip Reffer
Donald Budlong
Wilbur Dooge
Martyn Bonacker
Jack Hoon
Miss Beck
Council Proceedings
Walter Whitcomb Mites
Lutheran Church Notes
District Court News
Methodist Church
W. L. Patterson
Legion Auxiliary Notes
Algona News
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