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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1940
Page
5
The THS staff and student groups report on weekly activities. News covers mixed chorus and brass sextette preparing for a state contest, a benefit bridge party at the Coliseum on April 19 to fund transportation, and admission details. Senior news details the choice of the play Everybody's Crazy, Home Economics sewing projects, and upcoming interior decorating study.
The county American Legion and Auxiliary meeting was held Tuesday afternoon, April 9, in Wesley with 86 attendees. County president Mrs Ferne Peterson of Swea City presided as the girls' sextette and soloists performed. Officers elected include Mrs George Heetland Lakota president, Mrs Mae Fox Algona vice president, Mrs Julia Ball Lakota secretary, Mrs Joe Meurer Wesley treasurer, Mrs Wm Peters Swea City chaplain, Mrs Ray McWhorter Burt sergeant at arms, and Mrs Amos Bonacker Titonka assistant sergeant. The next county meeting will be at Titonka in July.
Des Moines woman Mrs Bula Mae Clark once a rural teacher in Portland township and Des Moines, now linked to a shoplifting case in Kansas City, admitted thefts after being arrested. She had sold 53 watches and possessed jewelry and furs from Des Moines stores, with her husband in California and plans to join him.
Marriage licenses issued include Elmer R. Hunt of Renwick with Cora McPherson of LaVerne, Rob ert L. Thorson aged 21 and Mary Lou Benson 18 of Mankato, Patrick Murphy of Whittemore with Luella Elbert, Irvin Brandt 23 of Woden with Alvina Heesch 19 of Titanka, Clarence B. Larsen Jr. 28 of Minneapolis with Martha Barbara Merz 21 of Wayzata, Warren Nordgran 35 with Marcella Peterson 27 of Minneapolis, Kenneth D. Dunn 21 with Laverne King 21 of Mankato.
The report covers greetings about correct usage in English and grammar, science on ants, geography imaginary trips, arithmetic tables, and handwriting efforts. It notes students like Irvin with hornet nests, Dawn with a plant, Pearl with a bouquet, and class illness affecting attendance, plus a beta plant experiment cut short by broken stems. Dean Kuchenreuther is noted as very ill with wishes for recovery.
Ray Krantz returned from four weeks in California with his father L. H. Krant visiting Long Beach Navy ships, Santa Anita races where Sea Biscuit won, and a government airfield with early aircraft. He toured factories along the coast, estimated giant wing spans, and toured Bear Head and Arrow Head Lakes. He noted the Cajalco reservoir near lower California with two dams, holding 33 billion gallons, fed by Boulder Dam and easing the regional water problem.
Kossuth county Extension groups hold multiple meetings this week to review music by Tschaikowsky Bach Beethoven Rossini Grieg Handel Saint-Saens for Achievement Day on May 38 at Burt The series titled Music Gems from an Old World Treasure Chest features ten compositions from eight composers and includes three memory songs Lullaby On Wings of Song and Gypsying adapted from Hungarian Melody with various townships scheduled in Buffalo Seneca LaVerne Cresco Lotts Creek Prairie Sherman Irvington and Hebron and others expected to join
Royal chinaware has arrived and is available for purchase. Contact J. Denton at the listed number to inquire about dishes and pricing for 16U shipments.
Bonacker's Food Market celebrates its 18th anniversary in Titonka this week with cake and coffee served Saturday. The home economics class provides 22 students baking cakes for a contest. Mr Bonacker supplies ingredients. The three top bakers win prizes of 3, 2, and 1 dollars and will help with serving.
Miss Irene Johnson daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Johnson and Mr Paul McNeill of Algona married Wednesday morning at the Evangelical parsonage in Britt with Rev O M Johnson officiating. Attendants were Jean Johnson and Thomas McNeill. The couple will reside on a farm southeast of Algona where Mr McNeill is employed.
WODEN Thursday night at the Clarence Bird home in Bingham township the arm Bureau met. County agent T Peterson spoke while Frank Wall presented a field strip on Activities of the Organization. Mrs Robert Kellog spoke on home demonstration work and showcased a picnic box. Over thirty persons attended and lunch was served. Bingham township now lists eighteen members.
Peter Kappas of Ashton suffered head injuries and a broken front tooth when his car left the road east of Sexton at 6 00 am en route to the Republican state convention in Des Moines. A passing motorist drove him to Algona. a second passenger escaped injury.
At a reorganization meeting near Swea City Phyllis Preston was elected president Bernice Rath secretary treasurer Verma Olson vice president and Nina Preston historian and reporter Temporary leaders are Mrs S Gibson and Mrs Floyd Kent The county now has sixteen 4 H clubs
Miss Hulda Fritzmeier announces dates for the annual state meeting of the Kossuth County Council of Christian Education as April 23, 24 and 25 at Des Moines with headquarters at the University Church of Christ. The convention marks the diamond jubilee of the Town State Sunday School Council and officers invite church leaders and Christian workers to attend.
Ten minutes after a Storm Lake police broadcast, Sheldon chief Mulder arrested a man wanted in LeMars for a traffic violation just committed. If this isn't speed, it will do until something faster comes along.
Three rural telephone lines Heyes, Valley and 43 north of Titonka will be rebuilt immediately under a new system to reduce hum and interference. Eleven lines are farmer owned, five owned by Titonka Telephone Co, with underground lines south of the railroad. A mole chewed the lead cable in town but service remains generally good and improvements are underway.
Luella Graham, 10, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Graham of Algona, sustained an unusual accident at school Friday while jumping rope. She turned her left ankle, fell, and weighed on it, pulling the bones apart above the ankle. She was taken to Kossuth hospital where her foot was casted.
Kossuth county homemakers completed the fourth series of training schools in Seneta township at Otto Jensen home. Mrs Ruth Seaton Hicks led the study The Warm Family and the World Today, focusing on budgets and spending for maximum family satisfaction. The session explored price trends, home production, and global trade effects on farm family finances.
Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church for Ivan Hol mar Smith who died April 10 after a fifteen month kidney ailment. He was born near Lakota on May 29 1913 and was 26 years 10 months and 11 days old. Rev G Sauer led the service and Maple Hill cemetery was the burial site. Pallbearers were Hugh Lewis Wilson Brack Joe Rippen trop Henry Ennen Alvin Carpenter and Raymond Winter. He is survived by his parents J F Smith and Mrs Smith and two brothers Vernon and DeVere plus many relatives and friends. Out of town attendees included T M Smith Henry Smith Carol and Russell Smith of Rochester Minn Irvin Smith of Red Wing Minn Peter Theisen and Ed Kipenitz families Burt Minn and Mrs Anna Handy of Minneapolis.
Mrs Wynne Jacobs urged rural progress as 32 township chairmen gathered at Burt hotel April 1a for Farm Bureau events. The day featured a candle lighting ceremony and speeches on rural health cooperative marketing conservation and democracy in a world at war with many township attendees named.
Lightning struck the Hansen locker plant during the night. It burned out six to eight feet of three phase power lines to the saw, fused fuses and connections, and caused smoke in the main office. Mr Hansen heard thunder, felt a shock, and found the room filled with smoke around 140 am, with the liability energy following the ground wire. An electric clock stopped at about 1 40.
Miss Bertha Cadwell, a Logan teacher with pupils from many former families, resigns after 83 years serving in the public school system.
In Kossuth district court Otto V. Schreck was found not guilty of malicious threats to extort. Judge G. W. Stillman directed a verdict for the defendant as the jury foreman read the verdict. The trial drew wide interest with multiple witnesses testifying before charges against Schreck were dismissed.
Emogene Mertz fourteen represents St Cecelia’s Academy and wins the Kossuth county spelling contest in Algona held Saturday. Darlene Ramos twelve of LaVerne wins the written contest and qualifies for the tri state contest at Sioux City. Forty contestants entered with seven boys and the rest girls.
The Rev. M A Sjostrand, pastor of the Algona First Lutheran and Bancroft Swedish Lutheran churches, resigns from both posts to accept the Messiah Lutheran Church pastorate in Chicago. Effective July 1.
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