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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1922
Page
5
A public dance in Ringsted faced strict enforcement as notices banned cheek to cheek dancing tight holds and several novelty dance styles. The town council urged supervision with both a lady and a gentleman supervisor, arguing improving conduct while warning out of town dancers to go elsewhere if rules are too strict.
Des Moines April 10. Senator Leslie H. Francis launched a statewide push in a two week tour through Northwestern Iowa to seek the Republican nomination for United States senator. He plans rallies in county seats and will travel to all counties within sixty days meeting farmers laborers and business men to shape a platform. Francis, born on a Dickinson county farm, once a county attorney at 21 and a state senator 1909 to 1917, now practices law and owns several farms.
Kempthorne and Freese challenged suits on Midland Packing Co. notes, seeking to move cases to their home counties Franklin and Wright. The Supreme Court upheld the lower court, allowing suits to proceed in the note holders’ home counties rather than Hardin. The next move of the Midland Packing Company note holders remains unclear.
Kempthorne and Freese resist payment of notes claiming fraud secured the debt. The Hampton Chronicle notes ongoing dispute over who is responsible for the note obligations amid alleged security issues.
Reports from the famine region reaching the American Committee for Russian Famine Relief warn of a worsening crisis as spring thaws unearth masses of decaying bodies. Cannibalism is described in multiple districts around Samara, with teachers and villagers recounting dire choices. Officials deny claims that aid is unnecessary.
The weekly tithing results show churchwide giving reaching $58 from Sunday offerings and about $10 for Sunday school, achieved without canvassing. The piece urges all members to consider their full Christian duties and notes the Algona District Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society convention in Britt, inviting nearby attendees.
Julius Nonnweiler, while unloading a revolver at the Chas Nonnweiler home, discharged the gun. The bullet struck his left thigh and penetrated to the bone. A doctor could not locate the bullet but no permanent injury is anticipated unless complications arise. Mrs. Chas Nonnweiler was nearby and uninjured.
Notice warns dog owners that the 1922 Dog License Tax becomes delinquent after April 26 1922 with a $1.00 penalty plus publication costs. Dated April 8 1992 in Algona Iowa by Earl F Peterson County Auditor.
C. Wortman returned home Saturday after ten days at Lakota and Swea City. He ran a Lakota business for many years and has a brother there. A daughter lives at Swea City.
The Kossuth County District Court hears Butterfield v. Phillips over a Peoria Tractor Co. note dealing with stock salesmen and fraud. The case highlights farmers using Liberty Bonds at par to buy devalued stock, with blue sky schemes and the Innocent Purchaser Law upended by a Supreme Court ruling. Several indictments and convictions reflect ongoing efforts to root out such fraud in the area.
Senior dramatic students of the Minneapolis School of Music University and Dramatic Art present plays under Charles M. Holt at Studio Recital Hall Friday evening. The program features two one act plays Overtones and Romance of the Commonplace and a four act pantomime A Blot on the Scutcheon. Cast includes Florence Clement Virginia Carson Merle McBride Ferne Johnson Austin Jessie Muller Pauline Osmundson Jessie Miller and Truman Quevn in roles such as Lord Tresham Mrs Clement and others.
Land sales show gains from a year ago with Grundy county offerings at 400 dollars cash for unimproved plots, Sac county at 401 dollars per acre for eighty acres, Calhoun county farmland at 300 dollars per acre, and Cass county near Atlantic at 350 dollars per acre. A local real estate enthusiast extols the Nishnabotna valley from Hamburg to Manning as among the globe’s richest farming lands.
County Treasurer Mark Sarchet operates a sizable farm on the outskirts of the hub, raising purebred Sing le Comb Buff Leghorn chickens and Spotted Poland China pigs. His sow farrowed eight piglets, all to be sold at premium prices after weaning.
The document lists income from Titonia 92.94 and Woden 34.78 plus expenses including material 7.16 by W F Callus supplies 3.40 advertising 7.35 books 10.50 costume and incidentals totaling 49.46 with a balance of 78.26. The balance is to be used to purchase records for music appreciation in the schools.
A Saturday evening accident near Crystal Lake tore up a track and toppled one car of the Klondyke wreck. Repairs were completed by midnight and service resumed. Livestock from local area queues was routed on a special train to Cedar Rapids.
Andrew Raymond. year old son of Mrs. Fred Walters, fatally injured when a school bus rolled over him near Swea City. He fell from the front door after it opened in a rut. Fractured rib punctured a lung, causing death Saturday morning. Burial followed at St John’s Cemetery after services at St John’s Church.
Iowa leads in bovine tuberculosis testing with Kossuth county first in accredited herds. Federal and state funds are exhausted as area based testing continues. New regulations require ongoing testing of herd started, pre July 1 signups, and municipal milk supply tested with no indemnity for reactors.
The article reports TB in 70 percent of Kossuth poultry and rising TB rates in cattle and hogs under federal inspection. It notes a jump from 0.96 to 2.68 percent in cattle and 2.05 to 12.5 percent in hogs, with losses for packers and calls for human safety in milk and dairy. It warns TB transfers from cattle to pigs and people and urges action.
A Iowa treasurer report shows cigarette revenue from July 1921 to January 1922 near 324074 with monthly 600000/year projection. If cigarettes funded road building, salaries, and schools, the article argues the state could gain vast public benefits by redirecting tobacco money.
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