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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1958
Page
2
Suburban notes report Mr and Mrs GH Downs returning from a week in Illinois visiting relatives in Chatsworth Gibson City Custom and Pontiac. Several local residents hosted visitors from Minnesota North Carolina and Wisconsin during weekend gatherings and family reunions.
The article lists numerous local residents and relatives visiting or hosting in Buffalo Center and surrounding towns. It notes hospitalizations and surgeries, family milestones such as an 85th birthday, weddings, and several trips and meals shared among the communities. Names include the Pannkuks, Gieskings, Isebrands, Leats, Jaren, Bayken, Boyken, Ryder, Buffington, Eden, Heyer, and Nelson families with visits spanning from Britt to Mason City and beyond.
A string of social updates details Mr and Mrs George Peterson’s ten to fourteen day trip to Westchester Illinois with Mr and Mrs Martin Dean. The Deans daughter recently finished Harvard Teacher Training as Master Teacher and was invited to return in 1969. Several other families including the Loats and the Hansens share travels visits and illnesses across Titonka Algona and nearby towns.
The notice lists worship times for several churches including Titonka Doan Methodist First Presbyterian and St Lutheran. It includes service times Sunday School hours and midweek activities with names of pastors and leaders and dates for events such as choir rehearsal and missionary society meetings.
Pastor W A Diers leads worship on Sunday August 17 at 9:00 am with Sunday School and Bible Class. Sermon by Arthur Diers of Wartburg Seminary at 10:00 am. Luther League meets 7:30 pm. August 14 extends a talk on the Service Book and Hymnal at 7:30 pm. Parsonage invites for social hour at 8:30 pm.
The notice lists Pastor F. Hayenga at the Woden church with Sunday School scheduled for 9:00 a.m. This brief item confirms the service time and church leadership.
Rev William Kroon leads services at Ramsey Reformed Church with Sunday School at 9 30 am Morning Worship at 10 30 am and Evening Worship at 2 30 pm Church activities listed in the weekly schedule.
Mr and Mrs Carl F Callies and Darlene left for a cottage in northern Minnesota to stay most of the month. Phil Faaborg is on vacation in Minnesota and will return to Titanka around the 26th. Floyd Reibsamen visited Arm strong with Donald Trees family. Committal services were held July 30 at Immanuel Lutheran cemetery in Titonita for infant Richard Duane Boyken of Le Sueur Minnesota. Mrs Boyken is farmer Shirley. Jean Ostermann and others took Mrs Jake Kurtzleben to see surgery on Kathrine Kurtzleben last week.
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