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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1934
Page
2
Second class mail matter notice details the Tonka territory and publication reach. Subscriptions vary by region with rates for Tonka territory, outside territory, other states, and Canada. Publisher Wolfe outlines advance payment terms and coverage.
Discussion questions Patterson’s dry political record and his resistance to a Democrat majority in the senate. The piece asks how Dan Turker could win the governorship while carrying Patterson’s political baggage and critiques the Dickinson Patterson alliance backed by Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Sioux City interests. It questions whether Kossuth County farmers will back leaders who allegedly betrayed them in state and national legislatures.
Across six weekly papers the Summit office received editorials attacking the Republican lieutenant governor nominee. Belmond notes a Pocahontas county convention endorsement of Roosevelt. Gilchrist urges nonpartisan activity. Titonka Topic supports Turner while condemning Patterson. New Hampton Tribune ignored events. Lake Mills Graphic attacks Patterson’s in-law ties. Garner Herald extends best wishes.
Forest City Summit reports Iowa Republicans at the state convention nominated Geo. W. Patterson for lieutenant governor, amid speculation delegates aimed to bolster L. J. Dickinson for U.S. Senate in 1936. Critics in Britt and Garner doubt Patterson strengthens the ticket. editorials warn of intra party maneuvers and future consequences.
The town council met at 8 PM with Mayor Wolfe and six council members present. Bills were allowed and warrants authorized for items including labor mowing and publishing. a motion to correct an error in the 1934 assessment for F B Kettwich was approved. The meeting adjourned with WM Boyken as town clerk.
Former Representative Julius H. Jensen of Seneca visited town on Monday to appeal a County Allotment Committee decision to the State Board of Review about his corn hog contract. He claims his hog quota was reduced by 40 to 60 percent without justification and asserts he has substantial supporting evidence.
Twenty appeals were filed with the Local Allotment Committee in Kossuth county and have been resolved except two cases. Jerisen is still awaiting a ruling among the unresolved matters.
Portland residents and nearby families visited relatives and friends across Lone Rock Spencer Swea City and Algona including Rex and Mrs Austin Mrs Koestler Mrs Moore and Ethel Leech Reed Anderson and children D E Burnette’s return from Iowa City hospital Phelps Lohse Jands and Bartlett families attended gatherings. The Portland Peppy Pals held a meeting at Viva Brayton’s with HDA involvement. Josephine Friesenberg returned home to teach after working for Bartletts. Pearl Saathef joined Bartletts as the new hired girl and families spent time at Han-
Compliance records were discussed at Ames on August 6 led by R. M. Evans State Director and others from the Town Corn-Hog and Allotment committees. The second payment due November 15, 1934 requires a First Certificate of Compliance and inspections of Farm Record Books of Production and Sales of Basic Commodities.
The document outlines required records for hog and corn contracts under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. It specifies sections on hogs on hand, litters and live pigs, feeder pigs purchased, hog purchases, detailed sales since December 1933, and total hogs on hand, with instructions to use farm record books and retain sales slips as evidence for compliance checks prior to the second payment.
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