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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
2
A brief note explains that clay pigeons used in shooting sports are not made from clay but from asphaltum or similar materials. The distinction highlights material composition and practical use in training and competition.
The largest club demonstration contest in Kossuth 4 H history filled the Armory Building with twenty nine teams over two days. Teams listed include Prairie Pals, Wesley Wizards, Portland Princesses, Valley Farmerettes, Swea Sunbeams, Greenwood Girls, Lone Rock Lively Rockets, Fenton Forwards, Lakota Luckies, Burt Blue Birds, Irvington Is, Bancroft Busy Bees, Union Alethean, Cresco Chums, Riverdale Rustlers, Lotts Creek Lassies, Buffalo Boosters, Grant Go Getters, LaVerne Live Wires, Seneca Stars, and Junior groups like Buffalo Boosters and Seneca Sparklers with titles such as Mix and Make, Puffed and Filled, Cookies, and When the Unexpected Happens. Blue ribbon demonstrators and State Fair trip winners were named.
4 H girls county fair exhibitors are on display at the Armory Building on the Kossuth County Fairgrounds. The event closes with entries going to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines from August 28 to September 6. The program was introduced by the Kossuth County 4 H Club Committee at the grandstand on Friday evening.
Twenty seven new vehicles were licensed in Kossuth County last week. Owners listed include Doris Black Lone Rock and Raymond Harig La Verne for Chevrolet. Mrs. D. L. Bray Algona and Henry Meinders Buffalo Center for Ford. Milton Burlingame Algona and James Johns West Bend for Oldsmobile. Lester Kenyon Algona and Elmer Hutchison Swea City for Dodge. Anton Kardoes International and J. H. Menke Bancroft for Pontiac. Buick owners August Schmidt Algona and Henry Schultz Whittemore. plus several truck registrations across towns such as Fen ton Swea City and Led yard.
R L Anderson chair of Kossuth County ASC urges every farm owner to vote in the annual ASC community elections. Ballots mailed to all farmers. postmark by Friday August 20 or delivered by 5 p.m. to county office. He cites need for competent township leaders and warns against voter indifference. Iowa ASC aims for 100000 votes.
The USDA notes a larger than usual drop in milk output from June to July nationwide. On Andrew Belling’s farm near Sheldon the longtime farmer continues using the same Blue Ribbon walking plow first adopted sixty years ago.
H W Miller attorney at law based in the Dr. Sawyer Building Algona Iowa lists office contact 427 and Dr Jas J Norris optometrist in Forest City Iowa notes office 480 residence 47%.
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