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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1959
Page
4
Local notices list annual subscription rates for Titonka and surrounding areas, with prices for in county and outside subscriptions. The column also provides a stream of community updates including visits, family gatherings, school group communiqués, and social club meetings reflecting a week in Portland and nearby towns.
Dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Lawrence Presthus and Nancy from Norway Mrs Anna Presthus and her cousin and husband Mr and Mrs Bud Marlow and Tilda Jahanne attended the gathering at the Presthus residence Saturday bringing a mix of local and Norwegian connections.
Gary Priebe of the Plum Creek 4-H club showed the grand champion 1120 lb Angus heifer and the reserve champion 885 lb Angus at the 1959 Kossuth County Fair beef show. The event featured 252 calves with breed champions in Hereford and Shorthorn divisions.
The event crowned champions across Shorthorn and Hereford classes with top placers led by Gary Priebe in multiple Angus groups. Winners include Lenora Hilbert and Tom Henry in various age/weight classes along with notable Blue ribbon heifer honors for Duane Hilbert and Jack Henry. Champion club group was Plum Creek, reserve by Union boys.
Report notes limited religious freedom in Russia with youth bans and church prohibitions. It highlights a fast growing New Testament Church denomination, its strict discipline, test-of-faith baptisms after long probation, and focus on biblically based teaching amid state pressure.
At the Town Falls reunion the Guldberg Anderson Johnson family showed a tree tracing the Guldberg line through 13 generations over more than four centuries in the country and Denmark. Harold Guldberg of Seattle and Fred Iverson of Iowa Falls spent over two years on the project.
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