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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1912
Page
7
Local residents share visits and housekeeping updates as families celebrate a new arrival and neighbors help with threshing. Gains in small-grain yields prompt some to stack, while plans unfold for westward moves to Oregon and Idaho.
Woden residents share news of departures for Omaha Thompson and Des Moines to attend fairs and work on farms. The Catholic Ladies Aid Society meets biweekly at Tao Ornsby’s home in flourishing condition. Several locals, including Walter Dirksen Emery Lewis and Bert Ash, are active with motorcycles and sports. Martin Daniels suffers a hand injury while pitching bundles.
Mrs A Lawler and daughter Margaret travel to Minneapolis to visit friends. Greenfields visit Harringa in town. many residents attend church, farm improvements and livestock trading noted. Emery Lewis heads to Des Moines for the state fair and mail carriers convention. various locals buy lumber, erect houses and barns, and discuss politics.
Mrs. B D Daniels and Lucie Mise Ruth travel to Algona with updates from the former's notes. Families move into the Powers house while the Presbyterian Young Ladies Sunday School group raises funds with a charity slipper sale. Will Leech of Wisconsin visits Emile Lesk, and O C Riddie family spends Sunday near Swea City. Multiple local visits, moves, and social visits are noted, with several residents recovering from illness and planning new work locations.
Long list of residents visiting relatives and friends in Ames Algona Titonka Seneca and Burt. Health, church and school events noted with many social calls and travel plans. Indian Day at Titonka draws 3 000 plus visitors with a strong Bull Moose presence and local officials.
Wesley and Algona residents appear in weekly social items. Burns leaves for Mason City. Heal and Anderson families visit. Traves visits grandmother Anna Johnson. Westerman child returns from Lomert Wis relatives. Goodenow committed to Cherokee hospital for mental care. Kunz travels to Illinois after Mrs Kuz’s grandfather’s death. Covey to Des Moines and Pacific coast. Heal to San Francisco then Dayton Texas. Leone Hopkins to Mankato. Fred Anderson county treasurer in town. Agnes Sunz to state fair. Mabel Peardop visiting Mrs Heal. Miss Parson to Sisseton teaching. band gives street concert with donation condition. Mrs Grannis to Spencer and Dubuque. Carl Roy to Des Moines fair. miscellaneous clerking notes.
Just overhauled and in running order the vehicle is practically as good as new. Whist price is 1265 dollars. Enquiries at the Topic offices.
LEMO WOLFE proclaims trusted legal service with all business entrusted to their care and promises prompt attention from their office in the P.O. Building Titonka.
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