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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
5
First grade students decorated a Christmas tree and hung construction paper stockings around the table. They bring Christmas story books to school and enjoy stories. Second graders read library books during library period and give oral reports to improve speaking and vocabulary. Weekly story hour features a student reading to the class for practice and enjoyment.
The third grade decorates the classroom with Santa Clauses and colorfully colored toys. They practice an operetta and continue arithmetic lessons, learning to carry in problems while the Christmas rush continues.
Students decorated with a brightly lit Christmas tree and Santa faces on a bulletin board. They made evergreen wreaths after school on Thursday and took them home. The first table received the most one hundreds in spending and a red Christmas tree was placed there this week. The class practices songs for the Christmas operetta.
They make big pictures of Christmas scenes for their room. One shows the Three Wise Men and the angel visiting shepherds, another Santa with his reindeer, and an indoor celebration. A Red Cross drive is planned as they hope to join the Junior Red Cross. The Christmas tree stands in their room.
Students decorate their room for Christmas with a tree and lights and prepare Christmas presents for parents. They practice the Christmas operetta Old Patch cross and will present several English plays. Decimals are studied in arithmetic. Absent this week are Leonard Stenzel Allen Norland Audrey Fisher and Jerry Stockwell has returned to school Irvin Schmidt returned to school.
The seventh grade has a decorated Christmas tree and room decor. They painted pine cones for wall display and reviewed an English test from last Thursday. Geography focuses on Southwestern Asia while arithmetic covers fractions. They are learning proper letter format in English and practicing for the operetta.
The eighth grade finished The Christmas Carol in literature and will start Snowbound after Christmas vacation. They decorated a Christmas tree last Thursday and six eighth grade girls were asked to be substitutes for the high school basketball game against Lakota last Friday, with the eighth grade winning another game.
A photo captures the event at P T A where the gathering boasted the highest number of fathers and mothers in attendance.
Freshmen continue grammar work on verbs and plan to master usage before moving on. In general science, they study eyes and recently conducted a hands on pig eye dissection cutting open two specimens under supervision.
The sophomore class works slowly in history using Renaissance paintings and world maps including islands bombed by Japan. They study army camp sites, take a Monday unit test on The Awakening of Western Europe, and practice adverbs adjectives and conjunctions in English workbooks.
Students note GIFs, cramming, and essays on sportsmanship hiking fishing and skating. History classes discuss the present war as others do. Everyone brings current topics and discusses them. Typing averages show some above and below 250 words per minute with a mixed result.
The seniors completed their literature unit and will begin grammar studies. The physics class trudged through snow to visit the locker on Friday morning. They faced cold air and were shown the cold storage room and how its temperature is controlled.
This week the senior girls prepared meat loaf beef stew pork chops and liver loaf and took a surprise test on Thursday. Freshman girls worked on Christmas cards some very pretty. Thursday evening they held a Christmas party with nicely decorated rooms tables candles and evergreen window trimmings. afterward all the girls helped clean. Monday evening the senior home economics class held its annual Christmas dinner served by the girls with an exchange of gifts.
The Corwith girls' game was tight through the third quarter with Corwith only three points behind. Titonka pulled away late to win by ten points, final score 35 to 25.
One hundred sixty one women from 23 Kossuth county townships engage in national defense work. Mrs Ruth Staton Hicks, home agent, announces after 11 training schools on Nutrition for National Defense and Health. Leaders train to teach nutrition facts, food standards, market conditions, and home food production while boosting citizen morale through music and games.
Santa Claus will visit Titonka next Tuesday at 3 PM with treats for all children. The visit is by invitation of the American Legion Auxiliary and Titonka PTA with local businessmen backing. A 1:30 PM free show at the Titonka Theatre precedes the visit for children in Titonka that afternoon.
Old Stilson neighbors visited the home of Mrs. Jennie Cooney east of Titonka last Tuesday and husked a large amount of corn. The Cooney family recently suffered the death of Mr. Cooney last summer and neighbors aided in farm chores and meals. Participants included Clark Kiley and family, Emil Peterson, Harry Freegman, Pete Gourley, Charles Anderson, Ed Mehl, Melvin Severns, Ole Hamilton, Roy Palmer, Virgil Everetts, Wm Richardson, and the Kiley and Peterson households plus Mrs. Kiley, Mrs. Peterson, and Mrs. John Wibben. Watson Harrold of Claire Town plans to move March 1 to the farm now owned by Mrs. Cooney, the former home of Adam Reefer prior to 1941.
Christmas Day will feature only one morning mail with no rural delivery. The Post Office will close at 10 o clock.
The Topic apologizes for omitting six names from last week's Red Cross membership list and corrects the Rural Buffalo Township total to 110 memberships, up from 104. The error was accidental and not the fault of the drive chair or assistants.
The Titonia Grade School presents Old Cross Patch a Dutch Christmas tale performed by students Gretchen Mary Jane Bleich Jan naae Sedeeka Wally Johnston Katrina Bonnie Snyder Hulda Lois Schram Hendricka Mildred Schutter Dawn Bonacker Dirck Irvin Rippentrop Mynheer Van Hals Keith Stott The story set in Delftsburg Holland follows Hans and the townspeople as Kris Kringle arrives after the rich Mynheer Van Hals funds are lacking The performance features grades 1 through 8 with musical numbers and a finale ensemble.
Licenses granted to Fahey Gross 32 and Marie Gerber 22 of West Bend. George Albert Leigh 25 and Evelyn May Loss 22 of Irvington. Clifford F. Waltman and Gauretta Larsen both of Burt listed as parties.
A local note reveals Raymond Bartlett’s birth was reported in the home newspaper. The piece recalls a September 23 birth announcement from Mr and Mrs Ed Bartlett of Portland Township, used to verify his birth for an air pilot examination.
A Kossuth County jury found Ambrose McBride guilty of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Judge G W Stillman ordered a $500 fine with $400 payable now and the rest suspended on good behavior. failure to pay will send him to jail. District court next term opens January 26 with Judge Wadson. A divorce was granted to Pearl McMahon from Ray McMahon for cruel treatment, attorney fees and costs. Laurence McEnroe received 20 days in jail and costs for reckless driving. New cases include landlord’s attachment and deeds. no new probate filings.
Paramount News presents dramatic war scenes from Washington Manila and Honolulu as Congress declares war on Japan. United States planes and ships mobilize swiftly while Japanese forces attack in the Pacific theater. Tyke Theatre advertises showings Sunday Monday and Tuesday.
The American Legion Auxiliary will again serve lunches next Saturday in the Legion rooms starting at 2 o'clock and serving all evening. Last week crowds depleted the food early. this time the menu features Vegetable Soup Ham Burgers Pie and Coffee. Profits will fund Legion building improvements.
Sales books for sale at the Topic Office offering handy records for feed mill operators corn shellers truckers and others.
Arnold Becker of Lakota is reported lost in action at Honolulu. Ao reports from Washington to his aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Nick Koppen. His parents are not living. Merle Heetland, also of Lakota, is similarly reported. Their families received cards from Merle two days after the attack saying he was okay. The boys were aboard the U S S California, which has not been reported damaged. they may have been on shore leave.
A Williston reader in 1941 notes thirty one years of subscribing to the Titanica Topic from Kossuth county. The letter mentions editor Lee O Wolfe, daily life, Christmas visitors Anita Ruth Hanson and Anita Darlyne Hanson from Los Angeles, and a wish for a prosperous 1942 while praising local editors and library gifts.
A Long Beach resident describes wartime life on December 9 1941 near the coast. Blackouts guard ships and plants while anti aircraft guns line the shore. Aerial activity from about thirty enemy planes looms offshore as families adjust to new routines and the radio returns to full power.
Following the declaration of war, the Kossuth Selective Service Board reports 15 notices from men applying to join regular service after passing preliminary exams. Names ages and towns include Ernest F. Laurenz 28 Burt Army Edward Hinz 365 Laverne Navy Clarence Bruns 26 Algona Navy and others. A separate group volunteered for the next call: Harold Muller 20 Whittemore Francis Hanig 24 Wesley Wayne Weaver 21 Irvington Rodney Giddings 21 Burt Hmler Bell 24 Whittemore.
President Roosevelt’s national call to raise 50 million for war expenditures spurs a Kossuth County drive scheduled for December 22. Committee heads Ralph Miller Joe D. Lowe E R Morrison Fred Kent Mel Falkenhainer K J Smith John Uhlenhake organize four townships each to solicit residents and meet quotas with 15 percent retained locally for war relief. Titonka, Bancroft and Burt set subgoals of 162 288 and 183 respectively.
Ed Downs is in Kossuth hospital with a cracked neck vertebra after his car struck a rut and rolled over in a ditch east of St. Benedict. He is reported to be getting along as well as could be expected after the Wednesday afternoon accident.
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