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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
2
Advertising terms listed include commercial rates per inch and per line, yearly contracts and rate variations. Political notices priced per line, with differences noted for single and multiple insertions, and special charges for continued insertions.
A Wisconsin farmer born in Denmark arrived fifty years ago as a peasant. He built a thriving homestead, taught his family, and surprised them with a gift of ten farms, each at least 1060 acres, proving hard work can yield immense rewards and national pride.
Experimental work in Wright county tests peat soil treatment with acid phosphate and potash on HA. iabtree Vernon township plots yield varying results. Plot 1 unlabeled control yields 29 bushels. Plot 2 119 lbs acid phosphate yields 19% bushels. Plot 3 119 lbs acid phosphate plus 35 lbs potash yields 52 bushels. Plot 4 67 lbs potash yields 57 bushels. A similar trial on T. McCormick peat field in Troy township shows comparable conditions. Wise concludes pest soils in Wright county should be treated with phosphate and potash.
A reflective note urges readers to thank rural carriers with a gift or kind words. It recalls the era before rural delivery, when letters required a town trek, and contrasts it with today’s door to door service. It underscores the carrier’s role in linking farms to towns and markets.
A reflective plea from The Homestead urging gratitude to rural carriers for daily mail delivery. It stresses how roads are kept passable after snow or rain and urges readers to acknowledge the carrier’s role as the town’s link to the wider world with a holiday greeting and thanks.
The library opens Saturday 2 to 5 PM with Mrs Victor Lancraux as librarian. A Christmas gift titled Phair Yesterdays by Harold Bell Wright arrives, bowsted by Mrs Chas Phelps. The first New Year meeting is with Mrs Denton. Red Cross Seals promote New Year greetings. Fines accrue at a penny per day for overdue books. A planned library addition awaits committee selection and book choices.
Miss Ruth Hopkins returned to Le Mars Monday morning and many residents and visitors are noted in holiday and post Christmas travel. The item lists dozens of names and towns including Corwith Mason City Tonka Algona Britt Whittemore and Britt with multiple visits and family gatherings. The piece concludes with a festive gathering at the Nick Miller home and a sleigh ride driven by Homer Meirs.
Miss Eva and Stella Mac Breen visited relatives at Garner. J. J. Cosgrove traveled east on business from Wesley. Thompson approved 24000 bond for a school battine with 105 yes and 9 no votes. W M Schroeder bought A FB Ogren restaurant at Germania. Ogren will travel to Waterloo or Minneapolis. Three hundred five horses shipped from Sioux City to belligerent countries via fast freight to New York.
An assortment of items reports Typhoid and brain fever affecting eight year old Tirnest Senne near Woden. Nearby, John Rippentrop plans a public sale January 7 and other listings note farm sales, visits, illnesses, and family bereavements across Titonka area, with several residents traveling to Illinois and Waterloo for holidays.
Families in Algona marked Christmas with relatives and neighbors. Ed Johnson and family joined Mrs Grant-Bentshuter, Mr Little and kin, and Mr Hans Carlson and others for holiday meals at various local homes.
The Rippentrop sale announced for January 7 1918 at 10 a.m. features 115 head of horses and mules 65 head of cattle 87 head of swine and 4 farm implements including Deering binder and McCormick equipment. The auction at the big farm one mile north of Titonka lists weights ages and quantities for horses cattle and hogs with cash and credit terms and a lunch served.
The writer stresses building good credit through timely payments and prudent financial conduct. Cites Pierpont Morgan on wealth as a function of capability to obtain funds, and argues that responsible personal finance will lead banks to offer favorable terms and easier access to credit.
The Titania Co-Operative Creamery Company calls for bids to haul tee from car and pack in ice house before June 14 1915. The Board of Directors reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Newville serves as Secretary.
Full blooded Short Horn bulls reds and roans ready for service sired by Prince Acanthus Jr alias a few helfers listed for Sexton Iowa Wesley L A Bolenus Dec 29 1914 Titonka Topic request for one year subscription extension and thanks for calendar Also an ad promoting printed stationery for farmers including farm name post office crops and stock specialties
A woman near Emaiatsburg was kicked on the chin by a mule and chewed off her tongue tip. Her husband refused $1,000 for the damages in a case reported by the Armstrong Journal.
C. W. Peterson announces a Tuesday January 12 sale at his Sec 1 Portland township farm near Titonia Germania Burt Bancroft with horses cattle hogs hay implements and household items. Daylong auction begins at noon with cash for items under ten dollars and credit terms for larger purchases. Proceeds support relocation from farming to town life.
Public auction to be held on the farm four miles west of Titonka and seven miles east of Burt on Wednesday January 6 1915 starting at 11 o clock with free luncheon at noon. Livestock includes horses cows pigs sows and chickens. numerous farming implements and machinery such as a binder mower plows and separators. Auctioneers listed as E J Congrove Clery with owner W Mixdore Prop.
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