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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1941
Page
5
Local notices recount Mildred Funnemark starting practice teaching in Britt, numerous visits among Wesley families, hospital stays, and a belt of community activities. Notable items include births, engagements, a Skelgas distributorship for Algona, and weekly club meetings with social highlights across town.
Lakota News reports visits by Catherine Powers and Miss Imogene Morris of Corwith from Friday evening to Sunday at Powers parents home. Blue Earth visitors Saturday afternoon, plus weekend visits by Vincent Ellman and by Mr. and Mrs. Koppen. Mrs. Thaves, Mr. Kain hospital stay, Americ an Legion Auxiliary planning ahead for Feb 20, and local farm notes on feed quality.
Mrs Tom Hillerson hosted three table bridge with Mrs Rudolph Carson taking high score and Mrs Matt Hansen low. Hostess Mrs Mary Byth cared for her mother in law after a minor stroke. Several local families noted birthdays, visits, and dinners. Rudolph Larson called for petit jury duty in Algona. multiple 500 and bridge gatherings occurred with prizes won by various residents. Local club and social events included birthday celebrations and neighborhood dinners across Algona Titonka Britt Irvington and Arnolds Park.
Milas Harriet Schram teaches at Doan School where Doan P T A met Tuesday. Hua Lee Smith suffered a painful skating rink accident at Titonica Saturday. Mr and Mrs Percy Brink and Mr and Mrs Allyn Brink were oyster supper guests of Mr and Mrs Van Hansen Monday in celebration of Mrs Allyn Brink's birthday.
Fifteen members of the cotton mattress committee met in the court room on Thursday January 30 to plan three centers for the Surplus Commodity Corporation driven mattress program. Centers would be at Ledyard or Lakota Ban croft and Algona under supervision of Mrs Ruth Seaton Hicks and Mr A L Brown with volunteer leaders assisting. Applicants must provide two laborers per mattress with a county training school to train supervisors and leaders. An order for ticking and cotton for 360 mattresses has been sent and applications remain open at the Farm Bureau office.
A fragment notes a possible cotton surplus farm program, urging South residents dependent on cotton to seek help from AAA offices, Farm Bureau, county supervisors, home project leaders, or 4 H leaders to move surplus cotton off the market. It mentions a fourteenth gallion people in the south relying on cotton.
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station reports entomologists led by Charles Richardson are testing poisons to kill firebrats, small wingless insects damaging books and fabrics. Barium carbonate has shown the most effectiveness. female firebrats lay eggs on fluffy materials. Firebrats measure about five eighths of an inch and are often found on bakery floors.
A jumble of farm notices lists animals for sale including a Roan Milking Shorthorn heifer and a sorrel gelding with an iron gray mare, plus sows to farrow in February. Also thanks for cards and a stockholders meeting notice for Titonka Telephone Co with date February 16, 1941.
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