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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1952
Page
2
The report lists general fund receipts including taxes and licenses totaling 6231.26 and total expenditures 4784.03 for year ending December 31, 1951. It covers utilities water works revenue and municipal indebtedness with valuation figures and tax classifications. The cash balances and fund specifics are detailed for departments and funds.
The Johnson company began parquet flooring in Racine Wisconsin with two men and two boys and later shifted to wax products. Under founder Samuel Curtis Johnson and now his grandson H F Johnson the firm grew into a major American industry with offices in Canada England France Australia and plants worldwide. The Racine office and Wright designed laboratory symbolize industrial growth and the company sources carnauba wax from Brazil.
In 1901 Baltimore nurse Lena Townshend aided Major Walter Reed's yellow fever work in Cuba. She fed sugar water to mosquitoes, helped on charts, and worked night shifts at Havana Hospital No 1 while aiding typhoid cases. Her care supported Reed's landmark research and she later recalled 98 years as a practicing nurse.
About a century ago on the Marquette Range Michigan ore cars descended two long grades to a Lake Superior dock. A strap iron railroad carried ore from mines to docks in the 1850s and gravity powered string loads to the water. Brakemen rode the trains and sometimes cars plunged past the end of the dock to Marquette harbor’s bottom. Later cargoes were dredged from watery graves where old cars leaped in.
The article explains that horns have a bony core with a keratin outer layer, seen in cattle and sheep, while deer antlers are a connective tissue growth hardened by calcium deposition. It notes antlers are shed and regrown annually, as do some horns in species like the pronghorn.
In northeastern Indiana 12 counties favor a five grass and legume blend of timothy chrome red clover Ladino clover and alfalfa. With proper fertilization this mix yields high quality hay and pasture, with reports of up to three tons from first cut and strong soil building benefits.
The 20th Century strawberry, a new high yielding ever-bearing variety from Westerhauser Nurseries in Sawyer Michigan, fruits in about 60 days and yields large sweet berries from June to frost. Gardeners should plant early, pick off first blossoms to strengthen roots for bigger summer yields.
Toby the 1 240 pound Aberdeen Angus steer from Iowa State College won the grand championship at the 32nd International Livestock Show, becoming the first and only steer to return and claim the top prize after formerly earning reserve in 1950. Pictured with Toby are Chief Judge A D Weber W W Prince Jesa C Andrews and George Edwards.
Ohio State University farm experts report that soil type decides whether to plow in fall or spring. Over 11 years, spring plowing favors light soils as fall plowing leads to spring compaction. Heavier soils show late fall plowing matching or exceeding spring results in soil granulation.
Funeral services for George John Jack Robinson, who died suddenly last week, were held Wednesday at the Methodist church with Rev. J A Riggs officiating. He was born June 7 1920 in Buffalo Center, raised in Corwith, married Donnelle Erdman June 19 1942 in Bethany Missouri, worked in produce houses with his father, served in World War II in the South Pacific and as a reserve, and was active in Legion posts and the Algona VW. He is survived by his wife and daughter Irene with an infant son born on the morning of his funeral. his parents and a brother survive. Burial at Evergreen cemetery with Legion members as honoraries and military rites. pallbearers listed from Corwith and Wesley.
The WSCS holds a general meeting at the church on Wednesday February 13 at 2 30 pm. Hostesses are Mrs Kenneth Swan and Mrs Henry Nelson. Mrs Dale Higgins conducts worship and Mrs Heiko Boekelman leads the lesson. The group aims to boost visitation and meet quadrennial program goals. The goal stated is Every Methodist Woman a Member of the Woman's Society of Christian Service.
Rev W Earl Johnson pastor of Bible Presbyterian Church of Woden attends the Moody Bible Institute Founders Week Conference in Chicago February 4 through 10. In his absence the Sunday services will be conducted by church members with elders Edward Scott Henry Dirksen and Albert Cordes leading morning worship and the Women's Missionary Society in charge of the evening service.
Lakota hosts Titonka in a Friday matchup at the school gym. Both Lakota boys and girls teams face Titonka with the Titonka girls leading their conference with seven wins and no losses while Lakota girls seek a strong showing.
The squad stands in second place after recording six wins and one defeat, keeping pace with the leaders and heightening the race for top standing.
The county jail near Adel, erected about 1880, has been torn down signaling the end of a historic era for the town and its institutions.
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