Local Happenings and Obituaries Around Titonka Area
Mrs Wa Dockstader returns to Montikello Minnesota after visiting sister in California. Evans Carmean of Bancroft dies Saturday morning from heart ailment. he was in late 30s and previously healthy. John Carlson dies at his farm south of Titonka. health had faltered months. Titonka Fire Co benefit game Harlan Globe Trotters versus Buffalo Center March 29. Ackley resident Charley Anna to visit Titonka when weather warms. German Township Homemakers meet March 5 at 1 30 p.m. Crafts lesson details given. Farmers Oil Co officers reelected. Titania Telephone Co officers also reelected. Mrs Florence Reaser and Doyle to Charles City. Doyle to enter linotype school. Unusual weather Saturday with fog and smoky-like clouds. some telephone outages. Mrs Lucy Newville hospitalized after son Frank brings her from Mason City. Senus Isebrand and R F Pannhuk return from Excel sior Springs. Wayne Miller from Versailles Mo visiting to shell corn. W H Stott grandparents of baby boy born to Clarence Molitor and Ruth Stott of Rushmore Minn.
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John Carlson
Titonka
Harlan Globe Trotters
Buffalo Center Legion
Titonka Fire Co
Charley Anna
Ackleye
Iowa
Myrtle
Woodrow | Betacwon
Henry Mayland Jr
Abbe Winter
Walter Tapper
Farmers Oil Co
Ernest Pederson
Tom Young
Clarence Schutter
Tracy Ward
Ray Hansen
Junior Hansen
Dean Kuchenreuther
Titania Telephone Co
Clarence Mechler
George Peterson
Ed Zwiefel
Lela
Algona
Lucy Newville
Frank
Mason City
Park Hospital
Senus Isebrand
R. F. Pannhuk
Minnesota Lakes
Eldora Residents Buy Extra Plate as Pony Capital Claim Emerges
Eldora residents are purchasing an extra license plate to crown Eldora as the pony capital of the world amid Iowa's single license plate year. The note about alcohol boiling at a lower temperature than water appears as a separate factual statement.
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Pony Capital
Iowa
Eldora
Farm Team Grandfather and Girl Win Plattville Corn Contest
In Platteville Wisconsin a grandfather Henry Sporle aged 62 and his granddaughter Eileen Fecht aged 13 won an interstate corn championship using one bushel of seed to plant 8.28 acres and harvest 1232.18 bushels to beat teams from Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa. Eileen a Platteville High sophomore enjoys farm work while her grandfather plowed and planted. she cultivated six times with a horse team Maud.
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Platteville
Wis
Henry Sporle
Eileen Fecht
Wuscongin
Tinois
Iowa
Eileens
Platteville High School
Eileen
Tom
Maud
Willoughby Police Raise Funds For Own Equipment
In Willoughby Ohio the 6 regular officers and 4 extra duty staff financed most of their gear themselves. Since 1944 about $9,000 has been spent from officer funds on equipment including an ambulance radio oxygen tanks a resuscitator and a cruiser. Funds come from benefit dances at Pine Ridge club with help from local business and the chamber of commerce.
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Willoughby, O
Willoughby
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Robert Collins
Pine Ridge Country Club
Chamber of Commerce
Only Barber Quits in Stafford Village
Stafford Missouri unfolds a small town crisis as barber Garland Harrison quits after 27 years causing residents to seek cuts in nearby Springfield. Mothers complain while some boys ride buses for crew cuts, paying more than double Harrison’s former 65 cent price.
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Stafford
Garland
Harrison
Eddie Murphy
Springfield
Village Hopes Bell Is Quiet if Siren Sounds
Pentwater Michigan plans a new water system with regular shutoffs for connections. The old fire bell remains in use to warn residents 16 minutes before water supply cuts. The town fears the day both bell and siren ring together.
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Pentwater
Mich
Georgia Power program boosts small towns into growth
The Better Home Towns program created by Georgia Power under VP Charles A. Collier fostered local industry and civic projects in towns with populations under 20,000. Since 1948 over 200 communities competed for cash prizes to fund improvements, boosting Villa Rica with a $500,000 project and driving Georgia’s economic gains while emigration fell and per capita income rose.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Georgia Power Company
Charles A. Collier
Collier
Villa Rica
Christmas Florida Post Office Had Record Holiday Mail
Christmas Florida post office sent and received 300000 pieces of holiday mail last season. Postmistress Mrs. Juanite Tucker, in office since 1932, noted outgoing mail from 32 states and foreign countries exceeded any prior year by at least 60000 items. The staff includes her husband and Cecil Tucker, their 20 year old son. The town handles more December mail than the rest of the year combined, a contrast to Santa Claus Indiana in nationwide holiday publicity.
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Christmas
Fla
Juanite Tucker
Tucker
Cecil
Ind
Old Greenwich Plans Elimination of Town Signposts
Old Greenwich officials seek to remove ten to fifteen public notices posted on town signposts each year. Only the post in front of the town hall would be kept. The selectmen call the posts archaic and superfluous and note a ten dollar cost per notice.
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Old Greenwich
Conn
Family Life Conference Set at Iowa State College
The Family Life Conference themed Home A Place for Growing will be held at Iowa State College March 19 and 20. A. L. Brown, county extension director, invites town and country residents to attend with no advance registration required. Dr. Moore of Austin Texas will speak, and lodging lists are available at the County Extension Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State College
A. L. Brown
Dr. Moore
Austin
Texas
Home and Family Life Education Service of Texas
Hogg Foundation of Mental Hygiene
County Extension Office
Brown
Extension Office
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Dockstader
Montikello
Minn
California
Ed Callies
Forest City
Garner
Swea City
Boyken Insurance Agency
Titonka Savings Bank
Tyke Theatre
Titonka, Iowa
Johnny Weismuller
Jungle Jim
Corky
Jody Candyva
Farley Granger
Shelley Winters
Archie the Dog
Fishers Cheese
Jack Sprat
Ae Bros, Is
Mivelnte
Farland Barber Shop
Modern Cleaners & Tailors
Algona, Iowa
Ohio Village
Barber
Big Business
Bonacker
Winslow
W. K
Morton
Oxydol
JELLO
U-Save Food Market
Family Life
Willemssen Hardware
AMUAC
Philgas
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