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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1935
Page
3
Post Office in Micajah, MSWa announces class mail matter coverage and subscription rates. Rates are 1.00 per year in advance in Tonka trade territory and 1.56 per year in advance outside Titanica trade territory and other states. Canada and foreign countries: 2.50 per year, payable in advance.
The president calls legislatures to convene to amend laws so towns can issue bonds, fund necessary improvements, and aid unemployment. Readers are urged to turn over a new leaf and deepen home life, while noting this advice also targets new couples like Algona’s junior editor. A Hallock Minn man aged over 80 died, survived by many children and grandchildren, his 108 year old mother attending. Wesley News World tallies 32 births in Wesley, 86 marriages, and two centenarians this past year.
A brief, fragmented note explains that in winter thousands of fish die from suffocation as dissolved oxygen becomes exhausted in the water, causing fish to smother.
Village notes show church services at St Josepha and New Year masses. Socials include a card party at the lodge hall and a study club gathering. Families visitation lists mention Mullins, Giddings, Amesbury, and Flom relatives. several travel to Nashua, St Paul, and Burlington. New movers include Vincent and Leroy Klempeter taking over the family store business.
Portland area residents share Christmas visits and family time with Algona Burt and Waterloo trips. Henry Depne battles mumps while G C Hood visits from Algona. Bartlett Bros debut RCA radio. Dozens of family gatherings, measles illnesses, crutch assistance, and holiday travel populate the week in a bustling community diary.
Mrs Geo Walt of near Bancroft visits Mrs Amelia Rike and others recall family names and place histories. Families from Bancroft Maxwell Hurt and Algona share Christmas dinners and card parties. Prizes awarded in local contests include Mrs Mervyn Holding winning 400 dollars in a Kennedy Bros sponsored popularity contest.
The item notes thousands of prairie chickens moving through northern Iowa from Minnesota and the Dakotas to feed in cornfields. It also records O R Peterson and I H Faur of Low Moor killing five red foxes and one gray fox in Clinton county over two days without dogs, trading each fox in the snow as they were jumped.
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