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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1941
Page
4
Community notices report high school basketball results with Wesley teams beating Lakota 23 16 and Lone Rock 20 26, plus church and club activities. Local residents visit, health trips to Rochester and Shakopee noted, PTA and Auxiliary meetings planned, and a junior class play scheduled for January 28.
Lakota notes from Algona with visitors including Nick Kappen and son Elmer. Mrs. J. J. Needham ill at home, I. A. Dreasman and Rollie Steele plan Hot Springs trip. War Mullarkey brings sister home from Kalato after gallstone operation. Local Legion Auxiliary meets with book and magazine donations. Changes of residence noted, and meat demand for 1948 expected to keep tamh prices above 1949 figures.
Ole A Hanna and Bart Mall spent the week in Minneapolis on business while Samuel Anderson and Herman DeBoer visited Chicago. A large Woden gathering at Ted Gerdes home Friday evening included many local names. Several residents traveled to Des Moines Mason City Britt Clarion Eagle Grove and Crystal Lake for business visits shopping and social calls. Albert Crone underwent major surgery in Algona. A baby boy arrived to Mr and Mrs Tony Buns at Dolmage hospital Buffalo Center.
A family discovers their cat opened wrapped presents under the Christmas tree. The feline’s midwinter mischief exposed several gifts and left wrappings scattered as the Johnsons woke to a festive, chaotic scene.
Rawis opened. To open Worth county roads, Supervisor L. J. Thompson and his son John drove 615 miles to obtain repairs for the big plow. Residents in parts of the county would have been snowbound for days without Thompson's trip.
Woden school notes January basketball schedule at home against Kanawha Wesley and Thompson for girls and boys. Crystal Lake game sees Crystal Lake win 25-24 over Woden with Grace Jogg top scorer. Boys loss 53-29. Junior high boys beat Crystal Lake 22-10. Perfect attendance announced for several high and junior high students. Primary and intermediate rooms report perfect spelling papers and attendance.
The program includes two plays for Thursdays at Home. Casts feature Mayabelle Lankins Arlys Fredrickson Sarah Jane Post Prudence Pearce JoAnn Tindall Mrs Meltz Viola Isebrand Hilda Dumper and others for the comedy Dark Doings at the Crossroads. A 1941 portrait depicts Carolyn Buns and Virginia Tindal among performers. Butterfat production shows November at 22.9 pounds, down from 23.1 a year earlier per Arthur Porter Town State College extension dairyman.
A long list of social visits and family events fills the Portland news page. Eunice Moore’s illness, Sunday dinners with the Larson and Ringsdorf families, and numerous shoppings and church social notes show residents from Algona to Bancroft sharing gatherings, showers, and hospital updates, with progress on a chicken pox case and upcoming club meetings.
Farmers sowing meeti ow mixtures should prepare their own legume grass seed blends rather than buy ready mixes. Paul M Burson of Iowa State College notes homemade blends improve quality, fit local conditions, and avoid weed seeds. Include sweet clover and grasses to reduce bloat and wilt risks.
Grinding soybeans for hog feed is uneconomical. For young pigs, soybeans should constitute over five percent of the total ration to be worthwhile.
Roberta Joyce Tubbs of Corydon broke her arm while trying to spin a top that jumped from a table to the floor. The incident notes the difficulties of spinning a toy top.
The Sherman Nursery Co of Charles City Iowa seeks more solicitors to sell Northern Grown trees shrubs evergreens roses and plants. Experience unnecessary. Ladies work towns and cities. Men with corn work rural and city trade. No lay-offs. We furnish landscape plans for new homes. Write quickly for full particulars. Sherman Nursery Co Charles City Iowa. Latest Kimball Spinet Piano finish payments write Armstrong Piano Co Mason City. Cut Borer Infested Trees During Winter January black work ongoing to remove dead timber to prevent borers. Burning infested timber before May 15 will destroy borers that would emerge in spring. Borers attack weakened trees. Check by removing bark strip on south side to expose tunnels or borers. Some cattle scab cases reported in Iowa.
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