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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1957
Page
6
The rivalry between television and movies shifts with longer TV plays and bigger screen spectaculars. Playhouse 90 delivers powerful performances with Jack Palance and Ralph Bellamy, while Sinatra rises as a pop culture icon and music star.
Mrs Helen Johnson hosted a Wednesday evening gathering for her nephew Jim Goetz on furlough from Fort Meade Maryland where he is stationed. Jim died two weeks into his furlough after returning to his family home of Leo Goetz in Mason City. Many relatives including Leo and Bob Goetz Edward Johnson and Jerry Martin Hamilton Nancy Halver Flom and family attended.
A vintage recipe card for Baked Cranberry Pudding serves 8 to 10. It lists ingredients such as flour sugar and cranberries with directions to mix dry ingredients then add shortening eggs and milk. Bake in a square pan at 360 F for about 40 minutes and serve with warm butter sauce and cream.
The text suggests burning balsam and pine incense in the laundry or workshop, adding hayberries for fragrance and placing pine soap in the bathroom. It presents a warm, decorative approach to creating a merry atmosphere that lingers beyond the holidays.
The Evangelical Free Church held its January 14 business meeting at the church electing George Seaberg as chairman succeeding Lester Larson and Del Roghess as Sunday School superintendent succeeding Seaberg. Other business covered plans for the new year and a series of prayer meetings January 14 to 19.
A nostalgic reminiscence from Hillsboro New Hampshire about childhood winters in 1808 using improvised barrel stave skis and glass smooth under surfaces. The author recalls balancing without poles, leaping rocks on pine knoll slopes, and compares past fun to modern skis while noting no injuries and self taught techniques.
Advertises Pattern No 1504 a shirtwaist dress with short and cap sleeves offered in sizes 12 to 42 with fabric details and yardage. Also Pattern No 299 for a crocheted bed jacket in small to large, with directions and sizes. Send 35c for dress pattern or 25c per needlework pattern to Audrey Lane Bureau in Chicago.
At 11 00 a m Sunday a round table for young people followed. The Prairie Center congregation joined local Methodists for both services and a noon pot luck dinner. Over 100 attended. Mrs George Price and her mother from Missoula Montana called briefly at the Charles Price home while en route to Titonka for the funeral of her uncle William Denton.
Port land residents share visits and illness news as the week includes Mr and Mrs William Champion of Lone Rock visiting the Harms family, the Grovers calling on Myrta and Marie Grover in Algona, and the Portland Progress Club meeting January 24 with a short poem for roll call. Nearby trips include Vera Carlsen’s January 19 wedding in Riverside, and travelers to California to visit relatives. The Portland township trustees met January 15, Mrs Harald Presthus underwent gallstone surgery, and locals attended basketball games amid a busy week of calls and visits at area homes.
Fitch home Friday afternoon with Mrs Stevenson as sister to Mrs Fitch. Mel Holt and family hosted by Rosman Simpson while in town. Dwight Simpson and three sons dined at R Simpson home. Larson and Kennedy families visited Johnson home in Algona. Kennedy stayed in Fort Dodge with Richard Samuelson family. Earl Miller vacationed in Minnesota. Bernard Leeper recovered from surgery with wife visiting. hospital stay ongoing. Albert Lea visitors at Bernard Leeper home. sister-in-law Mrs Fisher and Huntsville guests at Vic Fitch home. Sparks helped Dimonds move to Britt area. Sparks and family visited Dimonds Sunday. Albert Claude and three daughters joined Sunday dinner at Sparks home.
Woden High School girls basketball captured the Hancock County tournament title in Garner with a 43 to 39 victory over Corwith. Emily Devine led Woden with 30 points as Corwith led early before Woden surged ahead.
A narrator visits a hometown rail station and uncovers romantic tension among Laura Wade, Paul Shepard, and Carl Reed. Laura's husband displays quiet warmth while Carl's cold efficiency masks a controlling pattern of gifts and surveillance, hinting at a perilous love triangle.
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