Titonka School Weekly News Highlights And Honors
The junior class apologizes for last week's missing school notes due to two days off. Honor Roll lists many students including Lydia Dreesman and Beverly Adamson. Music clubs, sports hopes, and home economics lessons fill the week with sewing, meats study, and a county tournament ahead at Laverne. Transportation donations support basketball, with a planned outdoor skating rink still hoped for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Adamson
Laverne
Whittemore
Wesley
Busy School Year Across Grades Highlights Learning
A long report details juniors boosting typing speed and many classes celebrating progress. Manual training shows hearty effort with benches and shelves. Senior English explores Romantic Period, physics on expansion, and business law contracts. Junior sociology discusses leadership. Freshman and eighth grade cover geography, algebra, poetry, and pictures of Lincoln and slavery. Seventh grade reads The Great Blizzard and The Frost Spirit with illustrations. Sixth grade finishes geography and starts Across the Seven Seas. Fifth grade notes plant spell, English letters, and a bingo like music game. Fourth grade mentions Heather Cheever in spelling bee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipling
Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Japan
Titanica Blacksmiths Finish Year’s Plow Share Edges
In extreme heat the Titanica Blacksmiths completed 2,000 plow share edges, totaling 31,680 feet of steel. A. Peters and son Andrew, with daughter Tillie, handled the work since January 2, welding and shaping under high heat as three Peters sons serve abroad. The effort yields a year’s supply, with Tillie earning praise for welding skill and minor burns from the hot job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titanica
A. Peters
Andrew
Tillie
Floyd Ahrends
Campaign asks for books to aid servicemen
The group led by Mary A Wes terreicher and Mrs W Patterson urges donations of suitable books. They request current best sellers since 1940 technical books since 1935 humorous titles and pocket editions. Donors should take books to Titonica library or Dentons drug store by March 5. The note ends with thanks from First Occupant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rover Boys
Kathleen Norris
Faith Baldwin
Elinor Glyn
Mary A. Westerreicher
W. Patterson
Titonica
Denton’s
Finger Painting and France Trip Mentioned in Geography Class
Students have been engaging in finger painting and preparing for a trip to northern France to visit peasants as part of geography studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Third Grade News Highlights and Classroom Achievements
Sharon Callies earns perfect spelling grade and perfect six week test score. Multiple students in third grade complete perfect attendance for the semester. Twelve perfect spellings were achieved last week. Third grade beat fourth grade in a spelling contest. Second grade honors include a list of perfect spellers and a read poem Thinking. First grade notes report punctual semester attendance and minor absences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon Callies
David Adamson
James Harris
Vernon Krull
Lawrence Loeschen
Benjamin Meyer
Verlyn Tjarks
Ronald Young
Carol Callies
Wanda Falkerts
Norma Jean Norland
Prisella Stockwell
Elvin Boeckholt
Harry Boyken
David Honken
Ronald Nelson
Paul Krominga
Phillip Orthel
Food Limitations Force Careful Meal Planning
Weather and farm supply availability will shape civilian food. carry over crops assure cereals sweet potatoes and dried beans. Fat oils and fish may be scarcer. sugar energy may drop due to transport limits. Rationing will distribute meat and canned goods fairly. milk may decline from labor shortages and lend lease. Victory gardens and home canning gain importance. urban kitchens may supply fresh vegetables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Schultz
County Home
Victory
Reminder urges Kossuth women to donate kitchen fats
Miss Alma Schultz announces a county drive to collect waste fats for glycerine production. Dick Sorenson reports Algona area has 1,817 pounds so far, Paine notes Kos suth and Emmet counties exceeded five tons. Civilians urged to contribute drippings and frying fats, two pounds yielding glycerine for five anti tank shells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kossuth
Alma Schultz
Dick Sorenson
Algona
Paine
Emmet
Farm and Home Week by Radio for Iowa Farmers and Homemakers
Iowa State College radio station WOT will air a Farm and Home Week February 8 to 12 with the theme Doing the Best We Can with What We Have. Wartime travel limits and food issues prompted the shift from campus meetings, with daily sessions from 12:30 to 2:00, 3:30 to 4:00, 4:15 to 4:45 and 6:30 to 6:40. Experts answer questions on dairying pork beef sheep poultry gardening canning corn soybeans oats flax and labor saving devices, plus women's features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Iowa State College
WOT
R. M. Visquain
Vilquain
Credit for dependents in federal income tax explained
A fourth article explains the dependent credit for federal income taxes. It details two credit per dependent, rules on support, age or disability criteria, and how the credit varies with filing form and months of dependency. It notes that the credit cannot be divided between filers and provides examples with midyear birthdates and age changes.
Lakota Family Fetes 25th Anniversary At Dinner
Lakota Mr and Mrs Wade Ball hosted a Friday dinner honoring Mr and Mrs Jerry Heetland on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary. Guests included Florence, Wanda, Wayne and Gerald Heetland, Mrs Larry Stafford, Mr and Mrs Vernon Smith and daughter Shirley Jean, and Mr and Mrs C A Winter. Ronald Heetland was away in the army at Camp Custer Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Heetlands
Wade Ball
Jerry Heetland
Florence
Wanda
Wayne
Gerald Heetland
Larry Stafford
Vernon Smith
Shirley Jean
C. A. Winter
Heetland
Heetlands
Jean
Ronald
Camp Custer
Michigan
County Representative's Committee Appointments
ALGONA Representative Theo C Hutchison reports from Des Moines that he chairs the drainage committee and serves on judiciary No 1 motor vehicles railroads insurance banks and banking and rules committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
Theo. C. Hutchison
Des Moines
Banks and Banking
Kossuth District Court Opens January Term
Kossuth county four week January term of district court opened Monday morning January 26 with Judge F C Davidson of Emmetsburg assigning cases for trial. The first week will focus on equity cases divorces and probate estates with three weeks of jury trials starting February 1. County Attorney Miller reported no criminal cases set for trial and the grand jury will meet at 10 a m Tuesday January 26 likely to conduct only the annual New Year property inspections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kossuth
Algona
F.C. Davidson
Emmetsburg
Miller
Near Scene of Bad Accident on Interurban Tracks
A report from Ankeny describes a weekend car crash near interurban tracks. The Ricklefs and Korte families, workers at the Ankeny defense plant, witnessed a Hampton man die in the collision that injured former Whittemore and Burt resident Heller, who later lost a leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Ricklefs
Hank Korte Jr
Ankeny
Defense
Bill
Bicklefs
Wm. Heller
Whittemore and Burt
Hampton
Heller
Ricklefs
Raymond
Urban Richter Named Aviation Cadet Captain at Maxwell Field
Urban Hugo Richter of Wesley Aviation Cadet Captain Wesley Mr and Mrs John Richter announce their son has been appointed aviation cadet captain and squadron commander in the cadet corps at Maxwell Field Alabama. He trained as an aircraft mechanic with Douglas Aircraft and was accepted for pilot training at Camp San Luis Obispo on May 27 1942 after graduating from the local high school in 1934 where he starred in basketball drama and the glee club. He will be sent after Maxwell to a primary flying school in the southeast Army Air Forces training center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urban Richter
Wesley
John Richter
Urban Hugo Richter
Army Air Force
Maxwell Field
Alabama
Douglas Aircraft
Camp San Luis Obispo
California
Immanuel Lutheran Schedule and Meetings
Rev. Wm. Planz leads services at Immanuel Lutheran four miles east and one mile north of Titonka. Sunday School and Bible Class at 8:30 a.m. German service at 10:30 a.m. English worship at 8:00 a.m. Ladies Aid meets Thursday February 4. Choir rehearsal Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutheran
Wm. Planz
Titonka
Ladies Aid
War Gardens seed list for 1943 announced by Alma Schultz
County home economist Alma Schultz announced the 1943 seed list approved by Iowa State College and the Iowa U S D A War Board. It provides enough seed to grow a year’s supply for a family of four, detailing varieties and quantities for beans beets cabbage carrots celery cucumbers lettuce melons parsnips peas pumpkins radishes chard sweet corn squash tomatoes and turnips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Schultz
Iowa State College
Iowa U. S. D. A. War Board
Henderson
Kentucky
Simpson
Alaska
Thomas Laxton
Laxton
Stowell
Rutgers
Elder Lakota Elder Ennen Dies After Christmas Fall
Lakota man Ennen aged 81 died Friday January 15 after a Christmas Day fall that fractured his leg. Survived by step-son H J Kline and daughter Grace of Hardy. wife predeceased. Funeral held January 21 at Lutheran church with Rev Darnour. burial in Lutheran cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Ennen
H. J. Kline
Grace
Hardy
Lutheran
Darnour
Blizzard Weather Strains Roads and School in Local Area
Cold, blizzardy conditions kept roads blocked and schools closed. Buses struggled on routes, mail service faced detours, and a Klondike train now ran on a tri weekly schedule. Local rail traffic diverted due to wrecks near Lawler and detours via Austin to Mason City. Weather cleared little but community persistence persisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woden
Ted Dunmire
Milwaukee
Wesley
Lawler
Calnar
Austin
Mason City
Donovan Andrews joins Phi Kappa Phi at Ames
Donovan Andrews, Ames student, earns admission to the Phi Kappa Phi honor society for high academic standing. He carries a 3.6 average and has worked to support himself. He is a team member and serves as a first lieutenant in the R U T O unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donovan Andrews
Ames
Phi Kappa Phi
Donovan
Gayn
Metry
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Titonka School
Lydia Dreesman
Twyliah Hamstreet
Donna Ward
Orville Beenken
Albert Cordes
Phyllis Fath
Marian Krantz
Irene Mayland
Norman Bruna
Donald Budlong
Herbert Callies
Carl Giesking
Ernestine Adamson
Louisa Baade
Drusilla Hansen
Donna Krominga
Leela Kromingr
Eugene Beenken
Arthur Buffington
Wallace Johnston
Elmer Ricks
Ross Struthers
Sharon Adamson
Marcella Bartlett
Tanite Bonacker
Jolce Bonacker
Marietta Norland
Lals ‘Schram
Bonnie Snyder
Sun
Phyllis Falk
Erwin Beenken
Norman Bruns
Louise Baade
Leola Rominga
Iola Krippentrop
Anna Ricks
Wilbur Doege
Melvin Ricks
Lenice Brandt
Jacqueline Sunderman
Skc
Lavina Jandl
Florence Willis
Gladys Ann Smith
Hans DeVries
Marjorie Tjaden
Dolores Welhousen
Hugene Beenken
Robert Jandl
Irvin Rippentrop
Janice Bonacker
Doris Hagen
Lois Schram
Florence Schutter
Girls Glee Club
Rodgers
Seven Seas
Heather Cheever
ASK For Books US
Elkader Fire Department
Jerry Johnson
Robert Hoffman
Sharon Paulson
Betty Ann Miller
Glen Welp
Topic
FED
Elmer Engelbarts
Audrey Brandt
Martin Brandt
WAR Gardens
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