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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1923
Page
3
The Titonka Topic notes Iowa lawmakers reduced abutting property assessments for paved roads. Under old rules, owners paid 25 percent. new law lowers to 12 1/2 percent. The piece argues against any assessment, urging that farmers should not fund others’ road construction.
The county board reports purchase of a 10 ton caterpillar tractor from Holt Mfg. Co. of Peoria Ill for 6250 dollars. The item contrasts with county printer bidding rules and criticizes laxity toward out of county vendors.
In May 1885 C W VanGorder drew a 732.25 draft at Audubon County Bank. J B Haddock endorsed to C S Welch who died before payment. The draft reappeared 38 years later, paid with interest totaling 3285.59, after the First National Bank of Audubon absorbed the former bank.
In Newton Judge Henry F. Wagner ruled in First National Bank and Jasper County Savings Bank vs Jasper County that banks should be taxed on mills on money and credits rather than 80 percent of 224 mills, requiring the county to refund about $100,000 to banks. A county appeal is likely.
Insurance history shows women incur lower risk and live longer on average. For years premiums varied with gender but recent experience across companies and societies indicates women have a longer life expectancy, about one year beyond men, due to lower accident exposure and fewer heart kidney and brain diseases in midlife.
A passage notes that women of the A I U are the deaths 28 percent in a period, and a broad census of nearly all communities would reveal ten grandmothers to ten grandfathers.
A Rock Island Lines tale extols cantaloupes carried from California to Chicago markets. The piece notes 332,640,000 melons moving this season, with trains filling with ice for the delicacy that fuels breakfast plates nationwide.
Local notes record visits among Olle Rippentrop, Ethel Hiegel, Raymond Banacker, Guido Sartor and others at various homes. Travel, church and school connections, farming deals, and a graveling contract shape a snapshot of community activity.
The document records receipts and expenditures for the Buffalo Consolidated School for the General Fund and School House Fund through June 30, 1923. It lists payments to teachers, janitors, drivers, and various suppliers, plus coal, repairs, and services, totaling 40,818.35 with detailed balances and final certification by Secretary M. L. Petersen.
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