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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1958
Page
3
The article details a July 30 wedding at First Methodist Church officiated by Rev. W E Gillett, with bridesmaid and groomsmen attire descriptions and a reception. It notes Indian Day preparations in Titonka with a 1:30 pm horse show, a parade at 10:00 am, Merriam's Midway, and entries to boost the event.
Amateurs urged to join Titanical Indian Day talent competition with $75 in prizes. Contact Lou Bartlett promptly to enter as organizers plan a tentatively bigger program after last year's enthusiastic reception despite a partial address system issue.
Interstate Power Co. begins seventh annual customer survey across its territory. Customers receive mail questionnaires asking service satisfaction, attitudes of employees, and value for money. Forms are returned in prepaid envelopes and processed by district managers.
County farmers enrolled in the governments wool incentive program will receive payments soon for the 1957 wool marketing year. Richard I. Anderson, chairman of the county ASC committee, said payments cover shorn wool and unshorn lambs with rates that reward producers who market wool at higher prices. The program pays 33 cents per hundredweight on lambs and uses a 15 percent rate to determine incentive amounts, aligning payments with the national average price of wool.
John Uken near Titonka completed a 22 inch tile main east of Titonka. Ervin Link led judging of the Kossuth County Achievement Contest with judges J C Show Glen Jenkinson C W Schlichting and Leslie Johnson. Winners included Rueben Holcomb Harvey L Larson and Victor Neuroth in operator divisions and L G Fuchsen in the level land farmer division.
The Buffalo Boosters met July 12 at Sharon Eden’s home with Joan Cosgrove as co host. They planned Achievement Day on July 18 and an Indian Day float. Patty Willis gave a convention report. Postmeeting demonstrations covered preserving vegetables, blanching, packing for the freezer, and a talk on Why Preserve Foods. Special activities included weed identification and mounting by Victoria and weed control by another speaker.
The American Legion Auxiliary Department of Iowa will hold its annual convention at Hotel Ft Des Moines on July 23 to 25. Opening on July 23 includes Memorial Ceremony and committee reports. Guest Virginia Geiger will speak Thursday morning, and Robert Bush will talk Thursday afternoon. entertainments include a Bill Austin organ concert and Song Fellows. Installations of officers are Friday morning.
The Kossuth County 4-H Square Dance on July 16 at the Algona Fairgrounds football field honors state 4-H presidents Jan Clark of Bancroft and Roger Dreyer of Fenton. Floyd County caller Lloyd Frazee directs an evening of fun with a Kalvelis folk dance repeat during intermission. attendees from 4-H and Farm Bureau Young People are invited. Admission is 25 cents, leaders free, with 8:00 p.m. start.
Representatives from Titonka Burt and Bancroft met at Union Slough refuge in Burt to discuss reopening the recreation area. Volunteers from surrounding communities will meet Thursday at 6:00 pm to clean up the area and continue Friday night work. This is a volunteer project and all interested persons are asked to help. Titonka residents may meet at the slough at 6:30 or contact L. W. Nath for transportation. Once cleaned, facilities will reopen to the public.
The Buffalo Boosters Girls 4-H Club will present its Annual Achievement Show on Friday July 18 at 2 00 p m in the Methodist Church Parlors. The public is invited to attend. The program includes Demon Accurate Measuring 4-H Field Song Preparing Muffins A Ram Sam Sam Table Manners Grandfather's Clock Snacks Roly Variaties Dreaming.
Seventy Kossuth 4-H members and parents attended July 9 and 11 workouts to learn livestock selection basics. Markets and baby beeves were judged at Thoreson Bros. farm near Swea City on July 9, with dairy heifers and cows at Schoby farms and beef heifers and steers at Hilbert farm on July 11. Next practice will be at Seelys northwest of Algona for sheep and beef heifers and bulls, with 14 year olds and older eligible to compete for county representation at North Iowa and state fairs and Dairy Cattle Congress at Waterloo.
Miss Diane Hoover daughter of Mr and Mrs Ted Hoover Sr wed William Nevotti of Omaha in a June 22 church ceremony at the Titonia Methodist Church. Rev Max E Goldman officiated the double ring rites as friends and family joined at a reception in the church hall. The couple then toured the western and southern states on their honeymoon visiting relatives along the way.
Subsoil moisture at Kanawha Experimental Farm on June 1 shows meadow higher than corn with 5.6 and 7.4 inches respectively. Earlier on April 4, 1958 corn ground had 8.1 inches and meadow 7.4 inches. Measurable rainfall influence means meadow consumes more moisture in April and May, while corn drains most in June to August. Kossuth County led Ames soil samples tested in June with 184, county turnout at swine tour and oat plot meeting noted. Ensilage of oats rising in popularity. tomato blight warnings advise spraying every 5 to 10 days with Zineb or Maneb. moss control tip given via copper sulfate in stock tanks. Good Hope Luther League to host ice cream social July 23 in Town Park. Paul Wardlin Sr., Bloomfield, retires from state highway commission after 24+ years since 1933.
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