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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1943
Page
4
Wesley residents host guests and relatives from Des Moines Marshalltown and Burlington. Local clubs report meetings and social events while families welcome new births and celebrate transfers and ordinations with kin across Iowa and Minnesota.
WAVE recruit Nor man Sanden will tour the Spencer recruiting territory visiting Algona June 25 from 1 to 3 p m to interview interested girls and explain Navy WAVES work. She travels with the Spencer Navy Station Wagon through county seat towns and outlying areas to provide information on enlistment and requirements.
Sunday meals and visits populate a coastal community scene with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Larsen and Leila at Martin Larsen home, plus ringsdorf and Bristow families sharing suppers and afternoons. Lois Graham stays with grandmother Mrs Jennings as illness improves, while Fred Jennings and Russell Fox call on M. E. Larsen, and P. O. Krueger family visit Algona and Clyde Bristow.
Mrs Bryan Asa visited her sister in Waterloo from Thursday to Monday. Pfc Louis C Hansen celebrated his 21st birthday with a picnic supper in the woods near Burt Thursday evening joined by the Guy Carl sons Dale Struthers Merlin Andersons Ross Buffingtons Ted Hoover Ilo Buffingtons and Donald Buffingtons plus Hansen’s parents and Vanda and Marjorie Gollner and Elmer Thompson. Various relatives and friends from Burt Ames Algona Renwick Bancroft Platt Creek and Armstrong visited or were guests over the weekend. Pfc Hansen left Ames for Camp Young California after a 15 day furlough. Elmer Thompson and Vanda Gollner drove him to Ames. DESK BLOTTARS at the Topic Qitiga.
Woden News notes Mrs Herman Buns trip to Milwaukee and visits by multiple families from Titonka Crystal Lake and Britt. Numerous church groups, family gatherings, and out-of-town relatives frequent the Britt area, with events at Monson home, Belmond services, and local Red Cross dressings work ongoing.
The oldest dam in service in the state has new flood gates completed in Pioneer State Park near Osage. The dam, built from logs and rocks, now supports improved flood control.
Mrs Otto Hetthke remains hospitalized in Mercy at Fort Dodge after gallstone surgery last Thursday. Wm Brandt of Rochester, Minn. dies after a hospital operation. funeral Friday attended by extended family. Farneat Stroebel and Emory Smith visit relatives while in the armed forces and navy respectively. American Legion Auxiliary reelects officers led by Mrs George Heetland. Mrs Mitchell of Swea City visiting Mrs Rena Peterson. New baby Darwin Gale born to Mrs Nadine Jorgenson in Buffalo Center. Jorgenson in armed forces overseas. Mrs Jorgenson stayed with her parents near town. Mrs Marie Ebert injures left hand. Lawrence Weaver injured arm on a wire fence following a cow push. Kay Murray visits Lois Peterson and the Wate Ball home. Lloyd Thaves on Florida camp furlough with mother Mrs Mary Thaves. Mrs Pappinall and young daughter plan Chicago return after two weeks with relatives. Ferdinand Kappen has been in navy for years.
The week features visits from Washington residents to relatives in Algona and nearby towns. Robert Powers returns from Ames with his parents, and Mrs. Hart of Bancroft and Mrs. Park of Algona join Wade Ball and family for Sunday guests. The Frye and Clough families report livestock losses from heavy rain, while J. G. Wirtjes visits Fairmont relatives in Algona.
Regular meeting of the Town Council held at French Lbr Co Office with Mayor French Clerk Reaser Treasurer Callies and councilmen Torgersen Schutter Swan Fisher present. Minutes approved and bills ordered paid totaling 352.02 with payments to Titonka Implement Co Boyken Insurance John Traks Wm H Stott Frank D Fisher K & H Oil Co Titania Topic Interstate Power Co and others.
Card of thanks expresses deep appreciation for neighbors and relatives who prepared soil planted crop and cleaned premises on the Schwietert farm and for other acts of sympathy. Town meeting records show Clerk advances, library board re election, license approvals, and adjournment actions with Swan and Reaser noted.
Leon Brown county fair board secretary honors the parson as the inventor of the Oliver typewriter and credits him with performing the marriage ceremony for Brown’s parents in Winneshiek County.
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