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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
4
Village social life centers on visits to and from Wesley residents. Ed and Edna Hildman join kin for a Minnesota fishing trip while Mullins families visit relatives in Timesburg and Shakopee. Local clubs meet. high prizes awarded. Several Wesley residents travel to Fort Madison and West Bend, with baptisms and weddings noted.
Portland area residents and relatives are noted visiting friends and relatives including Mr and Mrs Falkert Stecker and Chas Leek households. Hospital and army service references appear with Chas Leeck and two Leeck boys. Local families mention guests from Algona Forest City Ringsted and California with several Sunday dinners and social visits.
Clyde Durham, an Albia trucker, drove onto a bridge over the Red Cedar River west of St Ansgar with a corn load. The bridge, dating back to the 1290s, collapsed after the impact. Nearby power lines were damaged and a carpenter working nearby was frightened by the incident.
Woden area residents conducted visits and gatherings across Titonka Britt and Forest City. Local families including Sebergs Lackores Hinderses and Busses hosted and joined relatives, with trips to Blooming Prairie and Washington by Helen Saathoff and others. Church and club activities featured a St Theresa Study Club meeting, osteopathic study group, and a Presbyterian Sunday school note.
Attendees included and son Robert at an alumni banquet in Lanyon Iowa Saturday evening. Former school superintendent Mr Johnson spoke. Corwith visitors Mr and Mrs Charles Marr and family were here Sunday. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs George Helm at Crystal Lake, their fifth child and first daughter. Mrs C W Costin and Mrs Dae Rittenhouse attended the Republican women’s convention in Des Moines Saturday. Harcourt residents Mr and Mrs Mary P Smith were dinner guests at the VW Johnson home Sunday. Jean and Arlys Kay Rittenhouse spent the weekend with Irvin Krieger.
Mrs. V G Mastin and Mrs. R Parriot of Bricelyn Minn visited Mrs. Garl Gerzema. Mr. and Mrs J Q Converse of Minneapolis visited at Hastings and Schutter homes in Buffalo Center. Mrs Converse stays a week. she is Hastings daughter. Carl Gerzema visited Minneapolis. E K E Wortman family visited with Wortman sisters and Ruth Hwing and children. Mr and Mrs H Baxter drove to Oakland for a week with Baxter's parents. Wm Powers left for Waterloo to work at Bath Packing. Kathrine Park visited Wade Balls. Norma Heetland stayed with F Torine near Algona. Tom and Henry Smith returned to Rochester Minn after visiting their mother Mary Smith ill at J F Smith's.
A column of humorous vignettes and reflections includes comments on teachers , Indian lore , and a spear head found in a yard near Ike. It muses on what a talking artifact might say and jests about newspaper men and small town life.
Wir has raised scrap iron prices allowing Iowa operations to clean up unsightly dung heaps. Discarded automobile bodies are being salvaged from dumps and transported by track and rail to scrap iron markets, as buyers seek value in recycled metal.
Miscellaneous local items from Algona and surrounding towns include births, visitors, travel to Sioux City and Lake Okoboji, a Clear Lake Surf ballroom dance attendance, a Lutheran church shower for Alice, a Farm Bureau meeting in Wesley township No. 1 school with program details, 4 H demonstrations, and community visits by Harold Riggs and others.
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