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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
2
The Titonka News and social notes detail local subscriptions and rates while listing community events. Families visit relatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. church activities and auxiliaries meet. Members travel to Mason City, Decorah park reunion, and Danforths host birthday gatherings. Navy enlistment of a local resident is noted.
A large family reunion at Mr. and Mrs. Herman Helm's residence celebrated Mr Helm's birthday. Attendees included relatives and friends from Fort Dodge Ames Britt Lennox Sioux Falls Britt Ceylon Algona Forest City Titanica Frost Minn Des Moines and other nearby towns. The event featured numerous extended family visits and weekend travels among the Helm circle.
Mr L Krants Mr and Mrs Bryan Aga and Katherine Hutchinson attended a Krantz family reunion at McKennon Park Sioux Falls DD Sunday This was the ninth annual reunion. Lee Struthers returned home after a month farming for his aunt near West Bend IA. Families from Mike Goetz Henry Nelson and Mrs John Mahoney attended a Father's Day picnic at Jack Blaine home near Corwith honoring 94 year old Tom Blaine.
The report lists numerous social calls and visits across Waterloo Burt Titonka Ottogen and surrounding areas during a recent weekend. It notes a $375 unsigned cash offering received by the Renee church at Staut and mission feast donations totaling $1,083. A Lynn Ingham family car slid into a ditch on a soft shoulder, leaving occupants bruised and cut.
Mary Ann Carey of Indianola survived a 16 foot fall from a second story window without a scratch or bruise. Mrs Carey said the aviator’s saying about landing safely rings true in this near miraculous incident. The child was picked up unharmed after the fall at the Topic Office.
A compact column blends humor and home life with social references. It notes a plant named Rev erence needing weekly care, a Home Sweet Home motto, and a quip about anger at inanimate things. It mentions a question about sugar in coffee, and reflectively references politics and Texas cattle branding. It ends with wheat shipments beginning from Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota moving to Iowa.
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