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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
7
A busy weekend with Harold Miller in Des Moines and Marian Thomas visiting La Verne. Community notices include birthdays and anniversaries, hospital stays, farm moves, and school director elections with Ernest Hansen winning re election.
Numerous families from Leland and surrounding towns hosted visitors and welcomed guests at Sunday meals and gatherings. Attendees included the Friest and Ball households, Langs visiting Grinnell, and many others from Algona, Winona, Belmond, Buffalo Center, Kanawha, Wesley, and Ames. Also noted are church group meetups, bridge clubs, and a farewell dinner for Art Mitchell heading to Washington. Dr Sartor and Sister Kenny’s infantile paralysis treatment notes are included in Minneapolis observations.
Rosslyn Hough spent several days in Chicago last week. Numerous visits occurred around Britt and Algona as neighbors and relatives shared events from hospital stays to weddings, showers, and card games. Notables include the Greenfield golden anniversary, a Mason City quartet appearance, and bridge teas with prize winners.
Mr and Mrs Conrad Heyer of Woden and Mr and Mrs Gray joined the Wm Hutsman home Monday evening for a social visit.
Rationing limits fruit and vegetable intake to 33 pounds annually per family, prompting emphasis on home gardens. Nutritionists urge planning ahead for canning, storage, and shared equipment, with staggered plantings and diverse crops to secure fresh and stored foods through the year. Community plans anticipate distributing garden yields if favorable weather returns.
A ruptured transport pipe released about 1,000 gallons of gasoline into Council Bluffs streets as firemen flushed the fuel into the sewer. Onlookers, including drivers with ration books labeled A, watched the dramatic spill and cleanup unfold.
Cattle belonging to C. D. Brubaker of South English escaped from a truck in Chicago last week. Four police squads were called to the scene and searched for several hours without success in recovering the lost livestock.
Miss Martha Palmer a nurse stationed near London attended a Thanksgiving Day reception hosted by the king and queen of England The guest is identified as a former Algona girl bringing a local connection to the royal event
Dairy creameries and the Town Agricultural Extension Service report only 49 percent of local herds produce under 200 pounds of butterfat per cow yearly. Experts urge better feeding, water access, and protein to lift output toward government goals, citing higher efficiency in dairy herd improvement associations.
Rex Beresford, Iowa State College extension livestock specialist, notes self feeding saves time and labor for cattle. An Iowa Experiment Station trial found no significant performance differences among once, twice, thrice daily or self feeder groups under full feed. Proper management requires gradual introduction to prevent feed-intake problems.
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