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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1948
Page
5
The boys and girls class basketball tournament begins Monday with junior high girls facing freshmen and junior high boys facing freshmen. Senior boys meet sophomores Wednesday and finals are Friday at 2 pm with trophies for champions. Admission 16 cents students, 35 cents adults. public welcome.
Morning worship at 12 led by Pastor Donald H. James with sermon by Rev. Dodd Samp son’s Downfall. Evening worship at 8 with What is That in Thine Hand Exodus 4 1 10. Sunday School 10 choir rehearsal Wednesday after evangelistic service. Senior MY March 11 7 8 at Jean Hagen title and Doan homes. Membership training registration with pastor. Doan worship 10 sermon Samp son’s Downfall Sunday School 9:30 WSOS March 11 2:30.
Titanka residents will hold an Indian Day celebration on Saturday August 14 after a Chamber of Commerce vote. A committee including J R Schutter A M Petersen Glen Miller Edward A Sathoff and Fred Hagen will buy and install a fire siren to be run from the telephone office and placed in the water tower. Nearly enough funds are raised. C A Metcalf George Bonacker and Herb Schram will coordinate with band organizers and city council and school committees. Four new members joined the chamber Monday evening.
Heavy snow hit the locality last Saturday with eight to ten inches reported the heaviest since mid November. Roads iced and muddy at times but snow delayed traffic only briefly as plows operated Saturday afternoon and Sunday. This Iowa section fared well for winter weather with sustained cold since October or early November.
A section of the County Board of Education meeting discusses incomplete returns from the school election. The county superintendent’s office lacks results, with ballots still in transit and reports arriving from secretaries. Local results show CG Krantz with 176 votes, Sven Larsen 14, and D C Friest a likely contender.
On Friday afternoon March 12 the ladies of German township are invited to 1 15 PM to the Home Project meeting at the home of Mrs. Henry Behmidt.
A meeting for all interested in baseball for the coming year will be held Friday evening at 8 o clock in the Bartlett building formerly occupied by the Rickets electric shop.
Dr and Mrs W F Hamstreet and Tinglish travel from an unnamed location to Mesa Arizona a town of 7200 near Phoenix seeking health benefits for Mrs Hamstreet. They describe a green grassy retreat with cottages for rent near bath facilities where bathers train and plan to visit ball fields and water sites. Greenberg of the Pirates planned to work with Cleveland this year in the same territory.
A January 25 gasoline seepage into a Burt area well at George Patterson’s farm ignited during a rescue attempt. Worker Ginnie Ackerman suffered serious burns. Donald Patterson found gasoline pockets after the blast. A nearby underground tank may have leaked causing the fuel to collect in the well. Water is being hauled from Burt for now.
Divine services at 10 30 a m Sunday School and Bible class at 9 30 a m Lenten service next Wednesday evening at 8 offering for Lutheran world action confirmation class Wednesday and Saturday at 9
Sunday school at 9 20 morning worship at 10 30 with Rev Henry Huenemann of Garner in charge annual congregational meeting Tuesday March 16 at 1 30.
Mr and Mrs George Heyer were honored at their farm home on their silver wedding anniversary with two gatherings. About 36 neighbors and friends attended the afternoon event and 40 relatives joined in the evening as refreshments were served. An evening program and many gifts marked the occasion, with heirsloom silver and a purse of silver from relatives. The couple, married May , have six sons Alfred, Harvey, Lawrence, Cecil, James, and Gordon, all living nearby.
Funeral services for Mrs Emma Campbell were held at McCullough funeral home Algona led by Rev D H James with burial at Goldfield She was born May 11 1887 in Atanta ML and died Friday night at 10 80 oclock aged 80 years 7 months 24 days She leaves one son Harry Des Moines two daughters Mrs Percy Brink Burt and Mrs Alvin Hagstrom Renwick seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren Her husband and one son George preceded her in death
Franklin reports a week of evangelistic services at Dean Methodist Church ended with strong attendance and results. He praises the Dean congregation for cooperation, notes upcoming Titonka services led by Rev and Mrs James, and expresses optimism for lasting spiritual impact from the campaign. The evangelist commends Titanica Methodist for strong loyalty and hopes for continued community effort.
Maurice Kell and Clarence Mechler won the high vote in the Buffalo Consolidated School election and will serve three years, succeeding George Bonacker and Oscar Norland. More than 200 votes were cast. J. P. Hansen, J. R. Schutter and C. R. Krantz were named other board members. Mrs. Downs was re-elected treasurer for two years. Edward Boyken continues as secretary, appointed annually by the board. Woden Auxiliary Holds Regular Meeting.
The American Legion Auxiliary met Thursday night with Mrs J P Studer and Mrs Lawrence Smith as hostesses. They planned an amateur program at the high school auditorium on Friday nights April 16 and voted to give 35 to the Red Cross drive. The next meeting is April 1 with Mrs Viola Studer and Mrs George Vitathum as hostesses.
Vincent Matz who had been at General hospital in Algona after an auto accident three weeks ago was brought home Saturday but returned to the hospital Sunday for further care and is expected to remain there for several days.
Alfred Mardoff pastor leads 10 30 service with Sunday School and Bible Class at 9130. Special offering this Sunday. Choir rehearsal Thursday March 1 at 8. Children confirmation Saturday 9. Adult class Monday 7 30. Film showing planned. Choir next week Tuesday 7 30. Sixth Lenten service March 17 at 8. Sermon on Love of Christ with special missionary offering. Local pastor conducts service. Women’s Missionary Society meets March 18 at 2 led by Mrs. Virgil Miller on Evangelism. Brotherhood meets March 18 evening.
Otto Goetz, visiting from Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been working on a large Hereford ranch near Cheyenne for months and plans to work at Thornton next season. The Wyoming Hereford Ranch covers 70 to 80 thousand acres with 3500 purebred Herefords and a Holstein dairy herd. Built by a Quaker Oats Co. president, the ranch employs over 40 men, with housing for married and single workers, and has produced champion Hereford bulls at the Denver Western Livestock Show for 25 years.
Miss Pearl Bjork of Waldorf College at Forest City will speak on mental hygiene at the Parent Teacher meeting next Monday evening. Dramatizations by first and second grade pupils and selections by the high school girls glee club will accompany the event.
The Woden unit hosted an Americanism program at the Legion hall last Friday night. Commander Luther Larson presented the flag, Irma Tindall offered the invocation, May Tweet led the constitution preamble, and Louise Smith directed community singing. Mae Strate of Garner delivered the keynote on Americanism, with junior members performing and Marene Helm, Barbara Ann Gorden, Anna Buns, and Martha Halverson presenting skits and music, ending with The Star Spangled Banner.
Marion Thomas of Titonka and Dick Kuchenreuther of Titonka were married in a double ring ceremony at the Titonka Methodist parsonage. Rev Donald H Jones officiated. The couple, both local residents with military and employment ties, plan a home in the south part of Titonka.
A Gold Medal basketball tournament will be held in the local gym opening Tuesday night. Final and second place teams receive trophies while the first four teams gain individual awards. Tuesday night games feature Wesley vs Ledyard and Algona vs Hayfield with 7:30 and 9:00 PM times. Wednesday pairs Belmond vs Corwith and Clarion vs Grant, with consolation and finals on Friday night.
Ferne Oesterreicher daughter of Mrs Minnie Oesterreicher of Titanka will appear with the Drake University band in concert at KRNT radio theatre in Des Moines on Sunday March 14. The clarinetist will tour 12 Iowa towns and Worthington Minnesota in April with the band on its annual tour. Ferne a freshman in the college of fine arts was a member of her high school band.
Bancroft and Algona attorney A J McNertney announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Kossuth County Attorney. He earned a 1944 University of Iowa law degree and practiced in Des Moines before moving to Bancroft and Algona. He is a Bancroft native and St Johns High School alumnus from 1939. He was the Democratic nominee two years ago, garnering more votes than any other Democrat on the ticket, but narrowly lost in November.
Algona was defeated 38 to 36 by Forest City in the first round of the sub-state high school tournament at Mason City Tuesday night. Algona never led and tied the score only once during the game.
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