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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
4
A Titonka correspondent muses on spring arrivals and local issues such as a new telephone line between Woden and Titonka, school vacation, and a late rural mail from Titania. He reflects on farm life, old fences, shifting generations, and the old home, recounting school memories and a courtroom anecdote, ending with fence post durability.
School began in District No 3 on Monday. Chris Seefeldt traveled to Titonka on business. Leonard Drager was seen on the streets last Thursday. Arthur Ward and wife visited Titonka last Tuesday. Mrs Neal Smith visited with her mother this week. L. E. Krantz attended a creamery meeting in Sexton on Monday. Mrs Black of Algona spent last week with her daughter. Adolph and Willie Kregar visited Fred in Portland Sunday. Adisa Andrews returned home from Cedar Falls where she has been in college.
Portland items list routine social calls and visits across Algona Titonka Bancroft and nearby areas. Names include Mr G Bankofska Mrs R A Blake Frank Mathes Chas Phelps Bartlett B V Daniels Bertha, Will Bike Norman Ward Quinale Grover Nettie Trunkhill Gottlieb Leek Harvey Graham Ora Ollom Herman Putz Edw Bartlett and LL Lindsay with grippe and recent illness.
Mr and Mrs Rev Mitchell were callers in Portland on Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Bertha Rike works for her aunt in Titonka. Herman and Albert Bunkofska moved to the Harv Mathes farm. Mr and Mrs Callies of Titonka visited their son Robt Callies. Robt Cogdill had a veterinarian attend a very sick horse. Mr and Mrs Will Rike and son Forest visited in Titonia. Linn Keith of Plum Creek sought to buy young stock in Portland. Miss Elsie Ringsdorf starts spring term in Pratt district Plum Creek next Monday. Portlandites attended Burt lecture course midweek. Lee Daniels and Miss Quinnie Grover visited at John Amerson home in Piton-Ka. A dance was held at G J Bike home last Saturday. R A Blake broke two buggy tongues Monday. Jay Grover, working for Late Fairbanks, cut a cord on his right wrist Monday. Matthew family, dredge owners, moved to old Cooper farm in Portland and start digging next week. The infant of Will Davison died Monday, a note of sympathy to the family.
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