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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
5
The weekly school page lists seniors events May 9 to May 15 including the senior class play, Baccalaureate, class night, exhibit, and commencement with speaker James Dolliver. It notes makeup work deadlines, skip day plans, and various class reports from Home Economics Junior Sophomore and grades five through seven. It mentions tests, map drawing, reading assignments, and upcoming junior high picnic with baseball and races.
A fire Monday night damaged a creosoted post pile and caused burning to about 800 square feet of lumber shed siding and 600 square feet of roof. The blaze, driven by strong winds, was stopped before wider spread, with smoke visible from the area. The Farmers Cooperative Society operates the yard on Main Street.
Rehearsals for Titania high school senior class comedy Spring Fever under Miss Olsen progress well. Cast features Doris Krantz and Jenesee Sathoff with Don Schutter in key roles. Advance tickets available at Tyke Theatre or from seniors. a full house is expected May 9.
VJ John Quist assistant home boys state leader from Iowa State College led a Tuesday afternoon gathering at Algona and an evening session at Bancroft to plan and select topics and aid demonstration teams for fall activities. BE M Wright Iowa State Dairy Association field secretary will visit Kossuth dairy club members May 14 followed by an Algona courthouse meeting on dairy issues. All dairy club members urged to attend.
Roy Paitee of near Alta collected 14 dollars 70 cents as a crow bounty representing a catch of 147 crows in Cherokee county.
Esther Abbas returned to class as students took Achievement Tests last week. The class learned subtraction of fractions in arithmetic. Junior's gladiolas grew over a foot tall. NHS First Grade invites visitors to an exhibit on May 13 and 14 evenings. Mrs Miller Nelson visited Monday morning.
A Titonka area fisherman reports a local man drove a tractor to the Nelson bridge riverbank last week to fish. The account notes tractors have supplanted horses in local use, illustrating rural adaptation.
Funeral services for Sterling Lease 15 oldest son of Mr and Mrs Lester Lease were held at the Congregational church after a Friday night accident on highway 18 near Wesley. Sterling and friend Dwight Wagner bicycled when a car driven by Richard Youngwirth struck Sterling from behind as oncoming cars blinded him. He died before reaching Algona hospital. He was a Wesley high school freshman and Boy Scout born April 20 1912. Survived by parents one younger brother Loren 11 and grandmother Mrs Susan Lease with many aunts uncles and friends. About 400 attended the service with 61 floral tributes and $26.50 memorial gifts to Beloit Children's Home and missionary stations.
A 15 year old rider died after being struck by a car on the highway near Wes ley last Friday. The accident remains under consideration of blame, but the loss is clear. The piece urges equal rights on the road for cyclists and drivers and calls for caution as school lets out and youths ride more widely.
The record lists survivors and arrangers for a burial: Carlson Alvin Swanson Ralph Carlson Howard Finnemark Ralph Bauer and Eddie Johnson were in charge of flowers. Ushers included Lester Larson and Carl Starquist. Burial took place in the Lease lot in Evergreen cemetery.
Three year old David Ludwig, son of Mr and Mrs Leon Ludwig near St Benedict, was injured when a manure spreader ran over him in the farm yard. He suffered four fractured ribs and abrasions awaiting treatment at Kassuth hospital. The hired man, returning with an empty spreader, did not see the boy and the wheels passed over him. He is improving in hospital.
Kossuth County Soil Conservation reports 84.3 percent of farms signed up for the AAA program, 3009 of 3569, up about ten percent from last year. Top townships are Ledyard 94.2 percent Magle 93.4 percent and German 93.3 percent.
Marriage licenses issued under the new health law have dropped sharply with only one license granted in the past week. The record lists Ueo Engesser and Marjorie Sherman as the couple, both labeled legal in Bancroft, Fenton.
In Algona a jury verdict favored Sherman Potter for 32.13 in a note dispute against Dr. James A. Mueller. Judge Fred M. Hudson opened the sealed verdict. Summer court dates were set with judges Davidson Stillman and Hudson rotating between Algona Emmetsburg Pocahontas. New cases include adoptions and notes, with probate filings for Mary Reinhart Zange and Julia Gillingham.
The M. T. and John McGuire Construction Company of Algona was awarded the contract Monday by the Kossuth board of supervisors for grading and incidental work on 32 miles of Kossuth roads in the 1941 program. This will involve excavation of 224000 cubic yards. Cost of the work will be 3.4 cents for casting and 11.4 cents for wagon work.
Three Titonka residents appeared Saturday on radio station KGLO at Mason City to discuss phases of National Bee Week. Garret D. Wolhhousen Kossuth AAA chairman, Herman Dreesman farmer, and Mrs. Calvin Schnucker spoke in the 39th in a series of farm discussions over GLO.
Miss Lucile Elizabeth Eisenbacher became bride of Clarence Nelson at a nuptial high mass on Thursday May 1 at St Joseph’s church. Rev Linus Eisenbacher officiated. Attendants were Jane Eisenbacher and Henry Arndorfer Jr. The couple hosted a three course dinner for close relatives and friends and danced at Klein Peter hall afterward.
Della Grace daughter of Mr and Mrs H J Kline wed Harold Goodwill of Des Moines in a single ring ceremony at the Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon before a large audience. Rev I G Sauer officiated, bride wore white lace, pink roses. bridesmaids wore blue and pink gowns with snapdragon bouquets. Flower girls were the bride’s nieces. ring bearer carried the ring on a satin pillow. Couple to reside in Des Moines. groom works at the state office of the CCC.
Funeral services for Mrs. Alex Gill ingham 66 were held in Algona after she suffered severe burns in an early Tuesday explosion while pouring kerosene to start a fire in the kitchen stove. She ran outside to extinguish the flames and jumped into a stock tank but died the next afternoon despite treatment at Kossuth hospital.
Bancroft defeats Ledyard 3 0 in a pitchers duel as W Godfredson strikes out 19 and allows one hit. Wesley beats St Cecelia 4 3 with Hargreaves belting a long homer. Bancroft then upends Titonka 9 4, with Godfredson and Dudding holding batters to two hits. Championship set for Saturday Bancroft 7 Wesley 1.
Imelda Dooley, deputy county recorder for eight years under her father J. J. Dooley, plans to marry Daniel Engesser of Whittemore on May 12. Engesser is son of Mr and Mrs I F Eingesser of Seneca. Mildred Aman, daughter of Leo Aman of Algona, has replaced Evelyn Dole as clerk in the recorder's office following Dole’s marriage to Oswald Thilges.
English services will be held next Sunday at 10 a.m. Sunday school and Bible class begin at 9 a.m. An important congregation meeting follows the services.
A brief, light note about a young husband and father in a seed shop seeking moss rose seeds. He finds them after being advised to look for Portulaca. The piece mentions he is also an undertaker.
The Luther League Rainbow Rally was held Sunday May 4 at Good Hope Lutheran church Titonka with leagues Lakota Woden Britt Immanuel Titonka Mason City senior Mason City Junior. 223 registered the largest turnout yet. Rev Brown spoke at 10 30 and a rainbow banquet followed at 5 30 with speeches, music, and moving pictures of New Guinea.
Corn planting in Kossuth county is in full swing this week with oats flax and barleys seeded. Pastures are in first class condition per soil experts. About 40 percent of second year alfalfa has winter killed and red clover shows heavy loss. A small percentage have finished picking the last of the 1940 corn crop.
Divine services Sunday May 11 at 10 a m with Sunday school at 9 a m. Spring and summer begin services half hour earlier than winter. English services every Sunday morning at 10:00. Ladies aid meets Thursday 2:30 pm. Choir practice Thursday 8:00 pm. Confirmation instruction Saturday 9 am to 3:30 pm. Gratitude expressed to neighboring churches and supporters for Luther League rally success.
Sunday school at 10:00 am and morning worship at 11:00 am with no Epworth League due to Baccalaureate at Ramsey Reformed church. May 14 Woman's Society of Christian Service led by Mrs A M Petersen with hostesses listed. Doan Morning worship at 9:30 am and Burday school at 10:30. May 8 Woman's Society to meet at Mrs Alice Buttington's home.
B iD Haecker Hampton marked fifty years in the church choir and celebrated by singing a solo of his own composition on his 81st birthday, reflecting a lifetime of musical service.
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