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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
4
Mrs. E A Jones left for Niels Minnesota to join her husband at an elevator. Grace Smith spent weekend with Floyd Duncan. Miss Nellie Stahl arrived home from France. Rebecca Convention set for June 12. Gard viewing and Odd Fellows plans noted. Red Cross chapter meeting and Armenian orphan adoption decided. Births, deaths, and local visits sprinkled through community notes.
Local notes report Germania Gossip C F Specht visiting Forest City, Swea City guests visiting relatives, and multiple residents attending family or church events. A fatal accident near Forest City ends Monday for Ralph Powers and James Powers loses a hand in a hunting accident. Funeral details pending.
Port land items report visits from Ardis Maan, Fred Ringadort Sr and others from Burt and Burt area. Roads are being graded. D. E. Fitch tiling. a string of tile partly installed. J. W. F. Rike remains bedfast with stomach trouble. Families attend gatherings at Fitch, Lewick, Sigbee and Daniels homes.
Northwest Wesley Earl Reed visits bedside of his father after a Paralytic stroke. Algona shoppers Mrs Gibson and Fern Whitson. JM Harris and family were Sunday dinner guests at the J W Harris home. Mrs Arthur Ward visiting daughter Mrs Earl Read. Rose Nelson weekend with sister at grandmother's. Neal Smith and family and Walter Ward Sunday callers at Henry Goffin home. Local youths visited Thonka Saturday evening. Phil Buffington family at Harry McElroy home Sunday. Orville Gibson could ride a car Sunday for first time since before Christmas. Anna Brunswold teaching near Wesley spent Sunday with O T Anderson. Dr Empey preached at Doane Sunday with Centenary movement discussed. Mr and Mrs Dewey Baker visited with Mrs Davis. Walter Fleming family called at Lester Fleming home in Phim Creek. Kinney Anderson arrived safely in New York last Monday with the 16th Division. Carl Carlson of Burt bought several head of cattle from C T Anderson. Mr and Mrs J B Larson visited relatives at Vitonka. Three Plainville Ohio young men came to town to do farm work. Walter Brown to work for his brother Clarence with Raymarid Schickel at Alfred Larson’s and Wylie McHenry at O T Anderson’s. DYPS to meet Saturday at L B Larson home. Rev and Mrs Cuthbert and Clarence and Rev Empey of Omaha were dinner guests at O R Anderson home. Epworth League reorganized at Doane Sunday evening. Eldon Harris elected president. JW Harris returned Wednesday from Pontiac, NH. Two cows for sale by A B Pann Kuk Titonka. FOR SALE Purebred RC eggs $5 per hundred by O Ak Lawler Woodanowas? (text appears garbled)
A sequence of social calls from Andy Bingham and Claus Eden to John Eden’s home on Tuesday, and numerous visits by Nick Eden, Miss Cora Eden, Miss Mary Eden, and others through Sunday. Dave Sonius and Claus Daniels receive army discharges, with Sonius returning from France. A newborn May 10 and various relatives visiting family homes are chronicled.
Lark Reynolds district president told the Herald the idea to transport students by airplane is being considered to ease bus travel on highways. He believes army aviators could be contracted to operate school airplanes as the plan develops.
In Whittemore the column muses on Dan Cupid’s peevishness amid a year without a local wedding and jokes about the town's roads. The page then catalogs a flood of local ads: boots and shoes, a 260 pound White Chester boar for registry, barb wire, a herd-boar for sale after April 1, cabbage and tomato plants, shepherd pups, short horn bull, seed corn and a carload of twine on the road
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