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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1930
Page
3
The community of Connell plans to purchase a fire wagon. Numerous residents and visitors are listed as callers or attendees at events in Britt Britt Friday and Titonka Friday evening. Local weddings pregnancies and surgeries mentioned with many visits to relatives and friends in neighboring towns.
Miss Freda Jager on sick list last week. Olive Lewis visited friends in Algona. Mrs. Laura Furst of Foreat City visited Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Smith stayed in Dows several days. Ben Farrow inspects at Fairmont last Sunday. Wm. Boyken of Titonia and Wm. Coupangers of Almore visited here last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruer visited Blue Earth Monday afternoon. Virgil Loucke and family from Ledyard visited Friday. Laura Penny sick with flu for several days. Pred Park from Algona visited Frank Huer Tume Friday. Elmer Kienitz and son from Titonka visited Friday. L. J. Needham and son Harry and Mrs. Kaken visited Blue Earth Saturday. Mrs. Wm. Schroeder Jr. and Mrs. Harvey Johnson and Harald visited Algona Tuesday. George Kruger and two children spent Sunday with relatives in St. Paul. John Wurst spent days at his brother Martin’s during illness. Jim Bruer family visited daughter on Sunday.
The Junior Senior Banquet was held in the gymnasium on a Wednesday in May at 7 o clock. The hall featured a yellow and orchid theme with a white lattice fence and baskets of lilacs. Proceeds from the senior class play Are You A Mason will fund scenery for the production.
The Titonka community notes senior biographies for Annabelle Sachan and Alice Sartor. Annabelle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Join Sachan, born on her father’s farm east of Titonka, entered school in 1918 and graduates after four years in H. S. life. Alice Sartor, born in Bancroft, Iowa, moved to Titonka, began school there, and rose to class president with strong work in academics and activities.
Albert Missal Raymond Heifner and William Clemens traveled to Estherville for an invitation track meet. They did well but could not match larger schools and failed to place. Missal stumbled near the finish after a shoe problem, finishing fifth. Clemens placed eighth in the mile and half mile races with Heifner and Clemens also racing to the tape.
John Stott son of Mr and Mrs W H Stott was born at Fonda. He lived in Montana then returned to Fonda for school before moving to Titonka where he completed eighth grade in 1926. He attended four years of high school at Titonka active in baseball and basketball and served as vice president of the senior class.
A dense stream of social notes lists homeowners buyers visitors and kin from Titonka Britt Mason City Algona Estherville and Albert Lea with mentions of car purchases travel to Des Moines and Des Moines area events family visits illnesses and a long editorial anecdote recalling past living conditions and dental care.
A Pioneer Servion notice from Iowa City urges prompt payment and warns all county credit board members that any unkept promise is noticed by the board. It states that every member is informed of commitments and failures, asserting accountability across the board.
The senior class presents a comedy about a mother and daughter discovering husbands away on frequent evenings as they pretend to be Masons. Each husband boasts of lodge advancement, leading to mistaken identity and comic misunderstandings amid wedding prospects.
Titonka remained undefeated with a 6 to nil win over Wesley. The game featured unusual pitching as Schultz did not walk or strike out a batter, signaling a well played contest under the circumstances.
Agriculture girls obtained an incubator from Raymond Heifner and brought 160 eggs. Of these 149 were fertile. hatch began Sunday evening with 75 chicks moved to the school Monday noon. The remaining eggs are pecked, and all chicks will stay at the school until year-end then be sold.
The baccalaureate will be held Sunday evening May 18 at 7 30 at the Lutheran church with Rev Schoanlein in charge. Fourteen seniors will speak in the service. The note ends the biographies series and hopes for future bios of the class of 1930. A cross country event followed with Myr Crissey awarding silver and bronze medals to first and second place runners.
Albert Missal won first place and a Sterling Medal engraved with cross counts, detailing a winter finish and Mharg in the distance. William Clemens took second with a bronze identical award.
A quirky scene unfolds with a teacher and students discussing animals and tools. Teddy and Edith Mae joke about old hens and cats while Harold responds to a wasp sting. The dialogue touches on schoolroom curiosities and a Ford car comparison with comic nutty imagery.
A Titonka group led by Mrs Lee Wolfe and several Misses left Titonka Friday at 6 am for Ames. They toured the college parade, Memorial Union, and a 4 H meeting then ate 700 meals in under two hours at the cafeteria. They visited Home Economics and the cherry pie, attended Robin Hood by students, and saw the greenhouses before returning Saturday evening.
The Senior Play Thursday and Friday will feature the Senior Class Play Are You A Mason. Members of the Senior class with Mr. Crissey are arranging new stage scenery and practicing under Miss Allens Johnson while finishing touches are made this week.
A rural reflection depicts a great grandmother quitting for health while a young matron starts smoking to freshen the home. The piece warns of tobacco’s grip, describing aging, social labels, and the lure of cigarettes as a trap for women.
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