Activities Of Titonka School For Past Week
Fourth Grade planned and carried out a surprise party for Mrs Reith on her birthday May 7. A Visiting Day program May 11 drew 77 attendees. Eighth Grade reviewed for semester tests in multiple subjects. Freshmen reported nearing end of year with soil conservation work and a picnic. Junior News notes gum and prank observations around the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Bell Stecker
Rosslyn
America
Betty C
Frank
Garlene
Betty R
Edward
Martin
Scinece
Algona Call Park
Verlyn
Rose
Titonka Businesses Close Next Tuesday for School Picnic
Titonka business houses will close May 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the annual school picnic, per Titonka Chamber of Commerce schedule. Poppy Day is set for Saturday, May 24.
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Titonka J
Titonka Chamber of Commerce
Commencement Exercises Held May 18 1951 at High School
The May 18 1951 commencement at the high school auditorium featured processional Pomp and Circumstance with Rose Cordes as pianist invocation by Rev Mardorf class hymn What A Friend We Have In Jesus speaker Mason Dixon baritone solo O Lord Most Holy and address Taking Life For Granted presented by Mr Reith diplomas awarded to Ernest Peterson and Soha Rey with benediction and recessional. Class sponsor Mr Mehlan colors lavender and white motto Not finished just begun. Class roll lists graduates Kenneth Krantz Dean Kuchenreuther Douglas Mechler Pauline Miller Nanryl Nelson Mary Ann Nordman Richard Olson Richard Peterson Jane Ringsdorf Wardden Smidt Gertrude Veer toy Wesselman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Cordes
Mardorf
Jesus
Reith
Mason Dixon
Lord Most Holy
Arthur Diers
Mr. Reith
Ernest Peterson
Soha
Rey. Diers
H. G. Mehlan
White
Kenneth Krantz
Dean Kuchenreuther
Douglas Mechler
Pauline Miller
Nanryl Nelson ,Mary Ann Nordman
Richard Olson
Richard Peterson
Jane Ringsdorf
Wardden Smidt
Gertrude Veer
Toy Wesselman
Thacker Reports Big Salmon From Columbia River
Fred Thacker describes a four week trip with Mrs Thacker and Mrs Brandt visiting Portland Oregon. He and Carlton Stevens fished the Columbia from a small boat drifting a mile and a half to land a 26 pound salmon at about 60 feet depth. Stevens landed a 19 pound fish. The fish were shipped to Titanka Implement Co Inc for display with no admission charged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Thacker
Kenneth Brandt
Chas. Glaus
Portland
Oregon
Fred
Columbia River
Highway 30
Black Hills
Yellowstone
Carlton Stevens
Fenton
Columbia
Stevens
Titanka Implement Co. Inc
Methodist Circle Meetings and Picnic Notice
Circle I hosts May 23 with Mrs Levant Moore and Mrs Martin Larsen as hostesses. Circle II hosts with Lucy Nearnville and Mrs Lester Eden as lesson and devotions. Circle III picnic set for May 26 at Heiko Bodkelman's. Dwight Graham returned home from Des Moines veterans hospital after sudden illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levant Moore
Martin Larsen
Leonard Callies
Ted DeBoer
Joe Boekelman
Robert Boekelman
Lucy Nearnville
Lester Eden
Circle HI
Heiko Bodkelman
Mary Ann Nordman Named Band Festival Queen Candidate
Mary Ann Nordman of Titonka will represent Titonka High School and community at the North Iowa Band Festival in Mason City on June 12. A graduating senior, she is a majorette and A student active in music, drama, and art, with lead roles in plays and a state contest win in original oratory. The Titonka 55 piece band, directed by Gayle E Thompson, performs in concert and march, as officials from the school and town, including Superintendent T. J. Reith and Mayor Frank Clark, enter the festival proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ann Nordman
Titanka
North Iowa
Mason City
Herman Nordman
Wesley
Mary Ann
Titonka
Titanica
Buffalo Township Consolidated School
Gayle E. Thompson
T. J. Reith
Beulah Budlong
Frank Clark
Ernest Peterson
Will Girard
Music Mothers Association
Annual School Community Picnic Planned at Noon
The annual community and school picnic will be held next Tuesday May 22 at the school house at noon. Morning events include races and contests for grade pupils while a ball game between east and west businessmen offers afternoon entertainment. Dinner is served at noon 25 cents per person at the door. Mr and Mrs Sylvan Thiesse attended a nephew’s wedding in Northrop Minn Saturday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvan Thiesse
Northrop
Minn
Titonka Woman Named Honorary Mother of Iowa 1951
Mrs C F Callies of Titonka has been named an Honorary Mother of Iowa for 1951 by the state PTA and Mrs Eugene Hubbard. The selection honors her home and community work and traits of courage cheerfulness patience kindness understanding self control and homemaking. The letter from Myrtle Hubbard congratulates Callies and notes the statewide effort to recognize mothers.
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Iowa
Kossuth
C. F. Callies
Titonka
Eugene T. Hubbard
Iowa City
Distrit P.T. A
Carl Callies
Titanka
Parent-Teacher Association
Towa
Myrtle Hubbard
Lions Club State Convention Set for Clear Lake Dates
The Lions Club in Clear Lake hosts the state convention June 3 to 5 with local members invited to attend. A picnic date is set for June 14 with Homer Downs and others named to lead the event. Sergeant Jerry Stockwell, son of Lem and Mrs Stockwell, receives overseas orders after five years in San Francisco. Marine wife to live near El Toro California.
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Lions Club
Clear Lake
Winkel
Knudson
Titania Lions Club
Ann& Ida's
Tyke Electric
Lions Clubs
Homer Downs
H. J. Orthel
Glen Miller
Edw. A. Sathoff
R. L. Krantz
Robert Lang
Arthur. J. Budlong
Jerry Stockwell
Lem Stockwell
San Francisco
Marines
el Toro
Calif
Anderson Pannkuk wed in Mason City ceremony
Mr and Mrs Harold Anderson return to Clear Lake after a James Lutheran church wedding in Mason City with Rev HE A Biedermann presiding The bride Alice Pannkuk is daughter of Mrs Rentje Pannkuk Titonka and a former WAVE The groom is son of Mr and Mrs John R Anderson Faribault Minn The couple attended Hamilton’s School of Commerce and work in area firms including Jacob E Decker Sons and Great Lakes Pipe Line
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Mason City
Harold Anderson
Clear Lake
the James Lutheran Church
HE. A. Biedermann
Anderson
Alice Pannkuk
Rentje Pannkuk
Titonka
Mr. Anderson
John R. Anderson
Faribault
Minn
Fran Pannkuk
Russell
Albert Lea
Hamilton’s
School of Commerce
Jacob E. Decker& Sons
Great Lakes
Curtis Benskin Wesley Resident Dies at 63
Curtis Benskin 63 of Wesley Iowa died Monday May 7 from complications after surgery last July. He was born March 17 1888 in Galesburg Illinois and lived in Selby South Dakota Jasper County Iowa and Wesley. He worked the Wesley Titonia star route 1915 1918 served as city marshal and later was a feed company agent. Surviving are his widow daughter Hattie Mae Kinnard son Pearl Benskin grandchildren sister and two brothers. Funeral at Wesley Methodist Church with burial at Sugar Grove Cemetery Metz Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley
Curtis Benskin
Galesburg
Iowa
Joseph
Hattie Benskin
Lilly Mae Hutchinson
Algona
Jasper County
Selby
S. Dak
Arthur
Methodist Church
Odd Fellows and
Rebekah
Canton
J. A. Riggs
Tom Becker
Henry Arndorfer
Clair Robinson
Charles Price
Pearly Haynes
Theron Hanson
Sugar Grove Cemetery
Metz
Immanuel Lutheran H A Church Notices
Worship at 10 am Sunday School 9 am. Special congregational meeting after service. Junior Mission Band Sunday 1 30 pm. Luther League meets Sunday 8 pm. Confirmation class Saturday 9 am. Poppy Day Saturday May 26.
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Luther League
Eighth Grade Commencement and Class Night May 21
The school auditorium hosts the Eighth Grade Commencement and Class Night on Monday evening May 21 at 8. Supt Reith awards diplomas and the high school band directed by Mr Thompson performs. Athletic music and other presentations follow as the senior class reads their will and history and the salutatorian and valedictorian deliver addresses. All community members are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt
Reith
Thompson
Methodist WSCS Names Officers for Year 1951
The Methodist WSCS met for its first general meeting with 42 women and ten children present. Officers elected for 1951 include President A M Petersen and Vice President BR L Krantz, with installations planned during a regular Sunday worship service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
WSCS
Walker McDonald
Stanley Harris
Wm. Girard
Ted Dunmire
Clayton Whalen
Merle Schwietert
Jay Bhidlong
Edith Budlong
A. M. Petersen
BR. L. Krantz
Wm. Schram
C. F. Callies
Leonard Callies
al Young
W. J. Denton
Youth Work
Good Hope Lutheran adds announcements and service notes
A. Mardorf pastor presides at Trinity Sunday service at 10 with 9 for Sunday School and Bible Class and Holy Communion this Sunday. Choir rehearsal set for Thursday at 8. Brian Lee Zwiefel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Zwiefel, underwent a tonsillectomy at St. Ann hospital in Algona Friday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity
Brian Lee Zwiefel
Glenn Zwiefel
St. Ann Hospital
Algona
Junior Senior Banquet Narrated On Treasure Island Theme
The May banquet drew about eighty-one seniors juniors faculty and guests to a pirate themed Treasure Island cave setting in the new gym hot lunch room. Toastmaster Captain Kidder and Long John Silver led acts with songs speeches and nautical decor amid a six course pirate feast and a sing along finale.
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Treasure Island
Captain Kidder
Sharon Callies
Long John Silver
Ervin Fahrenholtz
Isle of Treasures
Black Dog
Art Diars
Peg-Leg Pete
Mr. Reith
Betty DeWall
Carel Callies
Norma Norland
Agnes Janssen
Bernice Goetz
Mike McDonald
Ivory Islands
Sea Raider
Captain Shark
Mary Ann Nordman
Sabre Dane
Jolly Roger
Roger Buffington
Pirate Dream
Mr. Mehlan
Israel Hands
David Adamson
Felow
Colliseum
Titania Woman's Club
Budlong
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Titonka School
Larry Boyken
Carol Carlson
Dorothy Dunmire
Alice Eden Ervin Fahrenholtz
James Fritz
Shirley Goetz
Leona Hofmann
Diane Hoover
Harveysebrand
Mason
City Globe- Gazette
Dwight Graham
Veterans’ Hospital
Des Moines
Mary A. Nordman
C.F. Callies
Mrs. Callies
Mrs. Hubbard
Mason City Globe-Gazette
Immanuel Lutheran H. A. Case
Methodist Wscs
Good Hope Lutheran A. Mardorf
Attorney Carroll of
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