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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
2
The Titonka Topic reports community happenings from Titonka and surrounding areas. Recent items include accidents, family news, visits, weddings, funerals, birthdays, and local movements. Notable mentions cover residents such as Mr. Gerdes, Bobby Bunn, and John Paulson, with updates on farms and local services.
St John’s Lutheran church announces Sunday School at 9 30 and Divine Worship at 10 30 with choir practice Thursday evening at 8. Luther League picnic planned for Sunday. The Methodical daily vacation bible school opens Monday and runs all week ending with a program May 27. Instructors include Rev Maberry Mrs Henry Bade Edith Milbrandt and Mary Ann Eisenmann. Local residents and visitors are described visiting relatives and friends in Kamrar Titonia Mire Traer and Algona with several families mentioned by name.
A rural column muses on harmony between cats and dogs amid cold weather, visits to grandparents, and simple joys like window boxes. It shares childrearing notes, a mother’s letter about reducing Clothes focus for a daughter in France, and practical tips on canning carrots without salt. It closes with a note on soil conservation and a review of a booklet by Karl B. Mickey.
The homemaker facing shrinking sugar allotments learns the cause. Only 72 pounds per person this year versus 89 last year explains a reduced canning limit to 16 pounds. Off shore production fell due to a Puerto Rico cane strike, droughts in Cuba, wartime losses, and Japanese refineries. Philippines sugar halted. liberation delays sugar recovery until late 1946. World stocks deplete as U S per capita rations fall to meet liberated nations’ needs.
Iowa State College engineers warn farm children face preventable deaths this summer from careless adult supervision. Common hazards include open stock tanks where a child can slip in and drown and tractors used by youths riding with fathers, creating deadly risks on farms.
A cautionary note warns that sharp turns, hidden rocks, or tractor wheels can injure children near farm equipment. Sudden noises or horse traffic may cause a child to stumble under hooves. Risks from electric fences, faulty wiring, and near power lines are flagged, with ladders left around a common hazard.
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