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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1922
Page
4
Des Moines reports total automobile fees collected top 7.0 million dollars this year with 4,165,000 vehicles registered amid 50,000 delinquents. Secretary Ramsey notes registration costs decrease versus 1919 while the state expands motor vehicle oversight.
Counties push the Bradley bill era reforms raising scholarship standards and attendance in rural schools. June primary features a double election board with sworn secrecy and separate counting rooms to finish voting quickly. A Waverly district court action targets bootleggers with penalties. Local grand jury indictments lead to theft cases in Truro. Knoxville woman Mrs. Tallerday dies after rat bite fever linked to a steel trap incident years earlier.
Thomas Cutting of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, aged 85, recalls riding as a 17 year old with the Eleventh Hussars in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. He now lives in retirement after a long career with Rockstandem.
The Dale Woolen Mill built by John Lonsdale in Guthrie County operated from 1868, later closed due to labor issues, and was sold for dismantling to Nashua Chickasaw County. Illinois Central crews uncover a near complete Pleis tocene mammoth skeleton south of Dubuque while floodwork reveals perfect ivory teeth from prior finds.
Port land Pick Up reports visits by Floyd Duncan and George A. Graham with relatives in Fairview. Town gossip mentions rain, car traffic, and several Sunday calls by Otto Smith, Carl Callies and Louise, Leo Brayton’s family, A A Graham, Lloyd Bartlett, George Wolfe, Ernest Thinsen, and others visiting homes in Portland, Bancroft, Titonka and nearby areas.
Mankato visit reports, church attendances, farm bureau plans, and family notes populate the Algona region items. Mentioned are Mrs Wyot Stott, Mrs Tony Jandl, Mr M. Shipler, and Roy Ringsdorf among others, plus Lloyd George political commentary and road detour news for the North Iowa Pike near Wesley and Algona.
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