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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
5
The Office of Price Administration issued final details for home canning sugar. Stamps 15 and 16 in War Ration Book One allow five pounds of sugar each for home canning, to be obtained at retailers. Additional allotments, up to limits, require Local Ration Board applications with the book, and stamps 15 and 16 cover up to ten pounds initially.
Mr and Mrs Vernon Larsen and Leila join Forest City trip after Elsie Larsen completes Waldorf College training. Numerous local visits mark weekend as families from Portland and surrounding towns gather for meals, callers, and club meetings including Presbyterian Mite Society and Portland Progress Club with readings and a solo by Nedra Wolfgang. A baby boy completes the Larsen family with five boys and five girls.
Harry Homes son of Mrs Ole Gjerde employed near Crystal Lake suffered a broken leg when a tractor slid against him while at work on Saturday. He is confined at the Irish hospital in Forest City.
A notice lists Titonica Churches Good Hope Lutheran and Rameey Reformed with service times 10 20 am and 9 30 am Sunday School, offerings, Birthday Offering, choir rehearsal Friday 8 00 pm, confirmation classes canceled, ladies aid June 2 hosts named, Vacation Bible School starting next week with four teachers. Rameey reports morning worship at 30, Sunday School 9 30, evening worship 8 00, Young People's Club Tuesday 4 90, Bible School program this Sunday, mission fest June 2 at 10 00 am 2 13 pm and 8 15 pm Isaiah 60 1 quoted.
Pastor Rev W L Patterson leads Sunday School at 10 a m and Morning Worship at 11 a m with a Memorial Day message. All are invited to remember sacrifices and honor defenders. flowers and plants requested for altar decoration. Doan Sunday School at 7 30 p m and Evening Worship at 8 15 p m.
Immanuel Lutheran at Titonica announces German services next Sunday at 10 30 and an illustrated Lutheran World Action lecture at 8 00 with a special offering. Ladies aid Thursday June 3 served by Mrs Ostermann and Mrs Ostermann. George Boelts died Monday with funeral Thursday at 1 30 and 2 00 at Immanuel Lutheran Church with Rev W Flanz. Vacation Bible School starts next Monday, four days a week from 9 30 to 3 30.
The Kossuth War and Price Ration Board reports no change in gasoline rationing rules. No special gasoline rations will be issued for funerals or visiting the sick, even if public transport is limited. The board cites extreme gasoline shortages due to high demand from U S and Allied forces.
Colorful painted furniture and rocking chairs appear this year as war restrictions alter production. Firms shift to dual purpose, simpler designs, with mahogany and walnut reserved for war use. Maple shortages rise due to Canada imports and bunk bed orders. Metal pulls fade, plastic or integrated pulls rise. less metal may raise handwork and costs.
Miss Alma G Schultz notes slip covers serve twofold in war time by making worn chairs usable and improving morale. For decorative use, light fabrics like crashes and ginghams are recommended, while heavier weaves protect upholstery from dust and dampness. A leaflet with detailed directions, Slip Covers for Conservation, is available at the Farm Bureau office.
Mr. and Mrs. George F. Pommer newlyweds were honor ed at a dinner by their children and grandchildren at the Elmer Meyer home Sunday evening A surprise gathering followed at the George Pommer home with Mr. and Mrs. Dick Franzen and family Mr. and Mrs. Harold Pommer and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Meyer and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pommer and son Present was a gift of community plate silverware bestowed by their children
Donald Wood, home with his parents Mr and Mrs William Wood and relatives, has resumed naval duties last week after a furlough. He is stationed at Farragut Idaho with the fleet now in Idaho.
Titania Stores will close at 10 pm on Memorial Day and stay closed for the day. The Post Office opens regular hours on Monday May 31 with two mail runs and standard rural delivery. The Bank also remains closed all day.
A 1943 note to Mrs. H C Snyder confirms Pvt Darl Snyder of St. Cloud Minnesota won the Zimmerman Memorial prize for the 1942 43 college year. The award honors ability, scholarship, character and public spirit in horticulture students. Snyder was cited for horticultural show work, cooperative spirit, and entering military service.
Mrs Thos Asche received a letter printed herewith about her son Raymond Spear serving with the United States Marines overseas. The writer, identified as E B Sprinbal, notes Raymond is ill with a contagious childhood disease and under quarantine but improves. He asks mail continue and sends love to family.
Mrs Alf Studer and Gerald travel with Mrs George Kelch and Laurel to Wichita to attend the wedding of Julia Ann Studer and Ralph Jarvis at St Marys Cathedral. The couple work for Beech Aircraft Company.
The Topic editor and linotype operators from Bancroft and Algona joined Harold Clark and Jim White for a linotype clinic by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co in Sioux City last Friday. The school at the Martin Hotel trained operators machinists and owners to run machines with minimal repair costs. Three Chicago experts lectured and showed charts of linotype mechanisms to attendees from western Iowa eastern Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota.
Phillip Nelson, a former Titonka farmer and late Des Moines resident, died at 68 last week. Funeral held in Lucas on Saturday with many local relatives and neighbors in attendance. He left nine sons and three daughters, with most of his children present at the service.
Alfred Nelson 69 died suddenly at his dinner table Friday noon in Wesley. Funeral services were held Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Methodist church with Rev. J. A. Riggs presiding. Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen lodges assisted. Born December 18, 1873 in Racine Wisconsin, he moved to Kossuth County and Algona in 1889, married Eunice Nance in 1900, and moved to Wesley in 1918. His life work was farming and trucking, owning and operating a threshing rig for 42 years. Surviving: wife Eunice. six children Tom, Otto, Mrs Harold Flom, Mrs Dan Kimes, Alfred Jr, Helen. eleven grandchildren. one brother N C Nelson of Wesley.
Peter Hans Sr born in Germany October 8 1856 died May 20 at Lakota after weeks of illness. Funeral at home and Lutheran church with burial in Lutheran cemetery east of town. Survived by wife three daughters six sons many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Would have marked 60th wedding anniversary if he lived until May 22.
H W Roba of Lakota suffered a stroke Friday evening and was taken to his son Harold Roba s home in Swea City for care and observation.
A homebound boy, Doyle, shows advertising value as he sold 23 dozen small crawlers by Monday after repeating ads for a sale in the Ponte. The merchant trusted the ads and they yielded better results than expected given his injury from a year ago.
Gordon Hansen and Drusilla visited Mrs Hansen in St Marys hospital Rochester showing improvement. Merlin Anderson met Pat and Mrs Anderson of Swea City on return from Kentucky with Army son Verne. Dean school closed with a picnic led by teacher Mrs Tor gersen. Buffalo No 8 and No 9 held picnics. Miss Flom and Mrs Hoover Schmidt led pupils to matinees. Several visits and small combinations of relatives and army life marked the week.
About 85 ladies attended a canning demonstration led by Miss Alma Schultz county home economist at the high school gymnasium from 2 to 4 30 pm on Thursday. The session covered hot water bath and pressure cooker methods for fruits and vegetables and included storage in refrigerator lockers. 1943 canning calendars were distributed and Mrs Fred A Diekmann OCD block leader chairman helped arrange the event.
Charles Taylor, 70, longtime Algona Ice Cream and Candy Factory president, died Saturday at Des Moines Veterans Hospital after a long illness. Born December 26, 1873, in Lotta Creek Township, he lived in Kossuth County all his life and built a successful Algona business. Survived by his wife Edith Roswell of Bancroft, daughter Grace Humphrey, and brother E. N. Taylor, he was a Mason, Kiwanian, and Spanish American War veteran.
WODEN Paul Hisenmann the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Hisenmann suffered a painful eye injury last Friday when struck with a pair of scissors while playing with his brother. He was taken to a Mason City hospital where the eye was removed Saturday.
In Titonka the American Legion Auxiliary will staff poppy distribution on Saturday to honor war dead and aid living veterans. Volunteers organized by Anna Andrews will supply eight poppies per person as funds support disabled veterans and children of the dead from both wars.
American Legion Auxiliary and United Service Women's League meet at the Legion Hall Friday at 3:00 p.m. to form Memorial sprays from arborvitae or other non perishables. Sprays will be left at the drug store Friday evening for relatives, friends, ministers, or caretakers to place on veterans’ graves due to rationing preventing cemetery visits. Donations of foliage may be left at the Legion Hall. Preceding the work meeting the Auxiliary will hold its regular business meeting, and lunch will follow served by the poppy committee. Memorial Sunday church notes are also highlighted for observance.
Mrs Dorothy Penning finished another school year with a picnic on the grounds and a flag dedication funded by the scrap drive. On March 1 she gave each pupil a ten cent stamp book. total stamps purchased reached 31.50 dollars.
WODEN Joe Anderson traveled to Brooklyn New York last Wednesday to visit relatives. He also intends to see his son Lieutenant Ralph Anderson stationed at Coldsboro North Carolina during the trip.
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