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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
5
The community will not hold a school picnic day as planned. A pupils only flash day with races and ball games will occur Thursday with each child bringing a personal lunch. The school exhibit will be shown Wednesday evening around commencement. Bus arrivals are 9:30 and departures at 3:30.
Misses Lorraine Petersen Hazel Miller and others visited Myrtle Anna's school. Breen laid a foundation for a relocatable home from Woden. Stott shows a Ford y-8 coach and looks to future success. Dinners hosted by Cordon Nelson. County Treasurer candidate M J Duffy in town on business. Residents went fishing in northern Minnesota and visited Decorah Niagara Cave. Paint sale ads from Gamble Stores. Pannhuk finished a 34 by 32 barn near German Valley with new well and windmill. Tuttle and Mulli gan returned from High Banks Big Winnie with walleye. A May 22 radio and work party at Mrs. Alice Winter's home. lunch served by Mrs. Winter and daughters.
A group of St Josephs School second and third graders will make their first communion at St Josephs Church next Sunday morning at 7 30. Various local residents and families are noted with visits and hometown ties across Des Moines Denver Renwick and Algona in the region.
All business houses will close Decoration Day May 380th from 11 A M to 4 P M restaurants from 1 to 4 P M All ugliness houses will be open Friday night.
The Ladies Aid of the Lutheran church will meet Tuesday evening June 2 in the church basement with Mrs. Martin Brandt as hostess.
The annual stockholders meeting of Farmers Elevator Company will be held June 6, 1936, at 8 o'clock in the T.O.O.F. hall. All stockholders are urged to attend. Jay Budlong, Secretary.
Members and friends of the Auxiliary will meet at the Martha Bonacker home Friday evening to make wreaths for Memorial Day. Anyone having flowers or foliage please notify Mrs Bonacker or bring them to the Bonacker home Friday May 29.
Miss Bernice Wilson conducted a Titonia winter tap class with sixty pupils in groups. She assisted in the high school opera and trained girls in the Sextette for a district music contest in Britt. A Swea City graduate, she studied vocal music at Iowa State College and Ames under Tolbert McRae, with three summers playing the organ at Algona Methodist Church.
Rev A S Hueser plans to run a music store after resigning from Baptist Church ministry on June 15th. The new shop will be located over Borchardt’s drug store and marks a full time transition in his career.
Algona county supervisors announce a letting of 60,000 cubic yards of gravel to be spread on county roads on Saturday June sixth. The action aims to improve road surfaces and safety across the county.
Notice in German Township Kossuth County Iowa announces a school election on a bond proposition. The document informs voters of the upcoming vote date and the purpose of the bond measure affecting local schooling and district finances.
Public notice announces a special election for German Township Kossuth County Iowa to be held June 10 1936 at Center School House voters will decide on issuing 25000 dollars in bonds to build and arm school houses in eight sub districts the district consolidated as one precinct polls open 1 PM close 3 PM secretary G D Walhousen signs the notice dated May 12 1935 Titonka Iowa
The Ramsey Reformed Church will host its 15th annual mission festival on June 3. Morning German service led by Rev G Haken with an outside English service for Sunday School attendees. Afternoon German sermon by Rev Plessher with English by Rev Kuisema. Evening sermon by Rev R Jager. Ladies asked to bring ample food supplies to aid serving.
The Buttermakers of Kossuth County met in Titonka for their regular monthly session hosted by Martin Bleich. Business ran from three o'clock with issues of interest to creamery men on the agenda. A pot luck supper followed at the Bleich home and a social hour was enjoyed with a large crowd. In the afternoon Mrs. Bleich hosted the wives at a bridge party.
Indians defeat Wesley Sunday in a prolonged 12 inning contest by a score of 5 to 8. Rakow and Boekelman pitched for Titonka allowing eight hits while Wesley’s Sorensen yielded sixteen hits. Young led the Indians with five hits in six at bats.
Mr and Mrs C Heifner and daughter Mrs Viola Terpstra and family of Des Moines returned Monday from northern Minnesota and South Dakota where they visited relatives. Claire Heifner managed the mail route during his father’s absence.
Mayme Petersen named by Republicans for County Recorder with Joe Dooley of Algona opposing in November. Fred C Wentz seeks sheriff on the Farmer Labor ticket as the second nominee. Dr D H Kulp of Hummelsburg plans to retire from dentistry for real estate work and a Colorado trip for wife care. Justice H B White of Algona canvassed Titonka for county attorney and noted his appeal to young couples tying the knot across Minnesota.
Henry Stecker Jr visited the area on a Saturday business mission. He lives near Woden on a farm with a promising crop outlook.
Six hundred poppies were sold on Poppy Day thanks to community support. Poppy Chairman Mother Askin thanks all contributors and notes Mary Sartor sold the most, 132 poppies.
Church notes urge parents to enroll children in daily Church School sessions. The pastor faces two challenges hiring teachers and convincing parents of the school's importance. Plans call for a start next Monday, though the date may shift a week. services Sunday remain as usual with Epworth League in the evening.
Community notes recount bridge luncheon results with high and low scores, garden party and park breakfast at the Bonackers, Buffalo Consolidated school faculty guests, a miscellaneous shower in honor of Mrs. Ed Heltland, and an Auxiliary gathering hosted by Mrs. Abbe Winters. Senior class Skip Day plus theater outing to Fairfield are described. Titonka teachers wrap school with picnics, and dinner hosts greet Miss Johnson, Hazel Miller, and Lorraine Peterson. Wedding announcements for Dale Craven and Eleanor Hefflinger set for Omaha ceremony.
A 4-H club meeting is planned for next week Wednesday at the Odd Fellows hall in Titonka to organize a dairy club. County Agent Brown and Buttermaker Martin Bleich of Titonka will lead the session.
John E H Falk and George Higgins traveled to Des Moines on Thursday for treatments at the Veterans hospital. Higgins is expected to be away a month or more. Falk, not well for weeks, seeks relief and has closed his local garage for the time being.
Auditor E. J. Butler, candidate to succeed himself, planned a Tuesday stop in Titonka after a heavy workload in the Audit Office. He spent an hour or two meeting friends and attending to official business, praising himself as the strongest Democrat nominee.
Captain Mary Budlong asks all Girl Scouts to meet at the Legion Hall Saturday at 8:00 A M to join Boy Scouts Legionaires Wiring Squad color bearers and bugler in decorating graves Memorial Day. Frank Reynolds has been laid up with a lip infection after handling old lumber on the William Larsen farm south of town.
Miss Doris Stott arrives home from Detroit Michigan after months with her sister Mrs Harold Slinker and family. She worked in the city and plans to return to Detroit this fall. She will stay with her parents Mr and Mrs W H Stott this summer.
Indians play Mason City in Garner this Memorial Day followed by a May 31 game on Titonka diamond versus the Pabst Blue Ribbon team, formerly Mason City Bats. The matchup promises a fast ball game and draws fans to witness well played action.
Algona veterans announce Dr. J. H. Lynch of Sioux City will speak on Decoration Day. A former Kossuth County resident, born near Lone Rock and raised in Bancroft, he studied at St John’s Parochial high school and Ames College before practicing as a veterinarian in Bancroft.
No District Court met this week in Algona. New June 8 term cases include Metropolitan Life Insurance Co v Peter Jorgensen foreclosure cases, Callies v Meacham note, Metropolitan Life v Sullivan foreclosure, Bobst v Corbin auto collision damages $750, United Counties Benevolent Association quo warranto action, seven similar insurance cases, Hunt v Hunt divorce, Bjustrom v Bjustrom certified copies, Huber guilty plea for illegal liquor possession with $100 fine and $265 attorney fees plus costs.
Woodside No. 226555 owned by Loren J Brown and bred by A J Brown topped Iowa as champion seven and a half year old Guernsey in class AAA of the American Guernsey club. She yielded 11593.8 pounds of milk and 648.8 pounds of butterfat in ten months.
Probate cases begun this week include wills for T A Trauger Fred Lehman D H Brown Ray W Sedgewick McMahon appointed administrator and Lewis Wildin. Estate matters list these estates as proceeding with wills filed for probate in Algona district court.
Members from nearly all towns met at Hut chison Hutchison office last Saturday. They opened a county headquarters at the New Algona Hotel and outlined an active campaign. R H Hutton of Bancroft was elected president and R J Harrington of Algona secretary of the club.
Peter Becker and Bertha Tul of Bode Lorenz N Borman of Laverne and Julia A Thilges of Ode Fred Wirtz and Hulda Wehr of West Bend received marriage licenses as listed in the report.
Memorial Day orders list an eight o clock graveside decoration, color guard, firing squad, and scouts at Legion Hall. Services follow at multiple cemeteries including Wesley, Meyerg, Ramsey Reformed, German Township, German Lutheran, and Buffalo townships with taps noted.
Geo Helmers of Buffalo Center, a well known local resident, is ill and was taken to the University hospital last Monday for treatment. He suffers from dropsy and heart trouble.
The Ramsey Reformed Church announces a two week Vacation Church School from June 8 to June 19 with half day sessions. Enrollment topped eighty last year and this year welcomes children aged 6 and up including those who attended before but are over 16. Last year two teachers return with some changes, and notices go to past attendees by June 7.
The senior class dedication ended last evening with commencement in the Lutheran church. Rev H W Schoenlein delivered an excellent baccalaureate sermon to a packed crowd. Class night followed on Monday with salutatory by Miss Helen Senne and valedictory by Kenneth Keuchebreuther. Members listed include Elda Jandl Elfleen Brown Heleaa Senne Deloris Rippentrop Kathryn Schram Ysela Peterson Lorraine Lamoreux Dorothy Sleper Idy Eden Gertrude Welhousen Kenneth Keitchenreuther Merle Nauman Donald Wood Allen Lamoreux Sherman Kelly.
Clarence Graham fished Sunday at Crystal Lake. A series of Sunday visits followed at various local homes including Bartletts Shipley Grahams and Phelps families. A Ladies Aid service occurred at Titanica M. H. church, and school district No. 3 planned a grove picnic May 29 with teacher Miss Neiling. Scarlet fever quarantines affected Brayton family. several residents traveled or visited from Burt Algona and Rockford area.
A compact honor roll list appears with names and birth dates tied to towns including Woden Towa New Liberty Lakota Titonka and Dick Franzen. Entries feature Henry Stecker Gerhard Bruns Haryenga Dwight Graham and Boyken among others with dates ranging from 1937 to 1938.
A fragment notes that drinking water with meals aids stomach juices and digestion, helping bloating and gas. It mentions Adlerika as a cleansing remedy and claims a dose cleanses poisons and washes upper and lower areas, with W. J. Denton, a druggist, in Woden by Newbrough Pharmacy.
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