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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
2
Subscription rates and advertising prices listed for the local paper. Includes annual prepaid price, legal notice rates, and business card ads with per line charges. It notes postage, class mail, and publication cadence as Thursday.
M. E. Church items note Children’s Day exercises at Dean and Titonka churches one week from Sunday. Epworth League officers elected for the year are G W Cogswell president Edith Budiong first vice president Chas Reynolds second vice president Gertie Welhhousen third vice president Jay Budlong treasurer Hazel Budlong organist and delegates Gertie Welhhousen Julia Schram Mayme Kleist to the lakes Mills district convention June 18 19. Classroom at the church has been papered and improved by Epworth League and Sunday school crews.
The weather improves and pastures stay short while corn planting nears completion. The orchard blooms promise a large apple and plum crop if blooms survive. A quirky diary tone notes memory gains and odds on a public showing of Al Meyer and Judd Packard. The corn field needs attention with potential replanting of forty acres, and uncertainty lingers about its future.
Adolph Kregar of Titonka helps Emil Leek lay tile for Geo Stone. The Ringsdorf Society gathering at Mrs Fred Ringsdorf’s drew a good crowd with $3 collected. Miss Sylvia Bigelow will close her spring term in district No 1 Friday. W T Hall and M J Ash of Titonka dined at Walter Smith’s Saturday and met at No 6 schoolhouse in the afternoon. Charlie Kregar visited Arthur Falk at the Ranny Blake home. Aug Pommerening sold fat hogs to Burt dealers last week. Jobo Dittmer’s son Harold is ill. Dr Triben of Algona attends. Roy M Mann, a popular young man, graduates Friday from Burt High. Miss Clara Fairbanks stays with sister Mrs Mertie Wallace at Titonka.
A narrator recalls old times at a tavern bar, mentioning a previous barkeep and a younger replacement with a glass-front shop. He references a past roundup from about fifteen years ago and leaves with a faded image of the men and place.
The Algona Courier recalls a stormy scene where drinkers push for the crimson while new hands tremble. Fifteen years ago graves marked drowned men and broken hearts, and a tall monument now remembers the man who sold the booze.
Mr and Mrs D B Fitch describe travel notes from South Dakota May 25. They expect a large turnout for the June 4 5 Sioux celebration at Murdo with Rosebud Indians and a performance in Sioux language. They discuss farming life new teams and local socials noting lively parties weekly and a friendly community.
The city announces a general cleanup of alleys and back yards urging residents to remove all waste including decayed vegetation and garbage. Failure to comply within a reasonable time will subject residents to town ordinances. Lee O Wolfe mayor.
Key West patrolman Rolland Curry credits Chamberlain's Pain Balm with curing years of rheumatic pain. He says rubbing it on relieved severe knee, foot, and hand pain within a night and after two weeks use the disease disappeared for over three months. Also notes a white pony stray in Titonka Iowa and contact at the Topic office.
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