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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1947
Page
3
Weekly paper notes postal entry at Titonka Iowa and outlines subscription pricing. Rates are 2.00 per year in advance within Kossuth County and Titonka trade area, 2.50 outside the county, and 3.00 for Canada and foreign destinations.
Lakota Girl Scouts held their investiture ceremony at City Hall on Saturday evening. Fourteen girls received scout pins in the presence of their mothers. Lavonne Barrett earned her second class badge. the others strive to complete the rank soon. A short program followed with songs, poems, and a resume of the ten program fields. Lunch was served by troop leaders Mrs. Lawrence Stafford and Mrs. Roger Barg.
Woden recounts a series of social visits and gatherings modeling a village life. Local residents including Mrs Hatten of Titonka hosted a Catholic ladies guild afternoon while families from Buffalo Center Mason City Thorpe Armartong and Des Moines joined dinners and weekend stays with hosts such as the Wood Rudisill and Crawford households. }
On Highway 34 near Lucas Loa Booth drove a flock of feeder lambs when a west bound truck hit the herd. Nine lambs died and a tenth was shot. Dean Altenhofert of Keswick died while digging a ditch for a natural gas line. four men were trapped as walls caved in, one escaped and three were dug out. Altenhofen was the sole fatality.
In an intra-squad game Hawks star Alita Bell crashed into Pat O'Toole after a grounder, injuring the Irish shortstop and drawing charges of deliberate spiking. Bell later delivered a walkoff RBI as O'Toole blamed a bad throw and head injury for the accident. Teammates and rivals dispute intent amid a tense incident.
Conservation officers report the heaviest goose migration in years, spanning October 21 to 23. Reports began along the Upper Missouri River and northwest Iowa, then blanketed the state as fog and low clouds drew large flocks south. Blues, previously rare in Iowa falls, dominate the migration, boosted by mechanical cornpickers and now more common in the hunting season, with hopes the flights shift westward into Iowa.
Joy Hull a Simpson college student from Des Moines seeks someone in Indianola to board her cocker spaniel so the dog can stay with her as she attends college. The article notes the dog is despondent since she left and refuses to eat. It mentions a pigeon story and a Chicago band on a bird, plus a space recommendation for poultry housing.
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