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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1918
Page
5
Notice indicates pricing for local advertising at the Titonka Iowa Post Office. Second-class mail matter rate information shown as 10 cents per line for the first issue and 5 cents per line for each subsequent issue.
Algona and Swea City Red Cross chapters mobilized masks and pneumonia jackets for Swea City, delivering 200 within 18 hours. The November United War Work Campaign across Kossuth county aims to support seven recreational groups, with roll calls and universal membership to rally local support. Consolidation talks for a Kossuth County Chapter are underway, with a county conference planned after charter approval.
The Red Cross bulletin stresses sender names must appear on every parcel. Post Office Authority mandates sender identification, and parcels should not be sent to Algona until inspected and signed by a Red Cross official. Mail them after inspection and seal, with postage affixed, before November 15.
Community notices include Red Cross Christmas Roll Call planning in Central Division with officers named and offices opened at 189 North Wabash Avenue Chicago. War fund drive progress across Lone Rock Lone Rock Portland Irvington Cresco and other townships shows strong support and readiness for postwar relief.
Township chairmen report many corn pickers not on the Liberty bond list yet willing to contribute daily five to ten dollars. Labor unions pledge one day’s wages to the campaign. Strategies for handling slackers include committee visits and reporting nonparticipants to Algona headquarters. Emmet county notes naming noncontributors. aim to keep county with a clean slate. Funds go to the boys under government supervision, not to any organization. Emphasizes pre campaign committee meetings and county conference attendance for prepared leaders. Some townships report campaign completion.
Sloper accepted R L Lamoreux council resignation and appointed Wm F Callies to fill the unexpired term. Callies was sworn in as councilman. The meeting approved several bills for labor and surveying. Town Clerk Wm Boyken signed the adjournment.
A verse laments the telephone operator who overhears all gossip from lovers and wives. It warns that spreading secrets could ruin marriages, spark church conflicts, and plunge society into turmoil if the girl revealed even a fraction of what she knows.
A censor reports a WWI letter from an American infantryman at an English port describing submarines around a convoy and his actions aboard a gun. The vivid tale claims destroying multiple submarines and surviving the encounter, ending with affectionate lines to his mother.
The November 6 1918 council convened at eight p m in the First National Bank with Mayor Fisher and councilmen Sloper Holcomb Wooff and Falk present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
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