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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1913
Page
7
Algona residents and relatives visit Portland with news of births and health updates. New baby girls arrive for Leek and Rakow families while others discuss farming, school, and local weather impacts. Community members attend to chores, harvests, and social visits amid wind damage and town life.
The Woden area reports progress on a new district one schoolhouse and delays at the State Savings Bank building due to material shortages. Local businessman John Holtorf opens a hardware store, John Hobart hosts a Kansas visitor, and a Halloween necktie social at Woden School raises funds. Contractors plan several new barns and corn cribs this fall and winter.
Mrs. Johnson arrives from Grantaburg to visit her parents the Hagstroms. Several residents attend funerals and gatherings as Whittemore visitor Thos. McGovern stays with Lew Matern. August Newberger purchases hogs while a corn picker accident injures men. Agnes Price and Robert Ward wed in Algona. Andrew Hanson, longtime farmer, dies. funeral held at Swedish Congregational church with community attendance.
Burt area reports arrivals and moves including Frank Allen and Mig staying for winter, new shop work by Hean the blacksmith, Gimmerman and Mall residence shifts, Whitehill deals on homes, school staffing changes at Burt, first quarter report cards, an upcoming literary program, and plans for a new electric light plant. Also mentions a local obituary and regional notes on hunting trips, road conditions, and railway service discussions with the State Railroad Commission in Algona.
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