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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1935
Page
5
The Titonka waterworks project received FEMA aid. The Town Council met in special session to set a letting date and confer with the town attorney and project engineers. Discussions covered the waterworks establishment and related business.
The Federal Power Commission reports Iowa buyers use 1548 current rates across 332 residential, 182 rural, 203 commercial, 24 industrial, 157 municipal, 98 special and 607 general schedules. Ohio and Nebraska show more variety, while 80,000 schedules exist nationwide. Miss Laurette Doege of Woden visited her sister Mrs. Herman Weaver in Buffalo Center for two weeks.
Hugh Cline 72 died at his home five miles northwest of Woden on the Bancroft Forest City road Sunday. He lived in the Buffalo Center and Woden area for forty years and was a pioneer settler. Survived by his wife, four sons, one daughter, two brothers, five sisters. Funeral services were held at his farm home Tuesday with interment at Buffalo Center.
Doan residents shared a busy weekend with friends and relatives visiting in and around Doan. Alice Buffington visited Hampton and Nevada. Harvey Johnsons hosted dining guests including George Hansen and Mae Wessel. George Hansens’ guests included Miss Dorothy Keefer of Algona and Andrew Hansens family.
Mrs Frances Kester of Towa Falls drove up from Iowa Falls on Monday to attend to business matters and call briefly at the Dr Ball residence.
Bjustrom of State Street Al gona announces plans to construct a new business place an addition measuring 22 by 70 feet with a projected cost of 11000 dollars. Construction will commence soon.
A Dorcas meeting at Harm Jutting's home Friday evening hosted a shower for the newly wed Mrs. Bennett Bruhns. She received many useful gifts from attendees.
Henry Meyer says a prominent Townsend Plan speaker will visit the Coliseum to address the community on December 2nd or 3rd. Watch the Topic next week for an announcement.
Glen Yahnke of Ledyard spotted a five foot blue crane on the sidewalk while walking home from work last Wednesday. Investigating the scene revealed the tall bird on exhibit at a Ledyard store where it died the following day.
Beekeepers in Kossuth county are invited to attend the Iowa State Beekeepers Association annual meeting at Iowa State College in Ames on November 21 and 22. Dr. Lloyd E. Watson dean of research Alfred University Alfred New York an international authority on bee improvement will be the guest speaker.
A baby boy was born Sunday to Mr and Mrs Alvin Honken at a Lake Mills hospital. Both mother and child are doing well while the father improves. The Honkens are new to the area and reside on the south Graham residence. Mr Honken works at North Kossuth Radio and Electric Shop in the Keil building basement, where friends can find cigars in abundance.
Mr and Mrs Earl Hunter and their son from Minneapolis spent Saturday in Titanica attending to business matters and visiting friends. Mrs Hunter formerly Miss Florence Clement often stops at the Topic office when in town. Mr Hunter holds a Phillips 66 post in Minneapolis and rarely travels far from home.
Pheasants plentiful in Iowa north Kos county as usual bring city visitors to hunt. The piece warns that many city sportsmen will be in the region this year, risking lives and property and flouting laws. It foresees road hogs and pheasant hogs and predicts accidents and fatalities are likely to follow.
County Agent Brown outlines that the rye program bases adjustments on harvested acreage not seeded, excluding nonharvested seedings from compliance. The plan fixes grain harvest at 75 percent of base rye acreage per contract year unless the Secretary of Agriculture allows more. Producers may feed rye freely as long as harvest limits are respected and ample rye remains for domestic use.
Mr and Mrs Ball entertained their dinner bridge club Tuesday evening with a pleasant program of card play and social conversation. Refreshments were served after the games.
Sunday afternoon November 3 1935 Mr and Mrs John B Sloper were honored on their twenty fifth anniversary. Relatives from Lakota and Buffalo Center attended bringing food. Rev Calvin Schnucker spoke followed by lunch. Gifts included silverware and a sugar bowl with tokens of esteem for the couple with names listed among attendees from Lakota Buffalo Center and nearby towns.
Notice to the public that after graveling season ends the Pannkuk Bros offer trucking services day and night with contact phone 38 Ti tonka.
Kanawha Iowa reports three strangers who asked for Earl Blood at the post office. Blood is jailed in Hibbing Minnesota as a suspect in the November 2 Zrostlik murder near Britt. A found stripped Willys Knight coupe tied to the Gremmer case adds to investigators’ efforts. Sheriff Hanson pursues leads as towns exchange rumors and clues.
The contract letting for the waterworks is scheduled for December 9 with the letting on that date and immediate work to begin on the well. In northern Iowa two hunters were killed and two died of heart failure on Tuesday, raising the hunting toll to a troubling level.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Town Clerk of Titonka Iowa until 10 o clock A M on December 1935 for water mains pump house elevated tank tower and well. Project financed partly by PWA with wage scales 75c and 40c per hour. Hearing on plans and contract form set for December 2 1935 at 7 30 P M in Titonka Iowa. Dated November 20 1935. WM Boyken Clerk
The November term begins next Monday with Judge James DeLand presiding. Grand Jury next Tuesday morning and Petit Jury a week later. Listed trials include estates of Benjamin Ha berger and Walter H Smith, multiple civil actions, and several new cases filed this term such as auto collision damages and foreclosure actions.
Sunday morning two twin male calves were born to Buttercup, one of Don Bacon's pure bred cows, marking a rare event on the farm.
County Agent JA L Brown will be in Ames November 25 to 27 for the Iowa Warm Outlook Conference. He plans to present outlook material in Kossuth County meetings after the state gathering. Iowa State College economists, fresh from Washington DC, will share agricultural outlook data and livestock and crop trends with local communities. Brown will also attend the state price adjustment program meeting led by an AVA representative from Washington.
Lutheran church notes announce Thanksgiving Day service at 10:00 a m with a Thanksgiving offering for charitable homes. Bazaar and supper Saturday night praised by patrons. Luther League canvass reports for Lutheran Standard and Kirchene blattt with many new subscriptions. Springfield Minnesota Polk Home truck donated to the Home during a recent stop.
Will Pave Wesley to Hutchins, Sioux City contractors who have paved many miles of primary road in north Iowa, were low bidders on a four and a half mile paving project east of Wesley to join No. 18 at Hutchins in a late meeting at Ames Tuesday. The bid was $107,996. The paving will be laid on a new road bed bought by the state highway commission and graded this summer. It parallels the Milwaukee tracks on the south and eliminates two railroad crossings, one at Wesley and one at Hutchins.
Nine drivers were cited in the past week for failing to stop at the stop sign where Main Street meets Highway No. 9 in Buffalo Center. Each violator appeared before Mayor Lohrbach and was fined three dollars.
Thirty five years ago J C G Kirk visits Indiana relatives while rural free delivery starts in Forest City. Elman heads to Illinois relatives. Swan Nelson lays church foundation. land price up two dollars per acre. Julius Hansen runs Wesley Co-Operative Creamery and is Ames graduate. Husking bee at Rosmug Hansen farm. typhoid illness in Hansen family. Budlong Johnson win lumber bids for the Catholic church. township votes 1250 for a new schoolhouse. 116 for and 80 against the Tronka item. The Topic extols home life as reform.
Joe Thilges and others serving 25 year terms at Fort Madison seek habeas corpus release. They were condemned for torture robbery of O. J. Hisenman in Woden and for involvement in additional robberies. John Hammill of Britt to represent the state, county attorney William Daly of Garner defended Thilges previously.
iC. W. Storms, state auditor, supports a civil service law for accountants in his office who annually audit 6310 government units. He says a universal rule for lesser state jobs could end ongoing patronage scandals and be a worthwhile target for the next legislature.
A scanned line of honor roll entries for Howard Zweifel Jan 1 1987 Titonka Iowa Will Kardoes Feb 1 1987 Buffalo Center Iowa John Wabben Aug 1 1938 Buffalo Center Iowa plus multiple farm for sale notices. Listings describe Waltman farm 200 acres west of Titonka with improvements 130 tillable acres balance pasture down payment terms inquire at Topic office and additional properties Jasperson farm Plum Creek SW quarter 16-96-28 price 13800 land Bank ownership Ward 200 acre farm Portland township price 82 per acre well tiled fenced two story dep buildings contact Wolfe at Toplo office.
Local note outlines Ben Beenkensy rebuilding a Ricken house. The fragment indicates a construction or renovation plan by a named individual, suggesting a project in a community setting. Further details are not readable in the OCR snippet.
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