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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1940
Page
7
Spirit Lake residents visit the Kenneth Swan home while several social events unfold across Mason City and Buffalo Center. News items include dinners, club meetings, a car accident injuring Ed Huber, a sewing project for England refugees, a chicken supper bazaar, and notes on local residents, travel prizes, and upcoming performances.
Local families hosted Sunday visits and weekly guests from Britt Forest City and Des Moines. Fay Huber enlisted in the army and heads to Wisconsin for stationing. several friends hunted together while others attended meetings and dinners. A club notes beekeeping talk and linen care lessons. a cat returns after wintering in a former home during a blizzard.
The Red Cross drive for Buffalo Township will close on Thursday, November 28. Those who have not paid are asked to hand their dollar to Mary Young, Ethel Johnson, Vedla Hill, or Sadie Denton, or leave it at the drug store.
Clyde McKinnon of Clarinda was severely burned when his clothes caught fire during a leaf burning activity. He was tending a yard blaze when the flames spread to his clothing, prompting emergency response and medical treatment.
LAKOTA NEWS Mrs 8S Powers and son Robert were Algona visitors Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs S Bruschhausen spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs Bruschhausen’s mother Mrs Voukon at Bancroft. The Presbyterian Indies aid will hold their annual bazaar and chicken supper Thursday November 21 at the church basement. Mr and Mrs Walter Prigge of Rochester Minnesota spent the weekend at the home of Mrs Prigge’s parents Mr and Mrs J A Barger. Mrs C J Rippentrop accompanied her son Tabe Louts and wife to Dubuque last week where she expects to visit until Thanksgiving. The Rev Beese family who planned to leave Monday for their new home at Good Thunder Minnesota were entertained at dinner Sunday at Leonard Christ’s home. Mr and Mrs J G Wirtjes of Ceylon Minnesota came Friday and visited the home of their daughter Mrs Raymond Hertzke and family and attended the junior class play in which their daughter Irene took part. Friends of Adolph Paulson southwest of town are sorry to hear he has been seriously ill the past week and hope for a speedy recovery. Fred Schroeder rural mail carrier is able to be out again after illness with the flu. Ed Thaves of Burt was a business visitor here one day last week and called on his sisters the Misses Emma and Louise Thaves. Marquise Rippentrop returned to Mason City last week after spending several days at home. he is attending Hamilton Business College at Mason City. In the Des Moines Sunday Register marriage license column Roy Tipton and Velma Heetland, both of Mason City, were listed. Velma is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Heetland of Lakota and has been employed in Mason City since high school graduation.
Immanuel Lutheran pastor sermon urges vigilance for the second coming with a moral tale of a tidy desk. Announcements note English services on November 24 at 10 30 a m and a dedication of Woden's new electric organ at 2 30 p m with a sacred concert by Mauritz Lunholm.
Good Hope Lutheran invites all to a Thanksgiving Eve concert by the Cotton Blossom Singers from Piney Woods Lutheran School Mississippi on Thursday November 28 at 8:00 pm in the church parlors. No admission but a free will offering. Includes negro spirituals and dialect readings with choir practice on Friday.
The Methodist Episcopal Church will hold Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. A missionary department program of the Woman's Society of Christian Service will feature brief addresses by the pastor Mrs L G Gartner and Mrs W A Sehram, with special music by Mrs C A Hoon. The annual missionary Thanks offering will be received and refreshments served by Merle and Glenn Miller. The TOAN Morning Worship is at 9:30 a.m. with Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. and the Woman's Society meeting slated for Thursday.
At Mrs. P. C. Hansen’s home the annual bazaar and chicken supper drew a large crowd. About 160 people were served and the net proceeds totaled eighty five dollars, sponsored by the Woman's Society.
The Wesley Catholic D A held initiation for thirty candidates in Algona Sunday afternoon after a 6:30 covered dish luncheon. New members include Mrs. Lon Gouge Mrs. Lucille Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Carl Froelich.
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