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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1917
Page
2
Local Titonka notice page lists advertising at 10 cents per line with the 61st issue noted and per-line rates for succeeding issues at 31 cents. The item reflects standard post office carriage and periodical pricing for Iowa community readers.
A wartime letter from Earl Heifner describes daily life in France. He notes heavy rains, ongoing fighting on the Western Front, Red Cross support, and admiration for French women while sending greetings to family and promises to write again.
Social notes detail visits to Algona hospitals and homes in Volga City Iowa with Peterson Oesterreicher Mechler Turner and Christensen families and several Sunday and midweek gatherings. Trips include cattle purchases in St Paul and Wesley and travel to Algona for shows and supper.
Mr and Mrs Hm Noble and N E Noble visited at the Ges Torine Home near Swen City last Monday. Mrs R V Steudt and babe left Tuesday for Houston Texas to visit the doctor. Mrs J H Burton visited at her sister Gus Torine's last week. Mrs C Pendergast and son Milton left Friday for a visit with relatives in St Paul Minnesota. Wartzer and Robt Hamilton Sigona were visitors last week. Mr and Mrs J N Wheeler were Alsoma visitors late last week. V Pendergast went to Estherville Friday on business. Mrs Curyea entertained the Acorn Club last Thursday. The Lutheran Ladies met with Mrs B Emens. Alice Cruickshank of Algona visited Miss Hanice Stoddard last week. Rev Baring of George Jr preached at the Presbyterian church last Sunday. Aid met Friday with Miss Mu and Hutching on friends at Waterloo over Sunday. John Smith James Smith and Wm Kintig visited in St Paul last week. Matt Geertges came from Camp Dodge Saturday for an over Sunday visit with his parents. C R Smith was an Armstrong visitor last Sunday. Wm and Ed Gutknecht were business visitors in Minnesota last week. Mr and Mrs Chas Bryan of Titanic guests Sunday at the W E is Home. Mrs W E Davis left Monday for a few days stay at Missouri Valley Ta.
Friends and relatives of Chas Larsen hosted a surprise birthday party Friday night. Community notices mention visits by educational officials, church programs, Masonic activity, and Red Cross donations.
At the Iowa State Buttermakers convention in Mason City November 14 and 15 Kossuth County earned top honors. Paul Macauley of Burt won first in gathered cream with 97.5, M P Christianson of Algona second with 96.75, and Helgason of Lona Rock fourth with 96.25. Macauley also scored highest in gathered cream over whole milk at Milwaukee prior. The cream improvement contest also favored Kossuth, with Hudson of Titonka taking second and Christianson third. Hudson reported 23 cooling tanks and Christianson 21 tanks plus one milk house, reflecting strong Kossuth county butter producers.
A Portland sale at Jay Grover's drew a large crowd with most items selling well. The column mixes local visits, family notices, farm activity, and war era reminders including Ranney in Army training and political reports from Shenandoah World.
The piece argues that ideas are the crop that sustains a society and that homes are farms of thought. It compares households to fields with varying soil quality and calls for cultivation through books, conversation, and duty. It notes coal shortages and church union services as a wartime measure to share resources.
The passage extols genuine friendship as a true second self. Honest people prize a real friend who shares secrets, joins in joy, and comforts in hardship, with company described as an enduring pleasure translated from the Brahmin.
Joint session of Winnebago and Kossuth Counties will award the contract for cleaning open ditches in Joint Drainage District 38-89. Bids due December 7, 1917, at Forest City. Bid must include ten percent deposit. contract to low bidder with bond 25 percent.
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