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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1939
Page
7
Denton and Crystal Lake visitors mark a busy social week with gatherings at homes of the Price and Rickless families, plus Wins at the Work and Play Club and Farm Bureau study meetings. Attendees include the Schencks, Pinks, Amesburys, Bruns, Charlsons, and Tjaden, with health notes on arthritis and pneumonia.
Eidith Stott stays home under quarantine for mumps. Numerous local visits and social gatherings headline a week of club meetings, birthday rumors, and family news across Algona Titonka and Buffalo Center areas. Gifts at the drug store and a card directing a move to Long Beach add local flavor to the community chronicle.
Swea City held its annual lutefisk supper at the Lutheran church despite wartime blockade fears. Norwegian and Swedish fish are cleaned by fishermen, sun-dried, and shipped. dried fish must soak four weeks before serving. Local concern faded as supplies arrived, though not by their own power.
Thomas Fredrick Bergman 60 a Palo Alto county farmer died after his tractor fire while plowing stubble near Emmetsburg. Funeral held at Methodist church. Buried Graettinger. Surviving include widow parents Amos and Bergman of Bancroft and many siblings from Lakota Titonka Amboy and Minnesota towns. Pallbearers listed.
The regular monthly work meeting will be held at the Mary Sartor home all day Friday Nov 24 with a pot luck lunch at noon. Carpet rags are torn and sewn quilt pieces made pillow tops and Christmas gifts prepared by the Educational committee. Beth Miller reported a fine county meeting. Luella Schenck attended Hancock county meeting. ninety unit members were present. The December meeting is planned for Carrie Bonackers home on the first Tuesday evening in December.
The church announces Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and morning worship at 11:00 a.m. Epworth League reform aims to inspire youth with new features. Quarterly conference set for Monday the 27th, led by district superintendent J. C. Ruthman. White Cross enrollment day supports the Sioux City hospital with unit and family memberships available.
At Immanuel Lutheran four miles east and one north of Titonia a story from Children’s Record tells of a wealthy lady offering to adopt Jane. Jane hesitates then asks what she must do. The lady replies simply to love and be her child as she is moved to tears. English services are scheduled for Sunday, November 26, at 10:30 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.
Pastor Schnucker will lead worship on Sunday school Sunday November 26 replacing Mr Marvin Aukesay. Ladies aid bazaar and supper Thursday November 23. Thanksgiving service on November 30 at 10:00 a.m. Doctor M Potter from the Board of Foreign Mission will address in English. a German address will follow. All members and friends invited.
Good Hope Lutheran invites English services on Sunday November 26 at 10 30 with Sunday school at 9 30 A M Luther League dedicational and business meeting at 7 30 P M Choir practice Thursday evening at 7 30 Confirmation Instruction Saturday 9 00 AM to 3 30 PM English Thanksgiving services Thursday November 30 For Forward In Faith envelopes please return Sunday so we can send the offering to the Forward Fund of the American Lutheran Church Also fill in the motive for the devotional calendar or see the pastor We hope to have a devotional calendar in every home
Months after a contract for an automatic flasher signal at a Waverly crossroads, material arrived too late to aid safety. Mrs. Walter Hickelberg of near Bremer died beneath a Great Western locomotive at the crossing, while five children in the car survived with serious injuries. Read the Want Ads.
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