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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1938
Page
5
Titanka school carnival raised about 125 dollars net with over 200 dollars from advance tickets and shows. Minstrel, boxing and other acts were well patronized as students and staff thanked donors and the community.
Our cotton plant bore two small bolls. Mrs. DeGroot formerly Miss Tutton introduced a new plant for our window. On Monday afternoon several members enjoyed a musical entertainment in the assembly.
Edna Mae Lickteig, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Lickteig, wed Hilfot Waldschmidt, son of Mr and Mrs Leo Waldschmidt, at St Joseph Catholic church in Wesley in a ring ceremony performed by Rev A J Wagner. Attendants included Ann Licktieg and Luella Waldschmidt. Afterward a breakfast was held at the bride’s parents home and the couple will live on a farm east of Wesley.
Rev and Mrs W L Patterson attended a Burt meeting of the Methodist ministers and their wives from the Algona sub district of the Northwest Iowa Conference. Lunch was served and discussions covered conference matters with pastors from Wesley West Bend Good Hope Burt Algona and Titonka participating.
ALGONA At the annual election of the Kossuth county flower club Mrs. C. C Smith Burt was elected president at the meeting in Algona. Officers include Mrs. T. H. Holmes Algona first vice president Rev J. M. Doms Burt second vice president Mrs. H. E. Woodward Whittemore third vice president Mrs. Will Weisbrod Fenton fourth vice president and Mrs. Paul R. Willie secretary treasurer. Heanor Fraser Rev Doms and Rev Alexander English were appointed to contact every cemetery in the county to assist with the cemetery project started some months ago.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at his home for Fred Stratman aged 68. Stratman had been ill for three months and died Saturday. He came to Buffalo Center from Estherville 88 years ago and ran an implement business for many years. After retiring he served in several city offices. He was survived by his daughter and two grandchildren. his wife preceded him in death. Burial was in Spirit Lake cemetery.
ALGONA Mr and Mrs J F Granzow Algona residents the past 40 years celebrated their fifty sixth wedding anniversary last week Tuesday with a family dinner Granzow is well known having given music lessons for nearly 40 years and served as director and instructor for the Algona municipal band nearly 35 years They were married in Wisconsin in 1885 and lived 13 years in Cresco before moving to Algona
Butterfat production by cows in Iowa as reported by cow testing associations fell again in September. The data reflect a persistent downward trend in dairy component yields across the state.
Mrs Ruth Seaton Hicks announces updated training school dates for homemaker nutrition lessons across multiple townships in December and November. Sessions include cost of adequate meals, with leaders preparing meals for demonstrations and counties urging participation through the Extension Service Farm Bureau office.
Wesley Congregational Church held Harvest Home with dedicatory services for the new basement. The day began with a 10 o’clock Sunday School service followed by 11 o’clock worship led by Rev. Olaf Johnson who spoke on the third chapter of First Corinthians. About 150 attendees from the Upper Flat and Britt Free churches enjoyed a dinner in the basement, with an afternoon invocation by Rev. A Bottom and an evening sermon by Rev. BE N. Ryerson of Minneapolis Bible School. Special music accompanied all services.
The Tyke Theatre saw its largest crowds for the four day screening of Boys Town with packed showings each night. Daniel Halstead of Bancroft, formerly at Father Flanagan's Home, attended opening night and spoke to the audience.
C. A. Pollard of Tecumseh Nebraska named new city superintendent of Algona municipal water plant to succeed the late Joseph Kelly. Pollard, 87, married with three children, has spent seven years in Tecumseh and will move with his family to Algona around mid December.
The Methodist Church led by Pastor W N Patterson held Sunday School at 10 and morning worship at 11 with a Thanksgiving offering service featuring a sermon and solo. The Burt sub district Epworth League rally runs Saturday 3 30 to 8 00 pm with lunch for 11c. Doan church announces Advent services 9 30 am and 11 am English service with Holy Communion and confessional at 10 30 am. Luther League to stage The Slave of Mammon on Thanksgiving Day at 8 pm in the church basement with all invited.
A church notice from Immanuel Lutheran Church lists Thanksgiving Day services and urges daily gratitude to God beyond a yearly observance. It argues that true thanksgiving is constant, not limited to a single holiday, and references a general national thankfulness proclaimed by the President.
Iowa State College trials study feeding value of roughages for feed er steers. Thirty five yearling cattle averaging 750 pounds were bought for the roughage project at $6.50 per hundred pounds. Cattle are divided into seven olive-steer groups and will receive limited corn hay and protein, with self fed minerals. One group gets silage, another ground corn fodder, a third re cut fodder or ensilage fodder, four will receive whole corn fodder, and two groups will have unspecified feeds likely cottonseed or linseed meal.
August and Wesley Engstrom observed their 50th wedding anniversary with a noon dinner at their home and a church celebration that evening. Married November 9, 1888, they are parents of five children and have twenty grandchildren and three great grandchildren, with a musical program noted.
The pastor invites worshipers to English services at 10 30 Thursday and Sunday 10 30 in the coming weeks as the church marks Advent and the tenth anniversary of the Kimball organ dedication. Sunday School meets at 9 30 with promotion day and birthday observance. Choir practice moves to Friday at eight with a teachers meeting after. Confirmation instruction Friday? Saturday 9 to 8. A black calendar or Almanac for 1939 is available through the pastor.
The Reformed Church schedules Thanksgiving Day services at 10:00 AM in English. Regular Sunday services will also be held with preaching in English.
After talks, refreshments were served in the church basement. Special places for thirty six were set at a long table. Decorations were gold and white. A large white cake centered the table. Bouquets of yellow and white chrysanthemums were given to the couple by great grandchildren and grandchildren. Attending from a distance were Albert Johnson and Agnes, George Anderson and Catherine of Grantburg Wisconsin, Hugh Parker of Wausau Wisconsin, Henry Engstrom family from Burt. Oscar Engstrom family Blue Earth Minnesota. Everett Harkin family Histrhville. Iver Hultman family Omaha.
Dairy experts at Iowa State College warn dairymen that trading soybeans for oilmeal is economically unviable. If soybean meal costs 1.25 dollars per hundred and beans fetch about 0.75 a bushel, the swap doesn’t work. Soybeans remain a key high value dairy feed, helping milk flow by replacing fat lost in processing.
In Algona Walter E. Roberts was fined $10 plus $2.85 costs by Justice P A Dawson for shooting and taking one hen pheasant during the closed season. The arrest was made by Game Warden F H Davis of Dickinson and Emmet counties. The case was tried in Algona after arrest in Eagle township near Swea City. Francie Merril Harley Merril Paul Sackefell and Emil Anderson of Fort Dodge were each fined $2 and $2 costs for hunting on cultivated land without permission. Aloysius Coleman of Algona was fined $4.90 on assault and battery charges. Clarence Lohse of Bancroft had charges of reckless driving dismissed. Albert C Anderson of Seattle received a 30 day jail sentence, to be released after sheriff's investigation completes. In district court grand jurors were ordered dismissed for the coming term. New docket items include Home Owner's Loan Corp vs Katherine Holdren foreclosure, Thomas J Stevens Eva Steven divorce, Hildagarg Benz and George Benz vs Lucy Arndorfer et al partition. Probate docket lists guardianship of Stanley W and Mary Rae Hogan with Marie Hogan appointed guardian.
Rockledge Florida resident Mary Ranch daughter of Mr and Mrs Ben Felt of Wesley has been elected to the National Society of Founders and Patriots of America. The selection requires a woman to descend in an unbroken paternal line from an ancestor who settled in early colonial America and to show service in establishing American independence. Ranch is the sixty second Florida woman elected and is active in club work and a state officer in the Florida Daughters of the Revolution.
ALGONA Delbert Wright 64 of Dubuque lay in Kos Goth hospital with a broken neck after a collision at Moore and Mc Gregor streets. He rode in a car driven by Melvin Wright. Eugene Blanchard of Lone Rock drove the other vehicle. Other occupants James Wright and Melvin Albrecht were uninjured. they were visiting to hunt pheasants.
Titonka stores and barber shops will close Thursday at 10 am for Thanksgiving. Only the morning mail will arrive. The rural delivery is halted and the post office will close at 11 am.
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