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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1915
Page
4
Buffalo Center people welcomed visitors and reported calls at numerous homes. Ernest Ervin Willis died after gallbladder surgery at Dolgange hospital. Many locals were seen at farms, homes, and businesses, with messages of health, births, and ongoing harvest activity noted.
The item notes tire hauling workers living near the schoolhouse with Andrew Johnson after cold weather. Miss Orphia O Keefe begins winter school in L Helmer district following a short vacation. The F Miller family spent Sunday at Ernest Trasamar’s, while D Luddington’s landlord visited recently. Lugke Wirtred and Albert Jolderka of Titonka visited William Olt Hof’s home. Henry Watson’s crew installs steel culverts on the dredge ditch and builds a car road at Germania Lars Belsen with much field work. Adolph Hertake called at Oltho’s Sunday evening.
Community members report fat hog sales at Burt buyers and Dan Dittmer followed by Linn ringsdorf and Wyot Stott helping Walter Smith market hogs. Local visits include Mrs J T Graham from Sterling Ill and Mrs H O Moon sewing with Mrs Lyle Mann while plans shift to December 1 sale and moves to Grand River Iowa.
Miss Hannah Heltfand departed last Wednesday for a several weeks visit staying with her sister Mrs Jerry Schwit ter at West Bend. Algona visitors include M A Whitney and son Cyril and Mrs West Warburton visited Algona. Deputy Sheriff Moulds visited on business. Many locals mentioned visit relations and small town events. a chicken pie supper raised about $58 for the M B Ladies Aid.
A garbled note highlights Lamoreux Meat Market hosting a Thanksgiving bouquet exhibit. J Ralph Jansren presented L. G. Helfner with a fine gouge as thanks, and Helfner extended thanks in return.
The article explains peat soil types in Iowa and neighboring states, noting two classes by depth. It covers drainage as the first step, potash or manure applications, and progressive steps to render peat lands tillable through gradual decay, grazing or haying, and alkali management around edges.
A damaged OCR excerpt shows a bank cash statement with entries for deposits, notes, assets, and liabilities. It references securities, capital stock, surplus, undivided profits, circulating notes, certificates of deposit, and bills payable, with attestation by a cashier and a notary.
Fragmentary report notes water development lagging as floods or weather limit quick progress. References a rocky barrier and improvised channels hindering rapid expansion of supply.
Mt Vernon Kentucky reports Rev Dara Camp Keilig as possibly the nation's oldest minister and pastor of three Baptist churches with a preaching record spanning many decades. In Grand Rapids Michigan Salvator Ant died after a long illness. in Milford Connecticut Ralph von Hacht regained sight after appendicitis nerve contact. in Shenandoah Iowa Estella Mason tours the world with dogs and a mail sled. In New York Charles Fowles wills that if he dies with his wife, the survivor is to be presumed to die first. in New York Jennie Reich, a 22 year old waitress, suffers recurring attacks when motion occurs in a vehicle. In Baltimore Stephen Brown undergoes eye surgery after a steel fragment is removed by a magnet column.
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