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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1941
Page
7
Folkert Stecker and Henry P Harms were business visitors in Britt on Wednesday. Mrs John Pink hosted visitors from Eagle Grove and Swea City. Numerous locals plan visits, hospital calls, and church events as autumn deepens, with many families hosting gatherings and attending funerals and services.
Church notices invite parishioners to Sunday services at 10 and 11 with a vocal duet. District laymen supper at Algona on Wednesday December 3, cost fifty cents, two cars of ten expected. guest speaker Don Bancroft to speak. Also announcements on subscriptions to The Christian Advocate, birthday offering December 7, and White Cross Day offerings for the Conference Hospital.
Immanuel Lutheran invites parishioners to Advent worship with English communion at 11:00 A M and confession at 10 30 A M on Sunday November 30. Sunday School and Bible Class meet at 9 30 A M and choir rehearsals occur each Thursday under Pastor Wm Plant.
Good Hope Lutheran Church invites participation in Thanksgiving Bay services Thursday at 10:00. Divine services Sunday in English at 10730. Sunday School at 9:30, promotion Sunday. Gather League meets Sunday 7:30 for devotional and business. Ladies aid meets December 8 at 2:00 in church parlors.
Confirmation instruction will occur Saturday from 9 am to 3 30 pm. Instruction will be given in the public school.
The American Legion Auxiliary announces regular monthly work meetings at the Legion hall on Fridays and regular business meetings on Tuesdays. Members are asked to mark the first and fourth Tuesday evenings and the Friday afternoon each month. The group thanks Leata Schutter for six white pie plates and fourteen plates donated by members. An Auxiliary lunch will be served at Santa Claus Day.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon for Harold Leon Kleist 24 who died in Rochester Minnesota Sunday November 16 He was a son of Mr and Mrs Chas Kleist who lived here about 30 years ago Mrs Otto Falk a cousin is the only living relative in this community Rev W N Patterson conducted the service at the Methodist church and bur ial was in the Buffalo Township cemetery Music was by Mrs Carl F Callies and Mrs R C Ball with Mrs Wm Schram at piano Pallbearers were Richard Helland Ernest Rig gle Clifford Riggle Raymond Riggle George Riggle and Sidney Riggle He is survived by three brothers Claude Denver Merle Claremont Laureate Denver and three sisters Mrs Roger Harwick Mrs Albert Trepkis of Rochester Minn and Bernice Kleist of Stewartsville Minn.
Four H girls and a visitor met at Lily Aukes home on Saturday afternoon November 8 for a business meeting led by president Marjory Boyken. Members received Imusic memory records from Grant township home project women and planned a Christmas party with gift exchange at Mrs John W Boyken’s home on December 9. Betty Aukes served as secretary pro tem.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service held a pot luck luncheon for its annual meeting and elected officers for the coming year. Re-elected were President Mrs To GG Cartner, Vice President Mrs George Bonneker, and secretaries for missions, local activities, literature and publics toms, student work, spiritual life, girls work, ecumenical work, and supplies.
Funeral services for John Berger 51 were held Saturday at St Joseph Catholic Church. Born January 24 1890 near Willey he married Cecelia Nepple in 1917. Survived by wife seven children and many relatives from Willey Audubon Wesley and surrounding towns.
Local attendees from Wesley included Mr and Mrs John Richter Sr Mr and Mrs Albert Reno Mrs Lucille Kirkpatrick and L W Hauptmann. Father McGrath died in an automobile accident near Hartley while returning from Sioux City after attending a bazaar. He had supplied at St Joseph Catholic Church in Wesley for two months last spring. Burial followed in Hartford Connecticut with his parents nearby.
Jim Larsen the Briltt-to-Titonia mail carrier marked a wedding anniversary last week with his wife. The couple, married 28 years, have nine children. Four sons work on defense projects in California, while the children in California sent each a check.
Victor Schultz aged 34 died at Fort Dodge Mercy hospital from complications after amputation of his left leg following a hunting accident near Algona a week earlier. Funeral services were held Friday at Algona with burial in Concord cemetery Garner. Schultz, a 10 year Algona resident and former worker at the Alfred Schenck farm, was born in Crystal Lake. He is survived by his father four brothers and two sisters.
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