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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1927
Page
3
Mrs A W Sprague 65 died in Algona hospital after Sunday kerosene stove fire exploded clothing and set her ablaze. Her son Earl found her unconscious at home and she later died, survivors include her husband and son.
Weather remains wet in northern Iowa with rain and more in the forecast. Several residents travel for meetings and visits, including Mrs. Hudlong and others to Humboldt for a Woman’s Clubs session. W. Metz of Riverdale dies of stomach cancer. Subscriptions and local notices surface, with Peter Govern visiting the office after ten years. Community happenings include school programs, sales, and farming life across Portland and Ledyard townships.
Readable fragments show a Lutheran church league meeting held Friday evening with Ladies Aid hosting and Re Wich served. Despite bad weather, Sunday School attendance remained steady with emphasis on child instruction and forthcoming festival activities.
Iowa State College experts analyzed eleven cars priced from 400 to 1800 dollars and calculated an average operating cost of 10.27 cents per mile. The breakdown includes gasoline oil tires depreciation interest insurance garage and license with depreciation and interest being the largest factors.
Clayton Conner returned from a three week auto tour through northern Minnesota and as far west as Devils Lake North Dakota visiting the Bob Conner home. He notes a fine North Dakota wheat harvest and active threshing while there. On the way home he fished at Pennington Minnesota and brought home a person named Isiah.
The article notes Johnnie Hauptman, now a licensed flyer, piloted a solo airplane from Mason City last Saturday. He flew over his hometown Wesley, revealing his rapid progress after months of flying lessons and suggesting he may soon own his own aircraft.
A brief verse by Eddie Guest emphasizes choosing personal joy over envy, noting one cannot claim all pleasures or own the world’s wealth. It counsels enjoying daily fun while leaving burdens like rent to others and suggests contentment with one’s own share.
Mr and Mrs John Meyer Jr returned Sunday from a four week stay in northern Minnesota for Johns health. The record notes the health retreat visit and notes the couple completed their stay for medical reasons.
A Moscow dispatch dated September 26 reports Walter C. Whiffen AP correspondent and former Kossuth county girl Edith Bowyer Whiffen, had ashes scattered over Moscow by a brother correspondent in a military plane as per the deceased’s wishes.
County Farm Bureau Directors met at Wesley on September 28 with Herman Carlson helping coordinate activities at Odd Fellows Hall. The program focused on lime, legumes, dairy production, junior clubs, marketing, home furnishing and weed eradication with demonstrations, series meetings, and county-wide campaigns planned for 1927 and 1928.
Herman Tiarks and Jon Herman visited Algona for business and shopping. The Gingery child broke a leg but is recovering well. Dentons move into Lamoreux home. Churches plan two services and a Ladies Aid meeting. Titanica transformers were replaced after an electrical storm. Various local visits, real estate sales in Buena Vista County, and notes on long serving farm machinery owners. Depositors press for quicker liquidation of the Emmet County Bank at Armstrong.
The document details усил farming improvements across livestock, poultry, grain and fruit production. It highlights swine management and sanitation, general clean ground practices, corn and grain variety trials, pre-winter wheat examples, pruning and spraying, wind breaks, disease control, noxious weed control with Canada Thistles, beef cattle demonstrations, improved butchering methods, cow testing associations, vaccination schools, and broader organization with farm bureaus and township events.
A rural small-town weekly essay extols the power of local papers serving homes and farm life. It notes weekly papers in every county influence local and state affairs more than large dailies, shaping Creedence and attitudes through community items.
You describe a playful linguistic poem about case and verbs using a sequence of ever shifting pronouns and roles. The narrator navigates nominative accusative dative and other cases through a supposed encounter, ending with a dark twist as the future tense looms.
Practically all doctors and dentists in Hancock Winnebago Wright and Kossuth counties form an association to furnish credit information to members. The Whittemore Champion notes it will benefit members and may inspire other business lines.
Mrs. W A Anderson of Plum Creek township argues it is foolish to winter many hens unless specializing in poultry. She suggests breeding flocks only, selling hens by September, and focusing on corn fed pullets and good laying mash to keep eggs profitable. She notes shipping a cockerel in July to Chicago at 27 cents per pound and advises watching Chicago and local markets.
Engineer B F Rhodes measures acreage of open drainage ditches as landowners file exemption claims with the county auditor. The law, effective July 4, extends tax exemption to land used for rights of way of established open ditches, previously limited to public highways.
A principal in the deal reports M. B. Pringle has become a full fledged sharer and is entering the iron industry, having bet out Fred Hultner Sr. Details of the consideration remain undisclosed for various reasons per the Takota Record.
A silk hosiery peddler visits a village housewife on a doorstep interview. She invites him to contribute to the church pastor and fund raising but he reveals he lives in Minneapolis and declines the solicitation, leaving politely.
The Kossuth County Cow Testing Association No 1 has 26 signed members and plans to begin November 1. Additional associations are hoped for in Titonka Burt Lone Rock and Lakota Ledyard Swea City Fenton areas. The program aims to identify profitable cows and improve breeding and feeding for economical herds.
The 1627 session of the Northwest Town Annual Conference met in Webster City and closed Monday morning. New ministers were assigned to Burt Woden Rey N L Hatchkiss and Charles Buckwalter and M D Bush to Forest City. Delegates elected to general conference include ministers Arrasmith Bushnell Mossman Pappenheimer and Lagrone with lay representatives Oates Corbett Nash Morling Peters on. The new pastor urged humility and service following Christ.
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