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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1945
Page
2
Subscription rates listed for Moeuth and Titonka trade territories at 2.00 per year, 2.50 outside Kossuth and Titonka, 3.00 for Canada and foreign, 2.00 for armed service. County and Titonka area papers remain continuous unless subscriber notifies or publisher discontinues.
Allan T. Leffler of Iowa State College urges contour plowing to minimize soil toss and recommends leaving waterways wide and grassed, plus a rough field surface to reduce runoff. He suggests contacting county extension offices or the Agricultural Extension Service for pamphlet No. 63, Contouring and Grassed Waterways Made Easy, to start a contour farming program.
A white Leghorn hen in Wood ward enters MacMorris barber shop to lay an egg. Meanwhile painter Henry Strackbein drops a 16 foot ladder pail of paint. the pail falls straight down but lands upright sixteen feet below, a gravity mystery.
Portland area households report visits and gatherings. Lester Hackers and children stayed with Bernard Phelps. Ringsdorfs dined with Roy Ringsdorf. Marcella Bartlett helped at Gordon Hansen’s home. Lottie Graham hosted guests from Burt. Elwood Nelson and family visited Henry Nelson in Minnesota. Elsie Larsen attended Waldorf College homecoming. social club meetings noted. additional visits to Graham and Phelps households. TRY TITONKA FIRST.
M Sergeant Arthur Smith arrives home aboard the Mexico Victory after discharge in France. Veterans and families feature in visits and church events as Kruses plan to leave for Woodbine. The local Presbyterian church holds services and a vacancy is declared. The Lakota game ends 13 to 3 as community notes wrap weekly social life.
Healthy Irish-born Sam Thompson, 67, of Reinbeck recently visited a doctor on his own accord after a heavy stone crushed his foot. Immigrant to the United States at 22, he settled in Reinbeck and now moves with a light limp.
Pfc. John WhitTom Morley travels with two friends for a weekend visit to his family's home. He reflects on his parents who treat visitors warmly, contrasting with his loneliness and the feeling that mothers are all alike. The trip ends with his realization of their exceptional hospitality.
Local families hosted gatherings over the weekend with Mrs. Vincent Doughan and Mrs. Jos Meurer as hosts for the Catholic Missionary Society. Numerous residents, including Miss Misa Adeline Shedda and Misses Patty and Alice Richtsmeier, returned home for the weekend from schools such as State Teachers College and Good Counsel Academy. Separate items note births, military discharges, a polio treatment transport to Iowa City, a funeral in Corwith, and parish school closure due to illness.
Mrs Helen Kiempeter was absent from school with substitute Mrs Don Kraua as Cheryl Meurer visited friends Alice and Patty Richtsmeier from Mankato. Larry Lang stayed with family in town. L H Kleinpeter attended a grocers wholesale convention in Des Moines. Mr and Mrs Tom McMahon marked their tenth wedding anniversary with friends gifting them at their home. Rose Mary Arend visited Algona with sister Helen, while cattle markets note solid demand for finished native cattle ready to graze out.
FE G Ensminger, 92, of Morrigan, attended every Grundy County fair since 1888 at Grundy Center. This year he witnessed the races and hippodrome acts as in past years, marking sixty years of attendance.
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