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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1941
Page
5
The first grade children are thinking of Halloween early this year. They are making pumpkins and colored chains for art. Wanda Falkerts is another Bluebird added to their family for music. They are divided into two reading groups for good work. They are called Brownies and Fairies.
Alvina Janice and others were absent all week while a sultana Vernon plant bloomed with buds. A new music Bluebird is David Adamson. Students iDavid Sharon Shirley Henry James Caroline Benjamin Patty Ronald scored 100 in spelling on Wednesday and Friday, with Laurence and Billy also earning 100 on Friday.
The third grade Story Hour Club welcomes new Bluebirds this week, forming a family of twelve while the rest are Redbirds. They read transportation units, created booklets for English, and their spelling is improving. Ten students earned 100s this week as they all aim to receive 1010/3.
The fourth graders each have a town library book they enjoy reading. They made chalk drawings including Bombo's village 4&4 forest stone and a ship. They are crafting clay jungle animals and Ellsworth contributed an orange fish with a plant in it.
The arithmetic class shows broad improvement in division with careful subtraction noted. Junior Snyder treated peers to suckers for his birthday. Fifth graders wrote English stories about Halloween and read them aloud. Eleven of seventeen were on time. names listed include Hsther Robert Harold Delores Fred Edith LaVonne Doyle and Junior. Robert John spelled all hundred words correctly in the six weeks test. Delores missed one. Hsther Ralph and Edith missed two.
The junior high held a picnic and a skating party at Colis eum Thursday evening. They visited the sophomore biology class to observe specimens they had collected. In art they drew ships and shaded them, and in literature they gave oral book reports, some of which were very good.
In reading they give oral book reports and geography test on Highland Countries of Central Europe. In science buoyancy pictures. upstairs lab visit Thursday and Friday. In art seventh and eighth grades build a Halloween frieze with other decorations. Junior high picnic at Bonacker's and skating. Plants thriving and girls making halos from watering.
Sixth to eighth graders prepare book reports on notable reads while eighth graders struggle to study due to lively seventh grade reports. The junior high toured upstairs to view a mouse a snake and a frog opened by sophomore girls. A Thursday night picnic and moonlight skating party capped the week with student enjoyment.
Freshmen study parts of speech and discuss that speaking correct English is harder than it sounds. In science class they learn about fire and its uses, noting the topic grows more interesting each day.
Sophomores build paragraphs in English and study Gifts of Greece to the Modern World while facing a world history unit test. Biology notes include dissecting two snakes and a toad with junior high visitors. Seniors worry about pictures and hair. Boys fix roosters tails with haircuts. Mr. Cheever checks government and business law classes after tests. Physics studies include a pendulum setup to determine impulse.
Burt defeated Titonka 4 to 2 last Wednesday with 7 hits and 4 errors. Long pitched for Burt and Hammestrong caught. Titonka, led by Dick Batt on the mound and Korte catching, produced 5 hits and 2 errors. Rodman visits Titonka Friday. Rodman scored once off an error in the first. Titonka’s Paul Bruns pitched with catcher Dick Batt. Titonka had 4 hits to Rodman’s 5.
The six weeks period ended with voice tests for all grades and junior high. Results caused seating arrangement changes and several new Bluebirds and choir members were announced.
Lloyd G. Gragy, with four years coaching at Woodward and Newhall and a Town State Teachers College degree, is chosen as Titonka's new coach and agriculture teacher. Married, no children, once a top prep kicking back, he has won sectional basketball titles with boys and girls teams, recently drafted as a draftsman for Northern Pump Co. Gragy and his wife prefer teaching and returning to school work, ensuring the athletic schedule continues amid the present emergency.
Senior home economics class reports progress as the group creates a chart to show monochromatic color harmony. Each girl hemmed two dish towels for the kitchen and spent the class period Thursday cleaning the house.
Today October 16 a franchise election for Interstate Power Co. runs 8 am to 8 pm at the American Legion hall in Titania. A YES vote grants 15 years of street and public ground use for electric energy. NO denies the franchise. If granted, Interstate Power Co. and its assigns may supply power in the town. if denied, the town continues current lighting and power under existing terms.
A strong crowd braved bad weather for the October P T A meeting. Miss Hough led community singing as Mrs. George Bonacker introduced a program featuring the eighth grade choir with Beryl Bonacker singing Hire Canal and Shortnin Bread. Mrs. Carl F. Calles summarized the Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers state convention in Des Moines. Journal notes by Janice Joyce and Dawn Bonacker in costume performed rhythm. Mrs. Lee O Wolfe reviewed Can Teachers and Parents Get Together and offered an investigation on the topic. Panel by J L Miller on Our Children’s Needs covered visual and auditory testing dental campaigns TB tests and hot lunches. Eye testing noted for pupil committee, and volleyball followed with committee-served lunch.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Friest and sons, Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Elliot and family, and Betty Ann Miller were Sunday dinner guests of the A. M. Friests at Thompson.
On Monday October 13 Rev. Henry Kruse of Woden Presbyterian Church arrived at the Little Brown Church with Jeanette Swalve and Virgil Heesch of Titonka and attendants. Finding another couple awaiting, he agreed to marry Clarence Anderson and Margaret Williams from Ashland, Wisconsin. This marked Kruse's first ceremony for a bride whose parents he had married twenty five years earlier, having previously wed Jeanette Swalve’s mother and father.
Herman Franzen shipped a carload of new corn, the first from the neighborhood this year. The corn tested over 24 percent moisture and the street elevator, Farmers Elevator Co., handled the shipment for Mr Franzen. Much corn is being picked, with many starting to crib corn this week. Weather may affect drying and cribbing if muggy conditions persist.
Eleven members of the Buffalo Boys 4-H Calf Club met at Herman Schutter's home to elect officers for the coming year. Donald Budlong was chosen president, Clarence Van Hove vice president, Wayne Mechier secretary and treasurer, and Gerald Bonacker reporter and historian. The group planned the year's program and set monthly meetings for the first Monday of each month.
At the Kossuth County Farm Bureau annual meeting in Lakota, officers were re elected for the coming year. Wayne Keith was named president Fred Plumb Burt vice president Floyd Bode secretary and C C Inman treasurer. Mrs BE Weisbrod of Fenton was named county chairman for the women. About 150 attended as reports were given by Farm Bureau groups. Francis Johnson of Des Moines spoke as Iowa State Farm Bureau Federation president. The rural women's chorus and 4 H club members led demonstrations and a 15 girl 4 H pageant closed the event.
Weekly list of marriage licenses shows pairs including Roland DelVere Lenz 21 Livermore and Luella Hanna Oberhelman 20 Corwith. Leonard Wilson 27 Livermore and Marjorie McClellan 18 Laverne. Kenneth Beck 22 Lakota and Deesie Christina Bosma 20 Lakota. Orville Farrow 29 Lakota and Rita Diers 25 Bancroft. Lawrence Alt 24 and Tyrene Krause 22 Fenton. Emer J Wehrspann 28 Kingsley and Carmean M Heise legal Laverne. Gaylon J Witzthum 25 and Mildred West 24 Wesley. Vernon Kramer 23 and Pearl Reding 20 Bode. Willard Arthur Menz 26 Fenton and Hulda Marie Zimmerman 22 Algona. Meander Vaske legal and Dorothy Hynes legal Bancroft.
Hazel Farrow daughter of Mr and Mrs John Farrow of Lakota wed Jake R Gigler son of Mr and Mrs Jakob Gigler on Tuesday September 30 at Bethany Missouri The double ring ceremony was performed by H G Bloomfield Attendants included Gertie Gigler and best man Alex Reefer The Giglers will reside on his father's farm southeast of Titonka Congratulatory notes follow from their community
Mildred West youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Leo West married Gaylon Vitzthum eldest son of Mr and Mrs George Vitzthum at St Josephs Catholic church Wesley. Rev Father Klein officiated nuptial mass. Attendants were Rita Vitzthum and Walter West. Reception home and dinner followed with many Wesley Thornton Alexandria and Corwith guests. Wedding dance that evening at Kleinpeter hall.
Mildred Wandling daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas Wandling formerly of Titonka now Buffalo Mo wed William J Kelly son of Mr and Mrs Bernard Kelly of Danville Ill The eight o clock nuptial mass at St Pauls Catholic Danville with Rt Rev W J Drummy officiating Attendants Miss Betty Ann Kelly and Herbert Feederer The couple plans to reside at 21 East Rosalawn Danville Ill and honeymoon in Buffalo Mo The bride a Buffalo Mo High School graduate and the groom a Litchfield Ill native both have local family ties and employmentConnections noted include masked church music and a modest reception following the ceremony.
In Algona, the Kossuth jury heard evidence in a case over a $2,000 New England Mutual Life Insurance policy. Zenia Schock, residing at Bode, was awarded $2,102.77 after about 75 minutes of deliberation. Foreman C. W. Nicoulin led the panel. the losing side may appeal within 20 days.
About 450 shareholders attended the Wesley gathering as the K and H Co-Operative Oil Co reported a $29,000 boost in business and the largest dividend in its history. Ninety four new stockholders joined last year, bringing holders to around 1,800. Directors W S Cosgrove and Henry Hischeld were elected for three years. Speakers included Glenn Thompson of Midland Co. Wholesale. Attendees from Callender Town Emmetsburg Waterloo Burt Co. Co Op Oil Co. Tekama Nebraska and Omaha included Harl Fisher manager and J M Dirkx manager.
The Titonia Junior Federated Club meets Tuesday October 21 at Mrs. Nelson's home. Roll call answers will feature Native Plants of South America. Mrs. Robert Clemans previews Buttons from a Consumer's Point of View. Mrs. Maurice Kell leads a lesson Beneath Columbia's Azure Skiing. Two Latin American songs Marjanina and Clelito will be sung by the group.
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