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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
8
In a perilous jungle encounter Blake and Winthrope aid Miss Leslie after a colossal emerald snake strikes. Blake kills the adder, rescues the terrified woman, and contemplates winning her affection as the trio shelters and plots a return.
A disrupted scene shows Winthrope and others near an ant hill as they gather leaves to stifle a fire. Blaks urges speed while Bee activity and rough handling complicate progress. The fragment ends amid frantic action and smoke.
Des Moines reports 159 butter makers entered the dairy commissioner's four month testing a total of 259 jvles with 211 scoring over 90 points. Lone Rock led in multiple scorings with top scores in both milk and cream classes. Commissioner Wright laments low participation with only 67 of 500 possible buttermakers submitting for three scorings.
Two mail pouches were stolen from Milwaukee depot trucks in Madrid Iowa in a carefully planned robbery. One pouch contained registered mail and was not recovered. the other ordinary mail pouch was found scattered in an empty box car two blocks from the depot. Police recovered part of the loot and alerted the public as investigation continued.
Public Health officials from across the United States Canada Mexico and Cuba gathered in Richmond for the 37th annual American Public Health Association meeting. Key speakers included Dr Gardner T Swartz president and J J Kinyoun of Washington lab section chair with Hodgetts of Toronto and Woodward of Washington leading vital statistics and municipal health officers. The program featured a James River excursion a smoker and auto rides and municipal health discussions amid large attendance in Elgin Illinois.
In Galesburg Illinois on October 19 the convention of the Baptist Young People's Union of Illinois met in conjunction with the state Baptist convention. President U S Davis of Bloomington presided. Miss Mildred Jones of Bloomington and Miss Inez Good Bell of Galesburg spoke on Missionary Education. Other speakers included Claude B Boyer of Plano and Rev MW Boynton of Chicago.
At a regular Hast Dee Motor Commercial league meeting A C Miller was named delegate to Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways Association for New Orleans October 30 to November 2. He seeks Des Moines river recognition as part of the upper Mississippi plan to restore navigation and ease railroad congestion benefiting shipping and rates.
Editors of the Inland Daily Press association gathered in the Press Club of Chicago for their October meeting. President Frank D. Throop chaired sessions with speeches and papers read by L. C. Miller, H. H. Elias, W. F. Parrott, Herbert Kaufman, Lafe Young, J. R. Mann, and others as part of a full program. The Winds Newspaper Publishers association also met at the Press Club building.
The Des Moines branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church held its 26th annual convention in Wort Nolge Iowa on October 18. About 100 delegates from Iowa Missouri Kansas Arkansas Minnesota and Louisiana attended. Elizabeth Peargou of Des Moines was unanimously reelected president for the 21st time. Other officers include Qer Dow Garner vice president Luther Freeman Sioux City second vice president and several secretaries and treasurers from Des Moines, Red Oak, Kansas City, Dubuque and St. Louis.
Ottumwa Iowa October 18 officials scour Wapello County for robbers who entered Blake and Burgasey general store in Blakesburg and stole 215 dollars. Blakesburg offers 50 reward plus 25 from citizens. Sheriff Jackson uses bloodhounds on the case.
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