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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
5
Public school activities this week show first graders crafting a table scene with bats owls corn stalks and pumpkins for Halloween. They practice counting by tens. Second graders note pupils who attended a show Friday and spellings stars with top scores. Third graders prepare new reading book perform for fifth grade and complete transportation unit while arithmetic improves with a blue cars race ahead.
Fourth grade members performed a Belgium Congo program for mothers and second grade members. Seven mothers attended as students recited poems read stories and staged a short play Day o with Bombo and His Friends. The class studies ants and seeks an ant hill for the school while racing in arithmetic Angeline Wibben marked a Sunday birthday and treated the racers to suckers Roger’s side leads Loren’s by a nose.
Report cards went out and came back promptly. The fifth grade science class joined a Friday afternoon show sponsored by the Junior Federated Woman's Club. Some boys work on a large colored farm scene while others draw chalk pictures on different subjects. Perfect spelling papers were produced by Fred, Robert, and Robert John.
In art they are making autumn and Hallowe'en pictures. A new arithmetic unit covers fractions. English classes write plays on fire prevention. Oral reports on Greek civilization in history. many attended Friday’s show at Tyke Theatre.
Seventh grade invited mothers Friday to a history play about olden times in England and America. The eighth grade presented plays Thursday for fire prevention week. Students learn graphs in arithmetic and will start a new history unit titled American Democracy Grows Out of the Struggle with England Monarchy. The junior high saw the history play last Wednesday.
Eighth grade students held a fire prevention program after a one week delay. Pupils performed plays and wrote stories and poems while Janice Bonacker and Sharon Adamson gave talks on fire safety. A history play by seventh graders entertained the group at the October event, with eighth grade leaders participating in the P.T.A. program.
On October 13 they were asked to sing at the reception for Rev and Mrs Patterson at the Methodist church last Thursday evening. Many junior high pupils can sell tickets for the junior class plays. Each person who sells ten tickets earns a free ticket for the play.
Drusilla Hansen leads one side and Ernestine Adamson the other in a science tournament. Students study adjectives and adverbial clauses in English while Elton Huisman stays to pick corn. Freshmen hope he returns after corn picking. they aim to keep their number at 28 after report cards reveal mixed feelings about the first six weeks.
In English class students wrestle with pronoun usage while Italian world history study speeds through the chapter. French and physics groups complain about a cyanide odor used in biology. Sophomore girls dissect snakes mice bugs and toads as junior high observers watch. Recent days focus shifts to the earth’s stages.
Thursday the first year typing class conducted a speed test with students such as Gladys Ann Smith Lydia Dreesman Anna Ricks Duane Higgins Verla Brandt Louis Oesterreicher Dayle Bruns Twyliah Hamstreet Deloris Peterson Irene Rippentrop and Cecil Snyder absent. Centering vertically and horizontally and drilling on tabulation exercises filled the week. The junior class play Don't Darken My Door is set for October 30 with Lydia Dreesman and Paul Bruns as notable references.
Friday night seniors journeyed to the Chrome for a Beowolf themed English literature evening. They shared a pork roast supper with all the trimmings, then spent the night dancing and enjoying themselves.
The eighth grade choir accompanied Beryl Bonacker at a Methodist church reception Thursday evening singing CampTown Races Shortnin Bread and Beautiful Dreamer. Friday morning the mixed chorus began practicing Calm As The Night.
The week before last the freshman girls finished cooking and began Christmas present projects for mothers. A week ago Monday the senior girls held their first home economics club meeting, with Miss Thompson teaching casting on and knitting and the group learning to purl. By week’s end they plan to finish the color unit as the manual training class resumes after a hiatus. Several typewriter tables are finished and ready for installation.
New coach Lloyd G. Gnagy arrives for Tugaka basketball duties and begins practice with players showing up. He aims to develop the squad into a strong team this season.
Iowa farm women join a four part series on nutrition to improve health through better food choices. Ruth Seaton Hicks leads training for about fifteen women who will teach others, with demonstrations and meal planning guides to follow.
Dean Crone Kenneth Buns La vonne Smith and Betty Hanna were riding in a car that overturned three times near Garner Saturday night. The vehicle missed a curve at high speed and due to fog. All occupants escaped serious harm with only minor injuries despite the car being completely demolished.
The article notes ongoing activity with new baskets bang boards and seven new basketballs added to supplies. It highlights recent equipment upgrades and continued practice readiness for games or training sessions.
The sophomores demonstrate parallelism using four methods from propositions 14 to 17. They formed 60 degree angles without a protractor and confirmed correctness by propositions 3 and 4.
Mary Young membership chair and Esther Breen will host the regular November work meeting at the Legion Hall on Friday afternoon October 24. Bring needle thimble thread and shears to sew carpet rags. All welcome and bring carpet rag material if available. Legion Hall now has circulating heater and cook stove. Drapes being made and window shades purchased. A recent 8th district convention of American Legion posts and Auxiliaries in Algona featured a banquet and moving pictures from Milwaukee with district and department officers attending. About 350 at banquet and nearly 500 for afternoon sessions.
Kossuth County Agricultural Conservation Association arranged carloads of 20 percent superphosphate for distribution from multiple towns. Producers may contact local elevators for exact pickup points. Price is 19 dollars per ton or 95 cents per 100 pounds before November 30, 1941, with 81 cents per 100 pounds credited in the soil-building practice for the 1942 program year. No upfront payment is required for materials from the Department of Agriculture, as the cost will be deducted from the 1942 Agricultural Conservation Program payment.
Rev. Galvin Schnucker of Rameey Reformed Church lists Sunday schedule with Church School at 9 30 a m German Worship and Communion at 10 30. The service will receive the quarterly missions offering.
Pvt Harold Caskey writes from Camp Callan California praising coast artillery life while missing school town and athletics He asks for a year’s Topic subscription and notes a district game loss but praises the coach and camp status.
Washington paper notes Reginald D Winter son of Mr and Mrs Herbert T Winter Mount Vernon Washington who attended local high school is nearing commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve. He completed basic flight training at Moffet Field September 24 with a class of 158 men and will move to Mather Field California for final training. He previously did primary training at Allan Hancock College Santa Maria after July 14. He has 50 hours pre training under IC A A program and upon advanced flying may join a tactical unit or instruct at an army pilot school.
Kossuth County Selective Service Board has received call number 22 for six men to depart for induction November 6. Questionnaires up to and including 2,400 have been mailed, with officials set to attend a regional conference in Storm Lake on November 3 as part of five statewide meetings led by General Charles H. Grahl. Counties in the region include Buena Vista Calhoun Cherokee Clay Dickinson Emmet Humboldt Ida Kossuth Lyon O Brien Osceola Palo Alto Plymouth Pocahontas Sac Sioux Woodbury.
Algona hosts the annual Kossuth county corn husking contest at the Mike Loss farm with twelve contestants. Participants include Raymond Stevens Floyd Bode Clarence Oswald Fred Vernon and Leonard Gray Todd Rickard Henry Heidecker Ernest Heidecker Charles Davis John Beenken and Ted Fisher. Ernest Heidecker returns as defending champion from last year.
G G Young is appointed district manager of Interstate Power Co for this district succeeding Raschke who moves to the Decorah district. An electrical engineer and University of Nebraska graduate, Young has seven years with Interstate and previously served in the Albert Lea district.
NOHN SWANSON of Titania holds samples of his second potato crop in Des Moines Register coverage. He planted the first crop on April 23, dug starting June 10 and finished July 25. He started the second crop while digging the first and dug the first of the second crop on September 9, yielding two good crops on the same land.
Funeral services were held Friday morning at eight o clock for Frank Miller who died at his home on Wednesday October 15 Rev H G Sauer of the Presbyterian church presided The remains were taken to Mt Vernon for burial beside his wife who died June 28 1931 Miller born January 14 1867 Mechanicsburg Pa was 74 years 9 months and 1 day old He spent years in the navy and later did carpenter work He married Elien Burge August 20 1895 Lisbon Iowa They moved from Des Moines to this vicinity in 1911 and lived here since Mrs Kathrine Park Algona Mrs Wade Ball and HH E Baxter accompanied the casket to Mt Vernon Funeral services at the grave were led by Rev Gray Mt Vernon pastor.
Edward Bleich 121, son of Albert and Mrs. Bleich of Madison Wisconsin and formerly of Wesley, was killed in a Saturday night automobile accident. Survived by two sisters and two brothers Eugene Eileen twins Geraldine Gordon. Funeral held in Madison Tuesday morning with Leo Bleich Lois Forburger Mrs. Keips Mrs. Hauptman and Mrs. Garman attending from surrounding towns.
In Titonka the franchise election produced 269 votes with 149 in favor and 120 against. There were no spoiled ballots. The decision grants Interstate Power Co. the right to continue supplying electric energy to the town for the next 15 years.
A foggy early Sunday crash four miles south of Bancroft damaged two cars. Donald Johnson of Armstrong hit the rear of Ernest Laurenz’s car from Burt. Johnson suffered a wrist injury while Dennis Laing and Virgil Olson of Armstrong received head injuries. Leon Theison of Burt accompanied Laurenz but was uninjured.
Fines ranging from five to seventeen dollars were imposed on ten truckers for overloading and related offenses in Algona area justice court. Other defendants faced reckless driving and stop sign violations with fines up to fifty dollars and suspended amounts. New district court filings included several notes and bad check suits, plus probate estates from multiple counties.
Sayre Winkie youngest son of Mr and Mrs Clair Winkie sustained serious injury to the first two fingers of his left hand last Thursday afternoon when they were caught in the drive chain of a corn elevator. The bone of the first joint was broken and the flesh mangled. He will miss several weeks of farm work. Sayre attended Iowa State College last year after Titonka high school, stayed home this fall to help with farm work as brothers served in the army and furloughs brought one home Thursday.
Titonka Lions Club will meet at the Legion Hall Thursday evening October 23 with lunch at 6 45. The club seeks strong attendance as it resumes regular meetings disrupted by lack of a venue and now aims to restart the usual Thursday schedule in Legion rooms.
The Kossuth AAA office in Algona received the first batch of 1941 checks last week totaling about 100000 across 492 payments to local farmers. Officials announced plans to boost soybean production in 1942 as part of the Food for Freedom drive, setting a county goal of 20 980 acres, an increase over the current year.
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