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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1923
Page
4
A Burt versus Portland basketball game Sunday afternoon ended with Burt taking the honors. Portland fielded several substitutes, lacking their typical Wideawakes, which dimmed their pep. The piece ends with hopeful note for future, better games ahead.
A local column notes Mrs. Gingery aged 84 travels by auto or train with ease and Mrs Ringsdorf 82 visits relatives in Wisconsin and Minnesota while remaining lively and sharp. Gossip includes visits, a Sunday dinner at Roy Manns, Miss Dittmer returning home from Titonia, Sperry telephone addition, and various local social rounds.
Activities during a recent week include Mrs Clyde Shipler visiting Algona, a chess party at Walter Scotts, and an oyster supper planned at the Dennis home for musical friends. Locals Clyde Shipler Fred Dorsey Rawleigh Rike and families are active with farming tasks and visits from Wesley Woden Ames and Buffalo Center communities.
Woden News covers visits and calls across Crystal Lake, Lakota, Garner, Mason City, and surrounding towns. Births include a baby girl and a baby boy with parents Matched. movie listings note Mother O Mine and Paliface. Rural education notes cite Iowa malnutrition stats and a talk by Mrs. George W. Godfrey at Algona institute.
The State Bank of Thompson arranged the sale of a 790 acre farm one mile east of Thompson and the transfer of Ludwig Johnson's holdings to Mr. Jacobson totaling 688 and a half acres. The 790 acre farm sold at 150 per acre and Jacobson’s land at 225 per acre, described as one of the region’s largest deals in years. Former State Senator Joe Allen of Laurens, long active in state politics, is noted. Also involved is Rev. C S Salveson acquiring Haverston’s Logan township farm. Additional farm opportunity reports and a note on bookkeepers and stenographers being in demand at Newtleton Commercial College in Sioux Falls.
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