This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Ti tonka area notes include visits births and events
Local items report visitors to Ti tonka homes from Bancroft Des Moines and Algona. Helen Roskamp joins Central College Chapel Choir as Alto. Community items note house building plans and shifts in ownership including Vern Shaw renting the Esther Peterson building and moving his barber shop, Swan’s furniture relocation, and Petersens moving to Altona. The section also records a newborn birthday, school and church activities, and a few travel notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Bleich
Russell
Catherine of Miller
Carl BE. Callies
Fred Radmaker
Good Hope
Lutheran Ladies Aid
Anna Alke
Clarence Brandt
Simon Ricks
George Alke
Wim
Boyken
Des Moines
Ole Johansen
Bancroft
Frances Budiong
Roy Budiong
Helen Roskamp
A. Roskamp
Titonka High School
Central College
Pella
Iowa
John Boekelman
Hann Uken
North Main Street
Forest City
Keith
Harold Gartner
Fort Des Moines
Harold
Buffalo Township Consolidated School
Celene Miller
Glen Miller
Otober
Clyde Yates
Towa City
J. R. Schutter
Eldon Grose
Republic
Lenus Isebrand
Harry Reed
Hampton
Charles Sargent
Katie DeVries
Thorn=ton
W. H. Ricklefs
Fred Weinberg
Buffalo Center
Ricklefs
Dick Downs
Cedar Falls
C. H. Downs
Jennie Breen
Stella Mae
Algona
Titanica
Vern Shaw
Esther Peterson
Swan
Petersen
Kenneth
Shaw
Hank Harmis
Frank Callies
A. M. Petersen
Petersens
A. J. Ricklefs
Altona