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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1913
Page
7
Forty Poland China boars range 150 to 800 pounds. Some fancy herd headers. Also Chester White males and Shorthorn bulls and Scotch aged for service. Located one half mile north of Wesley at the Powelson Bros farm.
Portland and surrounding families share visits at the Anderson home. neighbors report farming plans and local comings, noting guests, moves, and school vacation for District 3. Several residents travel for potatoes, corn, and farm work while moots of daily life and local chatter fill the week.
Community tidbits list visits by Walter Smith and others, farm and housing changes, and a shift to afternoon church services in the area. The record includes riders to Estherville and Swea City, funeral travel, farm name changes, and a newly formed Ladies Aid Society with meeting plans.
Buffalo Center area notes show Joe Wessels receives a new barn plan 32 by 26 with house 16 by 24 and other improvements. T. T. DeBoer builds a full farm complex on land rented to H. A. Adams with a 30 by 40 barn and 16 by 24 house plus a corn crib and grove plan. F. M. Daum drills a well for DeBoer to about 100 feet as winter snows fall and temperatures dip.
George Johnson and Ethel Clark of Britt were married Wednesday October 22 at the bride's parents home. No further details available. Carrie Petersen visited Britt Saturday. Mrs. Geo Olsen visited relatives at Ringsted Saturday. L. B. Krantz and Gaughtery were Algona visitors Monday. Roy Lister is off duty due to a sprained wrist. A chicken house is under construction west of town by Join Seeman with Wom Kutschara assisting. For sale: purebred Poland China boars around 125 lbs. inquire J. W. Lamoreux Tonka Iowa.
An article advises chronic appendicitis sufferers to try a single dose of Adler-ka compound containing buckthorn bark and glycerine. It claims instant relief from digestive symptoms and cites famed use in curing appendicitis as the remedy’s origin.
Tev C. B. Mitchell who left the ministry this year to assist his son Bennett on the farm east of town is keeping busy, a detail noted in local circles as he shifts from pulpit duties to agricultural work.
In Wesley Iowa two amateur farmers plan spring planting on adjacent properties once Gen Cogswell moves to his eighty acre farm near the Reverend. S D Drake the land lord travels west of town while Sam accumulates wealth from land. Glatre Helfner and family face typhoid illness as breeders market Shorthorn Dulis bulls for sale inviting inspection.
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