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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1942
Page
3
Local tidbits and notices cover newspaper subscriptions, business matters, and community moves. The item lists rates for Titonka and surrounding areas, with Canada and foreign pricing, plus discontinuation rules. Roaming mentions include travel to Falls, Spirit Lake visits, and various family greetings and updates from residents and former locals, noting a Monroe Wis. family death and a Los Angeles visitor.
A string of Sunday and weekend visits fill Algona area homes. Mr and Mrs Lou Huber called at Ted Rike. Carl H Callies and Ed Callies visited Des Moines. Audrey Brandt and Elmer Englebart a dinner guests of Herbert Rakow. Anton Pannkuk and family visited Ben Pannkuk in the afternoon. Earl Robinson of Minneapolis called on Chas Newville. Mrs FE Jennings returned from Burt. Patty Craven stayed with George and Mrs Johnson near Algona. Ben Pannkuk of Mason City visited his mother Boyd Pannkuk. Dr H I Torgersen and Mrs Torgersen spent weekend with Eddie Gregerson in Winnebago Minnesota. Jake Tapper and Ruth Ann Tapper of Webster City visited Joe Tapper.
In Portland many residents hosted and attended Sunday dinners and informal gatherings. Honors included birthdays for Lloyd and Mary Ann, with families and friends such as Andrew Hanson George Graham Jr. and others present. Local moves included school openings at Portland townships and farm improvements by Ed Wolf and Ringsdorf, plus various visits across nearby households and farms.
Funeral services for Dr. James L. Adams 37 only son of Dr F L Adams of Wesley were held at the Methodist church in Wesley. He was instantly killed in an automobile accident near Toledo Ohio Sunday afternoon. The body arrived in Wesley Wednesday morning accompanied by Mrs Adams and their four year old son James L Jr. Dr Adams was born in Vail May 17 1905 and came to Wesley with his parents in 1811. His mother died in 1915 and his father has been practicing physician in Wesley for 31 years. Dr Adams was graduated from
Dozens of area residents spent a week visiting lakes in Minnesota and nearby towns. Families including the Brink, Engstrom, Lowmiller, Struthers, Hoover, and Anderson clans shared leisure at Leech Lake Mille Lac and Estherville while others visited relatives in Dumont Titonka and Burt. School openings and high school assignments noted as well as a gas of travel to Osage for a funeral.
Wesley high school alumnus who studied at Iowa University and completed medical training in 1929 died after a career at Barberton Clinic where he served as president and principal. He married Dorothy Cox in 1935 and leaves his father wife and son. Active and honorary pallbearers from local and neighboring towns attended.
A collage of humorous lines and anecdotes reflects home front life, jokes about sugar rations and big houses, parrot alarms, and light quips about Nazi moustaches. It notes U.S. chicken production rising 11 percent in 1942 and Iowa up 16 percent.
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