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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1930
Page
7
Local residents from Corwith to Algona report visits and trips across Iowa. Numerous names attend festivals, visit relatives, and move between towns including Wesley, Lakota, Bancroft, and Des Moines.
An community urges eighth graders to enroll in high school as a path to future success. It argues that five years of schooling shape character, knowledge, and life prospects, and contrasts present needs with 1906 practices, stressing honesty, work ethic, and adaptability to modern competition.
A polished con artist posed as a field man for Boston Extension University and stole $17.50 from a Britt boy who sold a calf for $20.00. In another scam a well-dressed man claimed Ames College would teach commerce for $96.00, promising referrals. The pieces warn that fake courses cost money not education.
Analysis by the University of California division of vocational education and the state department of education shows one quarter of sixteen to eighteen year olds left full-time public school for part-time schooling under state law. Another quarter left mainly due to economic necessity or to learn a trade. Unfavorable home conditions and low family education caused about a third to depart, while lack of school success and physical handicap affected the rest.
Iowa State College plant pathologists report seed oats treated with specific materials before seeding yielded 8.2 and 13.7 percent more grain than untreated seed. Trials at the Agronomy Farm tested various dusts and formaldehyde, noting reductions in seedling diseases and smut when seed is treated. Smut survived on seed and can be controlled by using smut-free seed.
The 1980 pig crop is estimated to be a percent larger than in 1929. Drought has pushed butter prices higher.
Doan News items recount visits and hospitality around Algona Graettinger and nearby towns. Mentions Ted Hoovers in Britt, bridge party hosted by Mrs O J Holt, caregiving for Mrs Milton Fox, and several family visits including the Ross Buffingtons, J P Larson, Rudolph Larson, and H P Christensen. Also notes farm move near Underwood and Old Settlers Picnic attendance.
Dirk Fuls and wife of Titouka visited Britt twice and spoke of a farmer and his son near Elmore, Minnesota performing cupping and bleeding treatments. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Henduls also traveled to the place and Ole received a treatment for a longstanding lame back.
The Luverne News recalls Greeley's opposition to woman suffrage and a quarrel with a suffragist. He asked if she would join the army when called, and she answered she would stay home and urge others to go to war as an editor.
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