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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1961
Page
1
Subscriptions are 250 per year in advance within Kossuth County and Titonka trade territory. Outside the territory rates are 3.00 per year. Canada and foreign countries pay 3.50 annually. Published weekly with postage paid at Titonka Iowa. The paper serves a wide reach within its local region.
Glovace notes warn of atomic, electronic and radar dangers and quote biblical references as experts discuss potential world destruction. The piece mentions Oak Ridge scientist Milton Burton and a senator conversation about triggering a nitrogen chain reaction.
Titonka residents note several attendances including the wedding of Mr Beryl Buffington and Miss Sharon Isebrand at the Crystal Lake Methodist Church on Saturday. Attendees list relatives of Isebrand Buffington and neighboring families, plus visitors to Spencer and Whittemore for church and funeral events.
Sunday visits featured Mr and Mrs Melvin Howe and family of Mason City at Jerry Boekelman’s home. Carmen Beenken visited Marilyn in the afternoon. Travel parties included George Boekelman and Lyda Peterson, who left Friday for Brainard Minnesota to visit Dan Vickerman family and Clifford Vickerman family. Additional guests were J C Vickerman and H Vickerman families from Hopkins and St Paul. En route home they stopped to see Charlie Vickerman at Garrison. Oliver Kardoes has completed aircraft inspector training and will depart Mason City September 20 for overseas. address listed in New York. Mrs Raymond Bartlett attended the funeral of Mrs August Bier stedt in Fenton. Mrs Evelyn Beavers and Dwight Beavers families of Belmond joined Tuesday supper at Darrell Beavers. Buy it in Titonka.
Tickets are on sale for the 1961 Kossuth County Farm Bureau Annual Meeting at Titonka High School on October 3. The event features a 4-H beef supper and entertainer Red Blanchard with Dale Nelson as guest speaker. Tickets available at the Algona Farm Bureau Office Swea City Farm Service Office and from local officers and directors.
A long list of local names and townships appears with a 50 cent ticket price for a community event. The piece also recounts Miss McElrea of New Zealand discussing her travels and teaching career, plus reflections on the New Zealand visit, school connections, and a birthday celebration. Commissions are earned on sales, not arguments won.
On Thursday afternoon August 24 Mrs. Ray Cunningham hosted a coffee party in Doan to honor Miss Eveline McElrea of Dunedin New Zealand. The gathering included members of the Doan Woman's Club and friends and relatives, celebrating her arrival in the United States as the summer ends. The event noted Miss McElrea is a cousin of Rea Hutchison of Waterloo, previously of Algona.
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