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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
4
Lincoln notes list Sunday visits and calls across the community highlighting Johnsons Watsons Hertske Koppen and Olthoff households. It mentions new granary lumber work by L Helmer and Richard Price, fishing trips by J Flynn, school and church updates, and a car collision near Sexton with minor injuries quoted.
Mesdames Gus Torine and Sam Warburton of Swea City visited the Noble family Tuesday. The L. A. Hall family saw relatives in Woden last week. B. G. Seymour and Ruth traveled from Buffalo Center to visit last Wednesday. Irvin, Doris and Opal Wortmann with Lise Drake also visited Buffalo Center Tuesday evening. Mrs J J Reko hosted the M B group.
Portland community notes detail the funeral of Sterling Daniels with relatives present. The column lists visitors, farm improvements, and family movements including travel to Wisconsin Illinois and Oregon, updates on illnesses, marriages, and local social calls among the Daniels Leek Rike Stott and Smith families and neighbors.
The article argues for preserving and selecting seed from last year’s dry corn as insurance against variable weather and possible soft corn. It cautions against relying on market seed and stresses long term planning, rotation, and continuity in farming for a stable stand and future yields.
An Iowa correspondent suggests oiling the driveway to suppress weeds and grass. A cheaper option is to pour gasoline or kerosene on thick weed patches, applying with a sprayer. kerosene can be bought cheaply in large bags.
The piece cites the New York Medical Journal claiming modern man is top heavy and brain dominated. It argues stress and hard work heighten primitive impulses, contributing to war. Americans’ fast living is blamed, yet relief comes from balanced play and harmless amusements. It also includes poems about mothers and daughters and departing nestlings.
Readers report phenomenal yields from Cedar Falls and Hamilton County farms. Ced ar Falls figures include 2,240 bushels of oats from 28 acres and 60 acres of barley at 40 bushels per acre. Webster City and Greene County farmers cite 80 bushels per acre and 775 bushels total on 15 acres of wheat. Capt Head promotes winter wheat with over 100 acres in Greene County and plans to expand to 500 acres next year.
The speaker recalls the house of birth and a rural scene transformed by technology. The old farm now features silos, acetylene lighting, gas engines, autos, dynamos, a telephone for gossip, and a phonograph. The hired man has left, leaving behind memories of a simpler past.
A passage extols prayer as part of education for farmers, urging plan and heart to find meaningful tasks. It recalls farm life routines and moral lessons. A North Dakota citizen’s home robbery in Coteau is reported, with a farm hand implicated as a suspect, and the case moving to court.
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