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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1952
Page
1
Community notes record Mrs. Bill Loebig hosting a bridge afternoon, families traveling between Mason City and nearby towns, and gatherings at churches and clubs. Local residents Dick Lawson, Ruth Latham, and Hannah Nelson visitants connect with relatives while services and 4-H activities mark September events.
Mrs Rose Laux at St Ann hospital marked her 8th birthday on August 27 as visitors stopped by. Local households report home improvements, moves and visits including the Calhouns relocation to St Ansgar and a sale of the Philip Walker farm. Harvest Home festival at Evangelical Free Church drew 144 guests with services, noon dinner, and special music. A 35th wedding anniversary for Oscar and Johnson was celebrated with a large gathering in Britt. Community travelers and churchgoers from Upper Flat, Britt, Estherville, and Cresco were noted along with labor day weekend visitors. Planned Wesley Township homemakers meeting on Sept 16 and school bus garage construction near the Paul Erdman home were reported.
Miss Lois Hueneke and Miss Eleanor Hueneke wed George Moore and Vernon Griebel in a Bellevue Wartburg Seminary Chapel ceremony officiated by Rev. Arnold H Jahr. The couples plan honeymoons and will reside in Bellevue and near Dubuque after brief wedding trips.
The Board of Education meets Thursday night at 8:15 at Titonka Chapel. Church services are at 7:30 in Titonka and 7:30 in Doan with 9 and 10 o’clock Sunday school. Morning worship 9:45 Doan 11 Titonka. Evening fellowship 7 and a 7:30 viewing of the film Prejudice. Senior and Intermediate MYF meet at 7:30. Boy Scouts meet next Monday at 7:45.
Immanuel Lutheran invites worshipers to a 10 am service with a special offering for the new church building. Sunday School at 9 am. Brotherhood meets Thursday Sept 11 at 8 pm. Confirmation class Saturday at 9 am. Sunday School teachers institute at St Pauls Lutheran Lakota. Drive carefully.
The American Legion Auxiliary announces the 1952 1953 enrollment drive led by President Thelma Higgins. Eligible women include wives mothers and daughters of Legion members or those who lost loved ones in World War I II or Korea, or who served. Monthly meetings are set for Sept 26 and Oct 6 at the Legion hall with hostesses named. Membership dues are due. Buy it in Titonka.
The multiflora rose is praised as a permanent living fence that protects crops and supports game birds. Farmers report windbreak benefits and reduced wind erosion, noting it does not shade or sap nearby crops. It can be planted in straight rows or on contour to fit farm plans and provides habitat for songbirds, aiding insect control.
Economists hail a five year period as the Golden Age of American farming praising rising prices and record crop yields. The era boosted production per worker, mechanization, research based methods, and farmer living standards, with future growth expected from more machinery and new practices.
A national manufacturer has released cans of touch-up spray paint designed for farm use. The original factory finish promises to avoid brushing, turpentine, rags, and messy mixing, appealing across sections.
Economists forecast at least a five percent rise in farm real estate values in 1952 as land is viewed as a safe investment. They warn that farm investment can falter without proper operation and financial planning amid inflation and speculation driving price gains.
Chicago report summarizes a Parents' Consultation Service survey of 388 child psychologists. Seventy six percent support making sex education part of public school curricula with calls for trained adults, integrated teaching, and parental backing.
In Cornish Maine Roy Thompson says his dry farm found relief after local dowser Morris Hogers used a willow rod to locate a new productive well. Contractors had quoted high prices to dam the nearby brook, but the dowser advised a digging spot that yielded water.
A Fort Monmouth developed weather station operated for six months on a bleak Aleutian island and was showcased by the American Meteorological Society in New York. The unattended unit runs on Morse coded messages to an Air Force station 250 miles away, relaying rainfall, sunshine, wind, pressure, humidity and temperature data.
New York insurance statisticians estimate the 1947 level of natural increase births minus deaths at over 2,400,000 for last year, with total population growth likely above 2,650,000 including a moderate net in migration. Since WWII the U S has added about 15.8 million people, a pace likened to the combined populations of several major regions.
In Oakland August 29 paper notes retirement of the Camp Stoneman post surgeon and replacement by Col Lawrence B Hanson. The new hospital commander served in World War II in the southwest Pacific and led the Fourth Field Hospital on the Korean front. Hanson returned from the Far East in August 1981 and earned a Master of Public Health from UC Berkeley last June.
Pastor Orville R. Brooks leads Grace Gospel Church schedule with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. Evangelistic service at 8 p.m. Bible study midweek Thursday at 8 p.m.
A farmer finds one tramp leaning on an axe while the other performs ballet steps. The first tramp explains the second cracked him in the shin with the axe. Also noted are ads for Miss Minneapolis Flour and Kingscrost Hybrid seeds with fertilizer and Krilium soil conditioner.
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