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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
2
The Titonka Topic prints weekly notices from Mossuth and Titonka trade areas with subscription rates listed and community notes. Local birthdays anniversaries and family visits are recorded along with church and school updates and recent social events in the area.
The column reports Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Young spent Sunday with their daughter Mrs. Ted Worsley in Ventura. Local groups meet with officers elected for the American Legion and United Service Women. Also noted are student enrollments at parochial and public schools, visits from Dale Jones and family, and a Kosuth hospital birth, Karen Ann, to Forrest and Mrs. Christensen.
Freeman returns to Palmerton for a fraternity reunion and recalls a long awaited vow between himself and Eleanor King. Ten years pass as he wanders to the bench by the river where she promised to meet him, hearing a repeat of youthful vows from a couple on the bench. He listens, then departs content. Cotton Items The U. S. army buys 41,000 different cotton items ranging from gun camouflage to handkerchiefs.
Mrs. Albert Johnson Corwith announces the Family Living Program for the year to be hosted across the county. Topics include nutrition hospital insurance food preservation short cuts to home tasks post war problems and library issues. Training school topics to neighborhood leaders and open meetings will be arranged with township sessions planned. Any rural woman may attend by leaving a name at the Farm Bureau Office in Algona.
Farmers break food production records yearly yet Americans waste about 100 pounds of good food per person annually. More than a quarter of waste happens at home. Proper storage of perishable foods will reduce waste and prevent food poisoning this summer.
Algona builders court bids from Quarton and Miller County Savings Bank for a building project. This brief item notes the involved firms and the location in Algona Iowa.
Extension entomologist Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College warns a heavy white grub year will follow 1946. Grubs attacking corn and potatoes are expected to be larger and more damaging. legumes are less affected. Control advice urges fall plowing and disking from mid August to October 1.
Homemakers urged to reuse paper bags and take unwrapped small items home to stretch limited supplies. Town State College extension specialist notes War Production Board expects next months to supply about one third of prewar consumption. Shoppers can combine items from multiple departments into one bag and reuse bags or containers when possible.
Mr and Mrs Joe Johnson of Alden marked sixty six years since their marriage. They wed when both were 14 and are now 80. Fourteen of their 21 children are living while Mr Johnson has done manual labor in Grundy county recently.
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