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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
4
Local residents attend visits and family gatherings across Algona and Wesley. Reports cover school institutes, club meetings, church circles, and athletic games including Wesley Tigers football wins, with social events at the Willing Workers Circle and Stitch and Chat Circle, and notes on honors, travel, and family visits.
Woden news details community updates including staffing changes at Smiths cafe, travel by locals, church events, visits across several towns, and upcoming fried chicken supper in Woden. Public greetings, shopping trips, and social calls populate a dense ledger of residents and activities through the week.
Local residents made trips to nearby towns including Granada Minnesota and Mason City. Ameri can Legion Auxiliary Lakota unit met at Mrs. Mike Christ home to plan a work meeting. Kossuth county auxiliaries held a school of instruction at George Heetland’s home with representation from Algona Burt Lone Rock Wesley Swea City Lakota Bancroft. Peter Bruer escorted his parents to Mason City for a medical procedure. Several residents visited relatives in Webster City Jackson Minn. and Elmore. Licenses and college news include Batty and Jimmy Ley heading to Grinnell and Patricia Woodworth visiting Buena Vista College Storm Lake.
Government renames below standard pork fat as rendered pork fat under a new federal rule. Town economists discuss federal rulings in Farm Economist noting guck parts and head fat included. the order under the Meat Inspection Act takes effect November 1, with only bled quality cooking fat called lard. Prices and hog production trends cited as context.
Herman Day of Algona and Paul Krudger were Monday evening callers of Wit Ringsdorf. Lois Graham works for Mrs M. & Larson. A Jennings family reunion occurred at Lincoln Park in Fairmont. Numerous visits include Bartletts, Ringsdorfs, Applegates, Potters, and others in Algona, Ringsted, Burt, and nearby towns. Scarlet fever case release noted.
W McDonald of Town State College advises Western lamb feeders to supplement grass with grain as frost reduces pasture. Start with about 10 lb grain per 100 lambs, rising gradually to 1 lb per head daily. two weeks is the safe minimum on feed. Oats preferred early, then switch to corn, with linseed oilmeal or cottonseed meal mixed in at 1 lb per 7 to 10 lb grain.
Tips show how to stop cream of tartar crystals by aging grape juice overnight in a cold place before mixing with sugar, allowing crystals to settle then pouring and straining. Another method combines grape juice with other fruit juices. Skim milk powder can substitute for skim milk in calf feeding where unavailable.
C V Holsinger, horticulturist at Iowa State College, offers fall garden advice. Raspberries with trailing canes can root if covered with soil. prune red and black varieties after frost, or mid March. Strawberries planted now need more work and may not overwinter. radishes can still be planted before freezing. Remove root crops after season and manure the ground, then turn under rough for spring readiness.
Dr W McDonald animal husbandman at Town State College advises farmers to begin breeding now to ensure high quality lambs next June. He says ewes gaining condition before breeding increases lambing percentage and twin births. flushing ewes by extra feed two weeks before breeding, via better pasture or a light grain ration, brings ewes into heat for synchronized lambing.
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