Titonka Topic Brief Publisher Notice
The Titonka Topic, Leh 0. Wolfh, publisher, is extered at the postoffice in Titonka, Iowa, as second class mail matter.
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1923
Page
2
The Titonka Topic, Leh 0. Wolfh, publisher, is extered at the postoffice in Titonka, Iowa, as second class mail matter.
The Wesley creamery board warns of a funds shortfall to finish and equip the plant and plans another membership drive to lift the creamery out of debt. They urge selling stock only to farmers to boost patronage and dairy earnings, noting cows are essential to prosperity. Meanwhile Hutton and Jenks of Bancroft exit printing to focus on newspaper work with $60,000 in equipment for sale and a 24 hour run earlier this spring with 21 employees.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa argues against capital by citing 1919 1920 wage and capital figures. He claims labor earns more than capital and notes railroads paid 8 percent on $19 billion invested while wages reached $2.77 billion in 1921, suggesting capital profits outstrip worker pay.
The article rebuts Senator Brookhart’s farming value claims using census data for 1900, 1910, and 1920 showing farm wealth rising ~100 percent each decade. It notes farm product value in 1929 at 24.98 billion vs 18.26 billion in 1920, arguing the $52 billion loss figure is absurd. It also questions his labors’ and railroads’ income shares and deflation claims.
In a nostalgic column the decline of sweetcakes substitutes and rising cookie culture is linked to depopulation of farmers. The piece urges restoring the sweetcake jar and household staples as a social remedy, condemning modern fashions and emphasizing home economy and family routines.
Old bridge timber to be sold at auction on the 30th of 1998 at 2 PM to the highest cash bidder. The sale will take place at Secs 86 Portland Two Plum Creek Two, with additional items listed at Titonke Wm Ricklin’s home and Olaf Buprisor Ard Dist.
Portland News items report Mrs L Bartlett at county seat for dental work while Mrs Brink Shipler and Mrs Ray Ringsdorf drove to Algona for shopping. Migs Velda Moyer of Burt aided Mrs C B Sigsbee with meals. Monson family toured to Wo den for church. Ted Ringsdorf recovers at home after illness. several families attend events near Buffalo Center and Forest City.
Mr and Mrs Ora Capps and Mrs Will Lloyd of Wesley visited relatives last week. Mrs Mongan spent Friday with Mrs Fred Carter and the new baby Velma Geneva. The next Farm Bureau meeting is scheduled for Monday night October first at the Presthouse home with a usual program and lunch.
In Iowa District Court of Kossuth County a petition seeks $7342.75 from W F Adamson Nellie Adamson C E Doyle and H A Hering as due on a 1922 promissory note and interest. The suit asks foreclosure of a mortgage on the NE quarter of Section 26 98 28 West and a receiver to collect rents during redemption. no personal judgment against H A Hering. Dated 1923.
Mayor Armatyong has docketed fifty cases in eighteen months in Britt. Recent entries include f ines for L M Neser Vic Rew Martin Congreve and Harl Mickeldeen after a collision with a Cass Parker Rachford show car. BH W Turner and H K De Graff were jailed as the first inmates in the new jail and fined. Theodore Seifert received a ten day sentence suspended for good behavior.
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