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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1927
Page
1
Rippentrop near Titonka presents proof that lime and legume crops pay. A spring sowing of red clover, alfalfa, hubam clover and biennial sweet clover produced a superb stand even in dry weather. The sweet clover thrives with oats yielding seventy bushels per acre.
Payed at about two dollars per ton for coal piles in the county. Trading can start immediately. Haul now while conditions are favorable and applicants can file this winter as long as the pile remains under cover.
Church asks members to turn in all benevolence money by Saturday September 24 so reports can be sent to the District Superintendent. The Pastor heads to Webster City for conference next Tuesday. Dean Ald meets with Mrs Ann Tar Soll next week. Lay delegates elected are Mrs Elizabeth Gibson and Mrs G H Johnson.
The Senior Junior and Sophomore classes plan a big Friday night party for Freshmen with a reen torture test. The school encourages bravery and endurance as part of the event amid notes on athletics bands and glee clubs.
The Tonka and Dean Methodist churches elect officers and committees for the 1927 28 conference year at the Fourth Quarterly Conference. Names cover trustees stewards and committees in benevolences finance religious instruction education and more. Miss Gladyce Boggess returned home from Hamilton Business College for a weekend visit.
High School notes report absenteeism among Sophomore Koestler and Mr Harms praised for shop improvements. Freshmen work on cooking aprons for next term while Sociology and Algebra expand four course loads. Rumors of freshmen initiation surface as students miss class for a Britt fair and Helen Miller’s funeral attendance.
Seventh graders are starting History outlines and fourth graders received a letter from Misa Longbottom of Montana. Edward Harma treated third graders with all day suckers for his eighth birthday. Merlin Schram and Raymond Buting were ill last week, while Magdalins Eden and Harriet Sebren missed a day. Mr Harms turned the primary room into a doll house and students are making furniture in hand work. Johannes Pouelsen gave candy to celebrate his birthday. Plants have been brought to school and more are welcome.
A New York conference of trust companies heard that three quarters of banks with trust services advertise. Local newspapers emerged as the most effective medium for prestige and circulation, with 929 responses using papers and 38 not.
Several eighth grade pupils attended Miss Miller's funeral Tuesday morning. The class is working hard on preliminary arithmetic lesson work. Frank Callies was absent the first part of the week.
George A. Graham works up at Hollandale this week on a potato acreage and plans to stay through the digging season. Locals say Heaven on earth is Hollandale and that summer earnings seem to flow rapidly, leaving little winter work beyond storage.
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