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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1958
Page
5
Local social notes recount numerous Sunday and weekend visits among Waterloo, Waverly, Readlyn, Cedar Falls, New Hartford, and surrounding towns. Friends and relatives including the Fink, Kelsey, Weires, and Gatch families share dinners, confirmations, and informal gatherings with extended list of households and towns such as Applington, Frederika, and Denver mentioned.
LaVonne Meiners marked upcoming marriage to Harold Schumacher with two showers last week. A miscellaneous shower Friday at Buck Creek's St Pauls Evangelical Reformed parlor hosted 20 women with Vernetta Eick and Mrs Martin Schumacher as hostesses. A second shower Sunday at Delaware Community Hall welcomed 24 couples hosted by Mr and Mrs Burdette Persson and Mr and Mrs Frederick Meiners.
Numerous households host confirmations and Easter gatherings. Guests include families from Sumner, Fredericksburg, Waverly, Cedar Rapids, Lincoln and Joliet, with many relatives attending church confirmations at Trinity Lutheran Hawkeye First Lutheran Waterloo and St John Siegel. A Mercy hospital birth and Palm Sunday celebrations noted.
American Legion Auxiliary will meet Tuesday at Tripoli Town Hall with hostesses Mrs Ed Selck Alvina Schroeder and Mrs Anna Slack. A talk titled Pan Americanism will be given by Mrs Minnie Schumacher. Members are asked to bring used clothes to the meeting.
Ameri can Savings Bank hosts new maps of the Town of Tripoli as Mayor George W. Barnes reminds those who ordered them this week. Large map costs $1 and small map 50 cents.
Dennis Miller hosted 13 classmates at his Cedar Falls home to celebrate his March 27 birthday. Attendees included Bruce Bunger James Kuhrt Sammy Kehe Greg Lehmkuhl Gerald Lahmann Junior Boeckman Richard Murray David Drape James Boeckman Dick Magnall Ronnie Kelsey Roger Kuecker and Richard Milius. Refreshments and games were provided by the honoree’s mother and aunt with additional afternoon and evening visitors from Austin Minnesota including Mrs R O Wikner and Mari anne.
Mr and Mrs William Zabel of Fredericksburg returned Thursday from a month long tour of Texas and Mexico visiting Ben Beyers in Lexington Louie Bull and Iversons formerly of Tripoli in McAllen Texas Their daughter is Mrs Bernard Miller Also honored at a housewarming were Mr and Mrs Keniston Hoppenworth and family with guests including Mr and Mrs Vernon Wikner Mr and Mrs Eugene Woodcock Mr and Mrs Werner Schlichting Mr and Mrs Gustav Jaschen Mr and Mrs Robert Rathbone and family and Mr and Mrs H H Hoppenworth
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