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Leader's Large Correspondent Staff compiles brief items on local activities. The column highlights daily doings, community happenings, and notable actions from residents and groups in the area.
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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1931
Page
8
Leader's Large Correspondent Staff compiles brief items on local activities. The column highlights daily doings, community happenings, and notable actions from residents and groups in the area.
Mr and Mrs Curt Turner and family joined by Mr and Mrs John Curtis and sons visited Fred Hildebrandt in Bremer on Good Friday. Multiple families from Bremer Readlyn Waverly and Sauck Center spent Easter and last week visiting relatives. Edwin left Milwaukee April 1 to attend an electric school. several Hennings Pries and Eick families hosted and traveled between Readlyn Bremer Waverly and Sauck Center Illinois connections noted.
Bremer and Water loo residents visited Thursday while Mrs. C. H. Linow of Charlies City stayed with her daughter Mrs. Ed Leitha. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Laube welcomed a baby girl born March 31. Blanche Pape taught near Tripoli and visited sister Mrs. R. F. Thiemann. The farm community reports field work resumes after last week's snow.
Buck Creek area residents share visits across Waterloo Sumner and Waverly with many family gatherings. The infant Robert Otto son of Walter Aschbrenner died Thursday morning and funeral services were held Friday at Spring Fountain. Religious groups, confirmations, and Sunday visits figure in the week’s community notes.
C D Morris of the Western Railways Committee on Public Relations told Cedar Falls Rotary that all common carrier transportation should be regulated by state and federal authorities to fairly treat each service. He argued uniform regulation could enable buses and trucks to handle short trips, reduce rail costs, and allow readjustment of services, with equality of opportunity across agencies.
A string of local visits and gatherings includes Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schoenbeck at the Ed Platte home in Waverly, a Miss Mabel Hartman and Erwin Hay shower at Grove Hill, and various birthday and family visits. Separate pieces discuss railroad policy and transportation coordination as a civic issue, arguing for fair competition and subsidization ending to ensure public service and long term viability.
Doings of Iowa General Assembly continues with a steering committee directing bills. Adjournment options include a April 15 recess to allow a special election on the $100,000,000 road bond issue or a flat adjournment prompting a possible special session. A new revenue idea proposes a $50 annual license on portable feed grinders and oat hullers, limited to the owner’s county.
East of town Enz and Arnold were Friday dinner guests at the Will Rieck home. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Specht and family spent Friday afternoon in Sumner. Mr. and Mrs. W. Meyer spent Sunday evening at the Ernest Schwerin home. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bruns Jr. and family of Readlyn spent Sunday evening at the Fred Holm home. Mrs. Fred Stahlhut and son Werner were Monday evening visitors at the Will Rieck home. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Stahlhut and children spent Sunday afternoon at his mother’s home in Sumner and attended the Smith funeral.
Restless children fret for no reason, but Castoria offers a mild safe remedy. The text touts its harmless recipe, gentle action, and use for colic, diarrhea, constipation, bad breath, and poor appetite, claiming it calms and aids sleep and digestion in youngsters.
Discussion centers on specially constructed motor trucks used from farm to farm for labor, with questions over continuing the regular motor truck tax beyond the $50 annual license. A portable saw mill not yet classified in the pending bill also noted. Senate explores capping junior colleges in towns under 20,000, arguing to keep students local. 28 junior colleges exist, funded mainly by tuition, with Britt Hancock County and Mason City among supporters.
A senate vote of 20 to 16 approves a five member unpaid commission to administer the state fish and game department. The panel, serving four year terms, will select a warden and up to 50 deputies, with a strict non partisan and geographic balance. The current warden stays on until 1933 under the new law, which awaits concurrence in the house and governor’s sanction.
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