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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1931
Page
5
Leader's Large Correspondent Jaff Gat compiles a digest of notable local doings featuring residents, events, and social happenings gathered from around the area. Brief items note community activity, gatherings, and small-scale achievements with a focus on everyday life.
A cascade of neighborhood social calls fills the Waverly and Readlyn area as families like Rathe, Wolfgram, Woodcock, Dettmer, and Drape share Sunday visits. The notes also record hospital stays, birthday and wedding anniversary acknowledgments, and several carious small gatherings at local homes and farms.
Fremont District No 2 notes Vivian Colburn as teacher. Second grade pupils held a writing contest with Victor Detterding winning first place. Monthly tests ended with strong overall grades, many above 95 percent. Some pupils listed with perfect or high scores in spelling arithmetic history and dental cards updates noted.
Readlyn residents hosted relatives and friends at the band hall with five hundred attendees. High honors were awarded to Mrs. August Deterding and Louie Schweer, while others faced hospital stays, travels, and local gatherings. A pneumonia treatment, tonsil removal, and a leg injury from a kicked fork are noted among local happenings.
John O'Groats sits at the northeast tip of Scotland near Duncansby road marking a country limit. It is the end point of Land's End to John O'Groats rides, 994 miles from Cornwall. Tradition says an eight-sided house with a door and window on each side gave eight Great brothers the right to enter and dine at their own table with kin.
Miss Caryl Lindfield closed her Alcock district school after a Friday picnic attended by 65 students. Dinner, songs, races, contests, and visiting filled the afternoon. Many local families visited relatives and neighbors across nearby towns during the weekend and week.
James Greig driving a mail truck was attacked by a massive gull as it devoured a hare on the road. The bird clamped a bite to his face while he struggled to steer and fend off the attacker. After a lengthy fight he knocked it down, stopped the truck, and killed the gull, which measured 5 feet 4 inches wing to wing.
Public highways are for vehicles not pedestrians. If walking is necessary, children should walk on the left side facing oncoming traffic to see approaching cars. The note mentions Ohio as the Buckeye State, linked to buckeye forests cited in early settlement.
The French embassy reports seven unidentified bodies were raised from seven war sectors and placed in identical caskets. In Verdun’s citadel a war-blind French soldier selected one casket. The other six bodies were buried without marks.
An astonished congregation heard two clergymen, one an old prison chaplain, exchange sermons on a Saturday. The defaulting preacher used the other’s sermon Sunday morning without examination, creating an unplanned, notable moment in church.
A London Tit-Bits tale recounts a clergyman who, after a period of calm, addresses his flock with a sharp admonition. His stark promise to never see certain parishioners again punctuates a scene of surprising churchyard confusion and public embarrassment.
After 11 years of trying, Chas Blair reports relief from constipation within two hours using Adlerika, a glycerin buckthorn and saline mix that acts on both digestive levels. The advertisement claims a full cleansing of the stomach and bowels and urges readers to try Adlerika with endorsement from H. H. Sorg, a local druggist.
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