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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1964
Page
2
The 4 H county committee meets April 27 at 1 15 pm at the County Extension office Tri poli for a planning session focusing on club activities and youth programs.
Four H club notes cover Dutiful Daughters and Maxfield Rangers meetings in April. Dutiful Daughters members discuss grooming improvements with demos on yellow cake pastries healthful snacks and roll shaping. Maxfield Rangers present tool shed care ideas and lamb savings talk with Red Cross drive captions planned.
Sumner notes celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Herman Flanscha with a family dinner and open house at St Pauls Lutheran church parlors. Attendants and nine grandchildren plus two great grandchildren are mentioned among guests and relatives.
The Tripoli Leader reports community events and personal news. Details include dinner for the bride’s brother’s family, hospitalizations after a wreck near Sumner, club meetings of Past Matrons and Bremer Rebekah Lodge, initiations, patient updates for Dennis Miller, weekend visits across Iowa, confirmations, and residents traveling or returning from Long Beach and other locales.
Numerous Waterloo area residents hosted and visited family over the weekend. Ada Farnum moved to Cedar Falls Western Home. Several powerfully names appear: Harlan Heckman, H H Lease, Guss Treloar, Bonnie Bathke, Robert Bathke, Roger Donaldson, Minnie Westendorf, Elmer Timm, Ralph Dailey, Bobbie and Roger, and Carroll Pleggenkuhle among others. Hospital stays noted for Betty Bravener and Reno Bravener. A mix of Sunday visits, multiple dinner gatherings, and birthday observances in Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Ottumwa, Guttenberg, and other area locales.
The article notes a shift in attention from the sheriff race to contests for state representatives and state senators. About 420 candidates are running for the general assembly as a temporary reapportionment plan creates 59 Senate seats and 124 House seats.
Iowa appoints John Chrystal a 38 year old Coon Rapids farmer and banker as banking superintendent replacing retiring Clay W Stafford of Ames who served since 1961. Chrystal was named by Governor Hughes and previously sat on the state board of regents.
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