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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1931
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Theo Stahlhut and children spent Friday evening at the Louie Bodermann home. Numerous visits highlight a busy period with relatives from Cedar Falls, Oelwein, Waverly and Sumner sharing time, birthday celebrations and local events.
A flurry of Sunday visits and birthday celebrations spanned the South of Town area. Families including Essman Schuldt Buhr Niedert Peters Holm Peters Holm Peters west to Dettmering shared time at various homes while others visited Waterloo area contacts and the Sassman households.
Denver notices celebrate the arrival of a baby daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Diekman. Additional items note a Waterloo couple’s marriage, Elaine Steege’s recovery, local garage construction, a costly barn fire, new grocery stock in Waterloo, a Shell Rock sale preparation, and various community updates including a wedding anniversary, service station opening, and hospital training in Des Moines.
Friday brought the end of the school year in Douglas district number one with Miss Madonna Cooney teaching. A Sunday picnic on Carl Neuendorf's lawn drew a large crowd for games and visiting. Roy Austin moved his barber shop to Hawk Eye and to the August Bremer house, ready to work. Multiple local visits and gatherings are noted, including church luncheon plans and various family visits among residents from Fredericksburg, Waterloo, Des Moines, and Oelwein. Emory Henry was appointed city marshal.
Mr and Mrs Charles Alcock host visitors including Herbert Jahnke of Tripoli and Bessie Tucker family. Alwin Maurer and Bertha Estrem from Tripoli join Ernest Lindfield group. Clyde Clary and Fred Ackley visit Charles Stephen in Dresden township. Lawrence Taylor hosts relatives from Grover Fredericksburg and Frederika. Martin Richman and family visit Henry Meier south of Frederika. Llwellyn and Melvin Broadie visit C L Bowers. Leslie Broadie Ira Luesenhop guests of Will Ager and F B Ager. R A Grover and Vivian visit Waterloo midweek.
Waterloo visitors and home gatherings fill the week with calls from Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Nerge and others. Weddings occur as Clara Nerge and August Hunemueller wed at Tripoli Lutheran church, with guests and dinner for about one hundred.
Mr and Mrs August A Buhr and families visited the Charles Krueger and Westendorf households Wednesday evening. The Fred Westendorf silver wedding anniversary near Oran drew many relatives Thursday. Louis Pries hosted a birthday gathering with Erwin Schwake and family among the guests. Sunday afternoon calls went to the Erwin Volker home and Herman Zell hosted Waverly visitors. The note ends with Mr and Mrs Henry Haar and others.
A series of social visits and gatherings are reported in Tripoli and nearby towns. Families including Sell, Rieck, Zell, Kno ploh, Warnke, Prohl, Kuhl mann, Rosenow, Seehase, Geisfeldt, and others attended birthday parties, dinners, and a 26th wedding anniversary. Henry Tegtmeier and Henry Seehase are noted as visitors or hosts in several homes.
A large group gathered at the E. H. Homan home Sunday to help Mr. Homan observe his birthday anniversary. Relatives and friends from Waverly and Tripoli joined in various observances including Herman Thieman’s birthday and Mrs. Herman Banser Sr.’s 60th birthday. Attendees included Ed Platte and Ed Schoenbeck families, Wm. Beisner and Leo, and several Banser, Jaschen, Zander, Hennings, Buenecke, and Denver families.
Mr and Mrs Henry Buenger Mr and Mrs Ed Buenger of Tripoli Art Aschbrenner and Mrs Henry Aschbrenner Ed Braun and family of Sumner Mr and Mrs Ed Westendorf and Mr and Mrs H W Banser and families receive a special price on 9x12 Floortex rugs at 5.95 and one 18 by 36 rug free.
East of town Mr and Mrs Fred Seehase and children spent Sunday at Fred Holm s home. Hilda Rieck and sons Lorenzo and Arnold visited at Louie Pines home. Carl Radiske and children of Waverly and Will Kirchmann visited Fred Mohlis Jr. Ernest Schwerin and family visited Friday evening. Theodore Kasemeier visited Rob Aschbrenner Sunday. Richard Schwake and son Paul visited Gust Jaschen. Leslie Sell and apyg visited Bert Schnadt. Henry Seehase visited Gust Giestfelt. Bert Schnadt and daughters visited Art Herman near Klinger. Frank Schwake did repair work at his farm last week. Will Rieck and family visited Theodore Kasemeier Thursday evening.
George Darnell a section hand 38 confessed in court that his plan to get even with a foreman who fired him caused a St Louis San Francisco passenger train wreck near Henryetta Oklahoma on August 18 1929 resulting in 13 deaths and many injuries The motive was revenge against the foreman.
Feodor M. Zyavkin, general manager of Amtorg Trading, failed to obtain a time extension to stay in the United States as a visitor. The Labor Department disclosed the action, forcing his departure from Washington.
Mrs. Ernest Homan hosted relatives and friends for a Sunday event marking Mr. Homan's birthday. The Leithas and Mary drove to Shellrock to visit kin. C H Linon traveled to Charles City to see daughter. Ed Leitha hosted visitors including Mrs M Hays of Waverly. Eleanora Priests from West Union visited kin. H G Turner and Virginia visited Waterloo, and their car caught fire on the way home, burning wiring and delaying return to Sunday night.
Norman Selby known as Kid McCoy and listed at San Quentin has applied to Governor Rolph for a pardon. The case centers on the prize fighter seeking clemency from the state executive.
In Leroy District No 2 the annual examinations begin May 7 with tests in reading arithmetic and grammar. Dorothy Webster Laura Regent Vera Regent Lloyd Dilly Edmund Web each posted perfect or near perfect marks in hygiene and spelling. Elmer Nerge and Paul attended. Laura Aegerter and others were noted for review and decoration preparations for the room.
In Philadelphia Pennsylvania a group of youths brandishing revolvers and wearing masks held up ten members of the St Thomas Aquinas Catholic club at a parochial school. About 250 dollars was taken. The incident is being investigated by local police.
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