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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1958
Page
4
Classified notice offers cucumbers for sale at 4 cents per pound by Mrs. Ernest Nuss located one mile east of Frederika. Readable line indicates direct sale from a local resident. No additional details or conditions provided.
Multiple small ads seek workers and services in Tripoli and nearby Iowa towns. A waitress and a cook are wanted in person at local eateries, a grain firm invites bids on corn and soybeans, a piano tuner offers service Aug 13 14 in Tripoli, and feed concentrates marketed in nearby Plainfield, Waverly, and Tripoli with contact numbers.
A missing power take-off piece for a combine is being sought. Contact Stanley Bockhaus at phone 28-F111 in Frederika for details or to arrange recovery.
Cards of thanks from Mrs. H. J. Frese and Mrs. Glenn Biermann thank friends for cards gifts and visits during illness at Mayo Clinic and Allen Hospital and after returning home. William C. Dravis leaves July 27 for six months training at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri as a member of the U S Army Reserve.
In Tripoli Iowa on August 6 1958 local observations note community activities and notable happenings around town, including civic gatherings and public notices affecting residents. The record highlights local voices and everyday affairs shaping summer life.
About 50 attended the 14th Schwemm family reunion Sunday at Denver Town Park. The oldest registrant was 83 year old Mrs G F Schwemm of Tripoli. The youngest was eight month old Joel Quade of Waverly. Farthest distance came from Mr and Mrs Alfred Schwemm of Pierre South Dakota. Officers elected for next year were Leonard Dettmer of Waverly president Harold Quade vice president Mrs A C Sommer Waterloo recording secretary and treasurer and Mrs Erwin Hoppennworth Tripoli historian. Arrangements by Henry Schwemm Readlyn Martin Schwemm Tripoli Carl Schwemm Tripoli and Gustav Brase Frederika.
An ordinance from the Monday meeting renames north and south streets as streets and east and west streets as avenues. The change becomes effective after publication.
M. A. Woodcock, Aplington, and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Woodcock left Saturday for Milwaukee to attend the Milwaukee San Francisco baseball game and spend the weekend there.
Mr and Mrs Robert Ambrose and family arrived home Wednesday evening after a week long trip visiting Detroit Toronto Ontario and Niagara Falls with details of the vacation included in the return.
Mr and Mrs Fred Brase vacationed at Balsam Lake Wis last week and returned Friday with notes of the trip.
A records list dairy product samples with brand names Dairy Sanitary Homogenized Sanitary Regular Walnut Regular Walnut Dairy Regular Walnut Carnation Meadowsweet Carnation Homogenized detailing sediment gravity and fat percentages. Readings show gravity around 1.031 and fat around 3.0 to 3.4 TM%.
Sixteen men and seven combines harvested 52 acres of oats at the Mrs Vern H Busse farm northwest of Tripoli on Saturday. Mr Busse was killed in an automobile collision early last June. Helpers listed include T C Reuscher Edgar Bergmann Arlan Luhring Art Petersen Alvin Brase Ernest Nuendorf and others. Lunch was served by Mrs T C Reuscher Mrs Ernest Nuendorf Mrs Arlan Luhring and Mrs Alvin Brase.
Mr and Mrs Steve Irving and boys of Nixon New Jersey travel home Friday after a 10 day visit with Mrs Leo Peacock, the mother of Mrs Irving.
Annual flower show and program at Methodist church basement Frederika Wed aft Aug 13. A 50e lunch will be served.
A birthday party Tuesday afternoon at the Block home honored Virgil Block on his 12th birthday. Guests included five children and the host family Mr and Mrs Paul Block. Lunch was served by Mrs Block. Weekend visitors from Ohio included Mr and Mrs Henry Warner and Jesse Cole of Fremont. They spent Sunday sightseeing in northeast Iowa.
Wapsie Sportsmen club asks for donated picnic tables for the annual Fish Fry on Sunday. Contact secretary K J Ruby at the phone number 65. Tables will be picked up and returned after the event. Also a Waterloo SSA rep will be in Waverly at the courthouse on August 15 from 10 am to 12 noon.
Neighbors gathered Sunday evening at the Gi Lan Bieneman home for a farewell party. The crowd read the want ads as part of the gathering.
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