Commercial Club considers United Drive in Tripoli
A regular Commercial Club meeting discussed creating a United Fund drive in Tripoli. Robert Wells of the Waterloo Community Chest outlined benefits, noting higher totals, donor efficiency, and full accounting. The group formed a Commercial Club committee to start organizing and choose a drive model and structure.
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United Fund
Tripoli
Ste
Robert Wells
Waterloo Community Chest United Fund
Bee Commercial Club
Grace Lutheran Brotherhood Meeting Reports Two Films
Grace Lutheran Brotherhood meets tonight at 6:30 with Walter C. Fergemann in charge. Jerry Oberlieu and Mark Wikner will report on the Junior Bible camp held at Wartburg College. No. Films to be shown are Last Date and Tuna Fishing. Refreshments will be served by a committee chaired by William Kuker and others. The Ladies' Aid Society votes to sponsor two stained glass windows costing $900 for the church.
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Grace Lutheran Brotherhood
Walter C. Fergemann
Cmp
Wartburg College
Jerry Oberlieu
Mark Wikner
Illiam A. Kuker
Lawrence Block
Paul Hartmann
Victor Kelsey
William E. Mueller
Erwin Volker
Ladies’ Aid Society of Grace Lutheran Church
Junior Mission Band Plans Parents Night at Grace Hall
The Junior Mission Band and leaders of St. Lutheran Church will host a Parents Night at Grace Hall on Friday evening at 8. The program features committee chairpersons led by Marie Kuhrt and assistance from Oliver H. Bunger, Bert Oberheu, and Mrs. Uemuller. Refreshments will be served to members and guests.
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Junior Mission Band
Lans
Grace Hall
So ‘Lutheran Church
Gram
Arie Kuhrt
Pes
Oliver H. Bunger
Jaebert Oberheu
Uemuller
North Tripoli Weather Brings Pleasant Summer Vibes
Vacationers enjoy the North Tripoli climate as weeklong conditions ranged from warm days in the high 70s to low 80s and cool nights in the 50s to 60s. Rain totaled over half an inch with scattered showers and a heavy early Wednesday storm. High 90 on Sunday, low 49 on Thursday, per local observer E C Biermann.
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Tripoli
E. C. Biermann
VFW Auxiliary Plans Poppy Sale at Town Hall
VFW Auxiliary met Tuesday evening at the town hall with Mrs Bertha Holm as hostess. Plans were completed to hold the poppy sale on Saturday September 25.
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VFW
Bertha Holm
Ruth Weidler Undergoes Emergency Appendectomy
Ruth Weidler daughter of Rev and Mrs V D Weidler is hospitalized at Scholtz Memorial Hospital after an emergency appendectomy.
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Ruth Weidler
V. D. Weidler
Scholtz Memorial Hospital
Bremer County 4-H Fair Opens With Dairy Day Tomorrow
The annual Bremer County 4-H Fair began Tuesday with judging of 4-H and FFA entries. Dairy Day program and parade from the courthouse at 1 pm headline tomorrow. Dairy Day Queen crowned after. Free acts, games, races, weigh-ins, a Waverly band concert, livestock parade, and top acts expected tonight and tomorrow.
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Bremer County
Court House
National Guard
Waverly Municipal Band
Return of Corporal Roland Lau From Germany
Cpl Ro land Lau returned home Friday from Germany where he completed service in the Army.
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Readlyn
Roland Lau
Germany
Tripoli Schools Set to Open for Year on Aug 30
Tripoli public schools open for the new year on Monday August 30 with a half day first day and regular classes starting Tuesday Supt E R Shriver announced Tripoli High School will offer courses in commerce industrial arts social science science mathematics English speech home making physical education vocational agriculture safety education and driver training Extracurricular activities include football basketball baseball dramatics journalism music and band A fifth bus was purchased to ease crowding and seat growth for the year
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Tripoli
Supt. E. R. Shriver
State Department of Public Instruction
Board of Education
Fifty Jurors from County to Report for September Term
A panel of 50 trial jurors will report at 10 a m Monday Sept 13 at the court house Waverly for the September 1954 term of district court Clerk Mary E Loucks announced Judge William P Butler Mason City will preside Jurors summoned include from Tripoli Charles Murray Jr Wesley Bockhaus Joyce Koons and C H Walker Readlyn Earl Tiedt Denver Jim Bigham Albert Brandt John Brandt Bertha Miller and Charlotte Moehling Plainfield Jennie Cagley Nellie Nichols Chris Juhl and Randall Smith Fairbank H F Meier Janesville John R Bolen Jr and Janette Vossberg Nashua Joe Chandley Sumner E E Graves Rich Viola Rucker Florence Seegers Elsie Thies Emma Tibbitts Leslie Miller and Elsie Siegfried Waverly Leland Ebaugh Herman Knief Leo Bull Elmer Crausing Lois Pabst Anna Nuss Orval Steege Minnie Wood Harold Smith Tray Lane Carl Rasmussen Kae Concannon Bessie Jacobson Sisse Osincup Elda Rohde Richard Stephenson Charlie Gepnard Joyce Stumme Viola Drape Albert Graeser John Holub Harrison Jarchow Verna Tillmanns
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Court House
Waverly
Mary E. Loucks
William P. Butler
Mason City
Tripoli
Charles Murray Jr
Wesley Bockhaus
Joyce Koons
C. H. Walker
Readlyn
Earl Tiedt
Denver
Jim Bigham
Albert
Leslie Miller
Elsie Siegfried
Leland Ebaugh
Herman Knief
Leo Bull
Elmer Crausing
Lois Pabst
Anna Nuss
Orval Steege
Minnie Wood
Harold Smith
Tray Lane
Carl Rasmussen
Kae Concannon
Bessie Jacopson
Sisse Osincup
Elda Rohde
Richard Stephenson
Charlie Gepnard
Joyce Stumme
Viola Drape
Albert Grae
Rev Goetz Family to Attend Choir Clinic in Minneapolis
The Rev William F Goetz and his family depart Friday for a Church Music Clinic in Minneapolis on Saturday, then tour northern Minnesota before returning to Tripoli August 27. Pastors organists and choir directors from the Midwest attend. Paul J Christiansen conducts. Choirmaster's Day features organ and choir music displays. Rev A A Krause will serve Grace Lutheran during the absence.
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William F. Goetz
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Tripoli
Middlewest
Paul J. Christiansen
Concordia College
Moorhead
Paul A. Schmitt Music Co
A. A. Krause
Siegel-Frederika
Grace Lutheran Parish
Goetz
Staack Weds Corkery at Immaculate Conception Sumner
Loretta Jane Staack daughter of Mrs Carl Westendorf and Robert John Corkery son of Mr and Mrs John Corkery were married last Thursday morning at Im maculate Conception church with Rev Joseph F Kleiner presiding. Ruth Steege was maid of honor Jack McSweeney best man and ushers were James Huebner and James Duffy. After a wedding trip to the west the couple will reside on the Corkery farm near Sumner where the bridegroom farms. Mrs Corkery is a Gates Business College Water loo graduate and has been bookkeeper at Small Sons garage.
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Sumner
Loretta Jane Staack
Carl Westendorf
Robert John Corkery
John Corkery
Immaculate Conception Church
Joseph F. Kleiner
Ruth Steege
Jack McSweeney
James Huebner
James Duffy
Corkery Farm
Corkery
Gates Business College
Waterloo
Small & Sons Garage
Marlys Mohlis Weds Cletus Goodenbour at Buck Creek
In Sumner County Special Marlys Lorraine Mohlis daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard Mohlis married Cletus H Goodenbour nephew of Mr and Mrs Henry Nacke Sunday evening at St John s Lutheran Buck Creek Rev Hugo Beyer officiated Bernice Mohlis sister of the bride was maid of honor Mrs Reinhard Rucker Tripoli the bridegroom s sister was bridesmaid Best man Reinhold Pavelec Tripoli ushers Ralph Mohlis and Kenneth Mohlis The couple will live in Tripoli Mr Goodenbour is employed at Sumner Packing plant
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Reinhold Pavelec
Tripoli
Ralph Mohlis
Kenneth Mohlis
Goodenbour
Sumner Packing Plant
Farmers Urged To Take Part In ASC Ballot This Week
Alvin Nuss, Bremer county ASC chairman, urges all farm owners to vote in the annual ASC elections. Ballots mailed countywide. must be postmarked by Friday or delivered to the county office by 5 p.m. Friday. State goal set at 100,000 votes. three community committee members and two alternates per township will be elected. convention Aug. 30 in Waverly.
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Bremer County
ASC
Alvin Nuss
Nuss
Voice of Agriculture
Iowa Asc
Waverly
T N T 4 H Girls Awarded Trip To Iowa State Fair
T N T 4 H girls Geneva Eick Wanda Mueller receive award trip to state fair showing sewing machine correction and safety, with club leaders listed. Other blue ribbon demos include Be Alert Dont Get Hurt and various sewing and clothing skills by multiple clubs and leaders.
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Geneva Eick
Wanda Mueller
T.N.T. 4-H
T.N.T
Art Rieckenburg
Clarence Judas
Stanley Feutchwanger
Gleora Buls
Marlys Oberlieu
Dairy Cattle Congress
Herbert Scharnhorst
Elmer Buls
Carol Blume
Jolane Tegtmeier
Albert Oberlieu
L. J. Magnall
Hadley Brewer
Eleanor
Esther Bahlmann
Carolyn Rundle
Judy Werner
Franklin Blue Belles Club
Sharon Leistikow
Lois Thurm
Franklin
Gerry Newell
Connie Stokes
Jolly Jackson Club
Carol Tiedt
LaRue Dettmering
Maxfield Merry Maids Club
Lois Moeller
Franklin Blue Belles
Marilyn Meier
Maxfield Merry Maids
Wedemeier graduates from 24th Inf Division NCO Academy
Pvt. Roland J. Wedemeier, 19, son of Mr and Mrs John P We demeier of Denver, recently graduated from the 24th Infantry Division Non-Commissioned Officer Academy in Korea. He returns to Battery C 52nd Field Artillery Battalion as a cannoneer after training in ground combat techniques and leadership. Prior to service he attended the Minneapolis College of Music and worked for Wedemeier Electric Service in Denver.
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Roland J. Wedemeier
John P. Wedemeier
Denver
24Th Infantry Division
Korea
Army
Wedemeier
24Th Division
52Nd Field Artillery Battalion
Roland
Minneapolis College of Music
Wedemeier Electric Service
Fifteen 4-H Girls Nominated for Dairy Day Queen Contest
Fifteen 4-H girls were nominated for the 1954 Dairy Day Queen contest at the Bremer County 4-H Fair tomorrow. Nominees include Mary Joens, Roberta Munsterman, Carol Groening, Joanne Benning, Marlys Heine, Barbara Blume, Patricia Anders, Dorothy Remley, Janice Eggleston, Donna Nuss, and others from groups such as Douglas T.N.T., Peppy Pals, Jolly Jacksons, Sumner Stars, Wa verettes, and Wapsie Whirlwinds. The event is scheduled for Thursday at Waverly.
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Bremer County
Funeral Rites Today For Delbert Thurm Killed In Accident
Funeral services are held for Delbert Thurm 17 after a car wreck near Readlyn. Relatives attend as Sheriff reports a fatal neck injury from the ditch collision four miles southeast of town. Survived by parents Roy and family, siblings Laverne Roger Lois Doris Ruth and Mrs Merlin Buenzow, with local grandparents noted.
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Readlyn
Delbert Thurm
Matthias Funeral Home
Veaver
Zion Lutheran Church
Elmer Jacobs
John Bast
Lawrence East
Harvey Schneider
Lawrence Judisch
James Leistikow
Verlyn Bohle
Delbert
Here
Harley Ehlert
Roy Thurm
Leroy Platte
Henry Stumme
Retail sales and tax totals in Tripoli rise in first quarter
Iowa State Tax Commission reports Tripoli merchants sold 400 200 in the first quarter generating 8 004 in sales tax. Bremer County totals reach 79 246 on 3 962 300 in sales with Waverly leading receipts. Sumner and other county merchants added 15 241 and 16 350 respectively. Waverly merchants averaged 4 970 per shop. Tripoli 0 167. Sumner 7 056. others 3 246. Mr and Mrs Walter Sommer attended the Bedard reunion in Hudson.
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Tripoli
Iowa State Tax Commission
Bremer County
Waverly
Sumner
Walter Sommer
Bedard
Hudson
Red Sox To Meet New Hampton Nine There On Aug. 25
Tripoli Red Sox won 6 to 1 at Fredericksburg with four runs in the fifth and two in the seventh. Ralph Fink had a triple in the fifth and Ray Fink hit a two run homer in the seventh. Fredericksburg’s Wuttke homered for their lone run. Larry Poock and Bob Holm pitched for Tripoli. Tripoli travels to New Hampton for a Western division Northeastern Iowa league game on Aug. 25 under the lights against the New Hampton Chicks.
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Red Sox
New Hampton
Tripoli Red Sox
Fredericksburg
New Hampton Chicks
Tripoli
Fink Brothers
Ralph
Ray
Sauerbrei
Bob Holm
Wuttke
Larry Poock
Poock
Holm
Moeller
RHE
Burg
Sumner Nine Wins Waterloo Tourney For Second Year
Sumner defeats Urbana 13 to 0 to capture the Waterloo Daily Courier Tournament of Champions for the second straight year. Sumner, Cedar Valley league champion, earned about 450 dollars with distribution to the four other teams. Sumner will host the state American Baseball Congress tournament Sunday, facing Allison at 1 pm and others through the day as the double elimination event continues.
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Sumner
Urbana
Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo
Cubs
Tripoli
American Baseball Congress
Allison
Shell Rock Valley
Janesville
Buchanan County
Independence of Urbana
People’s Finance
Des Moines
Biermann Family Reunion At Hoppenworth Home
August Biermann clan gathered Sunday at the Erwin Hoppenworth home with many relatives present. The event included committee members Wilmer Schnurstein and Erwin Hoppenworth, and plans for 1955 committee assignments noted for Werner Wolf and Elmer Korte.
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Biermann
Hoppenworth Home
August Biermann
Erwin Hoppenworth
Arlen Bull
Mark
Mary
Marvin Harms
Logan
Michael
Louise Hoppenworth
Henry Korte
Leonard Dettmer
Teresa
George Moeller
John Bruns
Caroline Griese
Elda
Ernest Gries
Loren
Bonnie
Carolyn
Donna
Emil Redies
Werner Wolf
Wilmer Schnurstein
Marlo
Beverly
Elmer Korte
Leon
Herbert Miller
Melvin Schnurstein
Benjamin
Bonita
F. A. Biermann
H. L. Harms
John Schunemann
John Henning
Erwin Bock
Janet
Carol
Joan
Arnold Stromer
Gary
Merle and Maybeth
Ernst Hoppenworth
Scout Leaders Meet to Plan Bremer District Year
Scout leaders and district officials gathered for an annual dinner Tuesday evening at Sweet's Marsh. A turkey supper began at 7 PM as Richard Daniels, district executive, attended the meeting to outline activities planned for the coming year for the Bremer district and its Scouters and families.
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Bremer
Sweet’s Marsh
Richard Daniels
Office Closed for Vacation Notice
The office will be closed from August 14 through August 25 for vacation. Dr. L. J. Magnall.
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L. J. Magnall
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United Drive
United
Wells
J Lutheran Brotherhood
Plan Poppy Sale
Robert Corkery
Marlys Mohlis
Cletus Goodenbour
Buck Creek
Art Tegtmeier
Clara Becker
Nashua
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