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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1964
Page
1
Tripoli businessmen launch a ten day Two-Dollar Days promotion from September 1 to September 12. Merchants will give two dollar bills as change on purchases and prizes totaling over 200 dollars will be awarded to holders of matching serial numbers displayed by merchants on September 12. Participants must be customers. merchants and families are ineligible.
Jurors summoned for the September term of Bremer county district court must appear Sept 15 at 1 am at the county courthouse. Waverly jurors include Lavern Foelske Donald Bremer Albert Schroeder Dale Krueger Ronald Warner Dennis Kirchhoff Tripoli Art Gretty Mary Prideaux Corinne McGuiness W A Meyer Martha Buhr Lester Engelke Marian Harms F H Schase James Haag Wilko Schneider V J Toussaint Robert Pito Edwin Westendorf Summer AB Garner Eldon Holub Fairbank Ruben Schnurstein Ionia Beatrice Davison Roy Volker Walter Schwerin Frederika Ann Degelau Bremer Fornt Howe Janesville Eric Harms Readlyn Elmer Arns Arnold Hesse Ernest Buss Wayne Wilson Denver Floyd Beard Ruth Diekmann Romaine Kallenbach Plainfield Carrie Warkentin Martin Poppe John Sullivan Lester Homan Harrison Parrott Bess Gray Margaret Barnes Donald E Mil le Mary Ruth Hantel man Eldon Edman Ronnie Anderson Albert Cameron David Harken Buell Alvera Hahlweg Waverly
Eight Bremer county 4-H boys took part in district livestock judging at the North Iowa Fair in Mason City on August 18. Team members Lowell Tiedt Richard Gambaiani Denys Juhl and Gary Heinemann will also judge at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on August 29. They judge breeding tilts keep-or-discard market hogs grading and reasons for placing market hogs and beef steers and other livestock classes. The Cedar Rapids dairy judging coast contest on August 19 included Arlo Knoploh Greg McGinn Harlan Weer and Roger Lenius. Knoploh placed 14th in a field of 203 4-H and FFA members.
The superintendent and family travel from Colorado with weekly State to attend sessions and visit relatives. En route home Saturday they stayed with a mother in Colfax. Mrs. Howard Pigg accompanied them.
Allan Alcock of Tripoli joins 75 rural men chosen for the 14th annual Iowa Farm Sub tour sponsored by the Iowa Development Commission. The tour runs from August 31 to September 4 with participants from rural areas and families of local farmers.
Mrs Fink returned Thursday from Scholtz Memorial Hospital after a surgical procedure. She was hospitalized following an illness and is reported to be in satisfactory condition.
About 300 people attended a Sunday exhibition between Tripoli town team and the Old-timers. Proceeds of 121.00 will help finance future Tripoli town team baseball. The Red Sox beat the Old-timers 17 to 11 in a game played in cold weather. The Old-timers lineup included Clarence Spier, Ralph Fink, Walter Sommer and others.
The St John Evangelical and Reformed Church of Siegel will host a chicken ham supper on Wednesday Sept 2 starting at 5 pm at the church one mile west and 10 miles south of junction 69 and 188. Menu includes chicken or ham mashed potatoes sauerkraut peas and carrots 24 hour salad pickles rolls pie coffee. Adults $1.90 children 65 cents. Everyone invited.
Dalton Meyer reports the annual ASCS elections held Aug 19 in all Bremer townships. Newly elected community committeemen become delegates and alternates for the Aug 29 county convention at First National Bank Waverly. Terms start Sept 1. List includes township by township chairmen, vice chairs, and members.
The Tripoli Public Library will be closed September 2 and 3 for cataloging and book rearrangement. Books due on those days may be returned September 5. Starting September 14 the library opens at noon on Mondays to benefit rural children for checkouts and returns.
The sale of Mrs Rose Warnke will be held Saturday, Aug. 29 at 1 30 P M, one block east of the Wayside Inn in northeast Tripoli. Cash terms. nothing to be removed until settled. Jack C Smith Plainfield is auctioneer with Bill Teeter clerk. An ad appears on another page.
Alvin Bergmann aged 64 died Saturday at University hospital in Iowa City after a period as a patient. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Rettig Funeral home and St. John's Lutheran church in Frederika with Rev. W. H. Klein presiding. Interment followed in the church cemetery with casket bearers Lloyd Sievers Elmer Bockhaus W J Hagedorn Otto Brase Gustav Brase and J C Hassman. He is survived by his widow and six children Everett of Waterloo Clarence of Frederika Donald of Evansdale Harley and Melvin of Tripoli and Mrs Roger Andrews of Warren Michigan. a sister Mrs Lorenz Zander of Sonia.
The Cedar Valley Art Association will meet August 27 at 8 p m in the First National Bank building in Waverly.
Monies totaling 49500 were pledged toward constructing a new Thompson Nursing Home in Tripoli. The canvassing committee reported 36000 from Tripoli personnel and 13500 from the Readlyn area, surpassing the 28500 goal. A Wed meeting at Tripoli Town Hall will discuss forming a corporation with local investors present.
Bremer county 4-H home economics entries at the 1964 Iowa State Fair won six blue ribbons two red and two white in food and nutrition and collection and construction exhibits. Names include Sara Thoms Sandra Meier Joanne Fay Janet Michael Carol Wehling Betty Figanbaum Vicky Burrow Velda Pothast Diane Milius Roger McBride Nancy Brase Karen Pothast Loren Griese Keith Oltrogge and Keith Heffernan. The county displays run through Aug 30 in the 4-H section under the grandstand and the 4-H Exhibit and Educational building.
Mr and Mrs Fred Hildebrandt will move Sunday to Cedar Falls from an apartment above a drug store.
E H Kuker is listed as a patient at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo, staying under observation. The brief notice notes his hospitalization status without detailing diagnosis or length of stay.
Week's Weather IN MASON CITY HOSPITAL FREMONT Special Loren Bergmann is a patient at St Josephs Mercy hospital Mason City He was taken ill Sunday while attending a wedding at Clear Lake His address is 3rd floor room 342 84 Beaumont Drive Mason City Iowa MOVES TO FAIRMONT Mr and Mrs Louis H Fink received word that Mrs Finks aunt Ella Meier of Fairmont Minn had been transferred to the newly dedicated Lake View Methodist Home at 610 Summit Drive in Fairmont after spending since July 1963 at Pleasant View Nursing Home in St James Minn
Fifty-seven women from Bremer County attended a Farm Bureau public relations luncheon in Waverly to foster connections between rural and urban lades from various areas and professions. speakers included Mrs. Pearl Pardee, Mrs. Harmon Hildebrandt, John Siessenger, and Vince Caudle who spoke on Stop Look and Listen.
International Minerals & Chemical Corpora tion of Skokie, Illinois, was awarded an exclusive license by Iowa State University Research Foundation to develop and market tri Iodo benzoic acid, a plant regulator increasing soybean yields by 10 to 20 percent. The product, applied sparingly at flowering, redirects growth from leaves to seeds, and enhances nutrient use while not replacing fertilizer. Commercial release is anticipated in about three years after further field trials and regulatory approval.
Mrs Elinor Block librarian at Tripoli Public Library announced closure on Wednesday and Thursday Sept 2 3. State Traveling Library representatives will catalog and rearrange books. Rural school children are reminded the library opens at noon starting Monday Sept 14 and every Monday during the school year for checkout and returns.
A Social Security Administration district office representative will be in Waverly at the courthouse on September 14 and 28 from 9 to 11 a.m. and in Sumner at City Hall on September 8 from 9 to 11 a.m. Those preferring can visit the Waterloo district office in room 702 of the Black Hawk Building at West 4th and Commercial Streets or call 234 1554.
Two Tipo golfers topped flights at Meadowbrook Country Club Sumner on Sunday afternoon. Robert Kuhrt won first in the second flight and J P Snelling from Tripoli took top honors in the third flight. John Poock finished runner up in the first flight and Elda Kehe was runner up in the third flight.
Several Bremer county 4 H youths participated in the North Iowa Fair at Mason City last week. Demonstrations included bread making Host Home Hospitality by Audrey Moeller Maxfield Merry Maids Slick Tricks for the Sick by Judy Feuchtwanger and Carole Lageschulte Tens N Teens Seed Germination by Larry Pothast Towline Cowboys. Both girls demonstrations earned blue ribbons and Larry Pothast received a red ribbon. The top rated Bremer county booth was taken to Mason City by the Jacksonettes club of Janesville and earned a blue rating. The theme Peace was featured with 4 H Tops the World. Additional red ribbons went to Colleen Loveland Jacksonettes Nancy Youngblut Franklin Starlettes and Anita Klodt Readlynettes for jars of meal and jars of fruit and vegetables. Joyce Dooly TNT earned blue for two glasses of jelly. Kay Ormston Biz E Bees earned blue for Science Why nutrition Beverages and Audrey Hildebrandt Clover Teenerettes 4 H Club earned blue for Science Why in food prep showing cookie pan effects.
Mrs H J Frese is hospitalized in Rochester after foot surgery. She is staying in room 214 on the fourth floor of St. Marys Hospital.
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