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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1957
Page
1
Tripoli Community School district reports overall enrollment about 618 this year, up from 604 last year. Town enrollment up 11 to 417, with 235 in grade school and 193 in high school. Kindergarten 23, first 32, eighth 28. high school freshman 47, total district students may reach 618 with rural schools remaining open. Labor Day breaks observed. new high school planned with rural campuses closing next fall.
Bremer County earned 15 ribbons for 4 H entries at the Iowa State Fair. Blue four red ten and one white ribbons were awarded for clothing exhibits. Demonstrations featured Carol Tiedt and Karen Buhr of the Maxfield Merry Maids 4 H Club with Finishing Touches and Janet Hildebrandt with Garden Fresh Please. Rich list of dress and clothing ribbons followed for several county exhibitors.
The annual chicken dinner by St John’s Lutheran will be family style on Wednesday Sept 4 starting at noon and continuing until sold out. Adults cost 1 and children 50 cents. Also notes a vacation in twin cities with Arnold Stromer and John Henning family.
The TriPoli Leader will mail one day later due to the Labor Day holiday. Publication moves from Wednesday to Thursday, with deliveries Thursday afternoon in Tripoli post office boxes and Friday morning on routes. News and advertising deadlines extend one day for next week only. Regular schedule resumes the following week.
Tripoli businesses will close Monday for Labor Day per Tripoli Commercial club. Post Office will close with no window or rural delivery or star route service. Schools in Tripoli Community School district also suspend. classes resume Tuesday.
Paul Fuchs son of Dr and Mrs Em Fuchs Crane Creek returned from Winnipeg Canada where he worked with the Mission Builders of the American Lutheran church surveying cities and inviting people to join the church. On the return trip he and fellow Wartburg College choir members stopped in Minneapolis for concerts for the Lutheran World federation. He will resume studies as a Wartburg junior next week.
Barbara Schwarze daughter of Mr and Mrs Randolph Schwarze returned home Saturday from Scholtz Memorial hospital Waterloo where she had been hospitalized for several weeks. Her condition is reported as very good.
Coach John Mullen lists thirty one hopefuls for the opening 1957 season two weeks away. Four lettermen, three seniors and a junior, return amid concerns of inexperience and quarterback search in a nine game schedule with four home games. Roster includes seniors David Block Jim Block Bob Boeckmann Larry Buchholz John Diaz John Lenis Bob Mohling Bob Osborn Loren Ratliff Dick Towne Ron Lohmann. Patterson brothers transfer from East Waterloo. Two last year letter-winners did not report. Assistant: Stan Higdon.
Bremer County fiscal year ending June 30 shows total sales of $20,288,500, up from $18,268,101 last year. State remittance of sales tax reached $507,212.27, with per capita taxes at $26.85, among the highest in Iowa. Tripoli, Sumner, Waverly, and rural areas all rose.
Dr. H. A. Shivnani a Bombay native is government poultry inspector at Farmers Produce Co. in this city. He arrived in December 1955 and will be joined here by his wife and three sons who remain in Bombay this fall. Sunday visitors to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Forbers and Judy included Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schweer of Sumner.
Patricia Chapin daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth A Chapin and Ronald H Warner son of Mr and Mrs Wm H Warner were married Friday evening at Congregational church with Rev E Forrest Beyers officiating. The bride wore a nylon organdy gown with Venice lace, matron of honor was Marion Chapin, best man Richard Buhr, and ushers Kenneth Morgensen and Merlin Chapin. Out of town guests numbered 150. A reception followed at Tripoli Town Hall. The couple planned a California wedding trip and will reside in Washington DC where Mr Warner will attend RCA electronics school.
A drought in the Tripoli vicinity eased this week with over two inches of rain in five days. Rain totals included 1.3 inches Friday, a trace Saturday, .07 Monday and .92 Tuesday. Temperatures dipped to the 40s at night and crept into the 70s and 80s by day, with a high of 85 Thursday. The rain aided crops, which held up through the dry spell and should benefit from moisture. Weather observer C W Ryan records show 83 to 85 degrees daytime and 53 to 64 at night across days Aug 21–27. Mrs H T Lau entered Summer Community hospital for observation Monday afternoon.
First prize in the Tripoli Treasure Chest drawing will be $50 after the $25 prize from last week went unclaimed. S. A. Maurer failed to claim last Saturday at 9 p.m., so the prize carries over and an extra $25 is added. Mrs. R. O. Wikner won the $10 consolation prize.
Betty Ross and Donald Buenger wed in First Methodist Church Kirksville Missouri on a August 17 ceremony led by Rev John W Ward. Organist Gloria Chua and singer Katie Brown accompanied a nuptial program as guests welcomed the couple to a home at 616 West Jefferson Kirksville after September first.
Supt. and Mrs. Eldon R. Shri ver entertained 85 members of the Tripoli Community School faculty and wives at a coffee Saturday morning before the teachers meeting.
Winners crowned in the Meadowbrook Country Club annual tourney at Sumner include Joe Sexton defeating Norm Thiess 6 and 5 in the championship flight. W. A. Buckley Tripoli defeating John Gorman 5 and 4 in first flight. Mel Harms defeating Dale Lehmkuhl 1 up in 19 holes in second flight. Lloyd Johnston defeating Chuck Morgan 1 up in third flight. Cal Harms defeating M. J. Schneider in fourth flight. Bill Bowling defeating Wayne Bergmann in the special flight. Doug Morgan beat T. A. Shriver Tripoli for the junior title. Cups and a club dinner with a golf film followed.
Large scale work in Tripoli and vicinity advances on schedule aided by favorable weather. A new south west edge road through Lahmann property to Highway 93 will unlock building lots and improve access to the west high school. Curb and gutter work progresses across six blocks with three finished and more started.
Sumner captured its second straight ABC baseball championship at Waterloo beating Festina 5 1 in the title game. Denver Cedar Valley league champions reached the semifinals before losing to Festina. Sumner ace Chuck Anderson dominated Festina as Sumner’s offense supplied support amid a grudge atmosphere from a prior protest suspensions.
Twenty one persons from Bremer county attended the Wapsipini area committee meeting at South Town park Monday night. After a chicken and sweet corn supper by Elmer Wilharm, reports were heard from district chairmen. All county towns except Sumner were represented.
Five trial notices posted for the September term of Bremer County District Court led by Judge William P. Butler. Cases listed include civil suits, equity matters, and law actions such as O'Keefe & Towne vs Springer and Opperman, and numerous criminal docket additions with OMVI charges and related offenses.
Readlyn special report notes new instructors for St. Paul’s Lutheran School Donna Beier of Reinbeck will teach upper grades while Mirian Gerken of Napoleon Ohio handles the lower grades The school enrolls 57 pupils Rev W A Ave Lallemant has bought a school bus and daily transports 27 pupils over a 37 mile round trip
Dona Schumacher was honored at a miscellaneous shower in St. Matthew's parish hall Readlyn with about 130 guests from Waterloo Manchester Lamont Waverly Denver and Readlyn. She will marry Daniel F. Buhr Jr. Sunday at 2 30 p m in St Peter's Lutheran Denver. She is the daughter of Arnold and Denver Schumacher and a nurse. he is son of Dan Buhr Sr a Wartburg College student.
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