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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1934
Page
7
Waterloo and surrounding towns report social visits including Miss Velma Grahlman from Sumner at the Paul Buenzow home. Numerous gatherings, church events, and a meeting of the R N A at the Legion hall are noted, with a focus on family visits, illnesses, and local entertainment.
Congregational Church notes list Sunday school at 9 30 morning worship at 10 45 Christian Endeavor at 7 30 official board meeting Thursday at 7 orchestra practice Thursday seven thirty air practice Thursday at 8 The notes are by pastor E F Byers and list church activities and rehearsal times.
Pastor E A Hanff presides with Sunday school at 9 30 a m and service at 10 30 a m. Communion in German and announcements for Friday. Christmas program practice Sunday 1 30 pm. Choir practice at usual time. Catechetical instruction Thursday and Saturday afternoon. Orchestra rehearsal Monday 7 pm.
St Peters Evangelical outlines Sunday school at 9 30 and an 1130 service with a 1030 am Iman service. Christmas program practice at 130 pm and a Ladies Aid Society meeting moved to 7 pm with social hour. Choir rehearsals Thursday include a fixed choir at 7 and a male choir at 8. Bring lunch and friends for the party.
The Fremont No 8 school pupils and Miss Marie Kuhrt will present a program at the schoolhouse four miles south and a half mile east of Tripoli Tuesday evening December 18 at 8 oclock A free lunch will be served Admission 10c Everyone is cordially invited Program on another page
Twenty five years ago December 9 1909 H C Jungblut and wife returned from Chicago after business and sightseeing J H Carstensen came back from Otter Tail county Minn on land interests H H Gies to Tama county for land business Mrs C C Schuknecht and children headed to California for the winter Win Dilley returned from Chicago with Dr H C Jungblut Helsman auto bought by Jungblut. weather delayed Dilley driving it home Markets listed: Eggs 24c butter 35c potatoes 50c veal 5-6c hides 9c chickens 9c hogs 7.60-7.75 corn 50c
A hard snow and sleet storm hit the region last Thursday causing thousands of dollars in telephone damage. Miss Rose Sievers wed Herman Krueger at the Little Brown church in Nashua on Wednesday at 2 PM. Wm. Buchholz is recovering from a two week rheumatism illness. Historic market prices from ten years ago include eggs 50c, chickens 7c to 18c, ducks 15c, geese 13c, hogs $8.30, sows $8, veal calves $5 to $7.
Mrs. Chris Kruse died at her home Thursday morning after a long illness. Death was due to apoplexy. Bremer county pioneer Johana Peters observed her 98th birthday on Saturday December 7 at the home of her daughter Mrs H C Deterding in this city. C H Eichmann recovered from two broken ribs to resume truck driving for A H Panzer Produce Co. Market figures from five years ago listed eggs 36 to 50 cents, chickens 12 to 17 cents, ducks and geese 13 cents, good hogs 8 dollars 60 cents, sows 7 dollars 80 cents, veal calves 6 to 11 dollars.
The Iowa road system undergoes major renumbering with No. 63 replacing the former No. 59 in parts of Iowa and Minnesota. No. 59 becomes United States No. 163 in some regions, while No. 63 stretches from Ashland Wisconsin into Minnesota and through Chester, New Hampton, Artesian, Denver, Waterloo, Tama, Oskaloosa, Bloomfield to Turrell Arkansas. Signs will be updated and the changes shown on the Dec 1 1934 highway commission map.
The American Legion Auxiliary met Tuesday evening, December 10, with eighteen members attending. After the business session, the group enjoyed a Christmas program including song, a Christmas story read by Mrs. E. C. Claus, a gift exchange, and a Christmas contest, followed by lunch hosted by Mrs. Walter Springer, Mrs. W. H. Warner, and Mrs. Fred Ambrose.
A wry meditation on a vocation of giving straight talk about romance. The speaker wonders how long a counselor who offers blunt, sincere guidance to those hoping for love could endure the emotional toll and skepticism of clients.
Blindfolded bats demonstrate remarkable navigation catching flies and flying through openings without hitting walls or strings. Researchers say a sixth sense guides their wing movements, enabling precise aerial feats.
A humorous exchange from Stray Stories Magazine notes a postal order for 75 cents from Australia sent by Uncle Angus to celebrate the narrator's twenty first birthday. The daughter responds with sarcasm as the scene tightens on distance and ceremony.
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