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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1966
Page
7
Local residents from Waverly Readlyn Sumner and surrounding towns visited relatives and friends across multiple communities. Dates show Sunday and Saturday gatherings with extended family, dinners, and birthday celebrations including Jeffrey's sixth birthday at the Robert Sassman home.
Mr and Mrs Gordon Carolus of rural Waverly welcomed a daughter born December 8 at Mercy hospital Waverly The baby weighed 8 pounds 13 ounces Mrs Carolus is the former Phylis Schweer daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Schweer
Sunday supper guests of Mr and Mrs Theo Kelling in Waterloo. Mr and Mrs Fred Brase visited Readlyn. Families of Mirs Lang Sumner and Timmerman Sowers Fredericksburg hosted by relatives. Gronemeyer family with Forrest and Mrs Burch Meriden. Rosenthal attended Waverly junior high Christmas concert. Richard Struck observed first birthday. Diane Heideman’s 13th birthday. Karen’s second birthday today.
The Fremont Farm Bureau ladies and friends hosted a Christmas party and potluck at Tripoli Town Hall on Sunday evening with over 50 attending. The committee included Mrs Ed Lohmann Mrs Floyd Johnson Mrs Ruth Woodcock and Mrs K H Hoppenworth. There was a gift exchange.
Charles Heinemann attended as junior groomsman for his brother. Carleth Wedemeier poured coffee and Mrs Dale Mulford served punch. Esther Wedemeier and Mrs George Roberts cut the wedding cake.
Mr and Mrs Robert Fink attended the wedding Saturday afternoon at First Presbyterian church Waterloo for Karen Ross and Larry Letchford They were evening guests in the Leon Letchford home Cedar Falls The Letchford family formerly lived in the Tripoli area.
The Women's Chorus of SCI Cedar Falls presents a Christmas music program on Thursday December 15 at 4 00 p m on Channel 7. Sandra Bergmann daughter of Mr and Mrs Lyle Bergmann formerly of Tripoli will sing with the chorus.
Mr and Mrs F C Dodd and family of Waverly and Mr and Mrs Edward Rosenthal attended a post nuptial shower Friday evening at Rueben Buhr home in Oelwein honoring Mr and Mrs Daryl LaGrange of Cedar Rapids.
Howard D. Pigg of Dubuque receives his Doctor of Education degree today at Colorado State College. Mr and Mrs L L Moeller attended the National Association of Home Builders show in Chicago on Tuesday through Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Fink and Fred Fink visited Sunday with Herman Nevermann at the Sunset Home in Denver to help him observe his 90th birthday.
Mrs Minnette Bishop of Nora Spring was honored at an open house on her 99th birthday. She attends church and meetings regularly.
The annual elementary Christmas program will be held Monday evening at 7 30 in the high school gym. Students from kindergarten through sixth grade will perform The Little Blue Angel. Main parts include Randy Gielau Terry Steege Kevin Bartling Diane Speder Jody Kurtz Kathy Canfield and Pat Young. Public attendance is invited.
The 90th birthday of Herman H. Nevermann was observed Sunday at Sunset Home Denver. Open house from 2 to 4 p m drew relatives and friends from Tripoli and nearby towns. His Seattle son Homer attended, another son William and daughter in law Mrs Wm Doerring of Villa Park Ill visited Monday, and Carroll resides in Kansas.
Harold F. Melton of Denver wed Sally Fisher Schaper on December 2 in Grinnell at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Hiser. She is the daughter of Harri son Fisher of Los Angeles and he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Gielau of Denver. After a brief honeymoon to Minneapolis they will run the Meltonian Pet Shop in Waterloo.
Brandenburg Krueger VFW Auxiliary held a Monday pot luck and Christmas party at the Post Home with 15 members and 12 guests. Hostesses were Delores Anhalt, Marie Beevers, Lois Bauer and Angie Boeckmann. Bockhaus Bartels Post Legion Auxiliary met Tuesday. four Christmas cheer boxes were delivered by the committee. Christmas carnival money was sent to the department secretary in Des Moines. Hostesses were Mrs. Gladys Rettig and Mrs. Kay Osborn.
Local social notes report the annual turkey convention in Des Moines from Wednesday to Friday. Visitors include Lucille Dilley and Betty Figanbaum visiting families in Waterloo and Fairbank. A birth is announced at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo for Paul and Marlee Tiedt’s son. Rena Smith and others visited medical patients in Rochester.
A record crowd of more than 10 000 voting delegates capped the two day Milwaukee convention of the National Farmers Organization. Bremer county attendees included Stan Nolte Walter Wilkens and others. Delegates authorized the board to begin steps for a milk holding action to raise prices and secure a common marketing plan with a goal of $6 05 per cwt for grade A milk and $5 00 for manufactured milk plus transport differentials.
Sophomore Allan Alcock from Tripoli is on Wartburg College's varsity basketball team this season. The guard is counted on by Coach Buzz Levick to lift the Knights after a 12-10 last winter. The team opened with wins 87-58 over Westmar 69-49 over Augsburg and 80-59 over Gustavus Adolphus.
The Denver High School music department will present a Christmas concert on Sunday December 18 at 2 pm in the high school gym. Vocal selections come from mixed chorus girls glee club and several small groups including sextets and quartets plus soloists. The concert band and instrumental ensembles feature flute brass and woodwind groups.
John Putney of Ackworth grew a giant cockscomb this summer. The plant reached a height of five feet with a blossom about fourteen inches wide.
Mrs. H. J. Frese, local TB Christmas Seals chairman, reminds donors to return their contributions promptly. New envelopes and reminders will be sent to those who have not replied. Posters prepared by Tripoli special education class were sent to Des Moines and praised by the Iowa Tuberculosis and Health Association.
Bremer county voters re elected six Extension council members and chose Richard Reynolds as the new member from Leroy township. Elected terms run January 1, 1967 to December 31, 1968 with elections held in seven of fourteen townships. The Extension council governs the county extension service.
The first Readlyn Senior Citizens gathering took place December 10 at the Readlyn VFW hall. Free bingo entertained attendees. prizes went to the eldest man and woman and the top couple by combined years. A turkey door prize concluded the event. The VFW provided facilities and coffee. A committee will organize the 1967 program under Bremer county Economic Opportunity program auspices.
Iowa artist R. C. Paulson, 80, known as Grandma Moses of Marengo County, has drawn and given away over 300 ballpoint pen drawings in the last three years. His subjects are mostly Iowa landscapes in black and white and color.
Dean Downing of Postville returned from Harpers Ferry with a record 12-pound walleye pike, the catch weighing 12 pounds and measuring 29 inches long.
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