Turkey Drawing for 30 hens set Friday in Tripoli
A Tripoli Commercial club event sponsors a drawing for 30 hen turkeys. Tickets are distributed by 39 local firms and paid on account until 2 30 p m Friday. The drawing occurs at 3 p m at the American Savings Bank corner. Turkeys weigh nine to 12 pounds and are fresh frozen. Participating firms names appear in another ad. Traders in Tripoli are excluded. Winners must be present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripoli Commercial Club
Tripoli
American Savings Bank
Commercial Club
Santa Claus
Santa
Leader
North Pole
Hearing Called On Union Election For Farmers Produce Co
The National Labor Relations Board calls a hearing at Tripoli Town Hall to decide if and when an election among Farmers Produce Co employees will be held for union representation. The International Union of Poultry House Workers has petitioned for the election and a NLRB representative will preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers Produce Co
Tripoli
National Labor Relations Board
International Union of Poultry House Workers
NLRB
Christmas School Dismissal Set For 2 15 P M
E R Shriver announces Tripoli Public Schools will dismiss at 2 15 P M Friday for Christmas holidays. Buses will return pupils home at that time. Classes resume Tuesday January 3 at the regular time.
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Tripoli
Hearing On Tripoli Community School District Start
Public hearing is set for next Tuesday at 8 p m in Waverly courthouse to review a petition for a new Tripoli Community School District. About 712 sections across Fremont Douglas Leroy Warren Frederika and Dayton townships would join the district with objections due by noon Dec 27 and reviewed that night.
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Waverly
Tripoli Community School District
Court House
County Board of Education
Fremont
Douglas
Leroy
Warren
Frederika
Dayton
Tripoli
Tripoli Independent School District
R. C. Gaard
Christmas Party of St. Peter's Womans Guild Held
Fifty seven members and guests attended the annual Christmas party of the Women’s Guild of St. Peter's Evangelical and Re formed church last Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Perry Crittenden entertained with a reading and a candlelight service was given by several members. Gifts were exchanged and presented to the Rev. and Mrs. E F Puhlmann.
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Women's Guild of
St. Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
Perry Crittenden
R. J. Bunger
Howard Tegtmeier
Carl Buenger
Ewald Kleiss
E. F. Puhlmann
Grace Lutheran Brotherhood Names 56 Officers for 1956
During the Grace Lutheran Brotherhood meeting on Thursday evening officers for 1956 were elected. Robert Kuhrt becomes president succeeding Oscar Bany. Marwin Blasberg is vice president succeeding Albert Oberlieu. Leo Sauerbrei is secretary succeeding Alfred Rieck. Clarence Nerge becomes treasurer, Raymond Guhlow succeeds Elmer Haverkamp as dartball captain, and Walter Beisner as assistant captain.
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Grace Lutheran Brotherhood
Robert Kuhrt
Oscar A. Bany
Marwin Blasberg
Albert Oberlieu
Leo Sauerbrei
Alfred H. Rieck
Clarence Nerge
Raymond Guhlow
Elmer Haverkamp
Walter Beisner
Holiday Weekend Closing Hours Announced by Tripoli Club
The Tripoli Commercial club announced year end holiday closing hours. Stores stay open tonight through Friday until 9 p m and close at 6 p m on Christmas Eve Saturday. They close Sunday and Monday, resume Tuesday. New Year’s Eve prompts 6 p m closing on Saturday December 31 with Sunday and Monday closed and business resuming Tuesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripoli Commercial Club
Funeral for William Mohlis in Readlyn
William Mohlis 77 died Wednesday in Rockford Illinois from a heart attack. Funeral services were held Saturday at Matthias Funeral Home with Rev Elmer Jacobs officiating and burial in Zion Lutheran Cemetery Readlyn. He is survived by a daughter Mrs Edmund Truitt two sisters Mrs Otto Walther and Mrs Mary Adrian and a brother Carl.
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Denver
Matthias Funeral
William Mohlis
Rockford
Ill
Elmer Jacobs
Zion Lutheran Cemetery
Readlyn
Robert Walter
Russell Walter
Lawrence Moehlis
William Adrian
Roger Holm
Fred Berger
Mohlis
Edmund Truitt
West Burlington
Otto Walther
Waverly
Mary Adrian
Westgate
Carl
Sumner
Truck destroyed by Friday morning farm blaze near Tripoli
A truck valued at 825 dollars was destroyed by fire at the E. W. Nelson farm north of Tripoli Friday morning. Ivan Ingersoll of Waverly owned and operated the grinder, which was saved. Tripoli Fire Department answered and confined the blaze.
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E. W. Nelson
Tripoli
Ivan Ingersoll
Waverly
Farmers Produce This Week Notes 20th Anniversary
Twentieth anniversary of Farmers Produce Co in Tripoli noted in a two page ad in The Leader. The firm began shipping eggs from Tripoli on December 27, 1935, now ships over 450 carloads yearly of eggs poultry turkeys corn and canned products via its affiliate Tripoli Canning Co Inc. Elmer Wilharm says payroll is 250000 with about 100 workers year round and the firms pay millions to local farmers. The Tripoli operations began in a frame building north of the Tripoli Implement Co. that building burned in the early 40s and the turkey hatchery now occupies the site.
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Tripoli
Farmers Produce Co
Tripoli Canning Co., Inc
Elmer Wilharm
Wilharm
Tripoli Implement Co
Tripoli cagers sweep two doubleheaders in five days
Tripoli High School basketball teams won their second doubleheader in a row at Fredericksburg Tuesday night. The girls won 59 55 in overtime led by Shirley Sauerbrei 24 and Darlyl Buls 23. The boys won 63 53 with Terry Dreyer scoring 16 and Carlyle Nicklaus 15.
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Cagers
Tripoli High School
Fredericksburg
Pantherettes
Trudy Nerge
Trudy
Darlyl Buls
Shirley Sauerbrei
Buls
Boys
Panthers
Terry Dreyer
Tripoli
Carlyle Nicklaus
Plainfield Games
Janet Frank to appear on NBC TV Christmas program
Janet Frank daughter of Mr and Mrs K C Frank West Union will sing on NBC TV December 25 from 5 30 to 6 pm with the Master Singers of New York City under Joe Liebling She is a soloist with the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral choir Newark New Jersey
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Nbc-Tv
Janet Frank
K. C. Frank
West Union
Fred Hildebrandt
The
Master Singers of
New York City
Joe Liebling
Janet
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choir
Newark
N. J
Christmas Edition From The Leader Delivers 20 Pages
The Leader publishes a two section Christmas edition of 20 pages featuring greetings from Tripoli area businesses and professionals marking the 1955th anniversary of Jesus Christ. Next week the paper appears one day late on Thursday due to Christmas holiday observance. a similar delay applies the following week for New Year’s Day.
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Leader
Tripoli
Jesus Christ
Virginia Mueller Seriously Ill With Bulbar Polio
Virginia Mueller daughter of Mr and Mrs Dale Mueller is in serious condition at University hospital Iowa City with bulbar polio. She was stricken last week and taken to Iowa City Friday. Her parents say she is holding her own. Virginia is a Frederika High School senior and a substitute on the girls basketball team.
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Frederika
Virginia Mueller
Dale Mueller
University Hospital
Iowa City
Virginia
Frederika High School
Four Teens Fined For Taking Beer In Wayside Inn
Four teen-agers were fined $25 and costs in Mayor Rudolph Piegers' court for taking a case of beer from the Wayside Inn. The youths, two Readlyn and two Tripoli residents, admitted the theft and had consumed six cans. The mayor suspended $15 of each fine pending good behavior and released them to their parents with privileges suspended as long as needed.
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Wayside Inn
Rudolph Piegers
Piegers
Readlyn
Tripoli
Laurel Star honors 25 year members elects officers
Laurel chapter of Eastern Star in Sumner honored 25 year members on Tuesday night December 20 and conducted officer elections.
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Laurel Chapter
Eastern Star
Sumner
Tripoli Area Surges Amid Week of Record Cold and Snow
The Tripoli vicinity endured the coldest week on record with a low of 16 degrees below zero and about three inches of light snow. Temperatures ranged from 16 below to zero on successive nights as three inches of snowfall melted slowly from highways.
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Tripoli
E. C. Biermann
Christmas Services Planned by Community Churches
Community churches in Tripoli outline Christmas programs for December 25 with services at 8:15 German Holy Communion and 10:00 English worship featuring a sermon "The House of Christmas." A church council meets at 7:30 p.m. and Christmas Eve programs are planned. Donations for treats are encouraged.
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Tripoli
Christ
Church Council
House of Prayer
Wm. Hurmence
Warner Electric
Parsonage
Alice Krueger
Chevrolet
Lowell Goodenbour
Karl Asmus
Chas Smith
Gatches
WMT
WCAL
Extension Office Opens in Frese Building Tripoli
Bremer County Extension office moves to new downtown Tripoli location in the Frese building. Equipment and furnishings were moved Saturday morning with help from Farmers Produce Co and Tripoli Implement Co. Richard Mathews and assistant Karl Asmus adjusted operations and were back to regular schedule by midweek.
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Bremer County Extension Office
Frese
Tripoli
Farmers Produce Co
Lloyd Hodges
Oscar Bany
Tripoli Implement Co
Richard Mathews
Karl Asmus
January Term Opens in Bremer County District Court
The Bremer County District Court will open January 3 with Judge Tom Boynton on the bench. Grand jurors report January 4 at 10 a.m. and trial jurors report January 10. The lists name jurors from Bremer, Fairbank, Readlyn, Sumner, Janesville, Tripoli, Waverly, Denver, Sonia, Plainfield, and Merl Simpson among others.
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Bremer County
Bremer County District
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Alfred H. Bock Sr
Mardell Mae
Maynard Klemp
Otto Klemp
St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church
E & R Women’s Guild
Grace Brotherhood
Iowa
the Canning Company
F’burg
Fayette
Darlyl Bull
Stout
Plainfield
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Robert Holm
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Charles Kuepker
Leo Scharnhorst
Ed Bany
Grace Lutheran Church
Brotherhood
Church of Choice
ST. Peter’s
Evangelical and Reformed
Ewald F. Puhlmann
Pastor
Lester E. Gatch
Grace Lutheran
William F. Goetz
New Tripoli
Paul Duncomb
Wilbur Mahlstedt
Hollis Niemeyer
Walter Steward
Ray Zimmer
Ewald Hoppenworth
J. W. Siils
Evelyn Donlon
Cecil Schneer
Ralph Bolte
Ernest Brandt
Arthur Hay
Rita Ann Hastings
M. E. Kettner
Ruth deNeuf
Lewis Gambaiani
Ernest Otto
Barbara Barr
Marguerite Moehling
Robert Iserman
Margaret McLean
Esther Niewehner
Edwin Zelle
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