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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1956
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader, official newspaper of Tripoli Iowa and Bremer County, founded 1894, published weekly with William A Buckley as publisher. Subscription rates are three dollars annually in Iowa and three dollars and fifty cents elsewhere. Public notice and local laws coverage are implied.
Pages recount holiday visits and social events across multiple towns. O'Connell family gatherings in Oelwein area, Wilma OConnell visiting Tripoli, and extended relatives in Sumner Fredericksburg and Waterloo. School programs, club activities, and patient recoveries noted along with a countywide nursery of Christmas happenings and community groups.
Mrs. James Carroll returned home Tuesday after surgery at Allen Memorial hospital Waterloo. Harold Degelau has returned.
Knittel note reads infant James Warren Teisinger baptized at St Matthew's Lutheran with Rev Dornbusch officiating. Sponsors listed include Doris Strottmann LaVern Schneider and Merle Teisinger. Also mentions the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Victor Peters at Sumner hospital and a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Rhinehart Beevers at Scholtz Memorial hospital Waterloo.
Three birthdays observed at the Will Tiedt residence in Klinger honoring Mrs Tiedt Dec 10 Mr Tiedt Dec 12 and granddaughter Mrs Berdine Lacy Dec 11. Numerous relatives and friends attend including Huebners Piehls Tiedts Schneider Lentzkows and others from Waterloo Cedar Falls and Greene. Mrs Diercks recuperating at home and a bridal shower for Irene Steinbronn hosted with fiancé Bernard Reinking noted.
Readlyn High School held its annual Christmas concert at Readlyn Community building with the pageant Christmas in Other Lands and performances by vocal and band groups under Josephine Hannawalt and David Real. James Warren Teisinger, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Teisinger, was baptized at St Matthew's Lutheran with several sponsors. after service a dinner for sponsors and families followed.
A list of social visits and holiday gatherings follows in the community notes. Individuals from Ames Cedar Rapids Cedar Falls Waterloo and New Hampton are mentioned, with several families hosting or visiting relatives during the holiday season. Major surgery and hospital visits are noted, along with several home gatherings and callers at various towns. The report captures a busy round of family and neighborhood activity around Christmas.
In Terloo a discussion with Mr. and Mrs. Alcock notes a bowling ball sized uranium piece contains enough atomic energy to supply all electricity for New York City and Westchester for over two weeks.
Four cows ready for sale including fresh or close up heifers bred back two two year old heifers fresh or close up two year old heifer. Four yearling heifers open. Also good young cattle dog open for sale.
A listings summary describes a 1950s to 1955 assortment of farm equipment including a John Deere 40 tractor with belt pulley, 7 ft mower, one-row corn picker, a 1955 John Deere combine used one year, plows, discs, wagons, shellers, hammer mill, shredder, separators, milker pumps, oat seeders, universal milkers, manure spreaders, binders, lime spreader, drag implements, an elevator, and related gear from McCormick-Deering, Wood Bros, Sears, Van Brunt, New Idea, and other brands.
A list of miscellaneous farm items includes a buzz saw cement mixer hog waterer bobsleigh Pride of the Farm hog feeders small pig feeders and related equipment such as 75 ft belt dump rake corn shelter 50 gal barrels oil brooder stoves milk cans gas barrels grain sacks cook stove shotgun heater bench grinder and motor posts horse blankets chicken feeders forks shovels and other farm tools. Components include 80 posts 28 grain sacks and 100 gas.
Loose hay about 10 tons with roughly 1,500 bales of clover and alfalfa. About 2,000 bushels of corn and 600 bushels of oats, all estimates.
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