Declamatory winners named from high school contest
Public School Notes reporting the high school declamatory elimination winners across classes. Senior champions include Viola Hackbarth Lucinda Dohr mann Arnold Zander Muriel Tiedt Robert Sorg and Rosalea Water man. Juniors represented by Orval Harmening and Dahl ia Krueger. Sophomores selected Lois Frese Ruby Bathke Lydia Skeries and Howard Rebholz. Home contest scheduled for February tenth at the opera house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola Hackbarth
Lucinda Dohrmann
Arnold Zander
Muriel Tiedt
Robert Sorg
Rosalea Waterman
Orval Harmening
Dahlia Krueger
Lois Frese
Ruby Bathke
Lydia Skeries
Howard Rebholz
Opera House
First Grade Readers Track Reading Progress This Year
First graders under Miss Oleson read from Cordis My Second Primer and earlier Elson Pre Primer and Elson Primer. Fourteen students join the dental honor roll list in two weeks: Bernice Koch Jeanne Doty Donna Mae Ackman Bobby Scott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordis
Elson
Bernice Koch
Jeanne Doty
Donna Mae Ackman
Bobby Scott
Jeannette Morf
Patricia Hale
Maxine Peters
Second Grade News From Tripoli Iowa 1933
Naomi Berlin added to the dental honor roll making eight honorees. Students Donna Matthiesen and Ralph Fink assist this week as perfect spelling test scores shine. Letters to Noreen Miller, saxophones, xylophones, and a health contest mark the page along with penmanship book progress and subtraction practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomi Berlin
Donna Jean Matthiesen
Ralph Fink
Noreen Miller
Noreen
Marie Hanff
James Crittenden
Irma Piegers
Ray Fink
Lorence Westendorf
Otto Mundtrom
Third Grade Clothing Booklets Prepared
Miss Boyle’s class completes the binding of clothing booklets after a week of study. Students finish the project ready for presentation and use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Boyle
February Party Highlights For Hosts
February is ideal for house parties with cold weather and fireside warmth. Three key dates shape a hostess program Lincoln's Birthday February 12 St Valentine’s Day February 14 and Washington’s Birthday February 22 guiding festive themes and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
St. Valentine’s
Washington
Lincoln and Washington Birthday Party Decoration Ideas
Suggests patriotic decor using red, white and blue crepe paper for Lincoln and Washington Birthday parties. Recommends red and white carnations, heart place cards, Valentines, and harmonious trimmings. Proposes room decorations around the home and cherry concept for Washington’s Birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
School News Item Details Doll Costumes and Library Cataloging
The piece describes sewing a doll for booklets covers with six costume materials including a linen blouse wool skirt or trousers and leather shoes with rubber soles. It explains library organization into four groups A through E with cards, lending rules, and a February librarian Ruth Berlin with assistant Alvin Crinklaw. A bookcase is being built from orange crates varnished and lined with enamel paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Berlin
Alvin Crinklaw
Fourth Grade Health Chart Highlights Perfect Week
Fourth graders under Miss Chesebro note a perfect health record this week for Lucille Everding Beryl Goodenbour Zenovia Henning Mercede Hesse Ruth Kroll Millard Pries and Betty Stuckenberg Zenovia Henning has a perfect daily score for three weeks The class visited a winter health circus and saw a corn ear bear a squash giraffe with yellow bean legs a potato bodied elephant with peanut legs and a carrot head
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucille Everding
Beryl Goodenbour
Zenovia Henning
Mercede Hesse
Ruth Kroll
Millard Pries
Betty Stuckenberg
Presidential Birthday Party Games and Cherry Desserts
February party ideas by Betty Webster describe a presidential guessing contest to test guests on U S presidents from Washington onward with ordered lists as a challenge and offer prizes for winning couples. Cherry themed desserts include pits removed and nuts inserted in salad and cherry ice or molded desserts decorated with red candy for a festive touch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Washington
United States
Valentines and Presidents Day party treats shapes
The text suggests themed refreshments for Valentine's Day and Lincoln’s and Washington’s Birthday. It proposes heart shaped sandwiches and cookies, star shapes for Lincoln’s Birthday, hatchet shapes for Washington’s Birthday, and creamed dishes served in varied shaped cases with molded salads suited to February celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Washington
Vegetable animals march into a tent labeled good health
Readable fragments describe vegetable animals moving toward a tent marked good health, creating a vivid, surreal scene. The brief image implies a playful or metaphorical display rather than a concrete event or outcome.
Sixth Grade Journal and Class Activity Report
Miss Conklin's class documents a week of nature study on birds naming the crow meadowlark and goldfinch noting birds sighted with dates and places. They cover westward history basic percent problems in arithmetic, verbs in English, and February poster project with Lincoln's boyhood and book checkout tracking led by Arnold Waterman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Violet Shipp
Arnold Waterman
Baking Hints for Party Cookies and Shapes
A simple cookie recipe suited for festive occasions with shaping ideas for Lincoln, Valentine and Washington events. Ingredients include butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, and chopped nuts. Method covers creaming butter, mixing, chilling, rolling, cutting, decorating, and baking about ten minutes.
Bonnet Brown Copyright Notice 1932
Copyright notice from The Bonnet Brown Corporation Chicago dated 1932 indicating legal protection and ownership of the work or materials produced by the company. Includes standard attribution to the Chicago office and year of publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnet- Brown Corporation
Chicago
Fifth Grade Health Contest Captains Named
The fifth grade chose up sides for a health contest and named captains Frederick Ambrose and Jack Frese. Frederick’s group is The Good Health Club and Jack’s is The Keep Clean Club. Both groups push to lead. In English the class studies principal parts and tricky irregular verbs. The eighth grade wrote two person dialogues for composition practice aimed at possible presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Ambrose
Jack Frese
Frederick
Jack
I HA CAMP FIRE Hike by Camp Fire Girls
The camp fire girls hiked Tuesday night traveling to Bungers pasture with Miss Chesbro and Miss Sturch. They left school at about 4 30 and returned shortly after six after starting the fire cooking eggs and bacon. Scribe Ellen Webrand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Chesbro
Miss Sturch
Bungers Pasture
Scribe
Ellen Webrand
Miss Hattie Carstensen Returns After Illness
Looking Backward in the Leader's Files notes Miss Hattie Carstensen returning to Waterloo after several weeks at home due to measles. Also recalls deaths, visits, market prices in Tripoli, health travel to Frisno California, and local community updates including staff changes at Tripoli House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Carstensen
Waterloo
Albert Fulcher
Frederika
Bertha Eichman
Tripoli
Florence Bennett
Frisno
Calif
Theodore Schuknecht
Ern Ladd
Frank Carson
Fairmont
Minn
Fred Hildebrandt
Louise Mullenhaupt
Tripoli House
Arthur Kilburn
Carrie Heideman
Geo. Jahnke
Denver
Bell Telephone
Ladage
H. C. Jungblut
Hazel Hanner
Carrie Franklin
Ten Years Ago February 7 1923 News Briefs
January sales report shows Wm Ambrose moved 15 Ford cars three quarters were new. Community club invites reach 600 for supper and meeting on February 15. Carl Schwere dies in city after two month illness from pneumonia. C H Smith travels to Ames for ten day short course. A H Pan zer ships more livestock in week than any prior year period. 18 cars shipped Sunday and Monday plus other days. Mr and Mrs E E Kelly of Riceton Sask Canada visit A W Buechele then depart. J C Fink visits Denver to see Louis Hartung in poor health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Ambrose
Ford
Carl Schwere
C. H. Smith
Ames
A. H. Panzer
E. E. Kelly
Riceton
Sask
Canada
A. W. Buechele
J. C. Fink
Denver
Louis Hartung
Five Years Ago Notes From Local Reels Feb 1 1928
Obituaries report Mrs. Hans Neilsen dying in Iowa City after gall bladder surgery. Henry Schumacher 72, prominent Tripoli resident, dies after brief illness at his son Ernest’s home. A chimney spark caused a fire at Wm Propp residence. J F Arthur leaves for Colville Idaho due to brother Charles illness. Frank Beggerow and wife visit Randolph Minnesota with Walter Drape family. Paul Pockles of Anamosa visits his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Neilsen
Iowa City
Henry Schumacher
Tripoli
Ernest
Wm. Propp
J. F. Arthur
Colwide Alene
Idaho
Charles Arthur
Frank Beggerow
Randolph
Minn
Walter Drape
Paul Pockles
Anamosa
Theo. Pockels
Weather Lore in a Punny Dialogue
A chiropractor jokes about predicting rain by sensing it in a patient’s bones. The patient asks about the weather man, highlighting a playful exchange on weather cues and intuition.
Hogs butchered in Buckeye farm yard by night raiders
Buckeye Iowa farmers report two Hampshire hogs, about 150 pounds each, butchered in a barnyard Friday night. Nehring notified local marshal and sheriff after discovering the theft Saturday. Investigators found blood in a corner and car tracks near the gate but no leads to the attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckeye
Arthur Nehring
Hampshires
Nehring
Mr. Nehring
Hubbard
Thompson
Eldora
Notice of Probating Will in Bremer County Iowa
Notice that the draft last will and codicils of L. J. Smith, deceased, is on file in Bremer county Clerk of District Court. Probate is set for February 20, 1933 at 10 a.m. at the court house in Waverly to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Bremer County
Iowa
L. J. Smith
Waverly
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Superior Immediate Relief
An advertisement asserts Bayer Aspirin dissolves cleanly and leaves fine powder from competing tablets, warning that others feel rough on delicate throat and stomach membranes while Bayer does not depress the heart, promising immediate relief from headaches colds sore throat neuralgia neuritis lumbago rheumatism.
Legal Transfers Prepared by Bremer County Abstract Co
Weekly transfers ending January 28 1933 show Shores Mueller Co to Lutheran Mutual Aid Society for 1 dollar with fractional land descriptions in sections 15 92 12 and 25 92 12. F C Pipho to Edwin Zelle 1 dollar all ne TMw section 9 91 14 north of railroad. C O Ludwig to W G Atzbaugh 1 dollar east 60 feet of west 126 feet of lot 2 block 32 Emmons addition Sumner. Esther Golnick Volker to Herman Steege 1 dollar lot 6 and west 52 feet lot 7 block 64 M N LeValley addition to Waverly. August Engelbrecht to Maria Engelbrecht 1 dollar parts of lots 1 2 7 8 block 90 Harmon LeValley. A patient rang a young doctor on his birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bremer County Abstract Company
Shores-Mueller Co
Lutheran Mutual Aid Society
F. C. Pipho
Edwin Zelle
Ludwig
W. G. Atzbaugh
Emmon
Sumner
Esther Golnick Volker
Herman Steege
M. N. LeValley
Waverly
August Engelbrecht
Maria Engelbrecht
Harmon & LeValley
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Public
Miss Oleson
Milroy
Mary Jeane Buechele
Robert Selck
Miss Chesebro
Betty Webster
Miss Conklin
L. W. Vanderlinden
Miss Ensminger
Matter Nik
Him
A. M. Stegeman
Sorg Drug Store
E. C. Claus
Paul Schober
Bankers Life Insurance
Des Moines
Buhr
G. A. Tjernagel Chiropractor
F. W. Hale Res
W. H. Wehrmacher
Fred Rewoldt
First National Bank
H. W. Krueger
Ambrose Bldg
Tripoli Produce Co
M. M. Kingsley
Herman Kleiss
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