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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1952
Page
5
Des Moines visitors and numerous local calls fill weekend social pages. Edwin Tegtmeier and others host and visit families in Sumner, Waverly, Waterloo, and Tripoli, while relatives from Cedar Falls Chicago and Fairborn visit, and church and club events are reported alongside births and birthdays.
St Peter s Evangelical and Reformed notes worship in German at 8 30 am Sunday school 9 15 morning service 10 30 Thursday choir 8 pm Saturday council 7 30 pm in schoolhouse Wednesday Feb 6 Robert W Shields pastor Sunday school 10 am classes every Sunday morning worship 11 00 12 00 choir singing sermon Songs in the Night from Psalms and Job Women s Fellowship holds all day quilting bee Thursday Jan 31 10 am pot luck dinner pastor s membership study class meets Saturdays 9 am till Easter Five students two girls three boys enrolled oyster stew gathering 30 men future debate on Korean situation open to all to speak.
Mr and Mrs John Ohlendorf hosted birthday gatherings at their home on Sunday and Monday with friends from Tripoli Fredericksburg and area visiting for cards and lunch. Grace Lutheran and area churches announce services and events including council elections and sewing for New Guinea. Band Mothers Club meets Feb 6 at Mrs Sassmann’s home with local hostesses.
Dinner and afternoon guests gathered Sunday at the Harry Weltzin home to honor Mr. Weltzin on his birthday. Attending were numerous couples and families from Denver Tripoli Waterloo Grundy Center Jesup Waverly Sumner and nearby areas, including the Wille Hay Lohmann Nolting Seeha se Delfs Malzahn Rohrssen Happel and others.
Mr and Mrs H C Juel and family spent Sunday with his parents Mr and Mrs Julius Juel at New Hartford. M A Woodcock Geraldine and Coleen of Aplington attended church here Sunday and visited W D Chapin. A pot luck dinner at Chapin’s home included Rev A C Woodcock Mr and Mrs E W Kirchhoff and Dennis. Vernon Kirchhoff also visited. H W Krueger Luella Lofquist Robert Rathbone and Alice Krueger went to Leroy Minnesota to see Mrs Krueger’s brother Henry Rosenthal, who is recovering from a conveyor accident.
Mr and Mrs Fred Oltrogge honored Mr and Mrs Ed Lobeck Waterloo on their 20th wedding anniversary at a surprise gathering of friends and relatives held in the Oltrogge home Saturday evening. An anniversary cake decorated with yellow roses and white bells was presented to the couple by the hosts. On Sunday guests entertained in the Ed Lobeck home were Mr and Mrs Conrad Sell Mr and Mrs Henry Lobeck Mr and Mrs Fred Oltrogge and Carol Ann Kuhlman. Robert Fulton was a portrait painter before he became an inventor.
Susan Mary Oberheu, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Oberheu, was baptized at Grace Lutheran church during the 10 30 worship service last Sunday. Sponsors included Mrs Albert Oberheu and Mrs Carl Buenger. A Sunday dinner in Susan Marys honor followed at the parental home with the Buenger and Oberlieu families and Rev William F Goetz attending.
Kenneth DeVries and Sheldon junior student acted in the class play Charm School. Their mother, Mrs. Waldo De Vries, also played a role in Charm School during her high school years.
Mrs. Herbert Watson of Sheldon earns her fifth prize in jingle contests by taking home an automatic laundromat as the latest award.
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