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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1962
Page
5
A busy weekend finds Mr and Mrs Rudy Koch of Waterloo hosting and visiting with neighbors across Sumner Waterloo Oelwein and Marshalltown. Numerous couples and families share weekend meals, Saturday dinners and Sunday gatherings with the Judisch Segebarth Harms and related households across several towns including Waterloo Sumner Waverly and Grun dy Center. The notice highlights many small social calls and dinners without broader events.
The Band Mothers will meet at Tripoli High School on Wednesday February 7 at 7 p m for a business meeting. The March gathering will be a guest night with expected attendance.
Michael, son of Mr and Mrs Jene Kirchhoff, is confined to home with scarlet fever.
Randolph Schwarze and T. H Boevers drove to Des Moines Saturday to meet Mrs Schwarze and daughter Harriet arriving from Denver. They spent the weekend at their farm home, then were taken to Des Moines Monday to board a plane for Boston. Miss Schwarze will enter Boston General hospital for further treatment after prior brain surgery in Denver.
H Duane Bockholt special agent in Bremer county for Farm Bureau Insurance Services attended a Des Moines meeting on Jan 19 honoring agents who aided Life Insurance Co to reach one half billion dollars in force by Dec 31. Bockholt earned the honor for his December life insurance production.
Mrs Harley Bergmann Read lyn Mrs Arlie Bergmann Mrs Wm Seelhammer and Mrs Harry Juel members of the bowling team visited Mrs Melvin Bergmann and Mitchell Tuesday afternoon and presented her with a gift.
Vernon Kirchhoff Lloyd Kingery Lawrence Snelling Jerry Snelling and Arlan Moeller of Readlyn traveled to Boone on Monday to participate in the State Farm Bureau tournament.
Mr and Mrs Ed Olejniczak and Frances along with Mr and Mrs Hans Schulz and family were supper guests Sunday at Dennis Olejniczak home in Janesville to honor Lonnie s first birthday.
Weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Gene Vincent include Mr and Mrs Wm Litwiller who recently returned from Laos and will soon depart for Africa. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Carl Schwemm and family of Waverly and Mr and Mrs LeLand Bergmann who helped Fred Sell of Sumner celebrate his 80th birthday Sunday afternoon.
The Bible class will meet Friday at 8 p m in the home of Oscar Bang. The public is invited. Rev A T Rollene, teacher.
Vernon Tonne is announced as the winner of the Carafe Coffee Server giveaway at O'Brien's Sundries Fourth Anniversary celebration held to mark the milestone.
Mrs. Eldo Kehe was discharged from Allen Memorial hospital in Waterloo after a brief stay and returned home on Wednesday.
An 8 pound daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Lavern Brase Readiyn Sunday at Sumner hospital. Mr and Mrs Donald Ladage Cannon Wash are parents of an eight pound daughter born on Jan 30.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Bruns entertained Saturday evening in honor of Craig s second birthday. Attending were Mr and Mrs Dan Kirchhoff and Pam Emelia Koch Mr and Mrs Ed Bruns and Linda Mr and Mrs Bruce Spurrier and family Waverly Mr and Mrs Allen Sell Cedar Falls and Mr and Mrs Lavern Moyer and Teresa Waterloo.
William Maurer and Mr and Mrs Wm Happel and Mr and Mrs Virgil Peters attended the 58th annual Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Iowa convention in Des Moines last week as delegates for Readlyn Farmers Cooperative Readlyn a member of the association
A Social Security Administration district office representative will be in Waverly at the courthouse on February 1 and 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, per district manager Earl T. Johnson.
Mrs Lavern Lageschulte was discharged from Scholtz Memorial Hospital in Waterloo on January 24 after a major surgery on January 10 and a hospital stay since then.
Mr and Mrs C C Eichmann were supper guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Larry Busse Sumner. Kent Eichmann was celebrating his second birthday with family and friends at the gathering.
Mr and Mrs R F Klemp spoke by phone Sunday evening with their son and daughter in law the Danny Klemps who reside in Oahu Hawaii.
Mrs. Wilbert Frahm hosted a kindergarten class for the sixth birthday of Janus on January 16. Mrs. Bert Bock returned home Wednesday from Sumner hospital where she had been a surgical patient.
Mrs. Hermen Peters had surgery Monday at Sumner hospital. Dr. C. R. Barry underwent surgery Thursday at Scholtz Memorial hospital in Waterloo. Mr and Mrs Leslie Schmidt moved Thursday to their new home purchased from Roger Wagner.
Henry J Richmann born March 1 1872 in Bremer county son of Johann and Dorothea Richmann married Sarah Bruns October 6 1895 at Klinger operated a Denver Iowa meat market until 1905 then moved to North Dakota He died in Valley City North Dakota January 22 aged 89 Final rites January 24 at St Paul Lutheran Tower City burial at Buffalo North Dakota Survived by six sons and four daughters 35 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren Preceded in death by three brothers two sisters his wife and infant daughter.
Herman Iben of near Manchester narrowly escaped injury when the ground before his garage sank. He dropped into a hole and crawled out, discovering an old well or cistern about four feet square and fifteen feet deep, filled with water to within four feet of the top.
Mr and Mrs Vern Bockhaus were wed in a double ring ceremony at St Pauls Lutheran Siegel on Sunday January 14. The bride Marilyn Bahlmann is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley Bahlmann and the groom is son of Mr and Mrs Harry Bockhaus of Frederika. They will reside in Frederika.
PAUL F JOHNSTON outlines National Future Farmers of America Week Feb 17 24 noting the FFA aims to train tomorrow s farmers through vocational agriculture studies. It traces FFA origins from 1928 Kansas City and Public Law 740 in 1950 chartering the organization, with 275 Iowa chapters and about 10000 members. An emphasis lies on leadership civic responsibility and careers in agriculture overseen by local state and national officers with teachers and state supervisors as advisers.
The State Safety Department suspended or revoked 9,065 motorists last year, 63 fewer than 1960. Drunk driving caused the most revocations with 2,310 licenses revoked for drunken driving. Three speeding convictions led to 503 revocations, and 1,608 suspensions were for habitual traffic violations.
A lemon tree at Cadlee Meat processing in Mechanicsville produced ripe fruit for the first time. Four lemons ripened on the three year old tree, each fruit measuring 12 inches in circumference.
Governor Norman Erbe announces candidacy for a second term to advance a program for progress on a pay as you go basis. He says state progress should move swiftly in education jobs economy safety and mental health, with the first term delivering services capital improvements and maintained surplus without new taxes. He cites a $20 million capital improvements boost for colleges and a 25 percent rise in state school aid.
Bremer County National Farmers Organization held a Monday evening meeting at Douglas school with guest speaker Ed Humple staff organizer for Bremer county who outlined the NFO collection bargaining plan for agriculture. The session announced that NFC president Oren Lee Staley and Gordon Schaeffer are slated to speak at the Grand Theater Oelwein on February 15 at 1 30 p m.
The Iowa Taxpayers Association says the federal budget submitted to Congress by President Kennedy would require more than $1 billion in support, with per capita costs touching about $387 for every Iowa resident.
U S Representative Neal Smith of the fifth district has introduced a bill to ban nepotism in all federal offices departments and agencies across three branches. He says the measure is the first since before 1900 and that nepotism has grown more common each decade over 190 years.
Governor Norman Erbe has received over 100 letters from children in Yamanashi Japan seeking a letter writing campaign with Iowa students. The letters were sent by Hisashi Amano, governor of Yamanashi, who visited Iowa last year. Interested schools should write to the Governor’s office at the State House in Des Moines.
Fort Madison district court judge Hu iskamp rules town law raising marriage license ages to 18 for men and 16 for girls is valid. The case involved a 15 year old girl and a 20 year old man with parental consent who were denied a license. Roosevelt reviews Great White Fleet at Hampton Roads on return from world cruise, Feb 22, 1909.
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