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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1957
Page
3
A flurry of Sunday evening calls and weekend visits populated area households. Many guests traveled from Waverly, Des Moines, Waterloo, Grinnell and Cedar Falls to spend time with local families, grandchildren, and friends, with some staying through Sunday. A few couples and individuals attended weddings, shared meals, or planned brief stays, reflecting a tight-knit community social pattern.
Quick relief claim promising desensitization in fifteen minutes for itching from bites and contact with instant-drying formula. Advertises use day or night for conditions like insect bites and foot irritation, with brand Dreyer Drug.
A sequence of social visits and family celebrations from San Jose to Dubuque highlights include a "Queen for Day" gathering with the Stetser and Schu knecht families, Arline Zander vacationing in Columbus, and several dinners and visits among neighbors. Notable events feature the birth of William Roger Welsh at Xavier Hospital in Dubuque and Rhonda Kay Dettmer’s arrival in Sumner, with relatives traveling from Battle Creek and Utica to share in ceremonies and greetings.
Bremer County earned multiple prizes at the Iowa 4-H state convention in Ames in June 1922. Judy Sickles was elected secretary of the Iowa 4-H girls clubs. Mary Werner won best grooming and joined the Franklin Blue Belles leader roster. Karen Buhr and Sharon Buss performed in music numbers and joined a 151 girl chorus.
Lloyd Oltrogge, a junior in agricultural business at Iowa State College, will be among 14 students to receive on job training this summer through a college program. He trains at Farmers Grain Dealers Assn in Des Moines under Manager Fred Maynald and college staff, earning college credits and studying grain market operations and association management, with a report to be prepared on his training.
The Chapin families gathered at South Park on Sunday for a large family picnic honoring Dr and Mrs Art Long and daughter Connie as they travel from San Francisco to Washington DC. Dr Long serves in the medical service of the U S Army. Attendees included Myron Chapin Henry Shell Keith Lovejoy Merlin Chapin Mervyn Johnson Janesville W D Chapin E W Kirchhoff Vernon Kirchhoff Dennis Kirchhoff Judy Lyman Chapin and families along with Reverend A C Woodcock and Kenneth Chapin.
The Bergmann family reunion gathered Sunday at Tripoli park with attendees including Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Biermann and Ervin, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Schumacher and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Bergmann and Clara, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Kuecker and family, Mrs. Lena Hartmann, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ladage and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Young and family, Earlville. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hartmann and Dorothy, Dubuque. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hartmann, Readlyn. Wm. Steinbronn, Mrs. Elda Soldwisch, Donald and Vernon, Waverly. and Art Bergmann, Waterloo.
The American Legion Auxiliary will meet at the Tripoli Town Hall on Tuesday July 9 at 8 p.m. Hostesses will be Mrs. Darlene Holm Mrs. Delpha Frese and Mrs. Anna Slack. Installation of officers will be held.
Russell Amos aged 17 of Hawkeye and Maureen Gonnerman aged 19 of Sumner secured a marriage license along with Mervyn F. Meier 30 of Cedar Falls and Esther Haverkamp 26 of Waverly. Roland George Trinklein 29 of Corpus Christi Texas and Joan Meyerhoff 22 of Readlyn also obtained licenses, as did Lyle Kasemeier 19 of Sumner and Barbara Hammetter 18 of Sumner.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Bitterman were guests of honor Sunday June 23 at the home of their daughter in Cedar Falls to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary dated June 22. Attendees include Maude Bitterman Nora Springs James Brandhorst Hudson Leonard Palmer Hazelton Art Linke Oelwein Robert Palmer Hazelton Mark Brandhorst and grandson Hud son.
Corrine Ann Heine, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Heine, was baptized Sunday afternoon at Grace Lutheran Church by Rev. William F. Goetz. Sponsors named were Mrs. Marwin Blasberg Mrs. Harold Quade Mrs. Victor Schneer and Mrs. Wayne Lynch. Sunday evening dinner guests at the Heine home included the Lynch and Schneer families from Grundy Center Denver Waterloo and Waverly along with the Blasbergs and Henry Blasberg.
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