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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1962
Page
5
Local news lists numerous visits from Readlyn and nearby towns. People from Waverly Waterloo La Porte City Cedar Falls and Davenport visit relatives and friends throughout the weekend. Several families host guests and share meals and outings across Iowa communities.
Tripoli Commercial Club will treat the high school baseball team to a Waterloo White Hawks game Friday July 6. A school bus departs at 6 30 p m from the Tripoli Town Hall with players coach Ronald Donn and club members. The event honors the team for winning the 1962 high school sectional tournament.
Sunday evening guests at the Wayne Quass home included Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Quass and Pat from Minneapolis, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Quass of Randalia, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Ostrander and family of Winona, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner and family of Fairbank, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Clemmons and family of Fern. The event honored the Kenneth Quass family as they move to California.
Nora Kowalsky returned Sunday from a week visiting Waterloo La Porte City Cedar Rapids and Marion. She traveled 202 miles by bicycle visiting the Rich family Dalton Kowalsky Arnold Kowalsky Harvey Kowalsky and Kenneth Halver along the route.
Kevin Kirchhoff entertained ten classmates at his seventh birthday party on a Wednesday afternoon. Sunday supper guests at Mr. and Mrs. Jene Kirchhoff included Mr. and Mrs. Gus Redies, Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Niemeyer and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Redies and Steven. John Poock and Janell, home from the fair, returned Monday after a Seattle visit with Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Wood and family.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Sauerbrei attended the Pape reunion at West Union on Sunday.
On July 3 1962 the District Court of Bremer County Iowa appointed Herbert E Blume as Executor of the estate of William C Blume deceased. All debts must be paid to the undersigned and all claims presented to the court for allowance. Dated July 3 1962 Tripoli Iowa. Attorney W C Hahle Sumner Iowa.
Engaged Sumner couple announces the betrothal of Carol Ruth Stevens to Frederick Kruse. No wedding date set. Miss Stevens, a 1962 Sumner High graduate, works at McAloon’s Super-Valu. Kruse is employed at Harwich Furniture in Waterloo.
The 39th annual Dreier reunion gathered 68 members at Sumner park for a picnic dinner. 1963 officers elected: Albert Rieck president, Walter Pleggenkuhle vice president, Mrs Otto Wendt secretary treasurer. Oldest member Henry Pleggenkuhle. youngest James Meryl. Members from Bellevue Gladbrook Waterloo Waverly Hawkeye Tripoli Sumner.
The Interstate picnic in Oelwein drew Mr. and Mrs. Walt Steward and family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lindquist and family, Mary Bremer, and E. H. Stehn of Waverly.
Fremont residents hosted and visited relatives in Clear Lake Readlyn Waverly Dunkerton Sumner and Buck Creek areas. Guests included Edwin Meiners Yang and Lloyd Moeller gatherings with families from Ames Bradley and Lori, Buck Creek, and Luverne Minnesota wedding attendees.
Sunday afternoon at Reeds Lake Hampton featured a picnic attended by the August bride Mrs. Gene Woodcock and families of Elmer Clausing Bremer LaVerne Platte Vernon Wikner plus Mr and Mrs K H Hoppenworth. Parkersburg's Mr and Mrs Lawrence Oltrog ge and sons joined Mr and Mrs Wilbert Bunger at Vernon Wikner's home.
Mr and Mrs Kurt Meswarth and Mrs Emma Harmening visited B F Moeller in Sumner Sunday afternoon for his birthday.
Mrs Doris Bergmann attended the funeral of Louis Bergmann in Clarksville on Wednesday afternoon.
The Veterans Administration plans a $1 million expansion of research facilities at Veterans hospital in Iowa City. Dr Gordon Spendlove, director, says the addition will broaden the hospital's research program run with the university, enabling new projects and recruitment of staff.
The official state canvass shows the judicial amendment to remove judges from partisan politics carried by 40,000 votes. It received 158,279 affirmative votes and 118,215 negative votes, giving the yes side 57 percent of 276,494 total ballots. The measure required only a simple majority.
Fran cis Kutish of Iowa State University reports that farm size is increasing but less than three percent of Iowa farms exceed 500 acres. He sees no evidence of a shift toward factory style agriculture in the state.
Former President Herbert Hoover will attend the dedication of the library museum at the Hoover Birthplace Foundation Park in West Branch on August 10. The library museum, completed last winter, will house Hoover's personal papers. The dedication falls on the former president's 88th birthday.
The State Board of Regents approved Dr. George Easton as dean of the State University of Iowa College of Dentistry. Easton previously served as acting dean after the resignation of Dr. William Simon last fall.
Pvt. Larry L Lohmann FR 17- 602-946 serves in Co L 3rd BN 4 TRS at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. The latest addresses list the serviceman and unit as part of a community notice for personnel stationed away from home.
Mrs. Leona Ladage is employed at O'Brien's Sundries where she began duties Monday.
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