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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1966
Page
5
The item catalogs numerous visits and gatherings across Sumner Waterloo Cedar Falls Waverly and surrounding locales. It lists guests from Davenport Seattle Seattle to Nashua Parkersburg Oelwein and Des Moines with multiple families hosting dinners picnics and daytime visits during a July weekend.
A dense list of local families hosting and visiting relatives and friends across Iowa and nearby states. Notable names include the Holm, Burrow, Maurer, Boevers, Ryan, Fish, Kalm, Holmstrom, Gehrke, Biermann, Za bel, Shipp, Frahm, Judisch, Callanan, Hilderbrand, Kirchhmann, and OConnell families. Readers note travel to Sumner, Hampton, Fredericksburg, Readlyn, and Waterloo with multiple weekend and weekday drops by extended kin.
Mann and family joined Fourth of July guests at the Mer vyn Meier home in Readlyn. Hazel Schaper Lucille Phelan and others returned to Chicago after a three week visit with Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Maurer. Sunday visitors at the Herman Gebert home included Charles Henninger family Leo Henninger and Patty Schmidt celebrated her 14th birthday with a supper and sleepover.
A Dreier reunion gathered 52 relatives Sunday at North Woods park Sumner starting with a noon picnic. Eldest attendee Henry Pleggenkuhle 93 youngest Myrna Sue daughter of Richard and Norma Pleggenkuhle. Officers named for the year include Harry Dreier president George Pleggenkuhle vice president Norma Plegenkuhle secretary treasurer and Walter and George Pleggenkuhle Hawkeye on the refreshment committee. Next gathering set for Gouldsberg park Hawkeye.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlies Struck had their son Jeffrey Charles baptized Sunday morning at Faith United Church of Christ. Dinner guests included Bruce Johnson and family, Leslie Huck and Larry Huck, LeZetta Struck and Carla Allison, Eu gene Huck and family, Duane Buhlmann and family, Rev. E. F. Puhlmann, and Larry Struck. Sponsors were Bruce Johnson and Larry Huck.
A Sunday picnic at North Park honored Mr. and Mrs. Donald Judisch and Mark of Spring Valley California with 66 attendees. Attendees from Waverly and nearby families visited the Paul Judisch home Sunday evening and planned to return to California Thursday.
Mrs. Carl E. Erikson came home to Aurora Minnesota on Tuesday after two weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs H W Krueger during her mother's illness and death. Richard J Krueger grandson of the Kruegers left Albany Georgia Tuesday where he is stationed with the U S Marines. he was summoned by his grandmother's death.
James Lavern Burrow son of Mr and Mrs Wm Burrow rural Tripoli attended ISU Ames during the week of June 17 18 for a two day orientation program in science and humanities. The session covered aptitude and placement tests counselor meetings and planning a fall quarter class schedule.
Mrs. Margaret Schmidt and family attended the Shell Rock wedding of Barbara Harken and Sam E. Case on Tuesday evening June 28. Barbara is the daughter of Gerald and Mrs. Harken of Shell Rock. attendees included families Bremer Holm and others.
Carl Kowalsky and Nora visited over the weekend at the Kenneth Halver home in Cedar Rapids and at the Harvey Kowalsky home in Marion. Sunday the Halvers observed their 25th wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Clara Zabel attended the wedding of Sandra Mirs and Donald Spore on Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Waterloo Water loo. Miss Mirs is the daughter of Paul Mirs of Waterloo.
Mr and Mrs Dan Mast and family attended the funeral of Richard Stempke Saturday at Jesup bearing condolences from relatives and friends in attendance.
A University of Iowa physician in Iowa City describes a spun-fiber diet to lower blood fats linked to heart attacks. The diet uses pre dissolved soybean protein spun into fibers to mimic meat texture and is not yet commercially available.
Holger Jensen of Cedar Falls was honored with the Governor's award to rural fire chiefs by State Fire Marshal Wilbur Johnson. Jensen has led the rural department for 20 years since its organization.
Eighty thousand fiberglass seats for the Orange Bowl in Miami are manufactured in a Grinnell plant. Each 18 inch seat contains an embedded orange and leaves design with the seat number set inside the orange.
In Algoa Texas northern Galveston county a place named for a British ship driven ashore in the 1900 hurricane is mentioned. The item appears in the July 5 1966 issue of the Tripoli Leader of Tripoli Iowa.
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