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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1956
Page
4
Mrs Emma Bergmann expresses gratitude for cards gifts flowers and visits she received during a hospital stay at Allen Memorial Special thanks are extended to Rev Goetz for prayers and visits Her kindness will always be remembered.
Relatives and friends are thanked for sympathy and help during illness and death of John Neuendorf and Ed Niemeyer. Special thanks to Rev Puhlmann and Rev Goetz and to the American Legion for use of a hospital bed. Messages from Mrs John Neuendorf and Mrs Ed Niemeyer.
Local notes from Tripoli Iowa July 11 1956 cover a community gathering featuring a keynote by a state leader, plus brief reports on surrounding civic happenings and upcoming events at the town hall.
A highway safety feature illustrates a fatal crash where a driver's shoe is driven into the floorboard near the gas pedal. The shoe, new and fully laced, shows no foot, a stark image amid patrol photos detailing the dangers of high speed.
Locals including Mr and Mrs Robert Rathbone and the Vernon Wikner family attended the Children's Home festival in Waverly on Sunday. Other gatherings featured Carl Schwemm and family in Waverly, August Eichmann and others visiting Cedar Rapids and Waterloo households, and a picnic at Devil's Backbone State Park near Strawberry Point with Markham and Steward families.
County Engineer Matt Noonan says about 35 miles of Bremer county roads will be graded this summer. County crews will complete 23 miles, with much of the work surfaced later.
Farm-to-market road projects, administered by the Iowa Highway Commission and built by private contractors, will cover the remaining 12 percent of county road miles for 1956. The program adds seven new bridges. two on farm-to-market roads and five by county crews. County workers will reconstruct three existing bridges and perform minor repairs on several others.
Immigrant officials were called after four Mexican nationals allegedly stole items valued at nine dollars. The group was apprehended and sent back, with authorities confirming the deportation near Osceola.
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