Underground Cable Project Advances in Butler Bremer Area
North Iowa Cable Co completes major phase of burying telephone cables across Frederika Plainfield and Tripoli exchanges. Wapsie River crossing required a trenching winch method with 50 miles buried and 30 remaining. Upon finish Plainfield will have 130 miles Frederika 50 miles Tripoli about 80 miles private line service for all subscribers.
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North Iowa Cable Company
Ayrshire
Iowa
Butler-Bremerne Company
Tripoli Exchange
Wapsi River
Tripoli
Wapsie
Ayne Miller
Butler-Bremer Telephone Company
B-B Telephone Company
Frederika Exchange
Plainfield Exchange
Miller
Frederika
City Council Approves Employee Salary Increases
At the July 7 regular meeting the City Council approved increases for its employees. The finance committee, meeting prior to July 7, studied the current pay scale and reported their recommendations for the period July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1976. The council adopted the committee's recommended new salary schedule.
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I City Council
Council
Local Woman's Club Seeks Recipe Hints for Bicentennial Cookbook
Ir Exc Student With Family Here and families are urged to send recipe hints to Pearl Pardee in Tripoli Iowa or Kreis in Tri a 50676 for a community cookbook tied to a Bicentennial project. Deadline set for receipt of contributions.
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L Woman’s Club
Pearl Pardee
Route 1
Tripoli
Iowa
Na Kreis
Tria
Driver License Examiners Here Saturday Morning
Iowa Highway Patrol driver license examining team will be in Tripoli City Hall on Saturday July 19 from 8 40 a m to 11 45 a m. Renewals issued until closing time but tests end at 11 15 a m. Team will not return until Saturday August 16.
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Iowa Highway Patrol
Tripoli City Hall
Tripoli
97 Units of Blood Given Tuesday at Tripoli Bloodmobile
Waterloo Regional Red Cross Blood Center set up the blood mobile at Tripoli city hall and collected 97 units during the afternoon session. Despite fine turnout, counts lagged behind the 1973 and 1974 records and many volunteers helped staff the event for the Tripoli Frederika Readlyn area.
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Tripoli
Waterloo
Red Cross Blood Center
City Hall
Frederika
Readlyn
Tripoli - Frederika - Readlyn
Commercial Club Picnic at Maple Hills July 21
The Tripoli Commercial Club will hold its annual picnic Monday at Maple Hills Country Club with social hour 6 to 7 pm and a steak supper at 7. Members may grill their own steaks. reservations handled by Ray Bunger by noon Saturday. Also note no July Girl Scout paper drive. next August 16.
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Tripoli
Girl Scouts
Maple Hills Country Club
Walter Hankner
Dubuque
Louis Horsley
Sumner
Howard Tegtmeier
Creslie Lewis
College Park
Robert Ambrose
Wm. Schlichting
Lavern Schnurstein
Les Lohmann
Ray Dohr
Honor Organist of 50 Years at St. John's
Members of St. John's United Church of Christ in Siegel honored Edna Drape for fifty years as church organist on Sunday July 6 after a pot luck dinner. Attendees included congregation couples married with Edna as organist and all her sons with families, Vernon Drape with Bobby and Jeffrey, Allan Drape with Dennis Charles Luanne Thomas, Eugene Drape with Doug Chris, and David Drape.
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St. John’s
Siegel
St. John’s United Church of Christ
Edna Drape
Edna
Vernon Drape
Bobby
Jeffrey
Horeb
Wis
Allan Drape
Dennis
Charles
Luanne
Thomas
Waverly
Rt. 3
Eugene Drape
Doug
Chris
Orange
Calif
David Drape
Waverly Rt. 3
Pork Producers Barbecue Set Here July 26
Bremer County Pork Producers Association will hold their annual Pork Barbecue on Saturday July 26 in Tripoli South Park serving from 5 to 8 30 p m The menu features 12 oz pork chops and all the pork burger you can eat Tickets at the door 3 50 adults 2 50 children 12 and under On Saturday July 19 from 9 to 5 at the Lawrence Smalley home 3 miles north of Tripoli off 93 curve Bikes etc bass guitar pool table toys dishes furniture carpeting clothes record player
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Bremer County
Lawrence Smalley
Tripoli
Waverly Couple Wins Husband Wife Golf Tourney
Mr and Mrs Lee Reinhardt of Waverly won the championship flight in the Husband Wife golf tournament at Maple Hills Country Club with a 79. The event drew 75 couples with 24 prize places across four flights. First flight winner Eldon Hoppenworth of Parkersburg posted 92.
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Lee Reinhardt
Waverly
Maple Hills Country Club
Tripoli Wins First Round in Sectional Baseball Tourney
Tripoli High boys defeated NU High of Cedar Falls 11 to 1 in five innings in Denver. Jim Fink earned the win, allowing four hits and one walk as Tripoli tallied 11 hits including a Schwabe homer in the fifth. Denver beat Wapsie Valley 6–0 in the same round.
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Tripoli Boys
Tripoli High
Denver
NU High
Cedar Falls
Jim Fink
Dan Laverbrei
Jim Schwabe
Panthers
Denver Boys
Wapsie Valley
Dysart
LaPorte City
Dysart-Geneseo
Perry Sauerbrei
Dave Alcock
Randy Schult
Dan Sauerbrei
Dean Mirs
Max Moeller
M. Gronemeyer
Craig Bruns
Tripoli
RHE Tripoli
Jaycees Sponsor Donkey Softball Game Here Thursday
The Tripoli Jaycees host a Donkey softball game Thursday evening July 17 at eight o clock at the South ball park. Frederika Jaycees face Tripoli Jaycees to raise funds for a North park slab fence. Advance tickets list prices and sale locations.
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Jaycees
Tripoli Jaycees
South Ball Park
Frederika Jaycees
North Park
Tripoli
House of Values
Dick’s DX
Bank
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Maple Hills
Pork Producers
C. Goodner
Nashua
Dale Lehmkuhl
Dan Biesterfelt
Eldon Hoppenworth
Parkersburg
Richard Meyer
Don Bosco
Gilbertville
Jesup
St. John’s of Independence
Dunkerton
Janesville
Matthias
Harris-Burrow
H. Doyle
Grundy den- Tripoli
T. Card
J. Young
M. Manning
Grundy
Center
L. Ralfs
Lst
Robert Meyer
Lavern Lampe
Les Lohman
L. Koob
Plainfield
Ralph Cook
Doug Gerdes
Dale Steere
Brent Steere
Moeller Vs
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Bockhaus
Everett Ambrose
Lorenz Bunger
G. Wegman
Parkerserintendent
Burg
Loren Bergmann
Lucinda (Ludwig
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Elizabeth
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