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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1972
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is designated as second class mail in Tripoli Iowa under the March 8 1879 act. Postage is paid in Tripoli Iowa 50676 with yearly subscription rates of four dollars in advance within Iowa and five dollars in advance elsewhere.
A retrospective column recalls local happenings. Birthdays, marriages, accidents, civic notes, and business updates sketch life in Tripoli and surrounding towns with names such as Mrs. Mary E. Henry Frederika, Esther Gaede Sumner, Harry Pepperling Ackley, and the Wapsie area residents.
July 31 is the fair entry deadline with noon cutoff at the Extension Office Tri Poli. The schedule also lists Senior 4-H Camp on August 1 at Pinebluff Decorah.
Seabee Senior Chief David Robin and his son Seabee Second Class Bill Robinson left last week for eight months of duty on Diego Garcia, an island 400 miles south of India in the Indian Ocean, to work on World Wide Communication installations and a new larger airstrip. Families remain in Gulf Port, Mississippi where they have been stationed.
Fifty five junior 4-H members and sixteen counselors attended the 4-H Junior Fun Day at North Woods Park on July 19. Daylong activities included games hike crafts sports and a cookout with numerous 4-H attendees and several extension staff listed.
The record notes the birth of a son on July 16 at St Joseph Hospital Waverly to parents Mr and Mrs Howard Van Brocklin Sr. Other social visits include Mrs Creg Fenton and her Colorado trip to visit relatives in the Zipsie and Morley homes and gatherings with the Heitmann and Brandt families. Cedar Falls Center Point Waterloo Hawk Eye and Pueblo connections appear among visiting friends and relatives.
Doro Tang born in Delaware, blind since birth, turns 40 in January and loses her foster parents within a month. She completes training in typing and braille, masters the white cane, works on switchboard and cafeteria skills, earns a G.E.D., and gains her first paid job to care for her foster brother and herself.
The Douglas Farm Bureau Women’s group hosted its annual breakfast at the Allen Bockhaus home with eighty members guests and children attending. Plans for a September 11 12 fall tour to Kansas City were announced and members were invited to join the bus trip contacting Mrs Eugene Eick or Mrs Erhardt Lahmann as soon as possible.
Rev. John N. Taylor rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church since July 1949 marked his 40th anniversary. He stands as the oldest clergyman in the Ft. Dodge community.
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