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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1960
Page
5
Local social notes list numerous weekend and Sunday visits among residents of Waterloo Fort Dodge and nearby towns. Attendees include Gary Ford, Mrs Oral Price, Fred Brase family, Otto Brase, Dan Mast, Leslie Dettmer, Clara Niemeyer, Oscar Kreis, Loren Bergmann, Dora Bergmann, Merle Rueckert, Hazel Schaper, Harold Kuethe, and many others visiting relatives in Cedar Falls, Readlyn, Waverly, Sumner, Fredericksburg, and Clear Lake.
County ASC reports July 14 township elections with newly chosen chairmen and vice chairmen. Delegates to the county ASC convention set for July 30 include regular and alternate delegates. Official terms begin August 1. Names listed for each township group include Dayton-Melvin Buhr and others across Franklin to Washington townships.
Mary Kreis of Tripoli, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar W. Kreis, will marry Pfc. Rexford J. Strottman of Sumner. She is a 1956 Tripoli High graduate who studied three years at the State University of Iowa and works in Iowa City for Federal Discount Corp. Strottman, a 1958 UI graduate, joined the Army last July and has been stationed in Hawaii for eight months. An August wedding in Hawaii is planned.
John and Thelma Wedemeier were honored on their 30th anniversary with a Sunday open house at St. Pauls Evangelical and Reformed church parlors in Denver. Guests came from Waterloo Readlyn Waverly Washburn Bremer Tripoli Sumner and Cedar Falls. The couple married July 20 1930 in Denver.
Fremont readers recall a busy weekend as Mr and Mrs Gene Woodcock and Tommy travel to Yankton South Dakota for Armin Pipho and Janet Rul’s wedding visiting friends in Sioux City Humboldt Readlyn and Waterloo and at several family homes including the Chapin Peters Mohling and Kleiss households through Sunday evening many guests and relatives are noted across Iowa and nearby towns
Wed recently at Tripoli Erika and Mr. and Mrs Will Blume Carol were Friday visitors of Mr. and Mrs Rudy Pavelee in Waverly. Mrs Arnold Stromer attended a shower for Luanne Diercks at the Klinger church. Diercks will wed Harlan Happel. Many families shared meals and visited relatives in Waterloo Jesup La Porte City Buck Creek. Brent Kowalsky baptized with Dalton Kowalsky family attending.
Six young people Kay Ormston Shery Magnall Kathy Hurmence Laura Hurmence Syndy Goebel and Benny Kehe will spend the week at Pilgrim Heights Mon tour Camp started Monday and will end Saturday Mr and Mrs Mervyn Ormston and Mr and Mrs Wm Hurmence accompanied them to the camp.
Mrs. Emma Kappmeyer attended a birthday celebration for Mrs. Edwin Kappmeyer on Sunday. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Nuss of Sumner, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Flanscha of Fredericksburg, and Waverly residents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilharm, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoeper, Mr. and Mrs. John Hoeper and Marlene, Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Hoeper and Jackie, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Faase and Vicki, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dettmer and family, Mrs. John Ingersoll and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dettmer.
Mrs Harry Juel and her children joined Mrs Melvin Bergmann and her children for the Battolph Baker wedding held Saturday afternoon at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Waterloo.
Friday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Buhr to celebrate Mrs. Buhr's birthday were Mr. and Mrs. John Henning. Evening callers were Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bockhaus, Frederika and Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Volker.
Mrs Eldon Shriver took L B and T A to the Grove home in Monona for a short visit while Supt and Mrs Shriver traveled to Rochester Minnesota. Supt and Mrs Shriver had spent several days there last week.
Don na Wiltse Mrs Virgil Meyer and Vicky Abbas hosted a bridal shower for Patricia Abbas on Saturday July 23 at the Dean Wiltse home with about 35 guests from Washburn Sumner Fredericksburg New Hampton Waverly Evansdale Waterloo and Frederika. Prizes went to Mrs Dale Abbas Mrs Carl Abbas and Mrs Will Hagedorn with a door prize to Mrs John Sprague. Patricia Abbas will wed Arlo Pipho Tripoli on Sunday August 7 at 2 30 p m in St Johns Lutheran Frederika.
Mr and Mrs Paul Ford and family attended the Kerns Doyle wedding at St John’s Catholic church in Independence on Saturday morning.
Susan Jane Miller, daughter of Mr and Mrs Cletus Miller, was baptized in Sumner on Sunday. Godparents and their husbands and Rev Mohr and wife were dinner guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mahlstedt visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Orville Niemeyer in Sumner to celebrate Mr. Niemeyer’s birthday.
A Holstein cow at Harold Sumner’s Eagle Grove farm delivered twin heifers, an extreme rarity. Veterinarians note about two percent of cows have twins, with twin heifers even rarer at well below that level.
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