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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1931
Page
8
Leader's large correspondent staff compiles a roundup of local happenings. Short notes spotlight community activities, gatherings, and noteworthy events from nearby residents and organizations.
A sequence of weekend visits and social calls is listed across Readlyn and nearby towns. Guests include the Nerges Hannamans Marshes Dilleys and several families from Waterloo New Hampton and Fredericksburg. Paint crews from Waterloo completed work on Clyde Webster’s buildings as numerous relatives gather at various homes.
OLD TRIPOLI reports show Mrs Art Heine assisting her mother Mrs Will Jahnke on Thursday and many neighbors visiting relatives over the weekend. Multiple households attended Memorial Day services, with visits to graves and nearby towns including Nashua and Denver.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Struck and daughter Marie visited with the Steeges and their daughters Marie and Leigh ton. The Kirchmann, Meyer, and Struck families hosted Sunday dinners for several relatives including the Riecks, Mohlis, Eyers, Wilharm, Aders, and Volkers. A group attended Sumner commencement. Louie Meyer marked a tenth wedding anniversary with relatives and friends gathering for a surprise visit and supper.
Mr and Mrs Will Kuker shopped in Tripoli on Thursday after locals attended Memorial day exercises at the Tripoli opera house Saturday afternoon. Fred Lohmann was a Waverly caller Friday. The Pichelmann family and Herman Pichelmann were hosted at Henry Schroeder’s north of Tripoli Sunday. Mrs Henry Lohmann helped with papering at the Lohmann home. Mrs August Fredericks aided Mrs Johanna Jungblut with house cleaning in Tripoli. Boys from the area visited Arnold Lohman who is in Minnesota for road work. Gustav Redies was a Tripoli shopper Monday afternoon.
Henry Seehase and Henry Nie meyer finished sawing lumber then moved the mill to the Art Miller place northwest of Sumner for more work. Funeral attendees included the Judisch and Rieck families at Worth Everly. A miscellaneous shower honored Ella Rohlf on her forthcoming marriage to Edwin Kasemeier with about forty guests and many gifts.
County Seat reports a new $750,000 bridge spanning the Mississippi to connect Iowa and Wisconsin. It will open June 15 with a dedication and a fifty cent toll for crossing. Local happenings include visits by Alfred Hanson and family, Margaret Wirt in town, and Memorial Day graveside decorations by Will Burns, John, and Tom. William Schroeder remains ill with flu complications. Olga Henkel’s surprise bridal shower for Cecil Morgan. Frank Gruber and Lois Mahood wed. Gruber to remain in Waverly. Waverly Golf Club hits a record 146 members as new greens near completion. Plans to move telephone poles on Bremer avenue and 4th street with some lines going underground. A large steel flag frame has been erected.
Pacific Lutheran College Choir erected on Bremer Avenue Bridge with city providing materials and county the work. American Legion fundraised a large display play shown on Memorial Day. Bremer and Butler counties medical societies held a joint meeting at Mercy hospital staff room after dinner at Community cafe.
The Lutheran Mutual Aid Society board and Mrs. Grossman spend time at her daughter Mrs. K L Hahn’s home. Miss Avis Wright of Rochester Minnesota visits J F Brechner home. she works at a Rochester hospital. Mrs Fred Keseberg and Mrs J P Kroger travel to Trenton to visit Keseberg parents after a recent auto accident. Grant Krieger is hospitalized at Morey with gall bladder trouble and possible surgery. Cleon Acken, Chicago Great Western depot assistant, taken ill Sunday and hospitalized with heart trouble in serious condition. R H Sewell and daughter return from California for the summer in Waverly. Dr R E Robinson leaves for St Louis for a throat nose and throat convention and expected absence this week. Mrs Wm S Lynes travels to Town Falls due to sister’s death from appendicitis. she was 35 and survived by husband and children. Carl Hagemann Iowa City makes plans to practice law and move back. old stand on Bremer avenue to host root beer season debut. The first band and season were held at the park on Saturday.
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