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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1956
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader, official paper of Tripoli Iowa and Bremer County, edited since 1894, is published weekly on Wednesdays. William A Buckley is publisher with subscriptions $3.00 yearly in Iowa and $3.50 elsewhere. Printed as second class mail under March 8 1879 act.
Myrtle West daughter of Frank and Myrtle West Sterling Alabama married Devon Schlegel son of C A Schlegel Hawkeye in a double ring ceremony read by Rev Glenn Utterbach at the Little Brown Church Nashua. The bride wore a white organdy gown and pink taffeta with a pearl crown and pink carnations. The reception followed at Trinity Lutheran Hawkeye with many relatives from Cedar Rapids, Cleveland, Cedar Rapids and Sterling in attendance. Rainbow assembly and Open House events accompanied the wedding coverage along with local obituaries and civic notices through Sumner and Hawkeye communities.
Local notes from Tripoli Iowa detail the West Schlegel wedding at Little Brown church Nashua and Trinity Lutheran Hawk Eye reception. Families, guests, and travels include visits to Sterling Denison Dow City Des Moines Cedar Falls and Fort Sam Houston. Band rehearsals and school board election set June events.
Alberta Brandt, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Brandt, was commissioned as a parish worker Sunday in St Peter's Lutheran Church with Rev C E Hafermann officiating. A dinner for 75 guests from Waterloo Waverly Denver and Readlyn followed. Her brother Burton and Joyce Clapp attended from Iowa City.
William H. Muehling and wife convey lot 7 in block 30 Harmon & LeValleys addition to St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waverly for $1 and other consideration, recording transfer of ownership.
Fragmentary itemized notices show transfers including Mabel Wolf and a Wilharm with Bertha Adix to Otto J. Wedemer for lot 6 block 5 Waverly and John E. Bechter with wife to Leonard W. Piphyo for lot 7 ae 2 Behrens Stahihut addition Sumner, involving small sums such as 1 and 13.20 dollars.
Readlyn Savings Bank initiates action against B E Johnson and Cecil Kern L Daryl W Hannaman and Be Matthias Edward c Nich contend with damages from an auto accident Louis C Hochberger sues Win Strempke and Mary Strempke in a separate case Law names appear in docket listings and district court notes
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