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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1933
Page
6
A series of local birthday and anniversary celebrations are reported across Spring Fountain. Mr. and Mrs. Ford Meyer hosted relatives and friends for Mr. Meyer's birthday with 500 as the game, followed by a luncheon. Numerous neighbors and relatives attended other birthday observances for Stahlhut and Volker, with visits to homes in Ford Meyer, Struck, Bodermann, and Ganske households.
Local households in Old Tripoli report Tuesday and Sunday visits among Gaede Heideman Barbknecht and Barbknecht families. Several members attended a school board meeting and Legion event while extended family members hosted and traveled to Cedar Falls Sumner Tripoli and Des Moines training notes.
A long list of residents and families visited each other across South of Tripoli including Hermann Hagenow Henry Blasberg Dettmer Beisner and Kammeyer households. Other gatherings featured farm bureau talks at Waverly and multiple Sunday and weekday calls at Kammeyer Schmidt and Miller homes.
Warren Towns recounts a long string of visitors and callers to Readlyn and Denver area homes. Henry Hennings Edwin Hennings and many neighbors are listed visiting, dining, or attending events across Readlyn Bremer Waterloo Cedar Falls and surrounding families over several days.
Mr and Mrs Wm Lenius and Chas Schwein of Tripoli spent Thursday evening at the Fred Lohmann home. Arnold Kuker is on the sick list. Vernon Kirchhoff celebrated his birthday with friends and family. Several relatives and neighbors attended. Sunday visits and baptisms noted. Henry Steidtler and Henry Lohmann families hosted gatherings. A funeral in Minnesota and a funeral in Tripoli were mentioned. The little son of Ervin Henning was named Daven.
Miss Martha Meyer from Monti cello visits her parents Rev C Meyer and wife then heads to Iowa City for summer school. A shower at Henry Otto Jr home honors Christian Stiedler and Henry Otto Jr who wed Thursday at Klinger Lutheran. St Matthew Luther League meets June 13 at German school house. Will Meyerhoff Jr and Erwin Shellhorn undergo appendicitis and other operations at the local hospital. Three were killed in the Indianapolis 500. Lewis Meyer, twice winner, led with 104.162 mph average, noting room for higher speeds in the future.
Artesian Mr and Mrs D Pape of West Union spent Thursday visiting their son in laws and daughters Mr and Mrs Leslie Huck and Mr and Mrs R F Thie Relatives and friends gathered at the Louie Oltrogge home Thursday to celebrate Mr Oltrogge birthday anniversary Birthday anniversaries were noted at the Wm Luther and Louie Dorn homes Sunday for the gentlemen and at the Wm Kallenbach home for Mrs Kallenbach Mr and Mrs Leslie Huck wed May 7 were honored at a miscellaneous shower at Mr Huck s parents home Monday evening
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Lampe and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meyer visited at the Conrad Meyer home. Gustave Brase and family visited the Schwemm home. Will Grebien and daughters Margaret and Geneva were entertained at the Frank Bremer home. Rev. F. Darnauer and sons attended the Gerlach home. Rev. C. G. Gerlach hosted friends with Rev. Mardorf Ruth of Sumner and others from Tripoli Wa verly Readlyn and Waverly.
County Seat News Items of Interest cover a car wreck top torn off, Izaak Walton league crew shoot winners captains W H Howard and Floyd Wells, inspector George Buchanan checks delinquent licenses, Mrs Edgar Monahan to Mayo Clinic, Billy Mahan recovering from skull fracture, 2338 veterans graves decorated at Memorial Day, Miss Margaret Driscoll ill, Kathleen Lynch ill with pneumonia, flag golf tournament results with Hagemann and Mrs Grossmann winning, Rotary screening of The Romance of Iowa Industry, Roger Leavitt to speak on Iowa, municipal band summer schedule, Florence Kingsley named top graduate of Waverly High deserving gold piece award.
The item notes the top student in the class, a girl, and lists a series of local social and family news items. It mentions Neil Kingsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley, a Military Academy cadet stationed at Annapolis preparing for a month long Madeira Islands cruise. Other notes cover travel to Chicago for the Century of Progress, moves for Standard Oil territory, and hospital stays for Mercy Hospital patients.
A story narrated by L. H. Hawblitz of Attica Ohio recalls a voyage on the fishing schooner Lye off Newfoundland. The crew fashioned a six inch steel hook on a 22 foot shaft attached to a winch. Baited and cast overboard the hook snagged a massive creature, snapping the 10,000 ton ship’s cable after three days. A sleeping hand woke to exclaim it was a whale, but the captain dismissed it as impossible using a whale as bait.
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