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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1932
Page
6
Farm Bureau notes from D. D. Off Ringra, county agent, outline current activities, member interests, and farm bureau initiatives. Highlights include upcoming meetings, educational programs, and summaries of ongoing county agricultural projects and community outreach efforts.
Bremer county 4-H members plan annual rally day at Waverly on Wednesday June 15 starting at 10:00 am. Ethel Pothast presides. Events include music memory contest queen selection for Ames convention and a Mount Vernon Festival pageant on the courthouse lawn with colonial costumes and games.
Bremer county wool growers will deliver their 1932 clip to the Great Western depot in Waverly on Saturday June 11. The Bremer association expects over twice last year’s 4,600 pounds as pooling aims for orderly marketing and access to advances through the national wool marketing program.
Washington township farm bureau will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Reeves Wednesday evening June 8 to discuss plans for the July 4 bicentennial celebration at Waverly. E M Reeves will speak on pest control. a movie and comedy will be shown. a large crowd is expected.
Miss Irma D Garner of the extension service will visit Bremer county to present the fifth lesson in the fourth year home furnishing course. The session focuses on Applied Design with wall hangings to be made by each participant using designs provided. Sessions run June 13 to June 17 across township meetings, with supplies listed and a picnic dinner to be brought by attendees.
Burton E Sweet addressed West Lafayette farm bureau at the Iserman home outlining economic and agricultural issues. The group planned a float for the bicentennial parade in Waverly on July 4. Bremer wool growers will market cooperatively June 11. Verm, Wilmar and Viola Schild provided music. A P Juhl led the meeting. refreshments were served.
A playful courtroom style exchange centers on love at first sight and attire as a lawyer questions the grounds for answering. The witness quips about being a telephone operator, underscoring a humorous domestic humor vignette from a Tripoli Leader display ad context.
Bremer county 4-H club boys will enter a parade float for the bicentennial celebration at Waverly on July 4. A June 4 meeting at Forrest Sauerbrei’s home formed a planning committee including Raymond Kuethe Fritz Dettmer Martin Dettmer Elmer Brandt Harold Brandt Willard Meyer Harley Meyer Ralph Juhl Neil Cave Stanley Scully to organize float duties and recruit members. Additional 4-H pins were given out and horse discussion led by the county agent covered horse selection age and demonstrations. The gathering ended with a two-team baseball game with Elmer Sauerbrei as umpire.
A Frederika family celebration marked Mrs. Fred Bergman’s birthday with a surprise party at the Bergman home in Douglas township. Guests included Eugene Pickel and James Merriott of Grover, the Alcock household, and locals from Waterloo and surrounding towns. Several updates on residents and visitors fill the long list of attendees, while the Frederika Methodist Episcopal picnic and local movements are noted among the day’s happenings. The item closes with a town crier aside about engagements.
The Dinosaur National Monument in Utah’s NE corner yields unique dinosaur and reptile remains since 1905 found by FE Douglass and later by the Smithsonian. Over 400000 lb of bones and matrix have been recovered, including nearly complete skeletons. The highlight is the complete Apatosaurus Louisae, named for Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, about 100 feet long and 20 feet high in Pittsburg’s Hall of Vertebrate Paleontology.
A Rotterdam figure Heer van Klass is remembered at his funeral age ninety eight with a pipe in his mouth and a daily tobacco habit of about five ounces. Smokers at the funeral received ten pounds of tobacco and two pipes, with annual tobacco gifts to the poor. Mourners lit and shook ashes over a coffin lined with Havana cigar box wood, reflecting a belief in the unexpected.
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a daily stimulant from fresh laxative herbs senna and pepsin. It claims it prevents aging, improves appetite, and cleanses the system, advising use for bilious headaches and constipation in adults and children, without weakening bowels.
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