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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1931
Page
8
Leader's Large Correspondent Staff compiles local happenings from Around Town. Brief notes highlight community events, personal milestones, and small-town stories with a nostalgic, period-flag voice.
Lawrence Stumme of Dubuque preaches at the Lutheran church while families visit and attend church events. H C Wente resigns as Denver Savings Bank president after 30 years, John W Stumme elected successor. community ties shown in birthdays picnics, visits, and upcoming revival.
Miss Dorothy Stevensen of Minneapolis visited her cousin Mrs F A Bortz. Mr and Mrs F A Bortz and Miss Stevensen were Waterloo callers Friday. Irving Arns went to Tripoli on business Thursday. Fred Hildebrandt and Mrs R P Thieman and Mrs Herman Thieman of Waverly with relatives from Tripoli motored to Des Moines Friday. Mr and Mrs Herbert Kaiser and son Harold were Waterloo callers Saturday. Mr and Mrs John Koenig of Waverly were guests of Mr and Mrs Frank Lageschulte at dinner Sunday. Mr and Mrs Walter and family, Mr and Mrs John Smith and Mr and Mrs Neil Smith and family were guests of Mr and Mrs Ed Leitha Sunday.
Warren townsp Cecil Taylor injured by a cow kick. Readlyn callers Louie Wedemeier and Henry Hennings on Saturday. Curtis Turner of Bremer visited Henry Hennings this week. The McMullen family under scarlet fever quarantine. Henry Lange family dined with Hennings. Arthur Pothast badly hurt by runaway horses and cultivator and under doctor care. Helen Hennings returned from Readlyn after a week with relatives. Mrs Theodore Hansen and Delia also noted.
Mr and Mrs Wm Clausing and others traveled to St Paul Sunday for the wedding of Arthur Clausing to Barbara Barmhardt. Renata Mueller left for Carroll Iowa then Bremer Kansas to visit relatives. Several families attended the thirtieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Fred Hoerman in Waverly.
East of town Mrs Will Schnadt and daughter Leota visited Cedar Falls. Mr and Mrs E Barcus hosted a surprise fifteenth anniversary picnic with fifteen families. Fred Seehase attended his brother Herbert’s wedding to Cordelia Griese near Denver. Henry Meswarb Jr and children visited his parents Meswarb Sr over Sunday.
Sunday visitors filled many homes as families from Buck Creek and nearby towns stopped by to see relatives. Weddings, reunions, and church events dominated social life with guests from Brooten Westgate Sumner Bremer and Davenport. A threshing machine purchase and kitchen showers highlighted local activity.
The Drape kin held their annual reunion Sunday June 7 at the Leo Drape farm near Fredericksburg. Attendees came from Waterloo Minneapolis Randolph Tripoli Waverly Cedar Falls Denver Fredericksburg New Hampton and New Hampton among others. Officers elected were Wm Drape president and Leo Drape secretary treasurer. The group planned to meet again June 1932 at Emil Bierman farm.
The annual Winning relatives reunion gathered about eighty kin at August Pi a farm home near Westgate on Sunday June 1. Attendees traveled from Waterloo Cedar Falls Oran Sumner Hawk eye and Westgate with distant guests Mr and Mrs George Baumgartner and daughter Nina of Forreston Illinois. Local attendees included Mr and Mrs Chris Winning and Mr and Mrs Ed Carr and Douglas Baldwin of Cedar Falls. The Baumgartners and Edward J Dewar stayed to accompany them home Tuesday morning.
Mrs Ida Franklin was pleasantly surprised Sunday by her children and grandchildren who gathered to celebrate her birthday anniversary. Guests included Myrtle Palmer and daughter Dorothy, Bennie Snelling, Ida and Marie Snelling, Lawrence Snelling, Theodore Pockels of Plainfield, Mr. and Mrs. C L McCumber, and William Schlichting. A six o'clock dinner followed.
Edward Holmes son of Mr and Mrs Charles Holmes was taken to the reformatory school at Eldora Monday by Sheriff Sager on a larceny charge. He had been paroled to the sheriff for a year on a similar offense, and faces a term up to age 21, with possible reduction to 14 months for good behavior.
Readlyn notes a surprise party for Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Stumme held at their home on Sunday June 7. About 100 guests attended and brought baskets for a 5:00 pm dinner. Tables bore bouquets and a wedding cake by Thelma Anderson. Guests visited and listened to music then returned for lunch before departure. Out of town guests came from Westgate Dubuque West Union Klinger Denver Waterloo and Waverly.
Waverly special report that C R Baker sold two Bremer county farms last week. The Albert Wendt place northeast of Waverly sold to Carl Lampe for 18000 dollars. The J W Weikert eighty acre farm northwest of the city sold to Dewey Raecker for 12250 dollars.
The American Legion Auxiliary met Monday evening June 8 at the Legion hall due to the picnic. They paid bills and summed poppy proceeds, selling 730 poppies for 73.00 with net 53.00. One fourth 13.25 went to department headquarters. the rest stays for Auxiliary and Legion welfare work. Lunch afterward was hosted by Mrs Kenneth Schmacher and Mrs Herman [redacted].
Rock Island couples Harold W. Hoffer and Dorace M. Gibson apply for licenses while entries show Herbert Lechase of Sumner with Cordelia Griese of Denver and Rudolf Inselmann of Deshler with Edna Thicking of Denver. Additional filings list Ernest J. Nuss of Sumner with Minnie Schedtler of Sumner and J Leo Staack of Pairbay with Berdena C Weiskirch at local clerk office.
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