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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1973
Page
5
Local residents share visits and family occasions across multiple towns. Attendees include the Moellers, Bremer, Hoppenworth, Weidemann, and Kroll families, with travel to Cedar Rapids and Amana Colonies. A funeral at St. Johns and a June surgery update for Delores Flanscha are noted.
Pastor Harold Me Millin and wife announce birth of Denise Kay a 9 lb daughter born Tuesday at Waverly hospital. Denise Kay joins church ties as Millin serves St John’s Lutheran Crane Creek. Carolyn Jeanne McBride 6 lb 13 oz daughter to Roger and Mrs McBride born June 15 at Schultz Waterloo. Sherri Lynn schulte named daughter born June 15 at Allen hospital. siblings Brian. Families: Lageschulte De Vries Nordstrom Lage Dodd Dornbusch etc partake in weddings and visits across Waverly Oelwein Evansdale Memphis Denver and surrounding towns.
Mrs. Gertrude Meiners and La Venne hosted a bridal shower at the Methodist church in Fairbank Saturday evening for Mavis Workman of Cedar Rapids who will marry Bob Wenger of Fairbank, a nephew of Mrs. Meiners.
Rev and Mrs Geo J Gundel traveled from Tripoli to Merrill visiting their son Bernard Gundel and family, then to Grand Prairie Texas near Dallas for about ten days with Otto Voss. They noted record wheat yields in Kansas Oklahoma and Texas amid fuel shortages and saw Texas Under Six Flags Lion Country Safari and The Seven Seas. They returned home June 15 after stops in Hiawatha Kansas and Hebron Nebraska.
A Sunday pot luck dinner in Tripoli south park honored Mrs. Oscar Bany on her birthday. Following the event her brother Ted Johnson of Cedar Rapids showed several reels of slides from a Europe trip at Mrs. Bany’s home. Attendees included many named relatives and friends from Decorah Fayette Cedar Rapids Manchester Osage and other Iowa towns.
Three members of Silver Lake Chapter No. 312 in Rockwell City were honored for 50 years of service in the Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. Earl Lemen, Earl Lemen, and Mrs. Luran Stevenson received 50 year pins and certificates for their half century of active membership.
Peoples Natural Gas Company will sponsor a two hour cooking class at Tripoli High School in the home economics room on Tuesday June 26. The program is open to girls and boys aged 9 through 12 at no cost. For information or to attend, call 882-4406 or contact Jerry Klosterman.
The Denver Junior and Senior High School honor roll for the fourth quarter lists six students with straight A's for the year including seniors Randy Gielau and Cynthia Leonhart and sophomores Cheryl Hesse Cynthia Marley and Melissa Sage. Full lists cover seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen with numerous names across grades and eighth and seventh grades also named. Woodchucks are sun lovers and will be out mid morning to afternoon with dew during rain.
Local notices list services and schedules for St Johns United Church of Christ in Waverly, United Methodist Frederika, Faith United Tripoli, Grace Lutheran Tripoli, St Matthews Readlyn, St Johns American Crane Creek, St Pauls Artesian, and Trinity Bremer. Activities include sermons, Sunday School, choir practices, Luther League events, picnics, and a note burning service.
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