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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1932
Page
3
Miss Oleson’s class commits to band work with grades on report cards. Bobby Gelck was chosen to conduct the band for the year. A Peter Rabbit booklet will feature weekly spelling, with a surprise if an A is earned Friday. Weather charts begin March first to compare with last year’s calendar.
In a weekly library day, pupils pick a book from the library table and record each check out. Three new books are created Our Poem Book Our Toys and Our Health Book with three groups drawing pictures and writing stories. Owen Hankner helps this week and spelling records remain strong. Robert Selek named band leader with two rehearsals a week and band grades.
Miss Boyle's class in Tripoli Iowa writes a set of letters to absent classmate Wendell Diekmann. students describe school events a program with Longfellow verses, a word game, and gifts. they also share notes about pets fish a canary and a new bird named Darkey and Darkie with affectionate anecdotes.
Fifth grade students under Mrs Beisner created plays about the making of the first national flag as part of a bicentennial reading project. The class read the plays aloud and chose the best one by popular vote, inviting readers to enjoy the selected piece.
Betsy Ross receives General Washington and a committee to sew a national flag. Franklin proposes thirteen stripes and a blue field with thirteen six pointed stars or a five pointed star. Betsy finishes the flag in two weeks and is praised by Washington, Franklin, Harrison, and Lynch.
The Vanderlinden junior high reports eight weeks of high attendance with eleven students never absent or late: Erwin Drewis William Kuker Eva Lee Lars Schultz Bruce Borchert Edith Bull Beverly Nienhaus Ralph Drewis Darlene Buls Lillia Rohrssen. Sixth grade excused: Ambrose Violet Ambrose Laverne Bathke Bruce Borchert Edith Bull Robert Fink Gretchen Hanff Dorothy Hankner Lee Lou Morf Beverly Nienhaus Jack Hale. Seventh grade: Dickmann Doepke Hale Kuker Klein Kroll Holmes Ralph Holmes Ralph Hankner Lucille Hesse Lucille Schumacher Iva Hill Harry Schlichting Garnetta Schneer Eva Lee. Eighth grade: Ambrose Darleth Hankner Alice Rohrssen Lawrence Shipp Kathryn Panzer.
The annual declamatory contest concluded with home winners Dahlia Krueger Stanley Shipp and Robert Sorg receiving praise for weeks of focused effort. Stanley and Dahlia performed well at Nashua while Robert narrowly missed an overall win by one point. The high school showed strong spirit with a large cheer section from Nashua Wednesday night.
A digest of varied 1930 figures shows U S investments abroad averaging 794 million dollars yearly and air mail handling of about 5.58 million pounds. Coast guard losses reached 5,627 lives, England added 34,000 soldiers, France produced 211,950 autos, and per capita gasoline use peaked in Florida at 594 gallons. England’s telephone density stood at 4.2 per 100 people, New Zealand at 10.8. Negro publications in the United States totaled 228 with 144 dailies. Massachusetts State College poultry experts compute 760 eggs per tick of the clock in the United States.
Carl Lindquist visited the Manitowoc county jail to retrieve carpenter tools from 1928 work. Sheriff Herman Carstens identified him as an escaped prisoner from another jail. The man is currently serving 20 months.
A series of farewell parties were held as neighbors bid goodbye to residents moving to new homes. Festivities featured card games like 500, shared lunches, and demonstrations of high and low honors for players. Attendees included the Chapin and Snelling families, the Sauerbrei circle, and many others from the Fremont area, with gatherings spanning Friday through Sunday across multiple households.
The 1862 Confederate seal features an equestrian Washington statue modeled after the Richmond Capitol Square monument. A wreath of cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat, and rice encircles the figure. Margin text reads The Confederate States of America with the motto Deo Vindice. The seal notes February 22, 1862, beneath the horse’s feet.
A group of high school youths attended a Parent-Teacher Association meeting and urged that stage areas be cleaned for attending shows with their girlfriends. They deny being prudes. Theater managers blamed New York booking offices for delays in improvements.
Scientists Newton Gaines and L A Chambers at Texas Christian University report a new method using supersound waves to sterilize milk. They claim it matches pasteurization in safety and preserves the vitamin content.
Week ending February 27 1932 transfers list several property deeds in Sumner Tripoli and Waverly Iowa. Names include August Flege Morris G Jacob Elizabeth Sheldon Otto Buls Henry Mohling Gynith Liddle Letty Cave and institutions First National Bank Waverly as trustees. Amounts range from 1 to 14875 with various lot and section references and fractional interests noted.
Following a referendum where over 70 percent favored repeal the government sent to parliament a bill ending prohibition and creating a state controlled system for importation manufacture and sale of intoxicants through a government controlled intermediary. An administrative council and an overseeing board would run the system with safeguards including bans on Sunday and holiday liquor sales.
The question asserts President Hoover uniquely holds broad influence over national radio and media timing, claiming he can run over his time, avoid embarrassment, be introduced in six words, never attend a studio or audition, and summon rival networks at will.
A mushroom in Summit county, Ohio, measures 54 inches across one way and 48 inches the other. In the same state, William Yeagley of Alliance gathered a quince 13 inches long and similar in circumference.
W S Forbes of Christ's College Cambridge reports in the Smithsonian Institution annual record that the moon is not a dead world. He notes a radioactive interior generating energy, an expanding moon with many clefts and fractures, and a lack of thick atmospheric blankets allowing continual meteor bombardment.
A Chicago school teacher who had not been paid in months wins a 250 prize for a poem extolling Chicago prosperity and tariff ideas. President Green of the AFL says there is work for all. Mae West tells a New York court she was a Camp Fire Girl at arraignment for an obscene play. British hat makers urge employers to bar hatless workers. Chicago gangsters bring birth certificates to court.
The Indian rhino ceros is noted as the most expensive zoo inmate with costs from 18000 to 20000 dollars. Lions stalk prey at night, rabbits and lynx mingle, the monkey resists malaria, the muskrat leads fur bearers in the U S, zebra is least dependable, and elephants eat about 23 hours daily.
A 200 foot wing of the Vatican library roof collapsed tearing through two floors and killing five men including a priest. Many historic frescoes were damaged and most of the collection in that section was destroyed. The library portion dated back to 1588 and the collapsed roof covered a remodeled carriage stable.
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