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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1962
Page
8
Local Tripoli newspaper brief dated March 7 1962 reports community events and notices in Tripoli Iowa. Reads as a compact city chronicle with announcements, civic items, and upcoming local actions typical of mid century small town journalism.
Five decades ago on February 14 and 21 1907 Henry Gies signed to work next year as a traveling salesman for Sturz Bros a Kansas City contract Bee Ray Farrow left for Missouria Montana to join a civil engineering crew Emma Holm and William Mohlis wed Rev Herbs officiating Ed Kelsey and crew ceiling work at Schultz department store and Hale's restaurant John Elkema apprenticed in his brother’s Bristow blacksmith shop Local markets list eggs 18c chickens 7c to 8c potatoes 30c oats 28 hogs 6 50 to 6 55 veal calves 4 to 5
In a double ring ceremony at St John s Evangelical and Re formed church Verla Boeckmann of Waterloo wed Herbert Bergmann of Readlyn. Separately Zion Lutheran Readlyn hosted Imogene Heinemann of Fairbank marrying Larry Kuhlmann of Fairbank. Readlyn area notes report anniversaries for Mr and Mrs Herman Reding and Mr and Mrs Wm Grebein. Larry Warnke of Sumner married Judith Moeller of Readlyn at St Paul s Readlyn with Rev James Buckman officiating. A three car crash near Marshalltown seriously injured four locals including Gary Schmidt Paul McNamee Sidney Dirksen and Donna Wiltse. Larry Hansen named local manager for Peoples Natural Gas Co in Tripoli by C P Harrison. Funeral planned for J F Rathe 87 at St Matthew s Readlyn with Rev Erich Dornbusch.
Twenty five years ago items include funeral services for Otto Boeckmann and Christ Buhr at St Peter s Evangelical church both officiated by Rev Theo Thomas. Readlyn couples Mable Maurer and Mary Lockard wed at Zion Lutheran with Rev E Arhelger. Other notices cover Heinrich Bunger funeral at St John s Lutheran Rev E A Hanff, markets from 25 years ago, John C Kubrt memorial at Grace Lutheran Tripoli, Everding couple 25th anniversary, Howard Witt home sale, Bunger Barber Shop remodel, winter trip of Tegtmeier and Haase, Wintz Cluts wedding, Robert Ambrose elected Tripoli Commercial Club president, Father Son banquet notes, and Henry John Brennan funeral at Grace Lutheran with Rev Goetz.
Dr Wollie Earl Parsons age 47 is named psychiatric consultant at Fort Madison penitentiary. He will devote two half days weekly to the prison's psychiatric services and continues as medical director of Des Moines County Mental Health Center in Burlington. He succeeds Dr John Larson who resigned last fall.
Governor Norman Erbe orders all departments to review operations and propose expenditure cuts. Early replies show higher funding requests due to rising obligations and staffing gaps. Insurance, narcotics, and soil conservation report needs for more staff and resources amid growing workloads.
Mrs. Alice Dunkelberger of Cherokee enjoys dominoes as her favorite pastime as she approaches her 99th birthday. She is matriarch to five children eleven grandchildren thirteen great grandchildren and fifteen great great grandchildren across five generations.
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