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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1933
Page
8
A long list of local residents and families spent the week with relatives and friends at various homes. Notable mentions include Erna Hagenow visiting near Denver. several birthday observations for Minnie Peters. and the silver wedding anniversary of John Henning near Frederika. Residents also visited one another in Waverly and Sumner areas, with multiple households hosting and traveling between farms and town homes.
Aug A Buhr and family hosted Wednesday visitors in Charles Krueger and Wm Kno ploh homes. Ernest Sell family and Hermann Zell group visited Wm Kno ploh. Hilda Reich and Arnold Reich dined with John Sell. A son left for Sauk Center MN after a week with relatives. Kuhlman visited John Sell and Ernest Buhr. Henry Haar, Seehase called on Sumner. Judisch family visited Waverly for business. Tegtmeier and family visited West Union. Buhr family visited Bohle Sr.
Rev A W Gable attended a Waterloo retreat for district ministers, supervised by J Arthur Young. A state legislature representative spoke on house work. Local visitors included Rudolph Koch, Paul Sorg, Leslie Shufelt and others from Frederika, Waterloo, Sumner, Fredericksburg and Republic. Community members shared meals and social events, with several illnesses and travel noted, and sports results from Frederika high school.
Wm Kuker moved to Wm Bany farm on Tuesday February 28 with help from Drape Redies Schumacher Fredericks Hooper Kuker and Schroeder. Art Redies moved onto the vacated farm with Ernest Struck Alfred Redies Ernest Kuker Emil Redies assisting. Hugh Angus moved northeast of Tripoli to join his daughter Mrs Al Graves, as Martin Magneson also moves onto Angus vacated place. Fred Rodemeyer visited the Kuker home. Louie Kuker visited Tripoli. Ladies Aid met at Mrs Wm Dohrman home. Mrs Will Wedemier listed as sick. Several attended the Lahman shower at the Lahman home. telephone line 94F00 held annual meeting at Louie Platte home. Wm Lohman and others attended a shower at Schroedermeier farm near Bremer for Edwin Lohmann. Mrs Stanley Pichelman birthday party attended by many from area. Five oclock supper served by Mrs Wm Lohmann. Mrs Herman Ladage and Mrs Harry Moen of West Union visited Lohmann home. Lohmann ill with ate.
George Drewis helped George H. Heideman with wood splitting last week. Neighbors and relatives visited homes of Plagens, Hennings, Carstensen, and Schumacher Sunday and weeknights. Various calls, dinners, and visits feature many local families including Kelsey, Struck, and Bergman, with a Chicago visitor Gleason Chapin returning home.
A fragment shows a passerby contacting a housewife about her son Willie and remarks on preferred chores versus play. Willie replies that he would rather tidy the yard than play ball. The housewife counters with a dig about loving work. The tramp remarks that love is blind.
Sumner residents and neighboring towns share a week of visits and gatherings. Art and Paul Schroeder hosts welcomed visitors while Alvin Sommer and Maxine joined Waterloo callers. Steege and Braun families hosted and traveled, with moving help for Otto Pipho and a Walther League 500 party honoring Leonard Steege.
In Denver the Luther League schedules a devotional meeting for Thursday evening March 15. Local residents report several moves and visits including Mrs. Louis J. Bitterly from Dension Iowa and Miss Katherine Coon from Spirit Lake Iowa visiting in the community. Casper Reinhart suffered a stroke and is hospitalized in Readlyn. Ernest Faust and wife occupy the Faust farm near the road from Herman Steege's. Relatives helped George Jahnke celebrate his birthday. Ernest Stumme and Milton School, Iowa City students, visited over the weekend. Mrs. Otto Miller has been ill but is improving with care from Mrs. Dos and others.
Ames Iowa State College economist Professor W G Murray outlined a deep farm debt crisis. Forty five percent of Iowa land carried a one billion dollar mortgage at the end of 1932 with prices and foreclosures driving the hardship. He noted most current mortgages are first liens from 1921 to 1929 and cited county variations in foreclosures across Clarke Cerro Gordo Guthrie and Hancock.
In the past two years mortgage holders replaced foreclosures in some counties more than others. He noted that there have been as many foreclosures in the last two years as in each of the two prior five-year periods.
Sir Henry Wellcome plans an expedition to Palestine to uncover La chish, the ancient city where Isaiah prayed for protection from the Assyrians, in a sands-clearing effort with various American archeological interests present. An earlier dramatic proposal about a suicide is noted in passing.
Mr and Mrs C W Turner spent Thursday with Mrs Turner's parents in Fairbank. John Nolte attended a birthday celebration for D D Offringa in Waverly. Eleanora Pries and Arnold Homan wed in the Lutheran Church with Rev Melcher officiating. Fred Papay and family visited for the Pries Homan wedding. Will Platte and Fred Schultz hosted and dined with guests from Waverly. Will Weik from Cedar Falls visited Carl Ducker. the family then traveled to Marshalltown to visit Mrs Ducker's sister. Mr and Mrs Henry Krunemeier, and Henry Kappmeyer moved to Bremer, replacing the Lohman and Ducker households as Hildebrandts moved to their farm.
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