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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1955
Page
7
March 10 1910 notices record deaths marriages and local events in Tripoli Iowa. Obituaries include Mrs Chris Sommer and Sophie Zelle with ages 68 and near 94. Community updates note illnesses accidents births weddings and farm market prices from the era.
The film Prisoner of War starring Ronald Reagan Steve Forrest Dewey Martin and Oscar Homolka plays at Tripoli Theatre Sunday and Wednesday. It portrays enemy indoctrination in Korea with stark, realistic scenes and follows actions of key figures resisting Communist tactics.
Readlyn Music Boosters purchased 60 chorus gowns for the Readlyn high school music department. Committee leadership includes George Gundacker as chairman and several members: Mrs Henry Otto Jr Mrs Erich J Dornbusch Mrs Harvey Schiller Mrs Dan Buhr and Mrs Ann Schumacher. Mrs John Thies, a Scholtz Memorial Hospital patient in Waterloo, recently returned home after arthritis treatment. Pvt Harlan J Happel visited his parents in Readlyn before leaving for New York to embark there.
Europe bound assignment for a local serviceman follows completion of basic training in Atlanta. Richard Thran, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Thran, returns from University Hospital Iowa City for further stomach treatment. Readlyn Fire Department hosted a 4 chili and oyster supper at Community Hall with clips from Readlyn’s 50th anniversary. Various local families visited and attended funerals in Olin. Red Cross drive underway with many Readlyn volunteers. A Davenport jury handled a Federal district case involving an auto accident near the Strumpel residence. Baptismal services attended by Carl Everding and family at Trinity Lutheran Waterloo.
The event honored Lori Diane Buenzow, granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Buenzow of Waterloo. Mrs Buenzow is Doris Everding. Attendees included Diane Everding of Waterloo and Mr and Mrs Robert Buenzow of Jefferson Wis. The notice lists family ties and locations.
Mr and Mrs Paul Meyerhoff visited the Alvin Meyerhoff family in Marion Sun day. At the age of 70 a Supreme Court Justice may retire on full pay.
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