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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1958
Page
7
A brief notice urging readers to diversify reading like a balanced diet. It promotes fiction biographies non fiction travel writing and other genres to broaden perspectives and satisfy varied interests.
Senior Glimpses reports Cliff after a three day absence returns with crutches from a piano mishap leaving his feet injured but improving. He is a versatile student active in glee club quartet mixed chorus and holds student leadership roles. Cliff pursues music and academics, enjoying trigonometry and English while swimming and studying under Mantovani’s score influence.
February brought Lincoln and Washington birthday programs led by Allen Blasberg, David Lahmann, Carl Brooks, Raymond Buchholz, with Valentine's Day activities run by Bonnie Eick, Sharon Braatz, and Karen Biermann. Health posters during Dental Health week, birthdays celebrated by Jane Rieck and others, poetry and drawing by fifth graders, a farewell for Daniel Drape, perfect attendance lists, and birthday candy from Jolene Dettmer and Mickey Axon mark the noted events.
The text notes Cliff’s favorite musician is Days and mentions he will likely attend Wartburg College next fall. It also extends best wishes to THS students for their future.
The seventh grade highlights perfect attendance, studied Russia and its government controlled farming, and enjoyed a filmstrip on life there. They explored chemistry daily, learned solid liquid gas states, and created line bar picto and pie graphs in math. Skating parties, chaperones, and transportation were noted, with many class outings and art projects ongoing. The class welcomed Bonnie Moeller, said farewell to Larry Drape, and added Larry Moeller to form a 32-student group.
Tripoli Iowa Town Council meets with Mayor Barnes presiding. Fire department officers sworn in. The council approves the department constitution subject to attorney review. Bonds replaced by seven E bonds costing 750 with 1000 maturity, and bills for general fund and sanitation services listed for payment.
The junior pinbusters, a Sioux Center bowling team, average 65 years old with two members over 70 and perform well. Algona mourns the death of 90 year old Mrs. Clara Hagg, one of the area’s oldest residents.
Municipal Enterprise Elmor Block utilities salaries and fuel payments listed. Neptune Meter Co tolls Ambrose Oil Pearl Buechele pay and plies Interstate Power Co and ey Lewer Rental. American Savings Bank bonds 5250. Motion to adjourn carried. Town Clerk Pearl L Buechele.
Lois Slater, Clerk District Court, Bremer County Iowa, sets March 31 1958 at 10 AM for probate of the will of Anthony C Sievers deceased. Objections or reasons why the will should not be admitted to probate may be shown at the court house in Waverly.
Welfare payments in Bremer County for February totalled 15025.50 dollars, per the Iowa Department of Social Welfare. Old age assistance reached 13308.50 to 197 cases at 67.56 per case. Aid to needy blind was 209.50 to three cases at 69.83 per case. Aid to dependent children amounted to 1507.50 to 13 cases involving 54 recipients at 115.96 per case and 27.92 per recipient.
Two young would be burglars attempted a break in Garden Grove but fled after bakery owner Harry Kreger used his flashlight to alarm them. The crime ended without arrests reported.
A semi-trailer overturned at a weighing station near Mechanicsville due to an overload of scrap paper weighing about 65 000 pounds. Owner A A Ostrander of Minneapolis faces fines around 600 dollars for the overload.
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