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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1931
Page
2
Mr and Mrs Ferd Meyer and daughters Laura and Alberta visited the Louie Volker home near Denver Tuesday evening. Several couples shared visits and dinners including Bodermann Wilharm Meyer and Struck households. A birthday party and games of 500 highlighted a Sunday gathering at the Kirchmann and Kuker homes with many relatives and friends joining in.
Charlie Haeberling spent a few days at his sister’s home. Shoppers from Waverly visited on Saturday afternoon. Visitors from Tripoli spent Thursday afternoon with the Nuendorfs. Gustave Schwemm and family were guests at the Hoppenworths. Randolph Schwartz stayed with cousin Harold Mueller in Waverly from Friday to Monday. Edna Lambert visited a friend Thursday evening. Judisch family from Buck Creek visited the Drape home. Will Grebien attended Wm. Mahlstedt’s funeral in Tripoli. Mrs. Hoppenworth was listed in the records several days last week. The infant son of Louis Washkat, born January 16, was baptized Sunday. Harold Louis named, with sponsors Ed Borchert, H. P. Pries, Edwin Zander, and Art Kammeyer. Carl and Edith Schwemm and family shared Sunday dinner with the Carl Schwemms. Ernest Ladage family and Rev. and Mrs. Gerlach and family were Sunday evening guests at the Fred Brase home.
During our drawing period on Monday we made new window decorations. Mr Hunemueller brought a Brunswick phonograph to our school last week. We practiced patriotic songs Columbia the Gem of the Ocean and Dixie Land. We started a Golden Rule club with duties to keep busy and think for yourself. We used new musical devices and enjoyed locating places and streets on staff lines while spelling words. Friday the lower grades played Postmaster and the upper grades a location game in seoparaphy with each pupil leading at times. During rest periods we played follow the leader to phonograph music and did partner physical training.
Frederika District No 4 reports Lasola Kirchhoff, teacher, decorating the school with pussywillows and birds. Erna Struck visited last Thursday. Girls sew and plan to enter county fair. Lower class performed an observation game to practice grammar. John and Lawrence Moeller built a bird house hoping for songbirds. Fifth arithmetic class tested over measures tables with good results.
Marie E Webster, teacher. Students with perfect scores include Donald Lewis, Albert Rathbone, Zoa Fay, Wilbur Mahlstedt, Eris Fay, Verdeen Zeil, and Donald Maurer. Visitors Mrs John Lawton, Mrs Clyde Webster, and Miss Bernice Meigh. Baseball at noon and recess. Tulip Time theme for sand tables and Easter decor on blackboards. Also notes on spelling perfects and absences. Leader printing capabilities praised for office forms and wedding announcements. Egyptian art note on Cheops daughter hair color. Mercury dirt can cause thermometer sticking. pure mercury does not.
Rutledge of Webster is on the calendar for a session dominated by redistricting. Seven bills are pending in both houses proposing elimination of two congressional districts. Maps have been drawn by proponents while Washington demands action before the 1932 election. The Income Tax Act faces many amendments after the bill passed the house and went to the senate.
The Iowa Senate debates amendments to tax bills including striking corporate tax provisions and retaining individual income tax. A new dog tax proposal aims to fund the domestic animal fund with $2 per dog, rising to $5 if needed. Other actions include a bill to stiffen penalties for drunken driving, licensing for fortune tellers, and scrutiny of Governor Turner appointees. An appropriation request of $125,000 for Iowa’s 1933 Chicago World’s Fair exhibit is met with caution about historical value. Budget trimming tightens state expenses across departments, with the state fair board canceling $68,000 in planned improvements.
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