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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1931
Page
8
Gathered and compiled by Leader's Large Correspondent Staff highlights community happenings, daily activities, and local endeavors across town. The column sketches various residents, events, and projects shaping neighborhood life with brief notes and timely updates.
Mr and Mrs Henry Propp sr and Mrs Ernest Westendorf of Waverly spent Wednesday afternoon at Mrs August Westendorf's, with many neighbors visiting at various homes including the Kuker and Lohmann families. Odds and ends include shoppers in Waterloo and trips to Denver for a funeral.
Mrs. Fred Christopher celebrated a birthday with friends and kin at home last Tuesday. Others visited relatives in Fairbank Marshalltown Waverly Nashua Hamp ton and nearby areas. A Ford collision left the Mummelthers injured but the other driver fled. A barn fire north of Bremer destroyed the Henry Homan farm structure. Multiple families shared meals and visits across the region with extended kin.
In Sumner area events, Mr and Mrs Fred Mohlis and families visited Henry Bohle and Fred Gade homes Sunday evening. John Zbornik called at the Fred Gade home. Henry C Rieck’s funeral was held in Sumner Sunday afternoon with relatives from Butler county attending. Will Rieck joined relatives at the family home Sunday evening after hearing of Henry Rieck’s death Thursday morning. Henry left a widow and two sons Lorenz and Arnold. Arnold Seehase, son of Fred Seehase Jr, is ill with pneumonia. Will Rieck traveled Wednesday evening to Henry Rieck’s bedside near Sumner.
Mrs C J Meier hosted relatives and friends Thursday night for Miss Helen birthday observances. Other items note visits by Mrs George Bessmer of Baltimore and various Moeller family engagements in Denver and Waver. Clerical notes mention school board meeting in Jefferson township and local seed orders for Clover Seed at F F Moeller's.
The page lists visits and calls among residents including Albert Jahnke, Henry Hennings, Mrs. Sarah Wedemeier, Emil Pries, Gust Pries and family, Rudolph Anhalt, Gustav Buchholz, L Hennings, Helen and Nora Hen nings, Arthur Pries and Harold, and others. Activities include birthdays, illness care, and a large Bremer opening of Rasmussen's implement shop. Warren school No. 5 enjoys a spring vacation.
Denver items note Mrs Carl Krueger jr rushed to hospital for gall bladder surgery with unclear outcome. A Sunday Lent service at Evangelical St Paul church features illustrated pictures and an English lecture with a silver offering. Faithful Workers club to meet midweek. local residents ill or moved. Mrs Caroline Bruns died at 79 years five months in Waterloo after lingering illness. John Mohling turned 60 at a family gathering. John Auner returned from Osage after two weeks with relatives. An item records Otto Krueger building a hog house on Cyrus Jacobs farm and Ernest Stumme home from...
A traveler spent the weekend in Iowa City visiting family and his ailing brother Raymond who remains in St Francis Hospital Waterloo with slow recovery progress. The journey included time with his parents and other relatives during the family’s ongoing health concerns.
Collect anecdotes from a freshman English period about clumsy remarks and misunderstandings. Students discuss lighting medicine, a wheel falling off, a giraffe’s neck, Marines, and gum in government class. The tone is light and observational about classroom humor.
Fourth to sixth graders combined for hygiene class last week. Students answered questions on general hygiene and started a new health chart. The whole school is on one chart to earn a credit by meeting cleanliness standards including hands face neck ears nails hair and a clean handkerchief. Students also tested for choir participation with several passing.
List of candidates approved to sing with state and county chorus includes Minor Schuldt Ralph Michael Edgar Droste Agnes Bunger Erna Bunger Jo Hay and Rossetta Michael. Lavern Droste absent sick and cannot try out. Perfect spelling lesson honorees: Erna Bunger Margaretha Hay Rosset ta Michael Lester Deterding Bernice Brunscheon and Lorreine Buenger.
Christmas holidays spark a happy romance as Mr eons, employed at Diamond brothers store in the city, and his fiancée plan to make their home here.
Mrs Henry Benken, 31, died at Mercy hospital on Saturday afternoon from pneumonia contracted days earlier. Survived by husband and five children, youngest two weeks old. Funeral from Kaiser Funeral Home on Tuesday afternoon, Rev Wenninger of the Orphan's Home officiating, body to be taken to Parkersburg for burial.
Mrs. Ray Anderson reports the death of her uncle William Orcutt at 71 due to a stroke, found in bed at the Plainfield home he shared with his brother. Orcutt had served as Plainfield mayor for several years until resigning in 1929. Nearby, Edna Leisinger, six, injured after being struck by a car near Flege farm while en route to school, is recovering with non serious injuries. Other items note Waverly briefs, hospital stays, and local basketball results.
Waverly social and school items include a funeral or illness update on Dr Burkhart family infant, a carnival by Waverly high seniors for yearbook funds March 20, a Bremer county spelling bee April 11 in Community building, and local incidents. Also mentions Miss Ruth Nolte buying property and Lenore Randall returning to school after eye trouble.
Mrs Hans Johannsen of Leuthold Johannsen Cloth ing store has been ill this week. Wayne Sparks, son of Dr and Mrs Sparks, missed two weeks of school due to severe flu. Alfred Kramer, nine, son of Mr and Mrs Kramer, shows improvement after kidney treatment in Rochester but remains sick. Mr and Mrs Consigny plan to move to William Tofte residence on First Street NE. Kathryn McKliget, in poor health, is receiving treatment at Moyoy hospital. The Eli Larue property on No 218 near the fairgrounds has been sold to Carl Jack who will renovate it into a home. Thirty five children were examined for confirmation by Paul’s Lutheran church, with eleven from the Orphans Home to be confirmed on the Sunday before Palm Sunday. Confirmation was moved from Palm Sunday to the preceding Sunday.
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