Looking at Life as It Used to Be in Bremer County
Newspaper snippet recalls life in Bremer County with notes on a Denver interurban shift, a heavy snowstorm, market prices from 55 and 25 years ago, local elections, school bond approval, and multiple obituaries and anniversaries. Mentions D D Offringa as county agent, Gov Wilson discuss dam, and Wartburg College choir tour, plus local board wins and sports selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Bockhaus
Denver
Bert Miner
Broadie
D. D. Offringa
Bremer County
Greater
Tripoli Community
Alvina Bergmann
St. Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
E. F. Puhlmann
William Goetz
William F. Goetz
Tripoli
Wartburg College Choir
Local Social Notes from Pinhook Area
Sunday visitors and weekend calls populate the Pinhook and nearby towns. Residents including Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Schu macher and others from Tripoli, Fairbank, Sumner, Nashua, and Alta Vista visited various hosts such as Earl O Connell Ada McConkey Edna Richmond and the Figanbaum home. Birthday Club members were entertained by Mrs. Edmund Webster with prizes awarded to several guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Schumacher
Denver
Leland Timmerman
David and
Larry
Tripoli
Ada McConkey
Earl O'Connell
Ray Kuethe
Robert Figanbaum
Herman Sweeney
Pat
Alta Vista
Alfred Hahn
Edna Richmond
Frederika
George Wilson
Sumner
Ed Ommen
Albert Rieck
Edmund Webster
Birthday Club
Howard van Brocklin
Robert Schmidt
All conference honors honor Tri Poli players and couples wed
Darlys Lampe named to the all conference first team with Tri Poli guards Verjean Bockhaus and Pat Gaede onto the second team. Boys selections include Doug Boeckmann and Joe Rausch on the second team. Karla Kay Lobeck, daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Lobeck, Tri Poli, wed Grover Burke Knight of San Bernardino on February 10. James Henry Knight of Greensboro is the groom’s father. Reverend E H Doerring read the vows at Our Saviour Lutheran in Alton. Reverend Elmer Jacobs conducted the double ring ceremony at Zion Lutheran in Readlyn as Elaine S Meyerhoff, Readlyn, wed Charles City native Karl Finger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darlys Lampe
Tripoli
Verjean Bockhaus
Pat Gaede
Doug Boeckmann
Joe Rausch
Karla Kay Lobeck
Carl Lobeck
Grover Burke Knight
San Bernadino
Cal
James Henry Knight
Greensboro
N. C
Also Mentioned on This Page
William C. Johnson
Raymond H. Bunger
Board of Education
Tripoli Independent School District
Willard Holm
E J. Fink
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Werner Braatz
Clear Lake
Tripoli Mercantile Co
George Mikkelsen
Grace Lutheran Church
Arnold Thalacker
Edward Malzahn
Rettig Funeral Home
Wm. C. Oberlieu
St. John's Parish Hall
Harvey Hagenow
Cedar-Wapsie
Caroline Kehe
Pinhook
O'Brien
Aureomycin
Tallaark
Rose Mary Hair
Kotex Sanitary Napkins
Cologne
Kyanize Celei
Swift’s
Gold Crest
Paris
White House
A.M.T. Models
Scripto
O’brien
Tripoli, Iowa
the Easter Bunny
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