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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1934
Page
8
Leader's staff compiles a batch of local happenings and notable activities from readers and neighbors. The items sketch small dramas, community projects, and everyday efforts shaping the neighborhood pace and tone.
Local notation highlights a Tuesday creamery meeting and numerous visits around Tripoli. Residents including B B Bennett Walter Schultz C H Schmidt Andrew Carstensen Henry Heideman and Geo H Heideman share attendance and social calls through the week.
Long note of local events lists anniversaries and birthdays at Louie Oltrogge Elmer Schweer and Mrs. Schweer celebrations. Community members visit, attend Lutheran church confirmation, birthday observances, and local meetings. Names such as Leota Meier C. J. Meier Wm. Mei er are mentioned along with trips to Iowa City and Tripoli.
Residents and relatives share time at multiple homes across the week. Elmer Sassman family and Esther Mervin visited Henry Blasberg. Osmin Franklin and Robert Ferson at C L Myers. W J Peters and family plus Everding families dined at H W Peters with others from New Hampton.
Neighbors hosted a house warming for Mr. and Mrs. Theo Clausing with eight families attending. Warren Evangelical church men cut down box elder trees on the church lawn and plan evergreen replacements. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schultz and daughters plus Mr. and Mrs. Art Rucker and Arlen celebrated the Oltr ogge 20th wedding anniversary in Artesian. Schultz family joined Mrs. Shaffer north of Bremer for her birthday. Mrs. Joe Madden of Halfa visits daughter Mrs. Lawrence Heine. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Epley and family visited Sumner for dinner with George Messer. Milton Epley works there. Evelands, formerly of Bremer, visited. Herbert Kaiser anniversary party with fourteen families and surprise, Monday evening. Lunch served by Lute Leitha and Leonard, Jack Leitha and E. C. Robertson party. Ed Leitha home hosted Sunday visitors.
Buck Creek area residents hosted guests over the weekend with multiple Sunday calls. Albert Westen dorf and family visited Wm Tegtmeier. Herman Wendentorf and others stopped by. Tripoli and Waterloo ties noted. John Seehouse and Russell visited in Denver. more visits to Zell and Meier homes reported.
Mrs. Henry Volker and Mr and Mrs Henry Volker attended Burdene Volker’s confirmation at the A C Bruns home in Waverly. A string of relatives visited various households including Meyer, Bodermann, Kuker, and Durr families across Sunday and Monday evenings.
Linden Methodist Episcopal church in Waterloo brings full morning services to Frederika Methodist Church on Sunday March 25 at 10 30 with Seth Parker in An Evening in Jonesport performed by John Howard Cephas Lizzie and the Neighbors. Evening program includes old family songs with locals assisting. No admission charge.
Mr and Mrs Revern Holm hosted a Sunday evening house warming with about eleven families present and a five hundred person entertainment. High score honors went to Mrs Paul Schroeder and Ferdinand Stahlhut. A lunch was served and numerous local residents attended, including the Schroeders Bodermanns Strucks and Steeoes among others.
Miess Arlene Dilley of Pinhook visited cousin Evelyn Buckendahl from Wednesday to Sunday. Waterloo residents Mr. and Mrs. Webster Peavey spent Sunday night at the Gunsalus home. Anthony Holm of Ionia visited Myron Holm and son Harold Sunday. Adele Rewoldt visited in Waverly at Fred Rewoldt’s home. C L Bowers drove to Fredericksburg where Mrs. Bowers stayed with sister M F Richman. Edgar family visit with H M Schroeder in Waverly Sunday. Arlen Luhring of Siegel visited Raymond Bockhaus Monday. Otto Schaub and daughters and Harry Barker guests of C E Dease Saturday. Mrs. Mary Miller ill with bronchial trouble. daughter C S Ayers of Charles City cares for her. Ruth Carroll, student at Upper Iowa, home for weekend. Arlyne Sherman went to Waterloo for several days. Claude Henniger and Rose Hill of Waverly visited Andrew Henniger’s home. Mrs. Leo Buckendahl and Rose Mary Buckendahl visited Leonard Wieland in State Center last week.
A Norfolk youth will be transferred to a U S battleship for further duty after graduation last year. His brother Raymond works as a printer on the U S Lexington and has served aboard the vessel.
Mrs. L H Racker visited Northwood to see her father after he suffered a stroke. Irmgard Grossmann at Stephens College Colu mbus Missouri has been ill with a leg infection but is recovering. Mr and Mrs F S Wells welcomed a baby boy named George Patrick at Mercy hospital. Harry Page won the 1934 Bremer county checker tournament with 61 points. other top scorers listed. Lonnie Ellis moved to a new apartment. J H Siebert relocated to Waterloo. J P Fallon of Omaha visits for property interests. Carolyn Herrmann celebrated her sixteenth birthday with friends and luncheon. R K Thompson with pneumonia shows improvement. daughter Mattie Poole helps care. George Ritter, 79, injured after falling from a river bank while working on the CWA.
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