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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1957
Page
6
Tripoli enjoyed near mid summer warmth with daytime 70s and a new high of 80 on Tuesday. A generous rainfall from Thursday afternoon through night added over .61 inch, aiding spring crops as temperatures ranged from 44 to 80 among the week’s daily highs and lows recorded by local observer C. W. Ryan.
Numerous relatives from New Hampton Readlyn Fredericksburg and surrounding towns gathered Sunday at the Albrecht home to celebrate Mr. Albrecht’s 74th birthday with a pot luck meal. Attendees included Edwards and Hinkley families and friends from Waterloo Cedar Rapids and DeWitt areas. The outing also noted weddings and Saturday travel among attendees as well as the Alcock Cemetery Association meeting slated for Saturday evening.
Bremer county ASC chairman Leo H. Orth warns May 31 is the deadline for price support loans on 1956 corn and soybeans. County totals show 749,194 bushels of corn under support and 59,892 bushels of soybeans loans to date with purchases and repayments ongoing. Farmers urged to file applications now as loan processing takes about 10 days and warehoused loans will be taken over June 1 if undeemed. Provisions exist for farm stored loans and purchase agreements requiring May notifications if delivery is intended.
Readlyn Mr and Mrs Raymond Poock hosted a Sunday noon birthday gathering for their son Tommy marking his eighth birthday. Guests included Gerald Poock Arnold Poock Violet Poock and others from Readlyn and Waterloo. Ardith Huebner and Joyce Piehl visited. Steven Pavelec baptized at St Peters in Tripoli with sponsors.
Knittel and Rindels host Palm Sunday observance for Myrna's confirmation while Kimball Tiedt Petersen and Wehling families share weekend and Easter visits. Local travel includes Geneke and Wehling families in Waverly and Denver. Peru lumber from Pucallpa on the Ucayali River ships worldwide. Cockfighting declines as outlawing and fixing concerns rise.
May 3 Extension Sunday May 5 St Peter s Evangelical and Reformed Mother Daughter banquet May 6 Council meeting May 7 American Legion May Extension Service Music Inc likely schedule items listed for the Town Hall calendar with events and organizations shown in fragmented OCR text
Walther League of St. Pauls Lutheran church hosted a social for 1957 confirmands and parents in the Readlyn church parlors Monday night. Lavonne Rucker and Betty Huebner led devotions, vacancy pastor Wm F Reddel spoke on Teenagers Talk about Parents, and Roberta Meyerhoff Gloria Poock and Betty Richmann ran progressive games. Refreshments were by Carol Blume and Betty Huebner. Gordon Happel, league president, led a short business meeting. Sixty guests attended.
Five sheep were killed and about six more mauled by marauding dogs on the Fred Darrah farm near Emmetsburg recently, authorities reported.
Extension Director Doyle N. Gorden says Bremer County pullet producers can save $1 to $12 per hundred by a good range. Iowa State College’s Paul Walther notes forage choice matters with recommendations of bromegrass ladine clover and alfalfa. He warns against birdsfoot trefoil and outlines range conditions including clean surface, two year fallow, slope, shade, corn rows for edge, and one acre per 400 birds.
A reti red town public safety official, known for sound judgment, left on a trip and died after crossing a four need fence and entering an unfamiliar Iowa highway. On a clear day with light traffic he increased speed before the fatal event occurred in a plowed field about 100 miles from home.
A man was believed to be traveling over 75 mph when he failed to heed a warning, lost control, and crashed into an inclined embankment. He is remembered as generous in his town and known for saying, Let's talk this over until we can see the road ahead.
Johanna Jungblut transfers interests to Alfred Hahn and his wife for $1 and se of swt and n of nw of sw and s of wi of ne plus TM of sw. The record outlines partial property shares among named parties and notes the transfer language in the deed.
A damaged OCR item references sections 22-93-9 and 19-91-13 with figures like 13.20 and persons such as Ventio Wilbur L. Schiela Wapsipinicon Are 186 Inc. and Ernest Pleggenkwh. It mentions Truman T. Stahr and a council, plus lots 4 and 5 in Michener's addition Frederika. A narrative line about a man leaping a barbed wire fence and a plowed field appears, followed by a prompt to read the want ads.
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