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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1961
Page
5
Sumner area residents hosted and visited friends across Cedar Falls Readlyn Waterloo and beyond with Friday and weekend gatherings. Guests included Ina Reeve Oliver Reeve and many others visiting in homes of Bunger Bartels Schumacher and Brase while Cedar Falls and Sumner families traveled to Pine River Hutchinson and Dubuque for visits and meals.
Sumner couple announces the engagement of Jeanette Mae Westendorf to Wayne Richard Salisbury. Jeanette works at City Laundry Oelwein and Wayne at John Deere Waterloo. They plan to wed Sunday May 14 at 2 pm in St John s Lutheran Buck Creek.
Dr and Mrs John Nansen have attended since Monday at the 122nd annual meeting of the Congregational Conference of Iowa, held at First Congregational Church in Charles City.
Mr and Mrs Peter Mahlstedt and Mrs Wesley Mahlstedt visit Cedar Falls to help celebrate a birthday for Mrs Mahlstedt. The gathering marks a family occasion with friends and neighbors joining in.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Carl Kirchhoff in honor of his birthday were A G Koch and Emelia Koch. Evening guests included Mr and Mrs Dan Kirchhoff and Pam Everett Funk Mr and Mrs Leon Kirchhoff and daughters Waverly Mr and Mrs Wm Winzenburg and Cheryl Waverly and Mr and Mrs Virgil Bruns and family
Mr and Mrs Arthur Bunger visited Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Ralph Michaels at Waterloo and helped Arlene Michaels celebrate her birthday.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Schwartz and Marilyn joined Mr and Mrs John Johnston in Riverside to help them mark their 25th wedding anniversary with a Sunday gathering.
Paul Ford, Walter Steward and Mrs. Leona Bock attended funeral services Monday in Olwein for Fred Lynes District Interstate Manager.
The Leader corrects last week's issue to reflect the proper name of the newly hired high school principal as Robert Campbell. The error involved a misspelling in the hire announcement.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Meswarth and son Mark of Cedar Falls and Mr and Mrs Henry Meswarth of Sumner visited Sunday with Mrs Douglas Rosenthal a patient at St Louis Park Methodist hospital Minneapolis
Confirmed Sunday attendees for Mr and Mrs Werner Braatz included multiple Braatz relatives from Waterloo, Ventura, Whittemore, Mason City, Evansdale, Sumner, and Marshalltown. Sharon Braatz was confirmed at St John’s Lutheran church in Spring Fountain on Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Erwin Heine of Waverly welcomed their son David Dean who was baptized on Sunday at Grace Lutheran by Rev A Thalacker. Sponsors were Lavern Blasberg Waterloo Delbert Henning Readlyn and Marwin Blasberg Tripoli. Dinner guests at the Heine home included Elmer Henning and family Readlyn Henry Blasberg Fred Heine Lavern Waverly Marwin Blasberg Lavern Blasberg and family Waterloo Rev and Mrs A Thalacker and family and Mrs Thalacker's parents Harry Westwood Northfield Minnesota.
The Department of Social Welfare reports April figures: 169 recipients and 14607 dollars in grants for old age assistance, with 1685 dollars for medical purposes, averaging 96.40 per person. Aid to dependent children totals 1950 dollars for 62 recipients, averaging 148.50 per case. Blind aid 445 dollars for six recipients. Disability grants 244 dollars for three recipients. George Kern Bright dies at 101 in Lineville and Wayne counties.
Anita Warren and Larry D Cox wed at Geneva Methodist church on March 25 at 1 30 pm in a double ring ceremony. The bride wore a candlelight white satin gown with a chapel train and carried white roses. Attendants included Helen Davis maid of honor and Ruby Roegner Sharon Cox as bridesmaids. Best man Stan James, groomsmen John Peterson and Larry Carmichael with ushers Jerry Mason and Jerry Mening. A four tier chocolate cake greeted guests at a church basement reception. The couple will reside in Oelwein while both pursue teaching and extension work.
Nearly 40 million persons view about 95,000 films yearly in 380,000 showings. The Bureau of Audio-Visual Instruction at the State University of Iowa reports these statewide figures.
The notice announces the marriage plans of Charlotte Faye Houck and Bruce Roger Pals. Charlotte, daughter of Mr and Mrs H S Houck of Waterloo, will wed June 24 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waterloo. Both are students with ties to local employers John Deere and Allen Memorial Hospital.
A mobile X-ray unit scanned 1890 Bremer County residents during a Tuberculosis Control Division report from Des Moines. Three chest abnormalities suggesting possible tumors heart conditions or cancer were found but no referrals for larger X rays were made. The effort supported by Christmas Seals donations aims to locate and curb disease spread.
Mr and Mrs Wm Wiechers of Napoleon Ohio announce the June 4 wedding of their daughter Connie to Paul Fuchs son of Rev and Mrs Em Fuchs of Tripoli The bride elect is a Lutheran School of Nursing Fort Wayne Ind graduate and will complete Wartburg College this spring The groom to be is a Wartburg College graduate now studying at Wartburg Seminary Dubuque and will begin an internship at Elgin State Hospital near Chicago in June
Mrs. Lottie Aspholm Johnson of Iowa City seeks a bachelor of science in nursing at Iowa City. She balances homemaking, den mother duties, part time work, and studies with grades earning a traineeship last fall.
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