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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1972
Page
5
Readable notices list hospital calls, bridal parties, anniversaries, and family visits across Waterloo Readlyn Sumner and surrounding towns. Local residents attend weddings, birthdays, and tea events while relatives visit from Mason City Richland Nashua Springfield.
Mr and Mrs Richard Meyer announce the birth of a 10 lb 9 oz boy Todd Jason on April 27 at Allen hospital. Grandparents are Oscar Kohagen and Ben Meyer of Tripoli and Waverly, with great grandmothers Helena Doepke and Hulda Schilling of Tripoli. In Springfield Illinois Vernon Janssen and wife are parents of a 10% lb son born April 30, with Ruth Woodcock and Wm Andreesen as grandparents of Stout and Tripoli. Larry Kammeyer and wife greet a 7 lb daughter Carolyn Kay born April 26 at Allen hospital Waterloo, with grandparents Melvin Stahlhut and Arthur Kammeyer.
A series of social visits unfolds across Iowa towns. Elmer Clausing in Waverly hosts Mr and Mrs Fred Brase for supper. In Marion and Bettendorf, the Kalkbrenner and Decor families spend time with Betty Aries and Jerry Nichols. A birthday gathering honors Dean Sievers in Waverly. Elsewhere Rev and Mrs Gundel travel from Crane Creek to Lidderdale and South Sioux City visiting Bernard Gundel and friends. Richard Regel and family relocate to Mission Viejo California for a promoted sales role with Highland Laboratories. Erwin Bock and daughter Joan travel to Denver where Joan takes a new key punch operator post at Morse Chain.
A Sunday open house from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. in the Denver high school gym honors Mrs Rosalie Belton for 40 years on the Denver Elementary staff. Her career spans three generations of students with milestones including Delta Kappa Gamma membership and a 25th wedding anniversary observed in 1969.
The 94th birthday of Carl Schlichting was observed at the Tripoli Nursing Home on Sunday April 30. Afternoon visitors included Mr and Mrs Arthur Schlichting Waterloo, Mr and Mrs Werner Schlichting Cedar Falls, Mr and Mrs Raymond Schlichting, Mr and Mrs Ernest Knoploh Sumner, and other relatives Arlo Knoploh Eugene Knoploh family Wm Lohman and Walter Lohman.
The engagement of Janice Kay Wedeking to Bill Hyde is announced by her mother Mrs. Carrie Wedeking. Janice, of Clarksville, works at Cobra Glass in Waverly, while Bill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hyde of TriPoli, is employed at United Hydraulics in Waverly.
The meet results show Dysart girls scoring 228 and Tripoli 235 while Denver posts 251 and South Winn total 257. Beki Sassman leads as girls medalist with top scores across trips. upcoming golf action lists Clarksville Sumner Jesup Turkey Valley with dates and locations.
More than eighty guests attended the annual mother-daughter tea at St John’s United Church of Christ in Siegel. Vernon Hassman presented slides of the Holy Land while Mrs Anna Kappmeyer aged 81 was the oldest mother and Becky Buhrow was the youngest. Mrs Roger Buchholz of Elkader traveled the farthest distance as the daughter-in-law of Mrs Edwin Buchholz.
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