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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1956
Page
5
Mrs. Paul Zabel and Mrs. Henry Rolfes host and visit across Charles City and Waterloo. Numerous families in Water, Sumner, Cedar Falls and nearby towns host relatives and friends with Sunday dinners and banquets. Several births noted. birthdays and mother daughter events highlighted. photo service ads and local store promotions conclude.
More than one hundred people attended the mother daughter banquet sponsored by the Ladies Aid Society in Grace Lutheran Church fellowship hall. Mrs. August A Buhr Buck Creek delivered the inspirational Queen of May.
Three Tripoli teachers who have resigned to marry this summer were honored at a Thursday shower attended by eighteen faculty members and spouses at the Ti Pi Tin Inn near Waterloo. Grace Gaffey will wed Melvin Kupferschmid in May. Mitzi Yoshinaga plans to marry Saichi Maeda in July in Hilo Hawaii. Wanda Schaffer will marry Don Whitford in mid summer. he is in the U S Army.
Friday evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Gaede in honor of Mr Gaede's birthday included Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gaede and family and Mrs Hulda Waskow Sumner.
Mrs. Angeline Lindfield came home Thursday from University Hospital Iowa City after a six week hospitalization for surgery. She is recovering nicely from the operation performed there.
Sunday dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Henry Rolfes and Mr and Mrs Paul Zabel from Charles City visiting Mr and Mrs Robert Rolfes. A Grace Lutheran banquet was attended by Mrs Edwin Gaede and Marjorie Sumner and Mrs Louis Gaede. Hawkeye visitors included Harlan Estrem and Anna Pagel. Cedar Falls help visited Readlyn and other local families. Mrs Virgil Kingsbury traveled to Cedar Falls to aid a hip fracture patient. Farewell party for Art Brockmeyer drew several Waterloo and West Union families as Brockmeyer plans a move to California.
The American Legion Auxiliary met at the Town hall on May 8. Hostesses were Blanche Debel Lydia Eichmann and Muriel Rosenthal. Wreaths for Memorial Day will be made May 25. They will hand out treats on Child Health Day to local kindergartners through fourth grade. A poppy poster contest for grades six to eight saw Nadine Schnurstein winning first prize Charles Block second Jeanne Martin third.
Mr and Mrs J P Snelling were honored at a Bremer County Farm Bureau recognition party at the Congregational church for his retirement from Farm Bureau work. About 60 officers employees and families attended with speakers from Waverly Des Moines and Des Moines area offices. The couple received gifts including a TV chair and a golf scorekeeper and Snelling’s long service as charter member director and later agent was noted.
About 87 mothers and daughters attended the annual mother and daughter banquet at Congregational church. Guest speaker Herbert V. Hake of Cedar Falls drew cartoons. Betty Snelling gave a responsive toast after welcoming the daughters.
Sunday dinner and afternoon guests honored Duane Semler's fourth birthday. Attending were How ard Semler of Muscatine Mrs. S. J. Bowers Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Sieglaff and family Waterloo and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Semler and Duane Bowers of Hudson.
A commemorative poem dedi cated to the memory of Rosina Richter Goetz who was called home February 23, 1954. It asks for guardianship under God for her family, courage in trials, and prayer that all her loved ones reach safety in the afterlife.
Infant Ricky Lee Ruehs son of Mr and Mrs Willard Ruehs of Jesup was baptized Sunday at American Lutheran Church by Rev Fred Darnauer. Sponsors were Larry Hagenow Mrs George Dre wis and Lavern Ladage. Dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Will Ruehs Cambridge and Mr and Mrs Wilbert Ha
Genow and family join Mrs. Bertha Hagenow of Readlyn Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Ladage and Sherrie Rev and Mrs. Fred Darnauer and son Mrs. Crannon of Jesup and Mr. and Mrs. George Drewis and Beverly of Tripoli participate in the gathering.
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