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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1962
Page
5
A long list of Sunday and weekday social calls, visits, and hostings across Waterloo, Waverly, Sumner, Denver, Readlyn, and nearby towns. Numerous families welcomed relatives and friends, with visitors from Charles City, Cedar Falls, Fort Dodge, and others. Notable items include confirmations at Syversons and Mothers-Daughter banquet attendance by Marie Conger and Myra Pease.
Monday offers beef and spaghetti with carrot and celery sticks apple crisp bread and butter and milk. Tuesday serves hamburger gravy mashed potatoes sauerkraut fruited Jell-O bread and butter and milk. Wednesday features maidrites green beans pickles glazed cake. Thursday provides creamed turkey over biscuits lettuce pumpkin pie bread and butter and milk. Friday lists fish sticks scalloped potatoes Twinkies ice cream bread and butter and milk.
Carolyn Sue Huck was baptized at Grace Lutheran church on April 29 by Rev. Arnold Thalacker. Sponsors were Mrs. Edwin Moeller, Mrs. Dale Buchholz, Larry Huck, and Marjean Guhlow. Dinner guests at the Huck home included numerous relatives from Sumner, Tripoli, Readlyn, Waverly, and nearby towns.
Est her Redies celebrated her birthday Saturday evening with a gathering of relatives and friends. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Henry Redies Bremer Mr. and Mrs. Emil Redies and Debbie Frederika Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Goodenbour Jesup Mr. and Mrs. August Wille and Kathy Denver Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wittenburg and Crystal Readlyn Harold and Donald Nolting Dunkerton Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Redies and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Biesterfelt and Danny.
Thursday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brase at 6:00 included Rev. and Mrs. A Thalacker and family with houseguests Mr. and Mrs. Harry Westwood en route from Gulfport Mississippi to Northfield Minnesota, and Mr. and Mrs. LaVern Brase and family Readlyn. The occasion was Mr. Brase's birthday.
John Henning was taken to Allen Memorial hospital Thursday after losing the tips of three fingers on his left hand when he got them in a power mower. Mr and Mrs Everett Mitchell Waterloo, brought him home Sunday and visited in the afternoon.
Mrs L H Fink of Tripoli with companions attended the 11th biennial convention of the Midwest Synodical Women's Guild in Cedar Rapids on Monday and Tuesday. Town ball club forming in Tripoli with first practice Sunday at the baseball park. E J Fink and Will Fink visited Mrs Clarence Goodenbour in Waterloo. Goodenbour fractured her right leg in a fall. Ed Jesse’s 50th wedding anniversary celebrated at La Porte City restaurant with family. Pantry shower hosted by Mrs Wm Hurmence for Joyce Bodermann. Bodermann to wed James Block on May 12. Walter Sommer and family at a recital at the Iowa Braille and Sightsaving School in Vinton. Pat Bedard participates.
Those from here attending the funeral of Wynford Flanigan Waterloo Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. Maghy and Mrs. Everett Ambrose.
Mrs. Robert Ambrose Mrs. Erwin Towne and Mrs. Lawrence Block attended a district library meeting in New Hampton on Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Westendorf visited at the George Boeckmann home in Waverly on Sunday evening to honor his birthday. Mrs Lloyd Kammeyer and daughter Julie of Fort Riley Kansas are visiting indefinitely with her mother Mrs Kathryn Colburn. Mrs Fred Brase underwent minor surgery at Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo on Sunday. Mrs Anna Pagel fractured her left arm in a fall Sunday morning at her daughter Mrs S A Maurer home.
Bernette Hay daughter of LaVern Hays Tripoli united in marriage with Lyle Njus son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Njus Lawler in a Grace Lutheran ceremony at 2 00 pm April 28 Rev A Thalacker officiated. Bride wore chantilly lace gown with scooped neckline basque bodice bouffant skirt train and Swiss braid crown veil. Bridal bouquet of calla lilies. Matron of honor Adis Lee and bridesmaids in romance blue gowns. Best man Vern Njus and groom’s attendants Charles Hay Orlo Njus Rudi Schult. 400 guests reception at Tripoli Town Hall. Bride employed as nurse aide at St Joseph’s New Hampton. groom to farm near Lawler.
Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs August Bergmann and Mr and Mrs LeLand Bergmann visited Mrs Erna Kruse in Waterloo to celebrate Mrs Kruse birthday.
Bremer county adult clubs host a Better Dress Workshop at 9 30 a m in Tripoli Town Hall. Opal Roberson Iowa State University Extension Clothing Specialist presents Choosing Becoming Costumes with models of garments from the Extension Better Dress Workshop. County Extension Family Living program 1962 63 will be interpreted. Hostesses include Mrs Edwin Vossberg Janesville Mrs Kenneth Arns Waverly Mrs Harold Rubendahl Plainfield Mrs John Munsterman Waverly Mr Ernest Nuss Frederika Mrs Fred Shumate Sumner Mrs John Brayton Sumner Mrs Robert J Hagenow Fairbank Mrs Clarence Niewoehner Sumner and Mrs Otto Holzman Waverly.
Mr and Mrs John Biermann announce the birth of a daughter Linda Lou weighing five pounds fifteen ounces born at Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo on Wednesday May 2.
St Peters United Church of Christ held its annual Mother Daughter banquet Sunday evening in Tripoli Town Hall with about 125 attendees. Rev Paul C Hoyt performed Hoyts Puppet Review, Lorie Bunger played piano medleys, and toasts honored mothers and daughters. Five recognitions included youngest daughter Dawn and four generations of mothers, with Mrs Marie Conger traveling far from Bristow. Church men prepared the meal. Rev E F Puhlmann served as emcee.
35TH Mrs Mary Ullom Chester recently observed her 95th birthday. She is a native of Denmark, came to this country when she was 615 years old. She has 10 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.
May 12 marks opening day for walleye sauger and northern pike north of Highway 30 the State Conservation Commission reminded anglers. Frog season opens statewide May 12 with license required to take frogs. Trout streams in nine counties of northeast Iowa stocked with rainbow and brown trout in listed creeks rivers and springs.
The American Legion Auxiliary met in Tripoli with Geneva Selck and Dar lene Holm reporting on the Bremer County T B meeting. They planned memorial sprays for Monday May 28 at 1 p m in Tripoli Town Hall. Gladys Rettig spoke on the poppy poster contest. The ice cream social committee was appointed with hostesses Mrs Elizabeth Buhr and Mrs Sarah Holm.
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