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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1952
Page
4
The Tripol Leader is an established weekly paper in Tri poli Iowa published every Wednesday since 1894. Official newspaper of Bremer County and the Town of Tripoli. Subscription rates are 3.00 per year in state and 3.50 per year elsewhere in advance. Lee Peacock is the publisher.
A posted list of weekend and weekday visits shows residents from Waterloo, Parkersburg, Cedar Falls, Evansdale, Waverly, and Readlyn traveling to Hawkeye, Tripoli, Grundy Center, and nearby homes. Notable stops include dinners with C E Carroll, Everett Johnson, and the Carroll family, plus attendance at a junior play in East Waterloo.
A surprise Saturday gathering at the Kehe home honored the couple on their 10th anniversary and marked Mrs Kehe’s birthday and the 46th anniversary of Mr and Mrs Wm Kehe of Denver. Guests included multiple Kehe family members and friends from Waterloo Nashua and Denver. Werner Kehe won high score in 500 while Mrs Eldo Kehe took low score. lunch was served and a white bedspread was given to the honorees. Sammy and Benny Kehe, visiting grandparents, contracted measles and missed the party.
Merchants of Albia collaborated with the city’s volunteer firemen to perform a thorough traditional street cleaning last week, scrubbing and sweeping the thoroughfares to refresh the town.
Bremer county residents will vote Monday, June 2, to nominate local and county candidates as part of a nationwide process selecting nearly 1,000,000 government officials this fall. Farm Bureau leader Mrs. Wm. Heffernan stresses informed choices and accountability in public office.
Mr and Mrs Conrad Otter Stetter observed their 35th wedding anniversary with a 1 pm dinner at Tippy Tin Inn near Waterloo. The organist played their favorite selections. They then attended a theater in Waterloo.
Six year old Jimmy Chism of Bradgate was hospitalized after pellets from a 20 gauge shotgun ricocheted in a culvert when an older brother fired the gun. The incident occurred last week and the child received injuries requiring medical care.
One of Villisca's oldest firms, the Tyler Ice and Coal Co founded by F. P. Tyler in 1882, will pass from the founding family as his daughters currently operating the business auction it off.
Six Bancroft children receive rabies treatment after playing with a pet rabbit that bit one child and later died from rabies. The incident prompts medical officials to assess exposure and urge preventive care for other children involved.
Word was received of the death of Mrs. Carl Westendorf west of Tripoli at Allen Memorial hospital Waterloo after several weeks illness. Funeral arrangements have not been made at this time.
Fifty four acres on the Elmer Lentz farm were plowed in two hours last week as twenty four neighboring farmers with tractors joined the effort.
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Mrs Engel Warneke aged 9 died Tuesday at the Sumner home of her husband O. J. Warneke. The body rests at Matthias funeral home in Denver with funeral arrangements pending.
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