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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1957
Page
6
The piece says students blame teachers for low grades but fault their own effort. It urges finishing the term strong, studying hard, and graduates to seek jobs must start now and keep their best effort at all times. The assistant editor signs Melvin Buls.
Fifth graders finish year with dental cards, birthdays, and final sports against sixth grade. Students study South America and coffee origins, create friezes of the coffee plant, and craft mobiles of circus animals. The Good Citizens club plans another musical program as art projects wrap up and books are nearing completion. Perfect attendance noted for Lois Ladage and Julie Bremer.
A seventh grade program covers world wars reading in social studies, with students relating to fathers stationed abroad. Arithmetic and punctuation practice, a poppy poster contest with Joanne Beevers winning first prize, and a focus on budget planning for next year’s float. Two eighth graders will move away, and sports include a first junior high track meet with multiple events. Church notes for Congregational church follow.
Church activities listed by Pastor Ewald Puhlmann include services at 10 a.m. with a sermon It Was Resolved that We Should Do and a 9 a.m. church school, choir practice, youth classes, devotionals, and a daily Vacation Bible School starting 8:45 a.m. The Rural Life Institute in Cedar Falls on May 29 will be led by Rev Claude Snyder. Visitors welcome to worship and attend classes.
A. S. C. treasury will be received D. L. Carver, pastor, leads morning worship at 9:15. Topic The Topics of Rural Life. Sunday school at 10:15, church school at 9:00. Divine worship 10:00. Mother Daughter banquet at 7:00 p.m. Cyril Jandrey, pastor, Sunday school 9:45, worship 10:45. Frederika church worship 9:30, Sunday school 10:30.
Neighborhood visits fill a week with dozens of gatherings from Oclwein to Waterloo. Residents including Mrs. Roy Schmudlach and Mrs. Lela Clary attend multiple social calls. Bockhaus family and relatives host and visit. Richard Wiremann graduates at Janesville. Ted events wrap with weddings and family meals across Carroll Smith, Denver, and Tri Poli communities.
A string of readers from Cedar Falls Waterloo Tripoli Fairbank Oelwein Sumner Fredericksburg and New Hampton visited neighbors and relatives Sunday afternoon and evening. Families including Frye Baldwin Henning Bockhaus Rewoldt Jahnke Hurmence Truax Sherman Nay Gillett Thompson Dean Schmudlach Wagner Benz Nargang Bravener Bergmann and others joined gatherings and a picnic supper while Benz prepared to settle into a new home at Center Valley Creamery.
Bremer County Farm Bureau reports 1,401 members, surpassing last year's July 1 total of 1,400. Officials expect continued gains as the annual membership drive concludes. This marks the sixth of seven years with growth and the 14th of 17 years of rising Farm Bureau membership in Bremer County.
Bolson's advertises Chick Starter with dried eggs fish meal antibiotics and bifuran plus basic ingredients claimed to speed chick growth and arrival. The copy emphasizes faster results for summer chicks and positions Bolson's products as top quality selection.
Bolson's advertises Pullet Grower and a 37 percent Poultry Concentrate to strengthen growing pullets. It claims better poultry results with Bolson's seeds or concentrates and invites readers to visit the farm to see chicks pullets and layers and be convinced.
Savings bonds purchases in Bremer County during April totaled 99,219 dollars, giving a four month total of 464,828 dollars for 38 percent of the 1957 quota. Iowa April sales reached 10,554,897 dollars with four month total 51,537,060 dollars for 36 percent of quota. National average stands at 31 percent with Butler, Chickasaw, and Fayette counties posting 29, 52, and 46.7 percent respectively.
John Thies recently returned from Veterans hospital in Iowa City after an 11 week stay. Carl Balvant’s family welcomes son James Thomas born May 19 at Mercy hospital. Kathy Meier, daughter of Merwin Meier, visited Clair Zimmermann in Oelwein for Percila’s birthday. Anna Griese came home Friday from Allen Memorial hospital where she was a patient two weeks. Saturday visitors included James Venter, Elsa Venter, and Eugene Venter family from Waterloo. Carl Everding has word of a daughter Lee Ann born to Charles Buenzow family.
Mrs. Richmann’s birthday was celebrated Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Richy with many relatives and friends from Readlyn and surrounding towns attending. A separate birthday visit honored Mr. Win. Tiedt on May 20 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Tiedt, with guests including Ed Piehl Albert Ganske and numerous families from Readlyn and Waterloo. Mrs. L. C. Warneke remains hospitalized at Allen Memorial after a fall, sustaining a broken leg.
Mrs Cecil Thurs formerly Bertha Fuhr, once of Tripoli, is recuperating from tuberculosis of both lungs at Mount View Sanitarium Route 4 Wausau Wisconsin. The Thurs have a son Gregory Lee born about a year ago. The U S President is honorary president of the Boy Scouts.
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