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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1963
Page
2
The Tripoli Leader is the official town and Bremer County paper published weekly on Wednesdays. Established in 1894 with William A. Buckley as publisher and Robert J. Sassman as editor, it carries subscription rates of 3.50 a year in Iowa and 4.50 elsewhere, payable in advance.
May 23 Extension Family Living coffee at 9 a m at Tripoli Town Hall. May 31 County 4 H Planning meeting at 8 p m at Extension Office Tripoli.
The 4-H Dutiful Daughters Club held its annual Mother-Daughter Tea with all members mothers two leaders and two visitors present. Sandra Clausing hosted and Sara Thoms was named county officer candidate with Beverly Kohagen as speaker. Plans included a May tea a June Rally Night and a Ten and Teens zipper lesson with demonstrations on skirts and lingerie alterations. Committees set invitations favors and nursing Health project plans for Cancer Society contributions.
Mary Bull led sewing demonstrations on thread knotting and thimble use while Nancy Brase Cecelia Kingery and Judy Feuchtwanger showed how to sew on buttons snaps hooks and eyes and gather a skirt The group assisted at a Silver Wedding Anniversary Nancy Burrow reports TNT Mothers attended May 7 at Julie Iserman home Eight members one leader two judges and seven mothers attended Roll call noted A Good Clothing Care Habit I Need To Acquire Better Grooming Contest winners Junior Dixie Ruehs Intermediate Marsha Bull Senior Joyce Dooly report by Julie Iserman
The Sumner American Legion will hold military services at 9 a.m. on Memorial Day at Alcock cemetery. Guests at weekend gatherings included Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Drewis and family and Mrs. Clara Hildebrandt at the Harvey Hildebrandt residence in Tripoli. Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson visited Cedar Falls with their daughter, while Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mahlstedt hosted guests in Cedar Falls. Mrs. William Bravener and children of Tripoli were supper guests with his parents.
A parade of visitors and hosts fills Tripoli area life from Cedar Falls to Waterloo. Mrs. Wayne Bravener and Mrs. Harry Miller returned from Omaha with Mrs. Carol Sherman, while Hazel Ager and Hazel Bowers visited at Allen Memorial hospital. Several weddings and commencements are noted, with guests from Dysart Waverly Iowa City and beyond. Also, Cub Scouts handed out Good Will sacks May 18 for late May collection.
Herman Richmann of Marion visited the Richmann home in Denver on a Sunday. The Denver Town and Country notes the social call and local observances around the visit.
Garden Club held its May meeting at Mrs Ray Fairholm’s home with a 9 o'clock breakfast. They received an invitation to join the June 22 flower show sponsored by the Waverly Club. June meets at Mrs Cecil Cook’s home on June 11 at 9 o'clock for coffee, then an iris walk in Riceville followed by a picnic dinner in Hayden’s Prairie park.
The oldest resident, Mrs Louis Pah, marked her 99th birthday in her St Ansgall home. Details are limited, but community members celebrated the milestone of a long life in the local area.
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