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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1962
Page
7
A long list of Sunday and weekend gatherings spans Iowa towns as residents hosted and visited relatives and friends. Guests came from Des Moines Waverly Cedar Falls Readlyn Denison and Vinton with many local hosts in Lamont Hawkeye West Union Sumner and Oelwein.
Plan June weddings and family visits span multiple Iowa towns. Entries note gatherings in Sumner, Titonka, Swea City, Jesup, Fairbank, Burlington, and New Hampton with kin and friends from Ames to Waterloo and Cedar Falls attending graduations, picnics, and house visits. Names include Kirchhoff, Foelske, Gesking, Haase, Nevermann, Meswarth, Krumm, Judisch, Weltzin, Hildebrandt, Maurer, Fink, Jahnke, Mahlstedt, and Seehase among others.
Friends and relatives from Des Moines Cedar Rapids Waterloo Waverly Readlyn joined Mr and Mrs Harold Kuethe at Southpark Sunday noon. Lawain Duane Judisch and Judy Kiefer attended Sumner High School commencement last Tuesday evening as guests in the Arnold Judisch home honoring Eugene's graduation. Mr and Mrs E W Kirchhoff and Mr and Mrs K A Chapin were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Robert Poage Baxter. Merlin Chapin Ankeny Mr and Mrs Donald Poage and family Corwith were also guests there.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Debel depart Waterloo by air for New York City then Rome for four days. They continue to Amsterdam and Copenhagen to visit relatives for seven weeks, then return via London to New York for a week with the Schweer family. They expect to return home around August 1.
Sunday supper guests for birthdays at the Henry Frese home in Waverly included L H Fink and wife Fred Fink E J Fink and family Will Fink Ray Jacobson Art Jahnke Lou Jahnke Rev Sigmund Sandrock and Pamela Sandrock Walter Schultz Otto Shieck and others from Tripoli Clarksville Frederika Fort Collins and Clarion. The celebration marked both Mr and Mrs Frese birthdays.
Sunday afternoon guests in the Emil Schweer home for her birthday included Mrs. Newton Bahr Pam and Mr and Mrs Ed Bodecker Waverly Clara and Charles Schweer Mr and Mrs Emil Degelau Mrs Martha Foelske and Marlys Denver Mr and Mrs Lavern Foelske and Ricky Coretta Dettmering and Arnold Degelau Evening guests were Mr and Mrs Herman Buchholtz.
The annual Heideman reunion is slated for Sunday at the Janesville Legion Hall with a noon picnic and special entertainment. Coffee will be supplied by committee members Lloyd Heideman Cecil Taylor and James Nissen along with their spouses.
Sunday supper guests of Mr and Mrs Ray Brase included Mr and Mrs Ernest Brase Ernest Rueker Esther Kueker Wa verly and Mr and Mrs B C Biermann The occasion marked Danny Brase birthday observance.
Mr and Mrs Wm Hurmence and family visited Mr and Mrs Glenn Weisner Sunday in Pella. Weisner and Scott plan to move to Tennessee on Thursday to make their home.
Mr and Mrs L H Fink will travel to Mequon Wisconsin Thursday to visit their son and daughter in law Lowell and Christine Fink Their granddaughter Christine will be baptized Sunday and the couple plans to return Tuesday
Relatives report Mrs. Otto Shieck of Clarion is hospitalized after a heart attack on Tuesday. She is the daughter of the late Ernst C. Fink.
Mr and Mrs H H Nevermann attended the wedding of Nancy Hagemann and Neal Walther at Waverly Saturday noon.
Natives and friends gathered Friday evening to honor Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Heideman on the occasion of a birthday celebration. The event included entertainment and best wishes from attendees.
The library launches a 12 week summer reading club from June 4 to August 20 for grades 1 through 8. Participants earn five points per fiction and ten per non fiction book with prizes at 100 and 200 points. Enrollment cards and the first Lois Lenski titles will be available next week with hours posted for afternoons and evenings on four days.
Marjorie Ann Gaede daughter of Mrs Leona Gaede and the late Edwin Gaede Sumner wed Pvt Eugene Larry Knoploh son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Knoploh also of Sumner. Rev John Mohr officiated at St John’s American Lutheran Church on May 20 at 2 30. A 250 guest reception followed in the Parish house Velda Knoploh hosted. The bride works for Northwestern Bell in Waterloo and the groom is stationed at Camp Chaffee Arkansas.
Mr and Mrs Wilbert Frahm and their family visited at the Arthur Frahm home in Evansdale on Sunday afternoon to honor their 15th wedding anniversary.
Larry D. Cox of Tripoli Community School is among 65 US German Canadian science and math teachers awarded NSF grants to attend a summer institute at The State University College Potsdam New York from July 2 to August 10. Grants up to 450 plus travel and dependent allowances were awarded. Courses cover biology chemistry earth sciences physics and mathematics.
Jane Else, a third grade instructor this year, underwent an appendectomy Sunday morning. She resides at Ma haska Hospital in Oskaloosa.
Mr and Mrs H H Hoppenworth along with Nancy and Mary Hoppenworth attended a reunion Sunday at Prince of Peace Lutheran church Evansdale. Mrs Gene Vincent and Mrs Larry Cox judged a Better Grooming contest for the Tens N Teens 4 H club Monday at the Stanley Bockhaus home in Waverly.
Mr and Mrs Gene Vincent hosted a farewell party Friday at the Elias Pardee home in Oelwein honoring Mr and Mrs Duane Steinhart.
Mr and Mrs Fred B Schuldt hosted friends and relatives from Shell Rock Readlyn and nearby areas Sunday afternoon and evening in honor of Mrs Schuldt on her birthday.
Mrs. Les Kelsey spent Tuesday evening and Wednesday at the Bert Fischer home in Plainfield where a lightning strike destroyed the Fischer barn.
Mr and Mrs Duane Steinhart and Kimberly will relocate to Tipton on Friday. Verne Schildroth and spouse will take over the Steinharts former house.
A Social Security Administration district office representative will be in Waverly at the court house on June 7 and June 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, per district manager Earl T. Johnson.
State Insurance Commissioner William Timmons approved rate increases for Iowa policy holders tied to National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters. The changes mostly affect vehicles enrolled in safe driver programs and reflect higher premiums for these groups.
Mr and Mrs Lavern Wylam of Waverly welcomed Nancy Jane weighing 8 lb 114 oz born May 21 at Allen Memorial hospital Waterloo. Nancy's mother was formerly Rosie Adelmund, daughter of Joe Adelmunds Tripoli. Loren Mummlbie of Waterloo and his wife welcomed a son Loren Allan born May 16 at Scholtz Memorial hospital Waterloo. Loren is son of Mrs Ernest Haase. Loren Ratliff and wife from Germany welcomed Gary Lynn born May 21 at an army hospital near Frankfurt, with a 2 year old brother listed.
Wapsie Valley High School named award recipients at the May 16 class night for the 1961 62 season. Football honors went to James Gallup Tom Kastli Roger Zars John Matthias Bill Werner Roy Kastli Don Markle Melvin Neil Dick Moeller Dennis Wegner David Wittenburg Wendell Finch Eugene Heineman Bob Lorber Dennis Moeller Tom Strumpel. Boys basketball saw Bill Werner Roger Zars Charlie Miller Eugene Heinemann Bob Lorber Robbie Marile and a manager. Girls basketball honored Karen Moeller Patty Moeller Andrea Klodt Sandra Gehrke Kathy Meyerhoff Joyce Warnke Joyce Rechkemmer and a manager. Wrestling awards went to John Matthias Dale Wehling James Gallup Darrel Kohagen Roy Kastli Dick Moeller Dennis Wegner Jerry Dorn Dale Thurm Ron Zars Rueben Krebs Jim Hines David Matthias Ron Moeller Craig Wenzke and a manager. Baseball winners included Bill Werner Roger Zars Don Markle Melvin Neil Darrell Hartman Walter Sauerbrei Bob Lorber Dennis Moeller Tom Strumpel. Temptation may be strong, but it seldom overtakes the man who runs from it.
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