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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1967
Page
7
Fragments reference welfare board items, janitor duties, repairs, jail supplies and guards. Exact entities and context are unreadable, leaving only scattered phrases about local services and security provisions.
Sealed bids from 10 bidders will be received until 10 30 A M June 13 1967 in Bremer County Iowa for grading excavation culverts and concrete roadway work on the Bremer Fay project FM-191-67 from the Sec 691-10 north to near the Cor SW Sec 18-9210. Bids require a certified check or bid bond and adherence to Iowa state specifications with the county reserving right to reject all bids or waive technicalities. Details list multiple concrete culverts aprons and roadwork items with quantities and locations along the project route.
Transfers include Elmer Dandas to Sumner Grain & Feed Inc and others with quit claim deeds and nominal sums. Numerous land tracts change hands in Waverly, Denver, Readlyn, and Janesville with revenues listed. county payrolls and various county office expenses are itemized alongside welfare and aid payments and utility costs.
Bremer County Iowa Board meetings from April 26 and May 1967 show approval of a contract to buy 31 voting machines from AVM Corporation Jamestown NY for 1690 dollars each with 4350 dollars rental credit, plus action on deputy clerk Audrey Lee, trustee bond Lois Slater, and wage for William McCurdy in the secondary road department. The May 15 session notes resignation of Bremer County Attorney Phil Gross effective July 1 1967.
A list of docketed actions includes Schlotz Memorial Hospital versus Roger and Gerry Lou Rindels for law, Allen Memorial Hospital versus Frank and Francis Allison for law, Go Liquidating Trust versus Bergman Concrete Products Co for law, and multiple divorces or separations such as Sheila J Strait versus Douglas C Strait and Marcia Timmer versus Dale Timmer. Also noted are Volks versus James Volk, Erdmann Motor Co. versus Lowell Bird, Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. versus George L Heideman, and Niemann versus Niemann, among others.
In Bremer County District Court Iowa the estate of William Propp deceased reports sale of Lot 8 Block 43 J H Hages Addition Tri Poli Iowa for 6500 cash. Hearing set June 23 1967 at 10 am in Waverly Court House. Administratrix Mabel Brase requests court approval. Henry Propp Jr and Wilbert Hoppenworth to object if desired.
John Argo 22 of Belle Plaine wed Roxane P Heyer 19 of Sumner. Gary M Blomberg 22 of Iowa City married Karen Kirchhoff 22 of Io- the report lists new licenses in the area.
In Tripoli area on May 31 1967 Kark Guetzlaff 21 and Bonita Thurm 21 from Waverly are named in a report from The Tripoli Leader. Details are limited but identify the two individuals as involved in a fatal event.
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