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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1962
Page
4
Help wanted ad seeks custom work and a picker shelter SP 55 for a John Deere combine. Contact Tripoli 11 F5, Harold Uhlenhopp, Sumner. Phone 508.
Messages express gratitude to all who sent cards flowers visited at Allen Memorial Convalescent Home in Waterloo and Allen Memorial Hospital Waterloo Special thanks to Rev W H Klein and Rev Thalacker for prayers and visits The families thank relatives friends and neighbors for thoughts and support during illness and after the loss of their husband and father William D Towne and Mrs Ray Block
Fremont area social pages detail weddings and gatherings. Judith Boldt and Floyd Fowlkes wed at Grace Lutheran with many local families attending. Kenneth Miller and Judy Pullen married at Hudson EUB as numerous relatives joined in. Sunday dinners and card parties honored birthdays and celebrated visitors across Waverly, Readlyn, Sumner, and Janesville.
Former Frederika resident Mrs. Cora Belle Simes died in an Oskaloosa hospital on Oct 23 after a heart attack. The 75 year old former manager of the Frederika telephone office for nine years, funeral services were held Oct 26 at Garland Chapel with burial in Grimes Cemetery west of Chariton. She is survived by her husband Charles.
The Tripoli Leader notes a string of visits on a quiet weekend as families and neighbors drop by homes of Lahmann Rathbone Quass Nielsen Miller Judisch Moeller Berlin and others from Waterloo Sumner Charles City and nearby areas. Guests include Jane Rathbone, Elsa Tegtmeier, Arnold Westendorf, Arnold Stromer, and Arnold Degelau with travel ties to local households.
The Bremer County Tuberculosis and Health Association will launch its 1962 Christmas Seal Campaign on November 13 with Christmas Seal mailings to Tripoli residents. Chairman Mrs. Robert Selck says the campaign aims to “Give the Gift of Health” as plans are set.
Tripoli High School junior class stages their class play Terror In The Suburbs in the gym Friday at 8 p.m. The production features Barbara Brand Sandi Ellison Marilyn Beam student director and a full cast with Mrs Dora Kuhlow as adult director. A Laura Wilder exhibit with Charlotte the doll is planned for Book Week in the library to engage visitors and promote reading about pioneer life.
The library highlights reading for all ages with shelves of adult and juvenile fiction and non fiction, hobby books on sewing cooking leather craft woodworking and tin can craft plus 30 Christmas decor idea titles. It invites ordering requested titles and notes children are a focus.
Colfax resident Dwight McDaniel caught two catfish weighing 25 and 28 pounds in the Des Moines River, highlighting a notable fishing success for the area.
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