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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1933
Page
8
Leader's Large Correspondent Staff compiles a digest of local happenings across towns. Observers note community projects, social events, civic alerts, and everyday activities shaping daily life.
A lengthy list of residents and families from South of Tripoli shared Sunday afternoon and evening visits. Art and Mrs Tegtmeier joined Carl Boeckman and others, with many households hosting birthday observances and[] various relatives and friends from Denver to Sumner appearing at local homes.
Mr and Mrs Henry Heideman and relatives assisted with work at the Geo H Heideman home Thursday afternoon and Friday. Henry Heideman and grandson George Drewis drove to Sumner on business Saturday morning. Will Schumacher was a Bremer caller Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Herman Plagens and son Reuben spent Sunday afternoon at the Geo H Heideman. Mr and Mrs Will Schumacher and son Charles and Miss Isabelle Tegtmeier spent Sunday afternoon with Gust Plagens in Tripoli. Art Kuker was a caller at the Geo H Heideman home Saturday. Henry Heideman was a Tripoli caller Friday afternoon. C H Schmidt and Mr and Mrs Siegfried Struck and family helped celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Henry Spier Sunday evening. The party was a surprise to the honored guests. The auction sale at the John Barkknecht farm Tuesday afternoon drew a large crowd.
Crowd indicates Mr and Mrs Barbknechte plan to relocate to a smaller farm near Frederika by March 1. Guests at the George Jahnke home in Denver included Mr and Mrs Will Jahnke Mr and Mrs Ed Jahnke and Mr and Mrs Herbert Jahnke. Mrs John Barbknecht has suffered asthma for the past week while Herman Plagens was a Tripoli caller Saturday.
Agnes Frese of Chicago visited her Frese family from Thursday to Monday with Rev. Frese. Guests included Ed Joens of Plainfield and Kermit Becker who hosted a birthday party for Meeker. Local activity covered church suppers, car rides to Janesville for rural carriers’ meeting, and several arm injuries.
Buck Creek area residents hosted and visited relatives and friends over the weekend. Numerous households reported Sunday and Friday gatherings, including the Schweers, Judischs, Pries, Haar, Rieck, and several others, with Aroald celebrated in Sumner.
The Boy Scout movement began in Britain with Baden-Powell. In the United States Ernest Seton-Thompson founded Woodcraft Indians in 1900, Dan Beard created The Sons of Daniel Boone, and these merged into the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. The aim is citizenship training, non military, inter denominational and non political.
Fredrika quarterly meeting services conducted by Dr J Arthur Young of Cedar Falls were held Sunday evening in the Methodist church Epworth League led music Lorain Grover and Lloyd Holm sang God Will Take Care of You with Arlene Carroll on piano Miss Caryl Lindfield and her pupils in Rima district gave a Thanksgiving program Friday evening at the school house with ten cent admission and free lunch Mr and Mrs Archie Clary and children Lucile and Laverne of Waverly were Sunday guests at Mr and Mrs C C Clary many more local visits and homecomings are listed including Henrietta Grummitt in Oelwein and Mrs Loffredo in Waterloo, with ongoing social visits in the Frederika area.
Activities include familiares visiting in Waverly at the Wm Platte home last Wednesday. Funeral attendance listed for Mrs Erhardt Liermann in Denver. Mr and Mrs W A Meyer hosted relatives and friends Sunday. C J Meier and W Schaefer attended Wm Buenzow funeral Monday. Relatives gathered at Wm Clausing home for Mrs Clausings birthday. Albert Moeller joined a birthday event at Herman Zacharias home in Oelwein.
The world famous Cathedral of St Izaac in Leningrad will be converted into a theatre. Its first production will satirize the life of the saint. The cathedral, completed in 1858 after 30 years of work, cost 12 million dollars and is cross-shaped with a gilded dome 3380 feet high.
County notes report Mr and Mrs George Ingersoll observed their golden wedding with an open house on Sunday November 26 health good for both. A noon family dinner followed, planned by children and grandchildren, with many friends in attendance. Claire Harden recovered enough to leave Mercy hospital for his mother’s home but remains weak after a recent holdup injury. Thomas Shaffer of Shell Rock is hospitalized after amputating four fingers of his left hand while helping saw wood. his hand was pulled into the machine when a piece of wood jammed.
Everett McRoberts and Alfred Perkins injured when their car hit a bridge near Janesville in the early hours of Sunday. McRoberts suffers a fractured jaw and other injuries and is taken to the university hospital in Iowa City. Perkins has numerous cuts and bruises but is not seriously hurt. The car was a total wreck. Floyd Blain pleads guilty to receiving and concealing stolen goods and is serving a 30 day county jail sentence. Sheriff Sager earlier found stolen clothes linked to Wendell Harmon at Blain’s cabin near Allendale.
Waverly briefs note Gladys Neubauer hosted six oclock dinner for Schlotsmeyer Dry Goods girls with bridge afterward. Visiting Hullmans from Huxley, Iowa report ill relatives. Bee suffers a broken leg and Jim has stomach trouble. Mrs. Anna William dies in Waukon after illness. Ke T C club hosts at Mary Donahue’s home. Mrs. Grossmann returns from Bloomer, Wisconsin. Will Meyer sick with ulcers, improving. Local adoptions include George and Mrs. Anderson’s baby boy from St Therese Home, and A E Fettkether's two month old Mary Therese from Iowa City. Mel Luesenhop improves after serious illness. sister Lillian back from Chicago, Flo Wighton to stay longer. Rev Milton Lindberg spoke at First Baptist on Biblical Research Society topics.
The column recalls E H Meyer joining a three member advisory panel for the third congressional district drug code enforcement. It notes Mrs Culbertson attending a cousin’s funeral in Mason City, a Anamosa bride Miss Helen Brown and Eward Murray wedding in Springville, a silver wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Ray Tabor, Miss Eleanor Beyers joining a Notre Dame game trip, W H Babcock’s partial illness improvement, St Pauls Lutheran church members at Rev E H Rausch’s birthday in Dubuque, Mrs Glenn Privat visiting from Seattle, Mrs FE A Sager learning of W T Scully’s St Louis auto accident death, and Mike Rhode’s layoff at Zoller’s meat market with Edward Zoller taking over.
A roadside sign marks a parting quip about leaving Punk town. The exchange features a sly line from the onlooker who phrases the parting remark with dry wit. The brief vignette centers on language and attitude rather than a broader event.
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