Feature Courier Cartoonist at Club Meeting Here
Waterloo Courier cartoonist Jack Bender will be the featured guest at the October 15 Tripoli Federated Woman's Club meeting at 7:00 p.m. at City Hall. He will demonstrate visual learning and the program honors an American woman in education. Guest night invites local women to join community improvement efforts. Hostesses are Bertha Weidler Daisy West Carol Hunemuller and Mary Ann Ahrens. Claus Wibbelmann of Germany, a former foreign exchange student, visited and spent time with local friends while touring the U S after working in Ontario tobacco fields this summer.
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Jack Bender
Waterloo Courier
Tripoli
Bertha Weidler
Daisy West
Carol Hunemuller
Mary Ann Ahrens
Claus Wibbelmann
Germany
Dr. L. J. Magnall
Canada
Ontario
U. S
Triple City voters reject 900000 school bond proposal
In the Tripoli Community School District Tuesday 671 ballots were cast on a 900000 bond to build and equip a new elementary school. Proposition No 1 failed 271 yes 398 no and Proposition No 2 failed 253 yes 412 no, both short of the 60 percent approval needed.
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Tripoli Community
Funeral Rites for Ed Biesterfelt Here Thursday
Edward F. Biesterfelt 59 of 2405 Victory Dr Cedar Falls dies after a heart attack hospitalization. Former Tripoli man and auto salesman survived by wife Marvel daughter Mary and a granddaughter with two brothers Fred and Herbert. Funeral Oct 9 at Rettig Funeral Home with burial at Fremont Cemetery. Pallbearers named Mehmen Dix Siebert Kruse Hines Nielsen.
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Edward F. Biesterfelt
Victory Dr
Cedar Falls
Rettig
Clement Burke
Fremont Cemetery
Tripoli
Sartori Hospital
Bremer Co
Fred
Martha (Kreger) Biesterfelt
Marvel Lehmkuhl
Marvel
Mary
Allen Dix
Herbert
Jake Mehmen
William Dix
Roland Siebert
Melvin Kruse
Kent Hines
Edward Nielsen
Three Fire Calls Sunday for Denver Firemen
Denver firemen answered three Sunday calls. At 1:11 p.m. a trash and grass fire at Willow Lawn Trailer Court may have been started by children with matches. At 6:14 p.m. minor damage to a combine wiring occurred at Milton Brandt farm one mile north and two miles west of Denver. At 7:59 p.m. a fire in a vacant lot near Willow Run Country Club followed by youths fleeing was reported.
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Denver
Willow Lawn
Art Kurtz
Milton Brandt
Willow Run Country Club
Special Gifts Bequeathed by Deterding Estate
The Fred Deterding estate, closed after his death on April 4 1974, totaled 92 899 65 in bequests. Three groups received 30 966 55 each: Tripoli Nursing Home Grace Lutheran Church in Tripoli and Lutheran Children's Home in Waverly.
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Fred Deterding
Tripoli
Grace Lutheran Church
Waverly
Bicentennial Community Honors City of Tripoli Leaders
The City of Tripoli was recognized as a Bicentennial community at a Friday ceremony. State Senator Heying attended, with Bremer County officials, Mayor Harold Laube, and two council members Klein and Hazelhoff. Local committee members Leon Kirchhoff and Ann Ahrens organized the event.
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Tripoli
Heying
Bremer County
Isor
Lorenz H. Platte
Harold Laube
Th Klein
Hazelhoff
the Coersons
Leon Kirchhoff
Ann Ahrens
Cial
Heyiite
Laurie
Sen. Heying
H. L. Heying
Farmers ASC nominees sought in county election drive
The ASCS office urges farmer candidates to file for ASC committee election by mail, with petitions requiring signatures and a date. County residents may obtain eligibility details from the county ASCS office as they prepare to submit completed petitions by the deadline.
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Ers
ASCS
ASC
Candi Rolland L. Dewey
County Five
Punty
Ly Ascs
Funeral Rites for Martha Sell Held in Waterloo
Funeral services for Martha Sell 86 a former Tripoli resident were held Tuesday at First Lutheran Church Waterloo with burial at Grace Lutheran Cemetery Tri Poli. born August 16 1889 in Bremer County she married Conrad Sell March 14 1909 in Grove Hill died Saturday at Allen Memorial hospital of age related complications survived by son Werner and four daughters all of Waterloo preceded by husband in 1956. Also notes Hawkeye Tech graduates 259 at West High and La Leche League meets October 13 in Denver with home of Mrs Mark Gorlock 241 State Street Denver.
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Tripoli
Martha Sell
Waterloo
First Lutheran Church
Grace Lutheran Cemetery
Sell
Bremer County
August
Minna Haar Mundtrom
Conrad Sell
Grove Hill
Allen Memorial Hospital
Werner
Ed Lobeck
Agnes Kuhlmann
Rosetta Ackerman
Lawrence Gebert
Post Office to Limit Service on Columbus Day in Tripoli
Tripoli post office will offer limited postal service on Columbus Day Monday October 13 with no rural delivery or window service. Star route will operate and incoming mail for PO boxes will be sorted. Evening collection from outside drop will occur. Use full addresses. Limited service repeats on Veteran’s Day October 27.
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Tripoli
Ray H. Fink
Archery Deer Hunting Opens October 11
Open to Iowa residents only the archery deer season runs 52 days from October 11 to November 21 and November 26 to December 5 with the same daily hours. Crossbows are illegal, only broadhead arrows allowed. licenses cost 10 dollars and landowner forms are available via county recorder offices or the Iowa Conservation Commission.
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Iowa
Iowa Conservatin Commission
Commission
Iowa Conservation Commission
4Th Street
Des Moines
4-H Club Wins $100 in Colgate Contest
Bremer County's TNT 4-H Club won 100 from the Help Young America contest sponsored by Colgate. This is the second consecutive year the club has won, led by Mrs. Eugene Eick and Mrs. James Mattson.
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Bremer County
TNT
Panthers Fall At Home Incoming Wapsie Valley South Winn
Panthers lose the homecoming football game to Wapsie Valley and South Winn on Friday. Public rummage sale by Denver Music Boosters Saturday October 11 supports Denver High School music departments. American Legion Auxiliary and Brandenburg Krueger Auxiliares meet mid October with hostesses noted. Tri Poli Community School Board meets October 13 at 8 PM.
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Panthers
Wapsie Valley
South Winn
Denver Music Boosters
Main Street
Denver
Denver High School
Cedar Falls Plane Crash Claims Man. Waterloo Man Injured
A Cedar Falls man James Sulentic 46 president of Waterloo Industries was killed when a WWII PT22 trainer crashed into a corn field north of Frederika. Dennis Otto 30 of Waterloo was rescued and taken to Iowa City in serious condition. The crash is under NTSB investigation.
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Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Frederika
James Sulentic
Waterloo Industries, Inc
Dennis Otto
John Swinehart
Otto
Iowa City
Swinehart
Allen Hospital
National Transportation and Safety Board
Kansas City
Third Dist Legion Conference Set At Marshalltown
The Marshalltown Legion Post will host the annual third district fall conference of the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary on Saturday October 11. Registration for members is at 8 30 a m with the conference to begin at 10 a m. The legion meeting will be in the legion building and the auxiliary in the chapel at the Iowa Veterans Home. A joint banquet will follow at 6 30 p m.
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Wallace Miller
Waverly
Cedar River
Miller
Phil Niedert
Route 3
Sumner
Tripoli Vfw Post
VFW
Tripoli
Bill Bravener
Third District
Lavern Kinter
Welmond Geissler
Marshalltown Legion Post
American Legion and
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Iowa Veterans Home
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Tripoli City
Poli Boy Scout Troop
City Hall
Ed. Biesterfelt
Denver Firemen
City of
Tion
Ascmittee
AIB
Pris Buls
Darwin W. Buls
American Institute of Buss
Poli Community School
King
Ma Gronemeyer
Russ Gronemeyer
Iso
Hawkeye Tech
West High School
Hawkeyes Institute of Technology
Danny R. Kuecker
Beverly K. Poock
Janet I. Showers
la Leche League
Mark Gorlock
State Street
Bockhaus-Bartels Post
Ina Bonarden
Emma Warner
Louise McKeown
Brandenburg-Krueger Aux
Post
Tripoli Community School
Board of Education
Attacs Ave
Dean Buls
Tim Smalley
Jeff Sanderson
Mark Nuss Nords
Dave Alcock
Kevin Kuhrt
Brad Biermann
Tripoli High
Denise Kuethe
Tripoli Community High School
Denise
Wendell Kuethe
Dave
Leland Alcock
Sharon Hoffman
Mary Warner
Brenda Zander
Jo Benson
Becky Schwartz
Gail Moeller
Monte Holm
Kenny Kvidera
Wapsie Valley Baliclub
Panther
Wapsie
Kelly Ungs
Gene Perkins
South Winneshiek
Ted Ganske
al Brandhorst
Dave Merrick
Dale Bergmann
Brent Platte
Dave Hoffman
Mark Bloom
Dist. Legion
Marshalltown
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