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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1975
Page
6
The 1975 Homecoming week featured cheerleading and Student Council activities. Winners included Diane Pleggenkuhle with a weight guess of 1126 pounds and Brenda Schuldt for a score guess. Freshmen dressed as warriors and skulls were painted. The week included pranks, pep meetings, and orange and black day.
The eighth grade record stands at one win two losses while the seventh grade is two and two. Pep meeting and bonfire energized students as Homecoming royalty were announced with Gail Moeller, Becky Schwartz, Jo Benson as winners. The Homecoming game ended 21 to 0 in favor of Wapsie. coronation and dance closed the week with Windfall Jac on stage.
Acknowledges businesses that placed ads in the 1975 76 Panther Yearbook. Names include Rettig Furniture Funeral Neuendorf Trucking Tripoli Hardware Tripoli Mill Tripoli TV Appliance Hasbrouck Voetmann Lbr Brian's Skelly Ray's Clothiers Cleaners Farmers Store Bill's Jack Jill The Cafe Rieck Eggs Poultry Geneva's Beauty Salon Tegtmeier Oil State Farm Insurance Tripoli Flower Shop Ambrose Auto Strawberry Implement Hurmence Electric Tripoli Locker Cascade Implement Tripoli Bow Inn Walterman Implement Towne 66 Bolte Electric Kuethe Livestock The Hub Mac's Furniture Bergmann Hatchery Tripoli Leader Butler Bremer Telephone Co Dick's DX Tastee Creme JoAnn's House of Beauty Frederika Locker Grocery Frederika Tap Frederika Cafe Grocery Davison's DX Frederika Mill Frederika Savings Bank Woerner Oil Meier Sawmill Ruhr Chevrolet Bremer Elevator Bergmann Insurance Dr L J Magnall Farmers Feed Supply Figanbaum Trucking American Savings Bank Tripoli Feed Grain Kuhrt Insurance Tripoli Feed Livestock Farmer's Co op Don Buls Excavating Fred's Body Shop C H Farm Service Wehling's TV Radio Klemp Plumbing Heating Larry's Skelly Dr Berryhill.
Students prepare for All-State music tryouts on October 25 in Dubuque, practicing pieces like Tu es Petrus and My Lord What A Morning. Readers include Cathy Weidler, Wende Bunger, Sheryl Drape, Becky Block, Dwight Hinrichs, Jim Schaffer, Mike Koschmeder, and Craig Bruns.
A review of Oliver Jensen’s American Heritage History of Railroads in America highlights the transformation from steam power to Amtrak and the railway's cultural impact. It praises historical photographs and depictions of engineers depots cars and industry while noting the book’s place in school libraries.
Creativity columnist Becky Block presents a two part piece. The first details an oval window as a safe distant world where others pass unseen and the speaker remains isolated. The second recalls a painful relational betrayal where self interest trumps others and the speaker feels deliberately harmed and sidelined.
The Bremer county extension director J Russell Solheim urges composting fall leaves to protect lungs and cut smoke in cities and towns. Experts say leaf compost adds humus for vegetables and shrubs while a layered pile with leaves soil and fertilizer speeds decay. Roses need winter protection by mounding with soil or peat moss and pruning timing. climbing roses require special shelter. An eight and a half pound beet was harvested at the Iowa county home in Marengo amid community notices and visits.
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