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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1968
Page
4
A collection of small ads including buyers offering to collect hens, Maytag sales and service, piano lessons at home, and a carpet cleaner rental. Also listing a hardware store contact in Tripoli and a furniture rental ad promising no wet carpets and quick walking on floors.
Sincere thanks are extended to Mercy and St Marys hospitals Rochester and Allen and Sumner Memorial hospitals, to relatives friends and classmates. Special appreciation goes to Pastor Koengeter Rev A Koengeter and Mrs Koengeter for visits prayers music and support from the Ray Black Family Lorenz Holm and others.
Republican Robert Ray and Democrat Paul Franzenburg vie for Iowa governor as campaigns pace up before the election. Ray promotes a state Department of Community Affairs to ease local burdens. Franzenburg urges more funding for law and justice education. A separate note reports on a collie pair producing 19 champion pups last summer.
The Frederika township ladies met with Mrs. Allyn Buenger on Oct 18 with 15 present. Mrs. Nus led singing and a license plate recognition game. Roll call cited My Favorite Flower. plans for the Oct 25 hobby fair were discussed. Mrs. Schwarze appointed to organize the Christmas dinner.
Democratic candidate for governor Paul Franzenburg proposed adding the presidents of the student bodies of Iowa's three state universities as ex officio members of the state board of regents. He spoke at the Iowa Association of College Admission Counselors in Iowa City about giving student presidents non voting status to boost youth understanding of regents issues.
Prominent national figures Edmund Muskie and Ronald Reagan stopped in Iowa. Muskie addressed about 2,000 at a Jefferson-Jackson day dinner in Des Moines urging right action over polls. Reagan spoke in Cedar Rapids praising the two party system and supporting restraint over war with Czechoslovakia while proposing a border quarantine for Russia.
Mr and Mrs William Willman of Postville celebrate seventy years of marriage. Their family includes four children nine grandchildren twenty three great grandchildren and nine great great grandchildren.
Larry Ormston of Elgin and Kay Ormston of Forestville Md marked 25 years of marriage with a surprise dinner hosted by their children. Guests traveled from Waverly Garner Mt. Vernon Marshalltown Elgin Forestville and Tripoli to join relatives and friends in honoring the couple.
Extension advises growers to prepare cribs before harvest by clearing weeds and debris, repairing rat holes, and adding hardware cloth and metal barriers. Start a rat control program with fresh anti-coagulant baits and spray with malathion to keep corn clean for storage.
Legal transfers list property deeds in Waverly and surrounding areas. Ernest C Moeller and wife to Ray E Nieman and Elsie May Nieman involve no 20-91-11 with revenue 4.40. Mildred Baskins et al to Margaret Berry for lot 5 fractional block 8 original town includes Wa verly revenue 13.75. W H Bunger to Donald Wardinger for lot 3 block 123 D Deans addition Wa verly revenue 18.70. Carver Metal Buildings Inc to Eldon Cran dall for lot 1 block 2 Cedar View addition Wa verly revenue 24.75. Lucile Owens to Jerry Springer for lot 5 block 1 Juhl addition Wa verly revenue 21.45. Willard Sauerbrei to L H Butzlaff s% lot 1 half block 9 Wm Sturdevant addition Wa verly revenue 8.80. Barbara Westendorf to John Westendorf Jr for lot 3 except east 16 feet and east 5 feet lot 4 half block 2 Wm Studevant addition Wa verly. John Westendorf Jr to Duane Bergmann for same properties revenue 15.40.
Pfc. Michael J. Nuss RA 68 013 998 127th MP Co APO San Francisco 96238 listed as now in Vietnam.
A miscellaneous bridal shower was held Sunday afternoon at the Greg Schmidt home with Mrs. Schmidt and Patty and Mary Schmidt as hostesses. Sixteen ladies attended to honor Connie Schmidt, who will wed Terry Gardner on October 27 at 7 30 p m in Grace Lutheran church.
Donald Dammann a southeast Manning farmer raised a 35 pound summer squash of the Early Prolific neck variety. The fruit measured 34 inches long showcasing a remarkable produce specimen for the season.
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