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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1933
Page
7
Three boys Ralph Gebert Harland Prestien and Henry Harmening have no absences or tardies in six weeks Lois Drewis is the six weeks honor student with all B or B plus grades Rev Byers took the class picture in our room last week.
Ten students, eight girls and two boys, attained perfect attendance over six weeks. Names include Lawrence Bahlmann, Forrest Bolte, Roger Boeckmann, Virgil Duecker, Patricia Hale, Jeanette Morf, Edith Nolting, Maxine Peters, Gerthardt Rettig, Wilma Armening.
This excerpt shows Miss Boyle's third grade noting weekly tests with many ninety-nines and several one hundreds. Student Ary Jeane Buechele has been absent due to sickness. A reading corner was created with a taped chest, a small piece, a set, and a bookcase in the classroom.
A fragment lists several residents deemed neither absent nor tally. The passage describes large black scarecrows and a yellow moon casting grey shadows as Halloween decorations. A stray line mentions hygiene and not putting anything in months, suggesting damaged OCR.
A school campaign emphasizes avoiding touching the face and washing hands. On Monday, students colored health posters showing boys and girls practicing proper hygiene to prevent illness.
The lesson explains how trees obtain food through roots and leaves and how sunlight drives photosynthesis. It notes trunk rings reveal age, and a hike identified hard maple soft maple elm box elder birch walnut cedar spruce and arbor vitae by shape and leaves.
Miss Ensminger and Mr Van derlinden guide sixth grade in silent reading tests with individual and class graphs for speed and comprehension. Students also track personal and class arithmetic graphs and practice business letters. Last week they created wild duck posters for October.
Seventh grade teachers Miss Ensminger and Mr Van derlinden report arithmetic work with electric and gas meters. Students read a silent reader story about Picciola a flower and plan to begin The Courtship of Miles Standish next.
Eighth grade journal mentions arithmetic on profit and loss and a reading story about Andrew Carnegie. It notes his rise from poverty to wealth and library foundations. Also references indirect objects in English and Monday writing assignments descriptions by LeeLou Morf.
Freshman girls report on laboratory work including sauces muffins toast cereals and study of algebra English punctuation and pronouns. Officers elected include President Shirley Hale secretary Ralph Hankner and board member Helen Thomas. Six weeks of school show progress with tests ahead and a minor science explosion noted in general science experiments.
In a general science class, students built a weather map for a week. Miss Sturch guided four groups to record daily air pressure, temperature, wind direction, and weather. The chart showed how air pressure relates to weather and how the Weather Bureau predicts days ahead.
The junior class selects the play Three Strikes You're Out with a cast including Howard Rebholz Oscar Gerlach Edward Bennett Carroll Nevermann Stanley Gehrke Beverly Rohrssen Lydia Skeries Lois Frese Roberta Brewer Lela Selck and Ruby Bathke. Cast begins work and aims for a November second week performance.
Chas Hanner and wife came from Fresno to visit Chapins. Miss Lulu Reding left Clarksville after a long summer visit. Miss Ida Bull, in Chicago most of summer, returned home. Mr and Mrs Homeier and Mrs Louie Bolte of Chicago visited Chris Brockman’s home last week. L W Fettkether wed Ethel Albright in Elgin on the sixth and eighth. Ed Koeneke of Lisbon, ND, visited local friends Thursday and Friday. R W Rettig bought the vacant lot between H C Moeller and Mrs Koch, opposite Joe Sien’s.
Rev Tom Roberts addressed a large audience last Thursday evening. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Oscar Wynhoff and children of Maryville Ohio Mr and Mrs J H Leege and Dorothy of Waterloo Mr and Mrs Amiel Winters of Nebraska visiting H J Wynhoff and sister Mrs Wm Ambrose and family. Mrs Nick Ambrose hosted a six oclock dinner for his mother Mrs Amelia Ambrose and siblings from here and Sumner for his 30th birthday. Nellie Shufelt of Little Falls Minnesota visiting son Claude and family in Dayton township. Mrs Leslie Bradford Grace and John Klar Osage weekend guest at John Carstensen residence. Henry Scheve estate sold Monday to Louis Ohlendorf. John Morris bought the Wm Henning estate residence.
August C Moehling born August 22 1877 in Tripoli Iowa. He married Emma Hankner May 16 1900 and had five sons. He lived in Britt and Wanda Minnesota where he served as mayor before passing October 11 at age 56. Funeral services were held in Hale residence with burial at St Peters cemetery.
The August unemployment relief roll fell by 120000 families while a New York reemployment canvass adds 62000 workers to upstate payrolls across 617 communities. Automotive parts output rises 34 percent since June with a 49 percent export gain, including over 10000 passenger cars and trucks. Farm prices jump 33 percent year over year, boosting farmers buying power by about one billion dollars. United Gas Improvement shows week electric output at 80th week, up 7.9 percent from last year.
A Florida Times-Union quotation notes that true happiness for a girl does not rest on winning the man she wants but on finding satisfaction through other means and relationships.
A Kansas City Star writer disputes the idea of a hypnotic eye in animal training. The trainer relies on bluff and rapid footwork to control big cats, forcing each animal to recognize his authority. If a trainer loses a round, he may go to hospital and still must resume in the cage upon return.
The Supreme Court of the United States has nine justices including one chief justice and eight associate justices. They are appointed for life by the President with Senate approval.
Medical men advocate gentle regulation through a liquid laxative rather than salts or habit forming cathartics. Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin offers a measured dose, non habit forming, with clear label ingredients, safe for expectant mothers and children, available at drugstores in large bottles.
The Hundred Years War was a prolonged conflict between France and England. It began in 1337 and concluded in 1453, shaping medieval European politics and military developments.
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