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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1972
Page
5
The column lists numerous dinner guests, visits, and celebrations across Iowa towns including Waterloo Sumner Readlyn and Owatonna. Highlights include birthday observances, farewells for Pastor Jeffrey Crane, family hospital tests, and anniversaries among residents and friends visiting from Minneapolis Des Moines and Mason City.
Donald Avenson the Democrat from Oelwein received the unanimous endorsement of the Mid-Northeast Iowa Political Action Committee for Education for the 15th Iowa House District. The group, consisting of teachers and school administrators from the 8th Senatorial District, cited Avenson as best aligning with their educational policy goals.
Mr and Mrs Donald Kohagen of Denver announce the birth of their son Chad Eric weighing 8 pounds 11 and a half ounces born October 13 at Allen Hospital Waterloo Grandparents are Oscar Kohagen Leslie Biermann and their spouses.
About 40 Delta Kappa Gamma members attended the noon luncheon at Faith United Church of Christ in Tripoli on Saturday October 14. Nine hostesses from Sumner and Tripoli arranged decorations of fall flowers. Guest speaker Mrs Delores Wunder of Wartburg College discussed cultures of other lands and compared them with our own.
The group met Oct. 10 with 15 members at Emma Warner’s home. They ordered 1000 small and 100 large poppies, will provide cookies for the Hobby Fair, and host a lunch and bake sale Nov. 7 in the Town Hall. A $5 donation to the TB seals fund funded the Thanksgiving pot luck set for Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Local church listings from multiple towns in Iowa outline Sunday school times worship services and special activities across St Pauls Lutheran Trinity Lutheran St Johns United Church of Christ and others with notes on confirmation classes choir practices and area training sessions. The page closes with facts about Iowa corn production surpassing 1 billion bushels and values over 1 billion annually since 1969.
Patricia Ann Williams and Samuel R. Kehe wed at St. Peter's Lutheran Church on October 7 in Clinton. The reception followed October 14 at Maple Hills Country Club in Tripoli. The couple will reside in Clinton. he works for Champion Packages and she teaches elementary music in the Camanche district.
USDA figures show Iowa led the nation with 2.7 billion dollars from livestock in 1971, accounting for 67.8 percent of total cash farm receipts of 4 billion. Hogs produced 954 million, cattle and calves 1.4 billion, with crops at 1.3 billion.
Mrs. Marie Wilson hosted a Tues day afternoon Ches ter Pals call. Elvis Figarettes party at Mrs. Carl Heitmann's home for 11 ladies. Linda Yungtum’s miscellaneous shower at Duane Miner home for Oct 21 wedding to David Webster. Visitors include Arnold and Albert Rieck Ray Kuethe Will Flancha Reynolds Ada McConkey. Several calls to Elsie Stoffer and Sun set rest home. A hunting trip to Wyoming. Andrew Holtzworth overnight guest in Albert Rieck home. Evening visitors Art Brandt Marlowe Rieck and Jerry Tripoli. Margaret McCumber staying at Figanbaum home.
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