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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1969
Page
5
A string of local social calls and Sunday gatherings unfolds across Waverly and surrounding towns. Residents visited friends and relatives in Ames Oelwein Fredericksburg Monona Cedar Rapids and Webster Groves as families shared meals and celebrated birthdays and personal events.
Mr and Mrs Larry Shonka of Waverly announce the birth of their son Michael Paul weighing eleven pounds one ounce on October 23 at Mercy hospital.
Mr and Mrs Edwin Brase Sumner visited in the Fred Brase home while Mr and Mrs W J Peters Readlyn visited the Towne home. H W Krueger visited his sister Mrs Hulda Babcock in New Hampton and later with Mr and Mrs Martell Beebe in Waverly.
A Long list of social visits unfolds from Tripoli and surrounding towns. Guests include Amanda Sverdahl Martha Kroll Bertha Nacke Mabel Hagen and Lucinda Bock of Waterloo Sumner and other towns. Weekend visits feature Wittenburgs Rathbones Meyer Buengers and multiple local families with church services and a baptism noted.
Sunday afternoon visitors were Clarence Buchholz Donald Dettmering and families Will Essman Erhardt Lahmann Coretta Dettmering James Lahmann and Arnold Degelau. The Dettmerings celebrated their birthdays with the gathering in Tripoli Iowa.
Engaged couple Melva Burdene Harding and Gary L. Schmidt announced their engagement. Melva is the daughter of Charles Harding and the late Lillian Harding. Gary is the son of Lavern and (late) Mrs. Schmidt. Both are employed in Des Moines. no wedding date set.
The first 1969 70 school year meeting for kindergarten mothers was held October 22 at East grade school with speaker Mrs Selma Carroll school health nurse Fifty attendees and room mother hostesses are listed along with several local families and guests. A baptism at St Paul Lutheran Siegel for Colleen Kaye Meyer followed by a supper at the Meyer home featured many relatives and friends. Social Security Office hours and locations in Waterloo Waverly Sumner are announced. A Christmas Seals campaign notes progress and volunteer activity amid a giant squash garden find reported in Manly.
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