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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1931
Page
3
Mrs. Milt Gross reveals what he eats best and how she cooks it on a Crisco radio interview with Winifred Carter. The cartoonist decorates a door with images from Hiawatta for his wife and three children as they pose with his art.
Gathered by Leader's Correspondent Staff this column highlights local pursuits and daily happenings. Readers will note varied activities, community projects, social events, and small milestones across neighborhoods.
The Frederika school announces A T Gray as superintendent and science teacher, Naomi McClain as principal and English, Vance Bates in music and history, Mrs Gray in mathematics, Labelle Pennell Rudd covering grades four to six, and Mrs Marvel Stensboll Hawkeye teaching first through third. School opens Monday September 7 with Miss Marguerite Segebarth teaching nearby Fredericksburg.
Rev Henry Kumpf and Mrs Kumpf with son Harold returned to Luana after a week visiting relatives here. Miss Margaret Grebien stayed with cousin Hilda Bremer. Rev G Gerlach and family toured to Monticello to see Rev and Mrs H Adix, returning Friday. Rev A O Zeitner and family, Ottawa Lake Michigan, after Parkston SD vacation, planned to see Rev Gerlach but found him away after twenty five years. Several couples visited friends, celebrated birthdays, and attended St John’s Douglas mission festival with speaker Rev W H Hansen Selmann from Wykoff Minnesota.
In a round of Sunday gatherings residents from the vicinity visited homes of neighbors and relatives. Attendees included Ernest and Ernestine Brase, August and Florence Winzenburg, Fred Bergman, Hooper family, Rev and Mrs Gerlach, Ladage family with Earl Drape and daughter, and others at Gottlieb Judisch, Conrad Meyer, Schwemm, and Raum households. Several groups traveled to a Lamont state park and a Denver trip surprised John Bruns, with birthday celebrations for Gustave Brase and Mrs Pfeiffer observed by the Evangelical church circle. Carl Schwemm assisted at his uncle Carl Matthiesen’s home.
Residents from the Tripoli vicinity attended Mrs. Bennett's funeral on Sunday with many listed couples and individuals. Weekend visits included Henry Meier in Dubuque, and trip attendees to the state fair in Des Moines. Silo filling, sweet corn hauling, and birthday celebrations were noted, with several families hosting meals and hosting relatives.
A barn raising occurred at the Martin Rohde farm on Saturday August 29. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Louie Kelso and extended family from Sumner such as Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waskow and Mr. and Mrs. Julius Waskow plus Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ambrose, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Harms, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Drewis.
County Seat items cover many civic activities and transfers. The text notes Earle Bunth burned at a Marshall Canning plant cooker, a leaky valve triggering the blast. Waverly Municipal Band’s season finale. Bohumir Kryl band coming to the high school auditorium. Bell Telephone plans pole removal and cable attachments. W C T U officers and convention held in Bremer County. local talks by E A Schiefelbein at Elgin homecoming. Mrs Ellen Young’s California return. social visits to Davenport Masonic Sanitarium. J D Holmes and Gish family visits. Rev T R Collins back from vacation. pastors Gabler families vacationing. W E Wehrmacher visits Des Moines, Davenport. Menzel recovering after Mayo operation.
A stream of community notices includes newborns to Albert and Patricia Guetslaff and Bert Jensen on August 24, ongoing illnesses and recoveries for Louis Trumpower and W J McHugh, plus J H Schwabe’s tonsil operation. The Gallagher family prepares for Paul’s Notre Dame entry and a ninth birthday party for Patricia. Bremer county fair closes Thursday for business colleagues, and visitors from Sauk Center and Waterloo attend local family events.
The passage urges youths to face the world with courage faith and service. It links service to future fields of work demanding stronger bodies alert minds speed efficiency production ideals money leisure and life. It promises rewards in royal living and urges dedication as youth grows into maturity.
Definition frames poverty as a condition where a person or their dependents cannot sustain a basic living standard. It emphasizes insufficient means or failure to apply them, hindering bodily and mental fitness, decent function in occupation, and community life.
More than 2,000 men will be employed for about two years in the Grace lines shipbuilding program. The project involves about 17 million dollars in investment and work disclosed in official statements from Kearney, New Jersey.
The Treasury oversees the production of currency paper at the Crane company in Dalton Massachusetts with Treasury representatives supervising both manufacture and delivery to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. No outside buyer may purchase this specialized paper.
The essay presents a quotation from the late Eliot of Harvard defining landscape architecture as a fine art whose main role is to create and preserve beauty in human habitats and natural scenery, while also advancing comfort, convenience, and health for urban populations.
Lawrenceville farmers may pay for their daily paper with wheat. The Lawrenceville Daily Record offers 66 2 3 cents per bushel for wheat toward rural subscriptions, meaning six bushels of wheat equal a one year subscription.
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