This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 19 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1964
Page
5
A long list of Sunday and weekend visits across multiple Iowa towns includes Mrs. Mae Beals, Mrs. L J Magnall, Sheryl Magnall in Des Moines, and numerous gatherings with families from Waverly, Cedar Falls, Nashua, Sumner, Readlyn, and others. The notes cover cordial calls, dinners, camping trips, and birthday celebrations among local residents and visiting relatives.
September social notes record visits and gatherings across Waverly Oelwein Cedar Falls Denver Sumner Parkersburg Waterloo Cedar Falls and La Crosse. Families the Dutches, Homan, Rosenthal, Sassmann, Reeve, Frahm, Meier, Sievers, Quass and Hartman host and visit kin. trips include Des Moines State fair and Pettibone State park reunion with many relatives from Greenwood Wisconsin Iowa City Traer and Frederika.
Vows exchanged August 23 at St John American Lutheran church Sumner in a double ring ceremony. Bride Helen Block daughter of Claude Block Sumner, groom Leroy Stumme son of Ewald Stumme Tripoli and the late Mrs Stumme. They will live in Tripoli.
Nora Peacock returned Monday afternoon from a four week vacation with Mr and Mrs Les Steinbach and their children of Des Moines They visited Edison New Jersey with Steve and Mrs Irving for the fair and sightseeing in New York City The trip also included a tour of New England states up to Montreal Canada
Mr and Mrs Leslie Kelsey attended the Frank Sebilsky home in Waverly on Sunday to honor the 40th wedding anniversary of their uncle Mr and Mrs Walter Grapp of Monterey Park California.
Mr and Mrs Ray Dohrmann hosted a Sunday supper honoring their son Donald who graduated Friday with honors from Iowa State University Ames Guests included the Westendorfs Boeckmanns Nackes Reinhardt Westendorffs Hulse Barbara Jo Will Dohrmann and Marie Kuhrt from Cedar Falls Waterloo Sumner Waverly and surrounding areas.
Mr and Mrs L H Fink traveled to West Union Saturday afternoon to see Mr and Mrs James R Carson and family in Des Moines who were spending the weekend with Mrs Carson's parents Mr and Mrs K C Frank Mrs Frank remains a patient at Palmer Memorial Hospital following a severe heart attack two weeks ago and is showing some improvement at this time
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brase and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Quade returned Tuesday afternoon from Michigan where they had been since Thursday. They visited Bond Falls Porcupine Mountains Copper Harbor Tohquanenon Falls and Soo Locks at Sault Sainte Marie and crossed the Mackinac Bridge during the trip.
Prize winners at Tonne's 66 Service remodeling and appreciation sale on Friday and Saturday include fry pan Robert Sassman Wendell Redies coffee maker Ed Tonne blanket Ben Moeller Pepsi cooler Richard Meyer 7-Up cooler Mrs. Robert Moeller.
Donald joined 1 o'clock luncheon with Dr and Mrs Robert Holdren of Ames. The visit highlighted informal social ties in the Ames community and reflected a cordial midday gathering at the Holdrens residence.
The Rohrssen family reunion is set for September 6 at Denver City park. All relatives are invited and asked to bring a picnic dinner.
Helen Mallie daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Mallie and Joanne Boevers daughter of Mr and Mrs Ewald Boevers will join 33 other student nurses at Allen Memorial Hospital Lutheran School of Nursing Waterloo as 35 graduates. Ceremony at East High Friday Sept 4 at 8 pm. Miss Beevers and Miss Mallie were honored at the alumni banquet. Beginning Sept 8 both will work as staff nurses at University Hospitals Iowa City.
Dennis McNamee returned Friday after summer school at State Teachers College Cedar Falls. He will be a delegate from SCI to the regional convention of the Association of Men's Residence Halls at the University of Missouri Columbia. He will return Wednesday and spend a week with his parents Mr and Mrs Ed McNamee before returning to college.
H. J. Frese spent the weekend with his wife at St Marys hospital Rochester where she recovers satisfactorily from surgery. They received word her brother Odis O Miller died in California. Burial was in Des Moines on Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Fred Plautz of Nashua and Mr and Mrs Adolph Mohling of Linda and Allan spent the weekend of August 16 at East Hartford Connecticut as houseguests of Mr and Mrs Gerald Mohling They also attended the World’s Fair En route home they toured Canada and viewed Niagara Falls.
Mr and Mrs Ruben Engert and family traveled to Arlington Heights and were recalled to Frohna Missouri by the death of Theodore E Engert 82 whose funeral services were held Monday The Engert family returned home Tuesday
Door prize winners at Tripoli Plumbing and Heating open house on Saturday include Les Fossum for disposal Robert Henke for humidifier Mary Platte for radio Mrs Sue Crawford for turnette holder and Mrs Edwin Klemp for Kleenex holder, highlighting local participation.
Mr and Mrs Victor Nacke of Sumner attended the commencement exercises for Donald Dohrmann at Iowa State University in Ames on Friday morning.
Mr and Mrs Paul Judisch were Friday evening visitors of Gott lieb Judisch who remains a patient at Sumner hospital.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.