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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1964
Page
7
Lutheran and Methodist listings detail Sunday worships at Thalacker and Federika as well as Sunday school and Bible study sessions across several churches. Circle meetings, choir practice, and church board gatherings are scheduled with dates in September and program leaders named for Martha Doreas Wise.
A. T. Rollene announces Sunday activities including Sunday school at 9 30, morning service with exposition of Matthew at 10 30, baptism at 2 30 at Cedar River, KYB and Young People at 7, men's prayer at 7 30, and evening service at 8. Thursday prayer meeting at 8. Also notes first Mineola post office was housed in a boxcar on the railroad tracks.
Harley Thayer reports a 9 ft 8 in tall stalk at Belmond with an ear 26 inches long. The plant had been two inches shorter days earlier. The Paris Exposition of 1900 featured the first escalator, later shipped to Gimble Bros. in Philadelphia.
A long list of Sunday dinners and weekend visits across Waverly Cedar Falls Tripoli Sumner and surrounding towns. Guests include Schwemm Brase Hinecker Bergmann Meighan and many more visiting or hosting relatives and friends in a busy social round. One note mentions a funeral and a move to Fond du Lac for care.
Tuesday Creamed chicken over biscuits with lettuce salad pumpkin pie bread and butter and milk. Wednesday Baked beans carrot and celery sticks apple crisp bread and butter and milk. Thursday Cold meat and cheese slices potato salad sunshine salad cake bread and butter and milk. Friday Fish sticks parsleyed buttered potatoes buttered peas marble
Tripoli Iowa city council holds special session with Mayor Barnes approving daylight saving for town offices until September 8 1964 at 8 00 am and switching to standard time thereafter. Other actions include accepting an 80 dollar bid from Hurmence Electric for a time clock to control the town whistle and hiring Lawrence Bockhaus for dike repairs at the disposal plant.
The Iowa Court Study Commission proposes abolishing justice of peace and other lower courts. District courts would be expanded to absorb the work currently handled by the lower courts, sparking debate ahead of the legislature session.
The State Conservation Commission announced that 1964 bow and arrow deer hunt license applications are available. Prospective bow hunters can obtain applications from county recorders and conservation officers. Applications prepared by the Commission will be accepted and licenses issued from October 1 to December 4 with no limit on licenses.
The State Conservation Commission announced three new entries for Iowa big fish records. Carl D. McCann of Burlington set the all time crappie record at 3 pounds 9 3 4 ounces from a Des Moines county farm pond. Guy Waalk of McGregor topped the 1964 sheepshead list with a 28 pound, 33 inch river catch. Jim Stueve of Missouri Valley established the 1964 bullhead record with a 1.5 pound, 13 4 inch Harrison county farm pond fish.
Dr Harold Munn of Michigan spoke at the Iowa Prohibition Party convention last week where he is the party’s presidential candidate. Verne Higens of Stuart serves as Iowa state chairman.
Qualified electors in Tripoli Bremer County Iowa are notified that the regular election will be held at the Town Hall Tripoli on September 14 1964 from 12 M to 7 P M A director from district No 3 Fremont and Dayton townships term three years to succeed Ervin C Heinemann whose term expires September 21 1964 Dated August 27 1964 Robert H Kuhrt Secretary Tripoli Community School District
Dr. J. W. Stein of Des Moines was named executive director of the Higher Education Facilities committee. The former Drake University assistant to the president will direct the panel’s work on a state plan for financial aid to public and private colleges through federal grants.
The first woman publisher was Elizabeth Timothy who published the South Carolina Gazette in 1739. God bless America for a sense of humor attributed to Will Rogers.
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