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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1934
Page
2
Leader's Large Correspondent Staff compiles a digest of local happenings. Readers learn who is involved and what actions are underway in communities, with brief notes on notable events and everyday activities.
South of Tripoli families and friends gathered at relatives homes for Sunday dinners and visits. Several Took trips to Chicago for the World’s Fair and returned home. Local residents celebrated birthdays and shared meals, with many dropping by the Brase and Dohrmann households and attending club meetings.
Meet Capt Mary and Misses Hilda and Elvira Federer left Friday for teaching posts in Toledo Ohio and near Buffalo New York. Fre mend district opens with new teachers Erna Hage Edna Sell and Marie Kuhrt. enrollments 9 13 and 27 respectively. Local residents visit and host families share Sunday gatherings and trips with relatives and friends in Fremont Readlyn Minneapolis and nearby settlements.
Mrs. Schwemm hosts birthday party with S Schnursteins and Gerlachs. Guests include Mr and Mrs C Lampe, visits to Waterloo. Ames forestry student Herman Pfeiffer returns home after Washington practice. Oscar Gerlach back from Fort Des Moines. Numerous locals share Sunday gatherings at Schwemm and Meyer homes with varied relatives and friends.
A mother buys extra cloth for trousers while shopping with Johnny and a friend. She explains the surplus is for reserved seats, hinting at planning or prudence in humorously framing the purchase.
Twenty five years ago a wildfire-like blaze at the Kelly Canning Company plant in Waverly left one dead and two men and a woman seriously injured. Workmen began erecting a new Siegel Creamery building nearby. Other notes include residents' arrivals, visits, and local market prices from that era such as eggs at 1 cent and hogs at 6.80 dollars.
Read about readying the 1924 pack at Tripoli Canning plant starting Sept 8. Bennett dairy barn painting finished. Wilharm family reunion at Mr. and Mrs. C B Kelsey home on Sept 1. Excursion attendees to Minnesota State Fair included Krueger Sassman Schumacher Biermann Schober Fink Barbknecht. Schwein and Norma Scheve visit relatives in Illinois for two weeks.
Five years ago a sale made Wm Hagenbuch sole owner of Borne and Hagenbuch meat market. August Meier 80 Buck Creek citizen died at home. Lillian Waterman 17 daughter of Cal Waterman died after appendectomy at Borchert hospital. Esther Lehnerstein and Raymond Downing wed at St John Lutheran parsonage Rev Hanff officiating. Kitchen shower for newlyweds Ernest and E A Dettmering. Herman Schwem Crane Creek.
Mrs Fred Wedemeier and family visited relatives at Sumner Sunday. Will Oestmann spent Sunday at Spring Branch. Frank Wilkins became a father Wednesday August 22 with a five and a half pound son. Floyd Wedemeier stays a few weeks at the Wedemeier home. Henry Henning and Reinhart Lange visited Westgate and Henry Hennings home. John Lange of Westgate visited Henry Hennings home one Friday. Emil Pries and daughter Anna visited the Felge home Sunday.
Airman reports the Century of Progress in Chicago has set attendance records and will close at midnight October 31. Iconic buildings theaters and foreign villages will be dismantled by wreckers, with the spectacular fair fading to memory as Closing Day approaches.
A worker suffered a broken leg below the knee while at a gravel pit on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Otterstetter came home Saturday from a two weeks vacation and motor trip to Bismarck and other North Dakota points. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Luerssen and two sons from Chicago visited relatives, then returned to Chicago, with Mrs. Kuker accompanying them.
A Pathfinder Magazine snippet recalls a candidate flying over a house this morning. literature was dropped and a kiss to a baby was shown, illustrating a promotional moment in the campaign.
Second Actress asks if any role she is in can evoke tears, prompting the first to affirm the goal of emotional impact in theater.
When corn is ready to cut, the McCormick Deering Corn Binder handles the heavy work fast. It works like five to seven men, pulling all corn from leaning stalks and delivering bundles to the binding mechanism. Features include a throat spring, butt pan, wide adjustment, open sides for undergrowth removal, and a shielded gear drive for durability. Bundle loader available at extra cost.
Waverly August 30 1934 the Bremer County Board of Supervisors met to hear the 1935 budget amendment notice published August 15 16. No taxpayers appeared. The board revised the tax levy with items for General Coup Expense Poor Soldier's Relief County Bonds State Insane County Insane County School Tuberculosis and related items. Adjourned sine die.
Transfers listed for week ending Aug 31 1934 show Frank Sager sheriff transferring 10 acres in section 24 to Fred Reimler for 5361.75 and Katie L Cavell et al selling in section 29 30 to Arthur Rieckenberg for 5000. Christian Schmidt sells to Harry F Schmidt for 1 and Elma J Zastrow et al selling to W F Maaser for 1 in Waverly Iowa. You say you saw Amos today Yes a mosquito.
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