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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1960
Page
4
Real earning opportunity offered with Avon Cosmetics. Openings in Franklin and Maxfield townships. Write Dorothea E. Southworth at P O Box 1074 Mason City Iowa with telephone number and directions to your home in reply.
L/Cpl Paul F. Dohrmann, 1677-332, Marine Helicopter Squadron 162, Fleet Post Office San Francisco Calif. Leg ion Auxiliary to meet Sept 15 at 8 pm hostesses named with installation of officers. Birthday guests honored Frank Kimball at P L Crittenden home. Accidents report Mrs Alfred Hofer Arlington severely burned and injured when clothing tangled in a bazow shaft. Cora Greenfield Grant received a six stitch cut from a prop door incident.
Tripoli residents faced persistent heat and humidity with daytime highs in the 90s and a peak 93 degrees on several days. Nighttime temperatures ranged from 66 to 71 degrees, with a cooler low of 66 on Monday night. Weather observer J M Haydon logged daily 6 pm readings from Wednesday Aug 31 to Tuesday Sept 6.
A Pilgrim Youth Fellowship re organization meeting at the Congregational Church drew 28 youth, two adult hostesses, and Rev Nansen. Mac Snyder was elected president Joyce Axon vice president Bill Kehe secretary and T A Shriver treasurer. An officer meeting to appoint committees and plan activities followed. Hostesses were Cinday Goebel and T A Shriver’s mothers.
Sharon Wilson, 17, Manchester, suffered a fractured pelvis and internal injuries after falling under the wheels of a second hay rack while a tractor pulled two racks. The incident occurred when she fell from the front rack under the second rack’s wheels.
Fragmentary OCR mentions spinsters on a ladder of a Tripoli lead and a September 7, 1969 date. The readable text is incomplete and lacks clear events or identities for a full summary.
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