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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1961
Page
7
A list of worship times and activities across Congregational Grace Lutheran and multiple Lutheran and Methodist churches. Includes service times, Sunday schools, catechetical instruction, choir rehearsals, baptism announcements, upcoming events and joint missionary conference notices with dates and pastors’ names. Visitors welcomed.
Church election and council meeting set for 10 a.m. at Waterloo conference fall meeting at St. John Lutheran Cedar Falls 2 to 5 30 p m with Luther League and Women of the Church invited Luther League choir practice Thursday 7 p m Good Will Society meets at Lutheran Children's Home Waverly Friday Sept 15 at 2 p m Confirmation instruction Saturday Junior Mission Society Saturday at 1 30 p m Crane Creek 9 00 a m Sunday school 10 00 a m worship service
On August 2, 1961 the District Court of Bremer County Iowa appointed Erwin Bock of Waverly and Arnold Stromer of Tripoli as administrators with will annexed of the estate of Hulda Henning deceased. All debts must be paid to the undersigned and all claims presented to the court for allowance. Attorneys Sager Engelbrecht Hemingway of Waverly Iowa represent the estate.
Edward R. Murrow urges U S high schools to foster international ties via letter exchanges scrapbooks tapes and student teacher exchanges. The United States Information Agency will coordinate inquiries from schools and embassies, with Iowa districts expanding foreign language and cross-cultural programs as key avenues.
Childhood financial training shapes adult skills and marital harmony. Start with a weekly allowance at age five, growing with responsibility. Teens receive a monthly fund for clothes and incidentals, lasting until the next allotment. Mistakes teach self accountability. do not tie rewards or punishments to spending.
A compilation of legal property transfers and revenues from several Iowa locales. Helen Weaver Gaffney Estate to Oliver J Reeve for 9500 covering parts of Wm Stur devant addition Waverly. Ray McDonald to Roger and Vera Jennings. Lutheran Children’s Home Society to Drape Construction Co.. J Roach Sons Inc to James W Lynes. Emma Schweer to Martin and Margaret Schweer. Margaret S Johnson to Francis J Morgan. Waterloo Railroad Co to Bremer. Emil Tonn to Emil and Alice Tonn. Midwest Lumber Co to La Vera Kurtz. Mary Kimball to Rudolph and Edna Langholz. Ella Meyerhoff to Claude and Wanda Whitehill. Claude C Whitehill to Herbert and Martha Meyerhoff. revenues listed for several entries.
Retired rural mail carrier Ed Carper ends a 40 year career. He relied on three horses and a mail buggy at first, then used a 1916 Model T Ford. Subsequent years saw six Model T Fords, five V8 Fords, one Jeep, one Dodge, two Chevrolets and a 1958 Ford.
The Iowa State Fair drew 427,403 visitors during its 10 day run in 1961, edging past the 1960 figure of 427,006. The all time high remains 514,036 set in 1946. A plan to shift the fair dates earlier by one week to avoid school start conflicts was discussed but rejected by the fair board.
Ackley merchant Goettel's store, founded by W. H. Goettel in 1886, ceases operations after 75 years. The general store offered groceries, dry goods, notions, and housed a millinery department as part of its community presence.
The Oldest Tracr bowling team in the state averages over 70 years among its members, dropping to 67 with a usual substitute. Fort Dodge quilters story notes Lena Peterson, 87, ending a 60 year quilt run after making 70 quilts for family and friends, as she is grandmother to 95 people with 12 children, 34 grandchildren and 61 great grandchildren.
Paul Kellerhals, a farmer west of Tipton, recently trapped a badger. Badgers are relatively rare in Cedar county, making the sight notable for local residents and the farming community.
A hen pheasant has become a city dweller in Sumner nesting on eggs just feet from a busy highway. Her nest sits a foot away on the east side of a tree as traffic speeds by.
The pig named Raymond Poll found a curious freak animal in a litter. It had one head but two bodies and died shortly after birth.
Kurt Rose, 22 months old, of Bayard, accidentally swallowed a quantity of charcoal lighter fluid. He received emergency first aid and was hospitalized in serious condition. Pneumonia developed as a complication.
Rhonda Harris of Northwood is three months old and has eight living grandmothers. Insurance statistics reportedly show a one in 50 million chance for a child to have six living grandmothers.
In the State University of Iowa continuing education program about 15 000 persons annually attend nearly 200 conferences workshops and short courses designed to help the professional man keep in touch with new developments and to contribute to the cultural life of Iowans.
During a year examinations are conducted on about a quarter million specimens such as milk and drinking water samples submitted to the State Hygienic Laboratory at the State University of Iowa by physicians and officials statewide.
A thick growth of trumpet vine has climbed and rests on a windmill tower at the Cyril Beck farm west of Delmar. The vines began spreading over ten years ago.
A record 1234 disabled Iowans were rehabilitated and placed in productive work in the fiscal year ended. Merrill Hunt, director of the vocational rehabilitation in the Iowa department of public instruction, said those workers earned over 3 million dollars annually at year end. The record came despite a low placement rate during the recession last fall and winter.
A pheasant struck a double pane window at Merle Otis farm near Forest City, punching near identical holes in both panes. The speeding bird stopped 18 feet away after the impact and shed three feathers in the crash.
In England tuberculosis accounted for as much as 20 percent of all deaths in 1650, signaling a severe public health burden of the era and reflecting the disease's high mortality impact on the population.
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