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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1934
Page
8
South of Tripoli notices show numerous family visits across Sumner Waverly Waterloo and Readlyn with Ernie Prestien wedding and Evonne Kuhrt birthdays. Families including Koch Kiefer Schmidt Towne and Tegtmeier share Sunday dinners and hospital trips while Elfrieda Boldt visits and LEOTA celebrates a 10th birthday with a cake.
Readlyn brief items report a new baby born to Mr and Mrs Otto Schick on September 11. Zion Ladies Aid held a meeting with officer elections led by hostess Mrs H F Beevers. elected officers include Mrs K C Becker president, Mrs F W Pepmueller vice president, Mrs E N Osnes secretary, and Mrs F W Eichmann treasurer. Community visits include Art Zahn Alfred Emma visiting relatives in Naperville Illinois and planning attendance at the world’s fair. Various local people travel and gather for picnics and family occasions including a funeral in nearby Waverly, a 20th wedding anniversary and 75th birthday twins celebration. A labor injury is noted when T Schmidt’s hand was amputated at a shredder. Continued social rounds list visits among Bruns and Kehe households, birthday and anniversary observations, and Zion church services led by Rev Knoploh. Mrs Will Rathe travels to Des Moines to meet her new granddaughter.
OLD TRIPOLI reports Mr and Mrs Fred Lucbs and others spent Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Herman Plagens and their son Ruben. George Carstensen of Cedar Falls called on Andrew Carstensen. Louie Schwartz and Andrew Carstensen were visitors at Leslie Buenger farm near Sumner. Mrs August Westendorf of Tripoli also called at the Herman Moeller home. Duane and Mrs Art Towne and Duane were callers at the Louis Gaede home Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Fred Lohmann and Adela helped at the Arnold Angus home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Albert Kruse assisted at the Henry Hay home during silo fillings. Attendees at Mrs. Chas. Bills funeral in Waverly included Mrs. Fred Lohmann, Adela, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lohmann, Lucille, Mrs. Henry Krueger, Alvin, and Wm. Kuker.
Osceola visitors from SPRING FOUNTAIN and surrounding farms gathered at multiple homes Sunday and Monday. Families including Barcus Meyer Bodermann Kuker Steege Kunker Ganske Sell Klauss Kuepker and others shared meals, visits, and small gatherings with relatives and neighbors in Ford Meyer Louie Meyer Albert Volker Ferd Meyer and Geo Kuepker homes.
Mr and Mrs Frank Nolte attended the world’s fair in Chicago last week. Several local families visited one another in Waterloo Sumner Tripoli Frederika and Bremer with Milton Epley Perry Epley will go to Ames for the school year. Special meetings at Warren Evangelical Church begin Sept 19 with a different speaker each evening for ten sessions.
Mr and Mrs C C Clary and Kent drove to Oelwein Sunday to visit the Wells Ferris home for a warm afternoon feast. In Waverly on Sunday the Mowatt Kelso and Buckendahl households hosted guests including Harold Mowatt Charlotte Leo Buckendahl Rose Mary and Mrs Kelso. Other guests included Irving Neipert and daughters from Waterloo at Mrs G C French home with J E Mooney. Fayette saw Louis Ohlendorf family visiting relatives, and Republic visitors A C Goodall and Horace Goodall stopped Tuesday at Mrs C B Evans home. Nate Tibbetts and his wife visited I C Tibbetts’s family Wednesday.
Visitors from Warren and nearby towns gathered at multiple homes including the Flege, Hennings, Hagenow, Wilkins, and Wente households. Christening announced for George Wilkins’s son. a baby boy born to Ed and wife on Saturday weighing nine and a half pounds. Several trips and greetings noted among Hennings relatives and friends in Readlyn Tripoli Waterloo and Crane Creek areas.
Mildred Nessel and Louis Steiger wed in Fort Madison Iowa on September 6 with Steiger later working as a booking agent for an orchestra. Freida Kehe and Rev Karl Weltner also married in this city on September 12 with a reception at the bride’s home and Weltner heading to Wartburg College. Mrs Martha Newell of this city married Frank Stevenson of Allison Town in a ceremony announced to local readers.
Community news covers engagements and relocations including Rev Tagel's August 25 ceremony at the Lutheran parsonage and the Stevenson family moving to Allison. It lists property transfers by C C Baker, college moves for local youths, hospital visits, and several residents traveling to Cedar Falls and Iowa City for study.
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