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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1961
Page
6
The Tripoli community calendar lists football at Denver on September 22 and September 29 at Turkey Valley, plus a September 25 Mother’s Carnival band event. County council meetings are also noted in the period.
Denver Music Boosters opened the season with a Sept 14 meeting selecting Lorenz E Steege as president Cloyd Belton as vice president Evan Sage as secretary Emil Devries as treasurer and Vernon L Moeller as publicity chair. The year’s project is adding band instruments. Nearby, Mr and Mrs Arthur Kurtt welcomed daughter Kerri Dee Sept 11 at Allen Memorial hospital Waterloo. Rose Howrey visited Cedar Rapids Friday. Mr and Mrs Emil Degelau hosted relatives for Mrs Degelau’s birthday. The Meier Pipho Harms Wiltse families attended the wedding of Joan Harms and Larry Struck in Tripoli with Dawn Meier as flower girl.
A lengthy roundup of visits and social calls across Fredericksburg Sumner Cedar Falls Tripoli and surrounding areas. Frequent gatherings include Mrs Ed Meyer visiting relatives Mrs Ada McConkey hosting and hosting duties at Methodist church dinners. Names include Hahn Meyer Figanbaum Pals Kuethe OConnell Rich mond and several others with family trips and hospital notes.
Numerous families and friends from Fredericksburg Readlyn Oelwein Waterloo Cedar Rapids and nearby towns spent weekends visiting relatives. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Oren Hinecker and sister in Rochester Minnesota. Mrs. Hazel Ager and Mrs. Mabel McGee in New Hampton. and many others sharing dinners shows and birthdays across Readlyn and surrounding communities.
Lightning struck during a thunderstorm igniting a large barn on the Ed Stravers farm near Prairie City. About 90 sows and pigs were saved, but 28 pigs, 7000 bales of hay and some baled straw burned with the building.
Tree A. B. Hubbell of near Pacific Junction reports a mixed up apple tree in bloom at his place with about 50 sprouts.
Social Security figures show about 3017 non farming workers in Bremer County earned 2,474,000 in taxable wages in Q1 1959. The County manufacturing industry paid 851,000 to 780 employees. The report County Business Patterns 1959 helps study manpower resources and income by county.
A 1906 lookback notes Rev F H Wood accepts a Bradgate Congregational pulpit, local family movements including Mrs Ball and Eva Seege at Potter Siding creamery, Tilda Lenius singing in Waterloo, Irene Moeller and Lawrence Schuldt wed at St Peters, and Edwin Tegtmeier’s beer oil closing sale. Bremer county refunds $85,463.07 from 1936 three point tax law. markets show eggs 25c, hogs $10.05, veal $3-$8.00.
Ten years ago on Sept 12 1951 Tripoli saw several homes completed or under way while a schoolhouse was being remodeled. A 40th wedding anniversary was celebrated for Fred Schnurstein and his wife at a Sunday 5 PM gathering. Readlyn marked a golden wedding of Albert and his wife with an open house at Zion Lutheran. Happenings included travels by H H Nevermann to Seattle and Tacoma. A 4 H team from Tripoli and Sumner earned a white ribbon at the state fair for a Look Your Best demonstration. Lowell Goodenbour of Tripoli was promoted to head paying and receiving teller at Peoples Bank and Trust Co Waterloo. Funeral services were held for Fred H. Doepke age 63 at St Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed. Lois Lohmann married Gerald Traeger at Grace Lutheran in Sumner. One year ago Sept 7 1960 Roy Stro”.
Readlyn couples Mr and Mrs George Sauer brei celebrate 60 years with a Grace Lutheran open house. Mr and Mrs Arthur Diercks observed 45 years Sept 4 with family dinner in Denver. Dorothea Dohrmann, 68, to be funeralized Saturday at Grace Lutheran Tripoli conducted by Rev. Thalacker. Tripoli Leader also awarded Lehwinn bicycles to 21 boys and four girls after a successful subscription contest.
A. K. Forbis of Iowa Falls produced a massive pickle measuring 14 inches long and 9 inches in circumference. The fruit was grown from hybrid seed on fertile bottom ground and ranks among the area’s largest cucumbers.
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