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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1954
Page
8
A Tripoli High School roundup lists staff roles and student activities across grades. Agriculture field trips judge cattle while physics studies heat expansion and mathematics cover fractions and formulas. English reports include authors and stories as commerce and etiquette lessons proceed.
An editorial questions whether using curse words to gain attention reveals ignorance. It argues restraint in conversation improves respect and clarity. The piece urges readers to pause and consider if swearing adds any real value to dialogue.
Betty Kalkbrenner, five foot five, 115 pounds, blue eyes and light brown hair, is this week’s senior personality. She enjoys movies and sports especially basketball, was on the girls basketball team first two years and part of the third year as team manager, and served on the newspaper staff student council and senior year. Betty attended homecoming as queen’s attendant, acted in the junior class play, and values school for the people and sports though dislikes crowded halls. Her pet peeve is people who think they are better than others. She names French fried potatoes rare steak and dried apricot pie as favorites and Garber as her orchestra. Bookkeeping and physics are her preferred subjects. She may attend college in Minneapolis to become a medical secretary technician. Good luck, Betty.
The band completes routines for Friday’s game with Calmar and rehearses numbers for a short concert at the Cattle Congress in Waterloo on October 7. The article notes practice and upcoming appearances by the band.
All week the Panthers have trained for Fridays game with Cal mar. The squad urges student support at home and away as they chase improved offense. This year the Panthers have scored 7 points while opponents average 14.3, a 2.3 ppg difference.
The class elected James Lahmann as assistant reporter. English studies predicate verbs simple and complete subjects and a test on letter writing and parliamentary law. Miss Schaefer's class studied verbs nouns and pronouns and had a test in home economics the girls study basic stitches.
A humorous verse about students and parental help in school. Four pupils recall punishments for miswritten work and a sly jibe about dads writing errors. A voice on the phone reports a student named John Smith is sick and unable to attend class.
A Hampshire gilt at the Glen Mick farm near Bedford farrowed 10 pigs, then a week later 11 more. The second litter survived the birth but all except the mother’s first litter died.
A flurry of church events fills the week from Sunday school at 9:30 to German worship at 8:15 and English service at 10:30. Luther League rallies, youth gatherings, confirmations, choirs, and a color film “India Today” are scheduled across Cedar Falls Tripoli Oelwein and surrounding parishes with detailed meeting times and hostesses listed.
Fettkether family reunion gathered Sunday at Readlyn park with 175 attendees. A potluck noon dinner followed by afternoon activities and multiple family groups from Dubuque Oelwein Dunkerton Fairbank Graf Readlyn and Waterloo attended along with a report that Ensign Marvin Jacobs was injured during flying service in New Hampshire New Jersey and treated at Sampson Air Base hospital New York.
Town hall calendar lists a council meeting on Monday October 4 and Bremer County Extension Service activity there. On Tuesday October 6 the VFW event is scheduled. The notice provides local civic and veterans organization engagements for the week.
A large group of relatives and friends gathered at the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Koschmeder for a house warming. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meyerhoff and Mrs. Anna Schumacher attended a district meeting of the Independent Telephone Co. at Hubbard on Tuesday. One person is under observation for a broken nose and other bruises.
A chaotic dog confrontation occurred last week when a Cairo family’s dog and a neighbor’s dog confronted each other at adjacent doors. Mrs and her husband were bitten during the staged battle, with marshal attention noted.
On Sept 3, Sally Sheryl Belle and Sandra Smuck, daughters of Mr and Mrs Herbert Smuck of Alden, arrived at Eldora Memorial. The surprise birth marks the first set of triplets for the family, with hospital staff noting a smooth delivery and healthy newborns.
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