The Waterloo Times
Friday, April 9, 1915

St. Joe

Henry Hagene is sporting a new bicycle.

Gus Hempe spent one day in Waterloo last week.

William Melching spent Easter Sunday with John Ververs.

William Melcing is busy sawing lumber for John Hempe.

George and Walter Brown spent Sunday with Nic Larsie.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frisch spent Sunday with home folks.

Gussie Hempe and Albert Berneking visited Waterloo Sunday.

Annie Melching is now employed with Mrs. John Hempe and likes 
her place well.

Mrs. John Hempe and son John, Gussie, Willie, Henry and Annie Melching, 
Albert Berneking, Mr. and Mrs. William Offermann and daughters Annie and 
Martha, visited at St. Joe Hempe’s Easter Sunday.

The following children made their first holy communion in St. Patrick’s Catholic 
Church at Tiptown Sunday morning, Father Irose officiating: Louis May, Joseph 
Hempe, Clarence Hagene, Raymond Crook, Wendel Forness, Carl McCarthy, 
Raymond Dugan, Henrietta Hempe, Josephine Dougherty and Loretta Forness.