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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1919
Page
4
The Fairbury Red Cross sends 40 undershirts to be made by volunteers at home due to no sewing machines. A $40 donation funds garments and shoes from Diller Mercantile Co. including 10 boys pants and 110 winter undershirts. The box remains open until Monday. donations of women and children clothing are urged for war destitute refugees.
The Womans Club meets at city hall on Tuesday evening April 8 at 8 30 railroad time. The program includes The House Beautiful living rooms decorating and furnishing by Mrs Addie Tristman Round table on dining room kitchen and bath arrangements presented by Miss Bailey Mrs Nellie Ellis and Mrs Eve Stotts A cooking demonstration by Miss ie and her class in Domestic Roll call and a special musical program Guest invitations are welcome.
Public school notes report George Sasse leaving to work on his father's farm. Fourteen students earned a quarter day holiday for perfect attendance. A high school girls quartet formed by Helen Green Nellie Green Thelma Stotts and Pearl Diller is announced. Junior Hutchinson moved to Colorado. First and second grades report displays and activities. Senior normal trainers substituted during Miss Raymonds sickness. Spring winds prompted removal of a school banner. Junior play scheduled for April 10 at 9 p.m. Lincoln teachers urge three years of history study for all students.
Two carloads of stock were shipped by the Farmers Equity. Local residents report visits and calls across Beatrice Fairbury Jansen and Nebraska towns. The Y P C E plans a Food Exchange at Kroetsching store with a food sale. Election news references Buller Hall town board and postwar reflections urge support for the Victory Liberty Loan.
The Treasury plans the Victory Liberty Loan to fund postwar peace efforts. Allies credit American resilience and production for ending the war, noting massive mobilization, weapon and shipbuilding, and food output that supported troops in Europe. The war ends, and the soldiers return home.
Prominent Methodists say a campaign to relocate Nebraska Wesleyan University from University Place near Lincoln to Omaha will soon be launched. Wesleyan has served University Place for many years as the college considers its future.
Italy has passed the challenge to the peace conference demanding territorial concessions or threaten to withdraw. This underscores the era of national selfishness despite hopes for permanent peace.
The suggestion of Sir Robert Baden-Powell is adopted by the Boy Scouts of America. National headquarters announces that 367,093 scouts in the United States will light large fires nationwide on the treaty signing night and conduct ceremonies.
Dr. John H. Clifford a Baptist minister and YMCA worker earned the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism in World War I. He braved shell fire to rescue Col. Albertus W. Catlin of the Sixth Marines, repeatedly exposing himself as he went over the top. Clifford, 51, was in the firing zone as long as any infantryman.
An official communication quotes Consul General Harris praising American troops for service to U S expatriates and to Russian prisoners in Siberia. M C A secretaries are mentioned as part of the document.
The Capitol dome in Washington is kept in excellent condition by painting every few years. Forty painters work for three months to apply over five thousand gallons of paint for one coat. Painting prevents disintegration of the metallic surface.
The piece argues investigations will reveal faults but largely blames lack of adequate wartime preparation. It defends the Y M C A against profiteering charges over canteen operations and notes the shift to cost pricing with army supplies to run canteens, praising the organization for bearing burdens.
A white clapboard house, preserved for over two centuries through regular painting, features secret panels chimneys and hiding places once used by smugglers. It later housed notable statesmen and Dorothy Quincy the famed belle.
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