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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1925
Page
8
Otto Bergfelder is the pastor at SS Borel. The pulpit will be reassigned by Rev Ratsche and clerical changes are announced.
The Federated Community Church reports 10 a m Sunday school with good attendance. Pastor W F Clark asks members to be faithful in church duties and to attend next Sunday. Plans include junior Endeavor at 7 00 and Young Peoples Union at 7 30.
The Rev W S McCallister says Sunday school and Epworth League remained active during the vacation. He describes a Rock Creek visit with league members and a late arrival due to rain, notes next Sunday services, and urges World Service fund contributions. He recalls Sioux peace pipe forgiveness episode and reports health of a sister in Colorado. He praises the P P O road and notes crops were uneven across regions, ending with praise for Diller.
Reverend McCallister writes of a July trip leaving Diller Nebraska traveling west via Fairbury to Hebron then York Grand Island Ansley and back via Meridian and Lincoln Highways. He notes good weather rough roads in places tourist traffic on the Lincoln Highway and visits his former parish in Ansley where his son resides.
Lyle Bryant spent the weekend with friends in Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Riddle and son visited Feirbury on Tuesday. Donald and Cecil Cunningham were not visiting with their father in Beatrice. Mrs. Gerwood of Carroll Nebr. guests at J. H. Logan home. Stanmebs to Fairbury after being taken to his daughter’s home. condition serious. S. F. Stull and sons left Wednesday for the western part of the state to visit Frank Theer in Lawrence and Mrs. Ethel James and others in Overton. Orma and son from Overton visited Roy McCune in Beatrice. Topeka trip for Venetian night. relatives visited Tuesday to Saturday. George J. Phipps and son Richard Allen with Dr. Fred Metheny and son Junior spent Sunday with Sam Thompson.
Calvin Fander son of William Fanders once from near Diller now residing in Beatrice is reported seriously ill in a local hospital there.
Co. Treasurer E J Jenkins and Hon F W Wells, longtime Jefferson county legislators, were seen at the Diller picnic event representing Pairbury in the latest local gathering.
Homer Bronk of the Farmers Union store moved his household goods from Plymouth last week and is now occupying Mrs. M. B. M. user’s house. An old prospector reported finding a new inside a cave during a mountainside encounter.
Rare Napoleon artifacts drew strong bids in London. A hand written draft of Napoleon’s appeal to his army in Italy sold for 750 dollars. Three dispatch letters to Admiral Ganteaume from 1798 sold for 870 dollars. The letters cover Nile disaster reactions, fleet instructions, and distributing 15 000 francs to officers.
Reports from Java indicate a larger rice harvest this year in the Dutch East Indies as workers from resurgent cities help bring in the crop despite a continuing shortage of coolie labor.
A fragmented notice describes a Nebraska dog show held last year with two distinguished entries amid management and display details.
Louise Keyes a colored Jamaica woman is released from custody after her husband John Keyes, now blind for life, pleaded with Magistrate Doyle to free her. He told the court he would not be a burden and he could learn to live with his blindness. The magistrate urged the wife to take her husband home and care for him, and the couple kissed before leaving.
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