Navy invites growth through Service School training
The Navy offers training in nearly 50 skilled fields with full tuition paid. Over 5000 recruits are sent to Navy Service School monthly, earning while learning and potential monthly pay up to 126 dollars with keep. Enlistees gain advancement, retirement options after 20 or 30 years, and paths in regulars or reserves.
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Naval Reserve enlistment policy during national emergency
The Secretary of the Navy announces that all men enlisting in the Naval Reserve will be kept on active Navy duty throughout the national emergency and released to inactive duty as soon after the emergency as their services permit. This formal policy clarifies duty status changes and timing for returning reservists.
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Navy Life
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Memories of The Past and Rail Notes in 1916
Waggoner brothers advertised Mexwell cars in 1916 selling one to Jess Brandt. Ray Colman served as Southern Pacific ticket agent in Deming New Mexico. A mix up involving RF Starrs dog Riley led to a car loading incident, ending with Henry Wiemers, W E Epley and Phil Dawson loading a display car with fancy Cocater White and Poland China dogs for the state fair. Mr and Mrs Behrends and six children visited west of Fairbury, a growing clan still all living today.
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Waggoner Brothers
Mexwell
Jess Brandt
Ray Colman
Southern Pacific RR
Deming
New Mexico
RF Starr
Riley
Henry Wiemers
W E Epley
Phil Dawson
Endicott
Wm_ Behrends
Fairbury
Forty Years Ago The Town News Digest
Ed Hayes quit farming and moved west. A new bell was installed at the schoolhouse in 1901. Joe Dymaseck elected janitor at the Diller schoolhouse forty years ago. A surprise party for Miss Vernon Dowllings at J W Fouts residence. Alf Waggoner bought two lots at Castor street head for 175 dollars and built a residence. Ernst Hahne the Northwestern University teacher had a structure erected on their land. Cal Herwig John Chretzinger and son Adam returned from Arkansas to remain in Nebraska. A lightnin g truck 13 of 17 cot ton wood grove on Fredrick Bensen's farm three miles southwest during a severe thunderstorm. Sam Thompson and Fred Morrison started to Montana for railroad work but returned home. Herman Hahne and his brother from Schaller Iowa discussed erecting a building on the Fitzgerald ranch west of town.
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Alf Waggoner
Castor Street
Waggoner
Ernst Hahne
Northwestern University
Indiana
Lightni
Fredrick Sbensen
Freight train wreck and town reflections from fifty years ago
A freight train split in two on the grade east of town sending a front end through Diller as the engineer failed to stop. Fifty years ago frost and local anecdotes recall store expansions and requests for hitching posts to keep people at home, with names like J O Blauser Ike Boggs and Mr Pearce noted.
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Adam
Arkansas
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Fred Morrison
Montana
Herman Hahne
Schaller
Fitzerald Ranch
J O Blauser
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