Essay Contest Announced By Highway Education Board
The fifth annual safety campaign invites fifth to eighth graders under 15 and teachers to enter. Prizes include gold watches and medals with trips to Washington for national winners. Essays must be handwritten or typed, under 500 words, with original illustrations, and submitted by February 24, 1926.
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Highway Education Board
Washington, D.C
Washington
Commissioner of Education
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Aim Of Home Economics Work In High School
The article outlines goals for Home Economics teaching, stressing more than cooking and sewing. It emphasizes developing character for family life, health, thrift, and management, plus applying beauty and design principles to daily life.
Assemblies Planned Before Christmas Holidays
Three assemblies are set before the Christmas break. On Friday December 11 Miss Martin will oversee a singing convocation. The next Friday features a Home Economics club short play directed by Mise Babcock. A combined Christmas program is on Wednesday December 23 with a two-part program and gift distribution coordinated by Miss Martino.
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Miss Martin
Home Economics Club
Mise Babcock
Martino
Seniors Receive Rings Amid Football Injury News
The Seniors got their rings last Tuesday and were pleased. Fred Miller of the Senior class broke his leg while playing football last Monday noon during Observation class in the Grammar room, Intermediate room, and Primary 100m activities.
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Fred Miller
Glee Club prepare program for next Thursday at Rock Creek church
The Glee Club is organizing a program to be performed next Thursday evening at the Rock Creek church. The event will feature choral pieces and community singing with the group preparing a varied repertoire.
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Glee Club
Rock Creek Church
Junior Play Tonight Delights with Romance Hunters Comedy
The Juniors stage The Romance Hunter’s a three act comedy at Diller Opera House. Amanda Armen and Chloe Story chase romance for Margaret Berry as rivals seek to wed her. Misunderstandings, faked titles, and comical servants spark laughs throughout this period piece.
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Diller Opera House
Amanda Armen
Chloe Story
Europe
Margaret Berry
Mildred Mayborn
Hunt
Margaret
Jim Harrison
Harold Logan
Howard Vanter
Vearl Green
Clem Wicks
Lynn Waggoner
Howard
Clement Blackwell
Blackmoorlands
Enoch Westervelt
Clarence Sixel
Amanda
Liza Stuebbin
Clare Mann
Libbey Stannard
Opal Long
Sheriff Tippin
Clarence Findling
Hen Bush
Ray Eick
Cindy Brown
Opal Hill
de Cannibal Isles
Rufus Green
Lee Stull
Mr Dorsey
Mise Martin
Senior class meeting approves flowers for injured teammate
Senior class members voted Monday to send flowers to Fred Miller who hurt his leg during a noon hour school ground incident. They also planned to attend the Junior play together and arranged payment for the class rings.
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Fred Miller
First Primary Pupils Not Absent or Tardy
Eight students named for six weeks perfect attendance including Max Johnson Elmer Sasse Wallace Farrow Laurice Diller Adam Fasnacht Elizabeth Green Clinton Sandman and Raleigh Bristor.
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Max Johnson
Elmer Sasse
Wallace Farrow
Laurice Diller
Adam Fasnacht
Elizabeth Green
Clinton Sandman
Raleigh Bristor
Basketball Replaces State Final as North Platte Lincoln Clash Ends
With the state football title to be decided in Lincoln, North Platte and Lincoln high schools shift focus to basketball the new dominant indoor sport for both large and small schools. Diller will field a five that relies on speed and fight to overcome small size, backed by student and town support. The piece notes editorial staff and upcoming orchestra growth, while freshmen anticipate Christmas stockings and older students ponder gifts.
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Lincoln
North Platte
Nebraska
Diller
Diller High Opens Season with Odell Hanover Trips
Diller High basketball opens December 18 at Odell after last season’s 11 8 and 14 2 losses to Odell. The squad then goes to Hanover on December 23 with both first and second teams. Jan 8 hosts Reynolds. Key players include Henrichs Green Coulman Wiemers Frisbie Waggoner Colman Patton.
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Diller High
Odell
Diller
Hanover
Kansans
Reynolds
Loyal Henrichs
Vear] Green
Donald Coulman
Corda Wiemers
Lynn Waggoner
Leonard Frisbie
Doris Colman
Hubert Patton
Thirty-Seven Students Named Honor Roll at Diller Schools
Thirty seven pupils across primary to high school at Diller earned averages of 90 or above in the second six weeks. Names include Marcella Shutt Bere Nice Ferry Gretchen Fanders Dale Tristman Bobbie Green and others across Primary Second Primary Intermediate Grammar and High School with several graduates listed by year.
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Diller
Marcella Shutt
Berenice Ferry
Gretchen Fanders
Dale Tristman
Bobbie Green
Billie Bristor
Doris Diller
Frances Ellen Blauser
Ada Lukes
Rachel Diller
Maxine Fry
Cleo Green
Bonnie Green
Eloise Diller
Esther — Bristor
Rachel Viere
Della
Orange and Black Orchestra Orders Hats for Friday
The Orange and Black Orchestra has ordered orange and black felt hats to wear for the first time Friday. Misa Parker plans to select a jazz band to provide music during halftime at the home basketball games.
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Orange and Black Orchestra
Misa Parker
Attendance Roll Names for Six-Week Period
The list names students who were neither absent nor tardy in the past six weeks. Included are Monroe Northup Lois Northup Bonnie Green Freda Brandt Meredith Robertson Marvin Farrow Leonard Patton Elvise Diller Rachael Viers Pearl Fasnacht Virgil Geer Merle Johnson Richard Rand and Graydon Harvey.
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Monroe Northup
Lois Northup
Bonnie Green
Freda Brandt
Meredith Robertson
Marvin Farrow
Leonard Patton
Elvise Diller
Rachael Viers
Pearl Fasnacht
Virgil Geer
Merle Johnson
Richard Rand
Graydon Harvey
Students Run Stores And Bank In Grammar Class
The class assigns pupils to operate various stores such as bakery grocery millinery and dry goods while weekly banking and cash handling teach arithmetic. Allen Tristman and Vivian Waggoner act as grocery clerks and Wendell Fanders with Bethel Friday serve as eighth grade bankers.
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Allen Tristman
Vivian Waggoner
Wendell Fanders
Bethel
Eighth graders study charts of presidential administrations
The eighth graders are drawing a chart of presidential administrations and making Better English notebooks. The Normal Trainers visited last Tuesday to observe a store and bank project, while a list names students who have neither been absent nor tardy in the past six weeks.
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Harriet Diller
Erma Franzen
Wendell Fanders
Gilbert Plager
Edwin Weerts
Richard Brandt
Louie Bristol
Lynn Cully
Luella Findling
Ileen Green
Bethel Henrichs
Mildred Long
Irwin Shutt
Allen Tinstman
Spelling Student Rachael Diller Earns Top Scores
Rachael Diller achieved perfect marks in all spelling lessons and final examinations over the last six weeks, earning a 100 percent average and strong performance across assessments.
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Rachael Diller
Diller Winter Carnival Features High School Minstrel Show
The Diller Winter Carnival on Friday December 11 at the school house showcases a High School Minstrel show led by Miss Parker with the Orange and Black orchestra. Miss Martin directs side shows and the carnival offers clowns animals live dialogue and a duel to the death in student acts. Proceeds support debate Glee Club basketball and new records.
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Diller
Orange and Black
New Reference Titles Added to Diller High Library
Several new reference works and classic novels were placed in the Diller High School Library for reference use. Titles include The Perfect Tribute The Holy Grail and Sir Galahad A New England Nun and Other Stories The Country Doctor In Old Virginia The Song of Three Friends The Song of Hugh Glass Last of the Mohicans The Heart of a Boy The Story of the Other Wise Man Westward Ho Source Book of Mediaeval History and related volumes. Additional books are on order for future arrival.
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Diller High School
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Holy Grail
Sir Galahad
Heal Ee Cel Eceida Candeds Tennyson
Peer Aweisenenn
Joseph Conrad
New England
Mary E. Wilkins
Jewett
Old Virginia
Thomas Nelson Page
Hugh Glass
Neihardt
Mohicans
Cooper
de Amicis
Henry van Dyke Shaft
Bves
Cechanet Burroughs
Utunpesine
Browning
Kingsley
Ogg
Humorous Slow and Misreadings in a Farcical Exchange
A comic exchange features a conductor boasting of a fast train while passengers test its speed and purpose. The dialogue shifts through witty miscommunications and then to a series of brief jabs at identity and aging.
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Editorial
Womidree Nes Citative Inves
Berenice Diller
Grammar Room
Hubert Filley
Fredia Brandt
Santa Claus
Room
Dent'st
Scotchmar
Bush
Flora
Belle
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