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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1920
Page
4
The Zion Lutheran Church schedules New Year services on New Year's Eve and Day plus Sunday January 2. The annual congregational meeting and Ladies Aid gather early January. Sunday school board elects officers and teachers for the new year with L. M. Cavett as Superintendent and Iva M. Innis as pastor.
The church held its usual Christmas festivities with a school program. Santa distributed goodies, followed by ice cream and wafers. A good Sunday attendance, election of officers, and praise for a faithful teaching corps marked the gathering as the hope for 1921.
Just before Christmas the church invites the public to Sunday school at 10, morning worship at 11 with the sermon How the Pastor Looks at the Coming Year, and an Evening Praise service at 7 30 on Sunday. The 6 30 p m C E Society meets with Mrs Tristman as leader and new president Mr Emmert is organizing better work. Prayer meeting and choir practice are planned for Wednesday at 7 30 p m at H Z Diller s home. The program last Sunday night was well received and the M E church members enjoyed the joint dismissal.
The 1920 year end notes praise L. M. Cavett for an efficient Sunday school in Diller with strong local work and aid to the needy. A Christmas program drew a large attendance and about 140 guests shared in refreshments after the event.
John C. Hartigan, attorney for eight Jefferson county farmers, accuses Charles Maixner of duping them in a two step scheme. Farmers traded liberty bonds for Bankers Fire Insurance stock, then swapped that stock for Colorado land, losing about $100,000. Hartigan seeks notes and mortgages held by the Bankers Insurance firm, now under state control, to defend and halt payments. If records are with Ceresco Bank, he plans to challenge the notes as fraudulently obtained.
Reduced railroad rates are set for farmers and families attending the Lincoln meetings January 3 to 7. A one and one half fare applies each way with full fare there and half fare home, plus a certificate for half fare on return. Rates valid January 1–7 for $1 or more trips within the state. Twenty plus agricultural associations will gather to discuss grain livestock fruit and homemaking topics with programs for women and their husbands.
The text reports Maxiner offered to trade insurance stock for Colorado land, prompting buyers to pay $150 an acre where he had bet $20. He now sits in prison for forgeries tied to the Ceresco bank where he served as cashier. It notes railroads’ coal price spreads show current expense levels.
A compact saying observes that wealth affords year round comforts and luxuries while poverty shifts the same comforts to seasonal needs, noting the rich enjoy summer ice and winter abundance contrasted with the poor.
The article explains that cold weather slows gasoline vaporization, reducing combustion. It advises increasing fuel quantity or heating air and cooling system water to improve vaporization. Warm water poured into the cooling system or over the intake manifold can help, with caution about safety and improvised heating methods.
Mrs. Elia York of Detroit says she left her one month old on a station seat while she used a tele phone. A stranger handed her a different baby and vanished. Her own infant disappeared as she rushed back. The case involves a trade in GabWa Indianapolis Inc. and the Palatine visit.
In Lexington Kentucky theaters are required to page patrons when emergencies occur after a mother’s reported dying prompted a policy. The rule covers all venues including cinemas.
A clipped anecdote hints at a life based on speculation and romance with a cynical jab about a manager and a stenographer who married a note taking habit that yielded only bank notes.
A humorous exchange notes ongoing busyness with no time to tend the garden. Mentions of borrowing tools are used to highlight strains of daily work. City slang and casual tone reflect a slice of life moment.
Wells have been drilled for oil in about 80 states, but only 16 are considered oil producers. The report notes wide variation in production capability across regions and stresses the need for clearer standards.
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