Diller Church Items Highlight Weekly Meeting and Plans
The W F M S met at Mrs. Frank Pearce's home on Tuesday afternoon. Communion services are scheduled for Sunday with sermon by Dr J R Gettys and the last Quarterly Conference. Annual Conference will meet at Hastings on September 14. Ladies Aid hosts an ice cream supper in the church basement this Saturday from 3 PM onward.
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Frank Pearce
S. S
J. R. Gettys
Hastings
Ladies Aid
Federated Church adjusts outdoor service plans and welcomes visitors
The Federated Community Church will not hold next Sunday's communion. Committees decide the best time for an outdoor service. A Fairbury delegation including Mr Heated, Mr Moon and Sec Leask attended last Sunday, with Leask presenting second class badges to scouts. St Pauls Ev Lutheran lists Sunday School at 9 30 a m and worship at 10 36 a m with the theme Different as Concerning the Lord's set.
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Fairbury
Heated
Hested
Moon
Sec. Leask
Mr. Leask
ST. Paul’s EV
Otto Bergfelder
Joshua
Peple
Israel
Modesty and Self-Insight in Public Life
A Bell Syndicate column discusses modesty as a cultivated habit and contrasts male and female responses to bragging and abuse. It notes writers reveal themselves through complaints and opinions, and shares examples of how public abuse can oddly foster modesty in men.
Statesman's View on Poetry and Inspiration
A quote from Edward Everett praising poetry that is clear and natural. It contrasts effortless beauty with forced effects and highlights inspiration as the core merit of literature and poetry.
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Edward Everett
Odd Apple Tree Produces $6,000 Nest Egg for Boy
In Mullica Hill New Jersey an apple tree mutation colors one limb red weeks ahead of the rest. A western nursery paid $6,000 for that limb four years ago and Mood set aside the money for his son Lewis Jr. education. Nearly 1,000 people toured the Mood farm as experts described the biological sport. The red colored limb allows early harvest and higher winter prices, prompting grafting to other trees to spread the trait.
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Mullica Hill
N. J
Lewis Mood
Mood
Lewis, Jr
Buried Christians Found in Peking Graveyard
Dr Earl R Bull, a Methodist missionary in charge on the Loo Choo Islands, reports locating a burial ground in Peking with 11 000 Christians slain in the 1637 uprising. An inscription says 83 000 Christians were killed, heads buried together and bodies elsewhere, Mostly Catholic converts perished.
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Japan
Peking
China
Earl R. Bull
Methodist Episcopal
Loo Choo Islands
Doctor Bull
Izaak Walton Father of Angling and His Meditative Angling
Wayne D. McMurray presents Izaak Walton born 1598 died 1683 as the Father of Angling not for profit but as a reader favorite and philosopher. Walton’s The Compleat Angler published 16353 bridged fishing lore with contemplative thought and popularized the sport.
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Poe
Izaak Walton
Stafford
England
Winchester
Walton
Wayne D. McMurray
George Matthew Adams
How It Started by Jean Newton
A discussion on the evolution of the book from clay and stone inscriptions to papyrus and parchment. The earliest surviving modern-form book is Virgil in the Vatican library, circa Constantine era, marking the shift to the square livre format.
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Nippur
Temple of
Bel
Vatican
Raven Not Altogether Deserving of Bad Name
Two ravens named for the continental and northern regions are noted as croaky yet striking in certain light. The American raven, smaller and western, dwells in mountains and descends to valleys when people are absent. It feeds mainly on carrion and dead prey, a diet Merriam Bailey notes as utilitarian to humans.
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United States
Florence Merriam Bailey
Probate Notice of Adah Diehl Estate Hearing
State of Nebraska Jefferson County probate notice for the estate of Adah C Diehl. Olin C Diehl, administrator, seeks final settlement and distribution per will. Hearing set for July 31, 1926 at 9:00 AM in County Court Fairbury. Notice to interested parties via Diller Record for three weeks. Louis J Nutzman County Judge. E A Wonder attorney.
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Nebraska
Jefferson County
Adah C. Diehl
Olin C. Diehl
Fairbury
Diller Record
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W. S. McCallister
Federated Community
W. F. Clark
Howe
ED Howe
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Statesman
By Jean Newton
Bell Syndicate
Jefferson Co. Assessment Assn
Carl Schnelle
Harbine
Louis J. Nutzman
Corte
E. A. Wonder
Atty
H. R
Ruyle
Elerbeck & Hale
Beatrice, Nebr
Waggoner Bros
O.C. Diekl
Pier, Neer
M. J. Powell
Fanbury
Davis
First National Bank
DR. McLeran
St.eatrice
Nebr
Ges Qelaea
Colorado
Burlington
Lea Hnl
W. I. Filley
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