Red Cross sewing nets funds and supplies roll call
Friday and Wednesday meetings of the Methodist Ladies Aid yield quilts and hospital garments for the Red Cross. Items include 13 dollars from quilts, two Rhode Island roosters sold for two dollars, 20 pajama suits and 50 hospital shirts sent to Fairbury, 1380 surgical dressings, socks sweaters mitts and helmets, and various linings and linens donated by Mrs. Tristman.
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Red Cross
Isabella Wieths
Whitrock
Rhode Island
Methodist
Aid Society
Seneral Red Cross
Fouts
Fairbury
Isabelle Wieths
Reinhardt
Opera House
Eva Stotts
Sec’y
Chester Huskies Defeat Diller Boys 39 to 22 in Season Finale
Chester boys varsity won 39 to 22 at home against Diller on Feb 22 in the final game of the season. The Huskies, after a strong football run, carried more weight against the lighter Diller team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Diller Boys
Chester Boys
Local Harbine News Highlights Visits and Events
Beatrice visitors include Mr and Mrs Frank Wade to see a drafted brother. Gretna’s S J Hare visits T Murrays. Harbine sees Weaver family and relatives from Ellis. Dick Ommen screens a 10 cent moving picture show at the school. Measles strike Verna Murray while Mrs Tatlow recovers from an operation. Perry Weaver and A D Smalley attend Baptist Institute in Beatrice as Frank Wade plans to move out west. Weather shifts typical for Nebraska days.
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Frank Wade
Beatrice
Wm Gross’ Plant
Bowman
Sextuce
John
Bishops
Tatlow
Hospital
A.D. Smalley
Baptist Institute
Perry Weaver
Jansen
F. Wades
Frank Wades
L. Koenigs
Frank Murray
Verna Murray
Newt
Carpenter
Jessie Cuningham
Henry Weaver
Fairbury
Nebraska
Local social notes and family visits in Plymouth and Fairbury
Mrs Bert Jackson of Plymouth and her sons visited J B Thompson on Sunday. Floyd Thompson returned with them. Several Harbine residents traveled to Fairbury Thursday to see Civilisation. Miss Wilma Kroetsching visited relatives near Jansen. The cradle roll adds four members Dale Darwin Merle Lynn Arnold Carol Muarjory Eleanor Elizabeth Campbell. Names of babies under three urged for submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Jackson
Plymouth
Harbine School notes celebrate Washington Birthday
The Harbine school marked Washington's Birthday with activities. Ninth grade to finish Ivanhoe this week. Plans for a south of school garden. News informs residents school hours are 9 to 4 daily. Agriculture class will test seed corn for farmers. Second spelling contest ends with sixth grade best average.
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Harbine School
Washington
Ivanhoe
Harbine
Weddel
Steele
Chelser Weaver
Golden Wedding Celebrated By Stull Family Visit
Mrs. Barbara Stull and Mr. Henry Stull marked fifty years of marriage on November 9 1867 with a belated Downey celebration to be held February 17. Their four children Laddie Snyder Susie Lucas and Frank Stull join 16 grandchildren and five great grandchildren for the reunion dinner. Mrs Stull renowned as a cook, with kin in Denver Pico and Los Angeles attend this family gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. McClellen
Denver
Henry Stull
Downey
McClellen
Stull
Frank Stull
Diller
Nebr
Laddie Snyder
Pico
Susie Lucas
Los Angeles
Barbara Stull
Nebraska
Nebraska Per Capita Food Output in 1917 War Boost
Nebraska produced per person 700 pounds meat 647 flour 112 sugar 767 potatoes in 1917. G W Wattles cites average annual per capita rates 150 meat 246 flour 88 sugar. Proposes shifting to 200 flour 130 meat 36 sugar to aid war and place Nebraska ahead in surplus production.
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Nebraska
G. W. Wattles
Abe Martin Quips About Close Mouths and Spouters
Abe Martin remarks that many men take credit for staying quiet when there is no cuspidor handy, highlighting a humorous take on discretion and usefulness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Martin
What Your Boy Will Learn in The Trenches
Private Peat argues in the March American Magazine that war trains boys in courage loyalty obedience self sacrifice honesty and God faith. The piece notes remittance men turned soldiers many once drunkards now valued officers and heroes, urging parents to send sons with pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peat
March
German Woman in Wisconsin Berates Germany and Proclaims American Liberty
A Neillsville letter printed in the Tribune quotes a German woman denouncing life in Germany, praising America, and warning Germans here not to back Germany. She recalls saving to come to the United States, contrasts living conditions, and asserts American courtesy and strength against German tyranny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Neillsville
Tribune
America
Germany
New York Herald
Fifteen on the Fifteenth Birthday Party Reflection
Laura Spencer Porter reflects on the charm of a fifteenth birthday celebration as the ideal age for festivities. She contrasts it with fourteen and sixteen, invoking timeless sayings and a sense of luck and timing. The piece frames the event as a balanced, almost fateful rite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon
Taney Bear
Laura Spencer Porter
Atlantic
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Dilier
Hayes
Roward
Hutchison
Callendar
Hilder
John Folkers
Carl Diekman
Clifford Armer
Starr
Grace Armer
Ditler “High School
Diller Public Schools
Ida Sanmann
Leora Richardson
Ford
F. W. Lowe
E. O. Cassell
Steele City, Nebr
Avehoneer
Diller, Neer
Diller Record Printing
Jefferson Co
J. Monroe Davis & Son
First National Bank
Neb
Frank T. Pearce
Diller - Nebraska
Record Office
Col
Henry Eden
Missouri Auction School
Lanham
Kansas
H. R. Royle Auctioneer
J. B. Wright
Beatrice, Nebr. Frankin ‘Oo
Jefferson Ee
Diller Record Office
O. C. Diehl
Waggoner Bros
Poneral
Embalwers
DR. MN. Bauguess
Beni
Eauaans
Seventh Street
Washington, D.C
D-Swift
Lofa Fox
Jefferson County
Netti
Raon
Ebraska
A. Shetebethee
A. Nutzman
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