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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1924
Page
4
Pastor S F R Duhrkop is called out of town for a trial sermon. Sunday worship proceeds as planned with a change in time. Sunday school will meet at 10. Ladies Aid and Missionary Society gather at 2 30 PM.
The Federated Community Church plans to raise Sunday School attendance by Easter and encourage parental involvement in children choosing the Christian life. The pastor will preach Personal Evangelism, a method gaining favor over professional evangelism, as a key strategy this spring.
In a state with a large membership increase without an evangelist or pastor the evening service will feature a sermon by the pastor on What Does It Mean to be Lost. He plans a brief look at the fate of the old fashioned hell and will address the topic evangelistically rather than controversially.
The notice promotes The Wonder Book at fifty cents and reports a successful Woman's Foreign Missionary Society program with a $19.10 offering. It urges Sunday school attendance, cites weather impacts on church travel, and emphasizes devotion and sermon topics Gathering Fragments and Fixing our own Evidences. Forest service excerpts stress conservation and recreation, urging more game refuges and regulated use.
Frances Ellen Blauser joins 2nd grade while Ruth Stahl transfers to Oliver Diehl’s class. Six weeks absence-free in 1st primary: Donna Weddle Gerald Friday Milton Schenk Cleo Pearce Orlynm Sasse Keith Johnson. New pupil Ernest Stefford in 4th grade. 2nd primary teachers Hazel Blauser Marguerite Green Devere Hale. 4th grade reviews south America. 3rd grade studies Black people. 6th grade collects western scenery pictures. Safety pledge totals exceed 12,000 motorists.
Major 4 A Stewart of New York forms the Angus Association a national group of motorists pledging to stay alert for emergencies watch curves crossings and bridges keep their cars in perfect control and maintain brakes and steering gear to ensure road safety with signals before stopping or slowing down.
The 1922 annual report by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of the U S Forest Service, shows over 6 million visitors to national forests, doubling from 3 million in 1917. The report urges continued recreation use, noting it benefits the public without impairing forest wealth or public services. It highlights duties include protecting wildlife and forest resources.
Rev. Dr. Richard T. Vann known as the armless wonder walks into Union station with two turkeys shot in one day near Hobgood. The former president of Meredith College lost both arms in youth and uses a gun with a trigger tied to his teeth.
Two airplanes conducted night test flights at Mitchel Field as Maj. William N. Hensley Jr marked the French made electric beacon as the era's greatest single achievement for night flying. The beacon casts a diffused high power light over about a square mile enabling observers in Hempstead a mile and a half away to clearly view the field. The mechanism, about hogshead size, delivers immense 5 000 000 000 candlepower. The beam is bright enough to illuminate night baseball games and was observed by air mail service representatives.
E H Sothern reports a disputed manuscript in Shakespeare’s hand found among British Museum papers. The 147 line interpolation to Mundy’s life of Sir Thomas More was allegedly revised late in the sixteenth century after censorship.
In Atchison Kansas three heirs contest a $35,000 gold cache from Mrs. Mary Pharris estate. Probate records show her grandfather burned the money on a Nebraska farm with caches near Atchison and Superior. Pharris claimed 1914 exhumed $12,000 and buried the rest on Fifth Street in Atchison.
Mrs Fe ss elle Polk and Mrs Lilian Lindsel of Leavenworth allege they received money. Mrs Smith testified that Mrs Polk secretly withdrew 3800 dollars from the Superior land bank. Mrs Polk denies any receipt of funds.
Lester Perham imprisoned in Rock County Wisconsin for assault and robbery was pardoned after aiding officers to avert a prison mutiny. The decision recognizes his cooperation and assistance in maintaining order within the facility.
A prospective office location invites occupants to use the County Seat office as headquarters over Firet National Bank in Fairbury Nebraska. The note signals a regional business arrangements option for the area.
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