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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1920
Page
4
The leap year rule uses division by 4, but centuries require 400 for accuracy. Years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, while 1800 and 1900 show gaps with eight years between leaps. Leap years occurred every four years after 1800 until 1896, then again after 1900 with a skipped 1900.
A Sunday party celebrated Bertha Ommen's ninth birthday with eighteen attendants. Games, ice cream, and cake followed. Visitors included Mrs. Willems and son Lawrence of Shea and Mrs. Free Logan and Mrs. Ralph Sandman from Fairbury.
The Epworth League hours are listed for 10 am Sunday and 7 pm evening service with a Thursday 8 pm service. The pastor plans a Rock Creek visit at 11 am and invites all to attend. Health note urges congregation to stay well and attend. No prayer service at the M E church due to High School graduation exercises.
A Sunday school session drew 70 attendees with a special Mother's Day program. Mothers sat front, a brief program featured songs prayers recitations and poems, with a reading on the Carnation and a duet. An offering supported the World Wide Movement as cocoa and wafers were served.
The church will hold Sunday school at 10 and worship at 11 with the topic In the Background of Service. An elder will be ordained and the three elected on May 2 will be installed. Eleven new members joined last Sunday and the Lord's Supper was observed. The Thelma Stotts led the C E service.
An evening preaching service is planned at 8 o'clock with the sermon Openness before God. A Wednesday night prayer meeting led by Mrs. Stotts is announced. The Ladies Missionary Society meets Thursday afternoon with Mrs. H Z Willer hosting and Mrs. S C Hutchinson leading. The quarterly dues are due. The pastor preached at the Odell funeral of Mrs. Hollenbeck, buried in Odell after a 2:30 p.m. Christian church service.
Galveston boasts a fine gulf harbor and a long sloping beach drawing thousands yearly. The sea wall built after 1900 flood runs 22 403 feet with a 17 foot height and five foot top width, supported by 40 foot piles. The city grade was raised to 17 feet, 2 500 buildings altered, streets and utilities redirected, and dredges created a canal behind the wall.
A Charleston housewife sought a cook by ad for references. A large old woman promised but confessed she had torn up her references, arguing that destroying them proves she is not a good servant and insisting Ab would prove she is crazy if given the chance.
An amusing note from the London Chronicle describes a single dog in London that answers the door for a deaf and dumb household. The dog signals arrival by barks, mouth movements, tail wagging, and soft pawing toward doors, effectively relaying information to its human owners.
A war veteran in Angers roars at a neighbor who avoided service. He taunts the man for staying in a civilian job testing aircraft for Curtiss, claiming the neighbor merely piloted machines to test safety. The exchange is recorded in The Flame Sector.
In a physiology recitation a sixth grader jokingly defined the diaphragm as what keeps us from going out of shape when we breathe. A geography lesson ends with the teacher insisting answers be in the students’ heads. A boy asks if he must hand in his answer amid laughter.
Mies Rickartt, a 21 year old coal miner and operator from Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania, is touted as the country’s and perhaps world’s only girt coal worker. She works as a miner and operator and also drives trucks and farms in a diverse set of trades.
The article notes that Filipino interest in athletics grew after American occupation when towns and provinces fostered rivalries. It contrasts early indifference with a rising enthusiasm for forms of sport popular in the Western world, seen as a productive pursuit beyond mere energy use.
Representative Fesse discusses Ludendorff's memoirs noting the general's Day attitude toward the German people and their views. He compares the tone to a lawyer’s rapport with a client and quotes a lawyer’s line about eight years, reflecting a strained exchange.
The article chronicles early exploration of Tibet by Sven Hedin and notes D F McGillicuddy's 1906 expedition. It describes Tibetan Chinese mixed population, polyandry, body disposal by feeding to birds, and temple customs with illuminated altars and coin offerings.
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