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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1926
Page
8
Rev. W S McCallister and Rev. W F Clark lead Memorial Day services at the Diller Methodist church with special music. Citizens are urged to attend the sermon and honor those buried in war, followed by Sunday School and the league meetings. E Mudge discusses Pioneering in Nebraska. he arrived in 1861. Be prompt at 7 15.
Union Memorial services are planned at the Methodist church Sunday at 11 am with Sunday school at 10. The youths meet at 7:15 pm and Juniors attend the Christians church. If weather allows, Mother's Day program of Home Scenes tableaus and music will replace a sermon. Scouts meet Monday evening for first aid instruction and bandage practice.
Otto Bergfelder, pastor, notes large attendance last Sunday and stresses faithful worship over entertainment. No preaching next Sunday due to conference in Blue Hill. Sunday school as usual. Congregational picnic planned for June 6 with a youth program. sewing circle meets Thursday at Mrs. H Wessell's home.
A Blue Valley Creamery Institute survey finds dairy cows remain profitable for farm feed, with 12 month feed costs up 25.5 percent over 1910 14 levels. Dairy product prices also climbed, butter farm prices up 56 percent and fluid milk up 48 percent, totaling a 52 percent rise when combined.
A social critique argues men are losing masculinity to barber shops and beauty parlors. It notes the shift from whiskers to modern grooming and the financial and cultural implications of male cosmetic routines.
The annual congregational picnic of St Pauls Lutheran Church will be held on the afternoon of June 6 with all are invited to attend.
Mrs. W. F. Myers of Have lock attended her niece Berenice Diller's graduation at the opera house Thursday night.
Berford Bell of Lincoln and a lady friend were guests a couple days before part of the week at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bell.
Lorenz Willems returned from a northern trip and this week joins a school of instruction at Chautauqua headquarters in Lincoln to study programs and methods.
Irene King former county register of deeds married Saturday in Logan Iowa to E E Church a former Fairbury light and water commissioner now employed in Chicago The couple will reside in Chicago after the ceremony
J W Heyworth died in Walker Minnesota at 9 30 PM May 14 1925 from acute appendicitis following influenza after three weeks illness. He was 70 years old born March 12 1856 in Monticello Indiana. He leaves a widow a son and three daughters with one daughter deceased in infancy. He lived in Diller Nebraska and Neyvie Minnesota before retiring to a farm near Neyie and later Walker. He was a devout Christian formerly Dunkard later Christian Church. He married Margaret Bowsher in 1878.
Graduation exercises for the University of Nebraska senior class at Lincoln will be held June 5. Wesleyan University commencement or related ceremony occurs on June 2.
School children across the state engage in a bird study. Prizes are offered to those identifying the greatest number, and students are building bird houses to place in trees on school grounds and nearby timber.
A Hastings Nebraskan editorial urges strict credit collection. It argues that only a hard boiled credit man should demand prompt payment. The piece warns that lenient credit systems ruin businesses and that delaying payments fosters bad behavior.
The Rocky Mountain Fives Circuit presents a 1926 Chautauqua with acts led by Robt. Morning Star and his life advice, the Ferguson Operatic Singers, Madam Mabel Wagner-Shank, and Edison artist Dr. Raymond B. Tolbert. Highlights include The Fool, Zapata's Novelty Troubadours, two Marimba Band concerts, and The Merry Widow.
Doctor Evelyn Saywell, a leading London child welfare authority, argues in a National Society of Day Nurseries lecture that permitting babies to howl or take minor risks can foster adventure and achievement, challenging strict safety early in infancy.
In a George Matthew Adams strip, Ambush Peeve reads philosophers arguing war as a biological necessity. At home, his wife serves a wartime rationed meal. Ambush tastings reveal war’s burden and he concedes, “after all, war seems so unnecessary.”
A hotel stenographer argues that married happiness is often exaggerated and misunderstood. She compares matrimony to a risky bet, noting couples hide their true feelings and fear public judgment, while explaining the emotional toll of perceived bliss and the difficulty of proving lasting satisfaction.
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