Primary Track Meet Gives Full Force Friday Afternoon
The second primary turnout was strong on Friday afternoon as athletes gathered for the track meet. The scene showed full force with participants and spectators filling the venue.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1923
Page
4
The second primary turnout was strong on Friday afternoon as athletes gathered for the track meet. The scene showed full force with participants and spectators filling the venue.
Rev W F Clark returns as pastor for Sunday services with 10 00 Sunday School 11 00 morning service and 730 evening service Attendance goals are urged and the morning sermon titled The One Message of a Great Meeting while the evening sermon is planned as Destroyers Destroyed The pastor invites the youth and calls for larger congregations to boost attendance compared with Steele City and past weeks.
Pastor E. E. Pengelly calls for full effort in services and prayerful hearts. He deems the Religion of Jesus Christ a joyful, world-improving force and encourages all to come with a glad spirit.
The sermon schedule urges Christian living through the Golden Rule and church attendance. S. S. Sunday at 10 AM features the World's Temperance lesson, 11 AM morning worship on Motive, and 7:30 PM evening service titled The Duty of Making Battlements. Wednesday prayer and Bible study at 7:30.
St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church announces a Christmas bazaar in the second week of December to raise funds for mission work. Women's Missionary Society invites all members to contribute needlework and crafts for sale to support missionary programs.
The Inter-class track meet held Friday Oct 26 saw the Senior Freshman team win with 53 points to 36 for the Junior Sophomore group. Event winners included DeVere Hale in 50 yd dash and 100 yd dash, William Bowers in shot put and discus, Keith Hays in 440 yd dash, Garfield McCreight in hurdles, and the Senior Freshman relay team.
A collection of aphorisms on money pride love and life. It notes that pretending to be rich is taxing and that optimism tempered by pessimism is prudent. Comments on debt manners humor and human frailty appear in brisk, quotable lines.
Henry T. Baker argues that both young and old rely on standardized ideas and are seldom motivated to think independently. He laments that only a minority, about 20 percent, truly cogitate while the rest absorb and echo teachers’ views. He mocks college classrooms for teaching conformity and suggests real estate is in the mind, not property.
Scientific American notes rapid gains in aeronautics with a world speed record near 245 mph, endurance and coast-to-coast flights by the army air service, 250 hour engine tests, long glider flights, vertical helicopter lifts, planes linked to dirigibles, metal replacing wood in airframe construction, and pilotless aircraft performing complex evolutions.
The French minister of marine laments the current 10 cent monthly allowance for watchdogs and workers. He says daily indemnities will be set by the director of arsenals who will also determine how to carry out the new provisions.
Disturbed conditions across China appear in the 1922 post office report showing a general drop in postal matter handled. Revenue stood at Mex. £17,100,719.32 with working expenses Mex. $13,256,858.37. The year hints at large gains in all post office activities due to the closure of foreign postal agencies on December 31, shifting workload to the Chinese post office.
A pig stranded in a hollow log for twenty days without food or water was rescued on a farm near Pekin Illinois. Jacob Lohnes pulled the animal free after being drawn by grunts.
The piece reflects on human fickleness and shifting purposes, noting how plans change with mood and weather leaving people discouraged yet determined to try again. It contrasts personal doubt with a broader world that continues with tenderness as individuals seek guidance from a higher power. Local Pride follows with a quip about gowns once imported from Paris now made locally.
A sharp remark about Janet lacking social tact appears in a Boston Transcript cartoon caption. The line notes Janet talks excessively when invited to lunch, outshining the hostess who must cover the bill.
In the Boston Tran script Hobbs quips that married life is not all sunshine and Henpeck counters that most of it is reign. The dialogue hints at domestic strain with a wry tone.
Old Angler scathingly heckles a neighbor who keeps shifting his foot during a fishing hour. The Boston Transcript captures a sharp exchange about whose turn it is to fish and who is making a show instead.
The Louisville Courier-Journal quote features a guest asking if the host is the buntler, who replies he is the host and thanks the guest for the compliment. The exchange captures a light moment from the page.
A brief dialogue shows one man asking for an hour of discussion and the other agreeing while noting his wife will be ready soon. The exchange centers on coordinating time for a conversation.
Uncle Eben calls a wary caller a safety first fighter after overheard quarreling over the telephone in a Washington Star excerpt. He jokes about preferring calm, cautious talkers in everyday disputes.
A playful exchange highlights gendered views on dating behavior with sarcasm about spoons. The dialogue contrasts female rights with male rationale, framing a social dispute in humorous terms.
In London a solicitor explains the means by which debt was pursued against the Witners regarding a wireless set. The matter questions licensure of the item and rights of the creditors.
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