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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1921
Page
8
A religious notice invites readers to worship with the church. It emphasizes six days of labor and one day of rest as God's law, encourages regular church attendance, and announces Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and evening service at 7:30 p.m. with a cordial invitation to all.
Sunday School at 9 30 a m Divine worship in German and Holy Communion at 10 30 a m Ladies Aid and Missionary society meet at 2 30 p m Choir practice at 7 30 p m Thanksgiving Day services noted for Nov 4 Divine worship in German at 10 30 a m
The Federated Community Church promotes a "Speed Demons" Sunday School team led by Florence Steffen with 171 in attendance last week. A chicken pie supper at city hall drew strong community support boosting funds over $60 for communal activities and better village spirit.
Plans for a skate pond north of the telephone shed proceed with local support and water supply from the city. The Diller school hosts visiting Miss Shuman and Fern Hays along with Mid Lilliad Woblfarth. The girls beat Swanton 33 to 15 and the boys defeated Swanton 26 to 16, as both teams prepare for Reynolds Friday.
George Logan underwent an operation for tonsillitis Monday. Henry Lammel of Plymouth moving the house. Alonza Waay from Ebe Roelfs. W. T. Rader returned from St. Joe last Thursday after his father’s illness death and burial. Mrs Geo Logan returned this week from a visit with home folks at Holienburg.
Beatrice visitors Mrs Huffman and daughters Gladys and Golda called on Byron Halcomb for several days. Adeline Cornelius of Fairbury visited Mrs Russ Campbell who is ill with typhoid fever. Ella Reece from Kansas City visited Logan's on Saturday night and Sunday. Fred Grundmier and Mr Clarke from Adeline Kansas stayed several days last week. Mr and Mrs P A Buller also noted.
The merchant ship Avocet, bound from Rotterdam to England, repelled three airplanes and dodged mine fields in a half hour battle. Despite heavy shrapnel littering decks, no crew member was harmed as officers maneuvered to keep the ship a hard target. The incident followed a prior submarine bombardment on the Anglo Californian on July 4, 1915.
During a naval engagement a hit on the bridge killed Captain Parslow. His son, second officer, crawled across shell torn flooring to grip the steering wheel and steer the ship under fire. Four hours later destroyers arrived and the U boat submerged.
A London Answers piece cites scientific testimony that whales and porpoises escort ships for days, mistaking them for a larger whale. It notes a Challenger voyage where a humpback followed the ship for nearly a week, and describes pilot and sucker fish clinging to vessels, assuming the ship is a shark and abandoning the chase when food is not found.
Budapest reports that Hungarians expelled from areas transferred to new states are fleeing into the smaller Hungary. The government issued a three month decree banning further entries to the country.
Henry Risley a retired farmer from Leeds Point New Jersey was found after a week missing from home. He slept on a bed of leaves in the woods and subsisted on wild berries while unable to find his way back.
France shows a postwar revival in births and marriages with 623,869 marriages and a birth surplus of 150,790 in 1920. In 1913 births and marriages were 58,914 and 312,086 respectively, while population declined due to the war.
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