Keep Sweet at Home Call for Church Support
A plea urges continued religious participation and church attendance to sustain the community. Organizers request belief, involvement, and financial support to maintain church programs and services.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1921
Page
4
A plea urges continued religious participation and church attendance to sustain the community. Organizers request belief, involvement, and financial support to maintain church programs and services.
Sunday school attendance was urged and a good record requested. The Su School decided to present two plays on Xmas Eve December 24 1921 Mrs Santa Comes Into Her Own and A Miracle Play of the Nativity. Services next Sunday at 10 a.m. Sunday School and 11 a.m. Epworth at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. All invited.
The Federated Community Church lists services and activities including Sunday School at 10, morning worship at 11, C E prayer at 6 30, and evening services at 7 30. An auto race topic notes steady gains by several cars but Mrs Steffen remains favored. upcoming Salt Lake City event referenced. A banquet at city hall honors Mrs Steffens and her class with games and amusements. Mr Taylor of Duane College spoke at morning service.
A Meiji Shrine in Japan required 110000 trees for construction. Eight acres of peppermint yield about 82 gallons of oil valued at 364 per gallon. Onions offer nourishing qualities comparable to potatoes of equal size. The World War caused 70000000.
A compendium of claims includes 30 million wounded and 9 million killed in wars, India workers earning one cent daily, Japan protecting forests, Iceland hosting the world’s largest volcanic crater, and a theory that the Mississippi river runs uphill due to earth’s bulge. It also notes the mean sphere level at 8,700 feet deep if hills filled valleys.
Harbine notes list Sundays visits by Rev Eckles and family, Vern Gouker and relatives, and Frances Sturmer with Lincoln ties. Lorenz Willems stays with sister, Mrs Lottman, over weekend. Mrs Henry Sturmer from Fairbury had an operation. Leslie Nickeson takes over restaurant from Mr Bailey with plans to improve. Bailey to keep barber business. Corna Buller visits parents. has Canadian business ties.
Maryland revived the whipping post after nine years with a public whipping of a wife-beater in Baltimore. The judge declared the whipping post the proper punishment for such crimes and urged its use so the public can witness the example.
A quoted remark notes Emma Goldman, the anarchist deported to Russia, now claims America offers more liberty than Russia. She plans to return to the United States to seek freedom, though she may face further obstacles if return is denied. The item presents a critical view of Goldman’s shifting stance.
United States Steel plans to relocate the town of Hibbing Minnesota a mile from its current site within six months. The move will relocate the famed steel community as steam shovels begin digging ore where Hibbing stood. An engineer recalled a moment spent in New York during the planning.
Historical note recalls Hibbing’s founding by Henry W. Oliver of Pittsburgh and a directive to relocate the town. The miners town is described as being “put on the move” to a new site, where it will settle as New Hibbing with a fresh name and location.
Jacob H. Rubin of Milwaukee, returning from Russia, describes conditions as appalling under the Bolshevik regime. He cites fear, repression, and distrust among citizens, noting uprisings fail and Soviet power is strong in Moscow and Petrograd. He met Berkman and Goldman, who express dissatisfaction and seek a return to America.
Rubin spent seven weeks in jail under General Denikine after being accused of Bolshevik spying. Arrested October 14, 1919, he faced a death sentence for January 24. An ambassador secured his release before execution. He described Soviet Moscow housing as nationalized with strict room limits and dire repairs, noting one room for a couple with one child and two rooms for a family of five.
Joseph Shimansky testified before Supreme Court Justice Cropsey that wealth caused his misery and opposed his wife Fannie Shimansky's request for alimony and counsel fees while her suit for separation proceeds. Both are 54 with five children. two daughters married to a lawyer and a physician, two others theatrical designers earning $8,000 to $10,000 yearly.
In a court narrative, a man recalls opposing the sale of the Bement Avenue house, saying it separated him from his children and wife’s social ambitions. He describes becoming estranged, moved to a furnished room, and now lives apart from the home.
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