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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1921
Page
4
The message notes that the Bible offers comfort in sorrow and help for discouragement and that its wording is simple enough for a child to understand. It promises businessmen can find guidance and invites readers to attend the preaching service for encouragement.
Sunday school attendance rose to normal and evening services drew many youths. Rev Mrs Iva M Innis plans to return from conventions and lead devotionals next Sunday. Regular schedule includes Sunday school 10 am, preaching 11 am, Epworth League 6 30 pm, preaching 7 30 pm. Everyone invited.
The CTT Community Church reports Rally Day on Oct 9 with solid attendance and upcoming events. Rev Hammon of Courtland Nebraska will fill the pulpit Oct 16 morning and evening. C E delegates plan to attend the Beatrice convention Oct 13-16. No meeting this week.
The St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church lists German language worship at 9 30 a m and English service at 7 30 p m plus Ladies Aid Missionary Society at 2 6s p m Choir practice 7 30 p m Baptisms in last quarter include Robert LeRoy Glathar Betty Mae Frerich Edwin Frerich Clarence Wolken and others. several members received into full church communion through confirmation.
The regular English catechetical class for winter starts next Monday at 8 am with entry open to graduates of eighth grade or older and not subject to compulsory school attendance. Classes run Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays 8 to 12. Lutherans of America seek to raise 1 250 000 and 2 000 000 pounds of clothing for relief across many nations during Oct 15 to Oct 31, with St Pauls joining and a committee visiting members Oct 24 to collect gifts. A separate note warns farmers of Grain Growers contract risks and potential setback to marketing reforms if organization fails.
School notes report a community lecture course funded by season ticket sales led by pupils. Tickets cost $2 for adults and $1 for children to encourage attendance. Basketball practice has begun with Plymouth visiting October 14 at 7 45 pm in the city hall. The fifth and sixth grades earned a weinie roast and bacon fry in the woods west of town.
A baby girl was born Sunday morning to Mr and Mrs Pelser. H A Hardy visited Sabetha Kansas for cancer removal on his nose and returned Tuesday evening reporting recovery. Mr and Mrs Morgan and Mrs Zion visited Burchard Sunday. the Hebron and Kansas men worked locally to recruit members for the U S Grain Growers Association with thirteen signers by Tuesday evening.
Harbine reports weekend visitors from Sabetha Kansas as Mr and Mrs Ray Carpenter and their uncle Wm Carpenter. Sadie Thompson visited home folks. Perley Weaver of Sabetha Kansas visits brother Harlan Weaver. Joe Price Lincoln visitors. Mrs Ellisen Hastings visits Will Henrichs family. Mr Schmidt and two daughters Pauline Nebraska stay with Will Jansen. Martin Mudrow Beatrice spent Sunday with home folks.
The first announcement of glycerin’s discovery came from Karl Wilhelm Scheele in 1777 who called it the sweet principle of fats and named it oelustis. Subsequent work by Chevrelu Chevreul Berthelot and others refined glycerin for use in industry medicine and the arts while Scheele also uncovered tartaric acid chlorine baryta arsenin and the green pigment known as Scheele's green.
A doctor discarded a $6,000 radium tube that mixed with bandages sent to the furnace. An expert traced glowing zinc sulfide in the cellar as lights failed, locating the radium among the ashes. The tube’s luminescence made the discovery possible and the doctor vows greater care.
A 19th century account describes Egyptian wedding customs with the bride carried on a camel to the bath, women only entry, musicians and storytellers, and a Moorish practice of fattening brides by feeding bread. The bride is escorted in a whitewashed cage to the groom’s home, and a roof-placed discarded box signals the start of visiting friends after a two week honeymoon.
Sugar moved from India to the New World as an early import while cocoa beans traveled to Europe where chocolate was made. Montezuma, aztec king, is described as drinking chocolate from a golden cup.
The phrase Bridegroom stems from early customs where the newly married man waited on the bride and served at her table on the wedding day, earning him the title of a groom for that occasion.
An old Missouri custom tied to marriages gave rise to the expression I m from Missouri you ve got to show me The 1881 law made marrying without a state license a misdemeanor and set eighteen as the marriage age If the groom did not know the bride s age she was shown to the license clerk leading to the remark you ve got to show me Thus Missouri gained the Show Me state nickname.
The world’s total ship tonnage last February exceeded prewar levels by about 10 million tons as afloat. It is estimated that not less than 8 million tons gross register now lie idle.
Fiji Islanders adopt a bold grooming style bleaching thick woolly hair with lime, wearing it in a large mop. The trend reflects local fashion and cultural expression.
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