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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1927
Page
8
The Diller church lists Sunday school at 10 a.m. and morning service at 11 a.m. A 7 p.m. Christian Endeavor program includes the Keystone class responsible for the Sunday school and several special names.
Methodist pastor R M Harris outlines schedule with Sunday School at 10 and worship at 11, Epworth League at 7, and Thursday prayer meeting. Sermon series on Eastern customs begins with Hospitality. Rally Day aims for 150 attendees. program starts 10:45 with prelude music. welcomes strangers.
Otto Bergfelder led a Sunday session with a primary class of many children. The sermon on the prophets emphasized church duties: preaching, teaching, and comforting the sorrowing. Reformation festival is planned with German and American services and a Lord’s Supper. All invited.
The Senior English class studied Macbeth while Miss Larson organized socialized and non socialized recitations. The 8th grade finishes essays on Nebraska weeds and makes illustrated booklets about Miles Standish as the community gears up for a Halloween party on October 31.
Next Friday marks the second edition of The School Recorder as students and staff invest extra time at the Diller Record office. Palmer School of Business president Mr. Will Fry gave a talk to the High School about life as a journey on a highway.
FIRST PRIMARY notes visitors and pupils in a second grade class. H A Thompson visited Thursday afternoon while Robert Maw and Scott Allen Miller joined lessons on the drum with teacher A D Cumpston. Will Fry, Palmer School of Business president, visited Monday morning and discussed push pulls and ovals of the Palmer method, drawing an artistic bird on the blackboard.
Nine year old narrator recalls growing up in Bentonville, Arkansas, describing a square town center with a band stand, nearby houses including Willie Hall and the Armstrongs, a pony riding brother, and a close friend Mary Morgan. The narrative traces the street layout with a ravine, creek, and a wagon bridge in a vivid early 20th century community.
In a quiet quarriescape near a lime kiln a girl recalls helping her father boss workers both white and black. A blast cracks the rock revealing fern-printed stone fossils and a second piece beside it as she hurries to Mary’s house to show her treasure.
In Alamosa Colorado Walter Swope a carpenter avoided serious harm when a $1.50 pocket watch in his chest pocket deflected a rapidly revolving rip saw. The blade cut the watch in half and injured him slightly as he regained balance and jumped back. The halved watch remained as a souvenir of the accident.
In New York city authorities rounded up twenty three boys ages fourteen and younger charged with hitching rides. The case highlights concerns over youth behavior and public order as authorities intervene in a long standing juvenile pastime.
A simple project instructs using a soft pencil to sketch a canary bird. Begin with free hand ovals and simple shapes, add construction lines, then details last. Finish in pen or brush, erase pencil lines after ink dries, color with crayons or water colors. Clip and save these lessons.
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