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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1929
Page
8
Ponder School and Bible class at 9 30 and divine services at 10 30 in English. All welcome. No services Sunday Sept 15 as pastor joins mission festival of Rev A Lentz at Cedar Creek Neb. The notice urges brotherhood and dignity in the industrial world.
Rev Wm R Velte pastor announces morning worship and church school on Sept 8. No evening service. Pastor to attend Nebraska Methodist Episcopal Conference in Lincoln Sept 10 16 with Bishop Lute. Discussion of new conference governance to empower laity. Dr James A Crain spoke at Fairbury urging church service to the masses amid industrial change.
W E Ludwick preaches on the danger of letting the church be left alone. He urges Parishioners to attend services and support the church, noting few families consistently neglect church yet face sorrow without ministers, flowers, or choir at funerals.
Zion Lutheran Church eight miles southwest of Diller on the state line hosts an annual mission festival on Sunday September 8. Morning service at 10 conducted by Rev Spielmann Lanham Nebraska. Afternoon service at 2:30 with a German sermon by Rev Diekhoff Diller Nebraska and English sermons by Rev Hin richs Home Kansas. All are warmly invited.
Diller schools opened Monday with 168 students, the highest enrollment in the school's history. Primary room has 24. 22 in Mrs Fanders 3rd and 4th. grades 5 and 6 total 23. 16 in 7th and 8th studying Vitalized Agriculture. Exhibits earned 388 premiums worth 18.15. Miss Shuman urges saving work for the state fair. high school enrollment is 83. School invites all eligible youths to join the accredited school.
Nebraska counts about 120000 farms with 18 million acres of cultivated land valued at roughly 126 dollars per acre. Wheat land totals 3.5 million acres at about 45 dollars per acre, oats barley and rye near 100 dollars per acre, sugar beet land with irrigation at 200 per acre. In Ranger Texas wheat was threshed ground into flour and baked into biscuits in 17 minutes 38 seconds.
Omaha World Herald reports Fairbury editor W F Bill Cramb defends hand set typesetting at the Fairbury Journal. He argues lower costs and reader preference for large plain type justify avoiding printing machines. He trains new printers and notes workers stay long term despite a machine setback years ago.
Carrom Iowa reports Mrs John Hebbers killed her sons Walter four and Leonard two by fire and poker at Halburt home. Husband, a traveling salesman, arrived to find the elder dead and the younger soon after. County officers say she showed signs of insanity before the tragedy. The husband restrained her with a butcher knife to prevent self harm.
A reminiscence recalls youth at thirteen watching the Ostrow gauge railroad project from West Lebanon to Havana. Billy, restored neighbor and seventh grader, plans aviation school for a future career and good pay, preferring air travel romance over college.
The bulletin of the American Association for Old Age Security reports broad legislative momentum for pensions across 25 states with 40 bills. New York leads with ten proposals as supporters push for state financed or mixed funding schemes to provide monthly pensions from $20 to $59 for aged citizens aged sixty to seventy.
North Carolina coast scenes a rising spot for sport as Captain A D Gaskill, owner of a shell island shooting lodge, prepares to welcome visiting sportswomen. For years Pamlico Sound attracted goose duck and brant shooters, with northern ladies joining the season. now a group aims to bring their wives next season if lodging and facilities are provided.
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