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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1928
Page
4
Diller church items note Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and St Pauls Ev Lutheran near Diller with pastor H J Diekhoff. Sunday School and Bible class at 9:30, divine services at 10:30 conducted in English. Catechetical instructions Saturday Sept 7 at 9 o'clock. Parents with children to be confirmed urged to send them for instruction.
Sunday School at 10 and preaching at 11 with an 8 pm evening service. A recent social included about sixty people with games and a program. A mixer at the Christian church followed with capacity crowds. Mrs Willis Clark hosts the missionary society Friday. Next Sunday features Thaapare’s can assisted by the choir in a Bible program. A school age guidance talk asks how parents shape moral growth.
The piece reflects on social mobility themes from American history, citing examples from an Ohio washer and her poet son Paul Lawrence Dunbar, a poor printer marrying into wealth, and women linked to future presidents. It connects these to moral lessons about ambition, class, and opportunity drawn from figures like Grant and Lincoln and a railroad apprentice’s ascent.
A fragment from a local page notes pervasive changes fueling new routines. The brief reflects a shift in daily life as old norms give way to common practices, with readers urged to observe fresh patterns shaping the community.
Mr and Mrs Harry W Cozad of Santa Ana and George Rosemen visiting relatives were pleasant callers at the Record office Monday.
Mrs. Chester Novotny died Friday at her home northwest of Odell after a brief illness. She is survived by her husband. The notice mentions local residents and a neighborly scene among Odell families in a small community column.
Mrs. Wa Freitag bruised and skinned her right leg Sunday evening after returning from Humboldt and falling on the cement walk at their rural home. She has suffered considerably and will be incapacitated from her household duties for some time.
Rev Dan Gretzinger Bloomington Indiana and relatives from Scatte Biuffs Nebraska Kansas City and Humboldt Nebraska returned home after learning of the illness of their father in law Mr John Gretzinger who has recovered and is out of immediate danger.
Geo W Mason a former Diller resident died last Friday morning after two illnesses of heart trouble at age 70. His funeral was held Sunday afternoon. He is survived by his wife and two sons both employed as mail carriers at Beatrice post office.
Judge J. T. Moore sentences Avery Halloway of Wymore to 60 days in county jail and a $25 fine plus costs for writing a no fund check cashed at Callan Bros in Odell. The court deems him an old offender and a warning to others. Beatrice seahawas, once of Diller, recently worked for Beatrice Power Co.
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