The images below show the cover, presentation page, and a sample content page of a book that was "Presented to Irvin Deitle for regular attendance during 1909" it is signed, "Katharyn Keidel Tr. April 12th 1910." This book would have been presented by the Greenville Lutheran Church, because Irvin's father Adam was a lifelong member there.
Irvin was born on April 6, 1899, and eventually started using the surname spelling "Dietle" after a professor who knew something of German spelling informed him that in Germany the name would have been spelled with an "ie" rather than an "ei".
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