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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
1
Good Friday brings spring rains ahead of Easter. City election set for next Tuesday with local updates. John Lamb recovering from two weeks illness. Various ads note goods and services including cane seed at 2.00 per bit and gloves at 2.25. Hospital visits and travel details mention Miss Olson assisting Mrs Branat and Marie Stotts returning from Manhattan for Easter.
The county and state primary election will be held April 20. Albert Leaper recovers from a serious rheumatism illness. Claude Dunne returned Monday from business trips to Omaha and Wichita. A nurse was secured Monday for Mrs. Chas Barber who had tonsillitis and other ailments.
Ex-President William Howard Taft rode through on the Burlington en route to Fairbury to address the League of Nations with the Fairbury Chamber of Commerce. A telegram invitation drew townsfolk and country crowds by auto from Elba and Steele City. Dr CO Diehl introduced Taft to the waiting crowd on the Pullman rear platform. remarks were brief and he praised the community’s prosperity.
O W Langley, convicted of the murder of Judge Pfeiffer at Cortland, was sentenced Monday by Judge Pemberton to twenty years at hard labor in the Nebraska penitentiary, Sundays and holidays excepted.
Miss Lydia Drullinger has recovered from pneumonia enough to travel Tuesday via the Burlington to her sister's home in Hebron. She will stay there until her health and strength return.
Barn for sale described as 20 by 24 feet with most lumber in good condition. Price to be set by seller.
Purebred Rhode Island Red eggs offered by J. R. Weddle at two prices per setting. Mary Miller arrives from California with daughters Golda and Jessie and visits Sylvia in Colorado for a last leg of three weeks with her family.
Fragmented OCR lists unclear values for a Nebraska related matter. Item lines show numbers 4.25, 2.40, and 1.25 in an incongruent sequence with scattered letters. No distinct names or events are clear from the readable text.
The Young People's Societies of various churches plan an Easter morning 6 o'clock program at the Presbyterian church inviting all to attend.
The Sisk and Carmichael families express gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindnesses shown during their daughter’s illness and death. They thank everyone for floral offerings and automobile conveyances.
Nominations for county officers to be decided at the April 20 primary include Representative 32nd Dist John P. Thiessen and Jas Axtell. County Commissioner Wm Ziettlow and Sovien. Sheriff Frank Tu Chas Purcell and Hicks. County Assessor O K R Jones and Ernest Sheebothan. Dist Court Joe Hughes. County Judge A J Nutzman. State Senator RC Harris. Four delegates to the county convention and party precinct committeemen will also be voted on.
The ex president urged economizing during a reconstruction period and framed making money as a duty. He told the crowd not to spend all they earned as the train pulled away, and the audience applauded, feeling repaid for the encounter.
F Hartzel traveled to Kansas City Monday with three car loads of cattle from local feed lots. Mr and Mrs Will Kennedy and his father from north of Fairbury drove over Tuesday in their new Ford Sedan to visit Mrs Kennedy's mother Mrs Mary Miller who had just returned from California.
A notice announces private sale items including two registered Mammouth Missouri jacks three and four years old weighing about 1200 pounds each, a purebred Percheron stallion seven years old at about 1750 pounds, a Fordson tractor, a straw spreader, two Overland cars, a Dempster grinder with crusher, and a four room house. It also notes John P. Thiessen of Jansen seeking the Republican nomination for District No 32 in Jefferson county, sharing past service as a float representative and highlighting the 1917 Nebraska Legislature reforms.
Mrs. W I Filley traveled to Kansas City Saturday after learning a sister’s child was poisoned by pumpkin pie. The child is reported recovering. Mrs Filley returned home Wednesday evening. Mr Hayworth and Mrs Hayworth plan to rejoin on the 120 acre farm southeast of town, resuming residence there after a sale to Minnesota fell through. neighbors welcome them back to Diller.
Corrected weekly Thursday grain board notes Wheat No 2 hard offer Corn No 3 shelled New oats offering.
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