04 Apr 1919
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1919
Page
1
Dr G H Newton at Noel volume 2.33 operates as eye ear nose and throat specialist in Fairbury Nebraska. Mrs Nimrod Brandt returned Tuesday from visiting friends at Wymore. Assessor W E Mudge has worked in Pleasant precinct since April 1.
Mr and Mrs A H Colman returned Tuesday from Los Angeles California where they spent the winter months with A D Stotts.
About 15 bushels good yellow seed corn for sale at 2.50 per bin. A J Hutchinson and Dr A Lynch listed with office details in Fairbury Nebraska. Dale Reinhardt Cecil Ellis and Everetta Green visited home folks from Lincoln. R F Starr sold the Enos Rohrbough pasture to Adam Heiliger and Hermann Behlmeyer at 40 per acre. Wm Goeke returned from Sidney Nebraska with daughter Mrs Ed Schnuelle and family.
Big boned Rhode Island Reds prize winning stock offered at 1.50 per set of 15 eggs. Leave orders. Miss Eva Line home from university visiting brother Ensign Harrison Line on furlough until Sunday.
The Diller’s Branch of the Red Cross prepares a large box of new goods for Europe. Anyone wishing to contribute may leave items with Miss L Q Ballard.
The Jefferson County Fair Association bought a twenty seven acre tract just this side of Fairbury to erect buildings for fair use and paid 5500 dollars. New officers elected include President John P Thiessen Vice President Edgar Shoebotham Treasurer Henry Heiliger Secretary O R Jones.
The Record marks the new year and its 38th year under current management. Esq D R Kelly attended a Jefferson County Soldiers Relief Commission meeting in Fairbury on Tuesday. An offer lists purebred single comb white Leghorn eggs for hatching at 75 cents per setting. John Jobman of Gothenburg visited Diller with his parents over Sunday and returned Monday with a car stored locally.
The M. W. A. will meet Saturday evening to install master elect and conduct any other business. The village election Tuesday had 129 votes, about 50 by first time women voters. K. K. Snott and H. Z. Diller tallied 67 and 62 votes on the printed ticket. B. F. Lightner, a longtime resident, died after a several weeks illness. funeral arrangements pending until next week’s obituary.
Three committees representing Diller's Sunday schools met Tuesday evening to choose a common start time. They agreed to begin at 10 30 a.m next Sunday April 6 and asked residents to take notice.
Corp W L Weigel arrived home Monday after discharge from Camp Dodge. He served on the front line in France for ten days before the armistice and spent time in hospitals due to rheumatism from exposure. He will relocate to resume his optometry practice after visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. E Weigel.
A compact Beatrice ad notes Garland over Walker's Dry Goods, glasses that fit. Various local visits are recorded including Mrs. James Packer and son Dewey from Wood River and Culbertson Nebr, Mrs. Ray Colman and Maxine, and Mrs. Sarah Witty’s Diller kin. A piano class forms in Diller with lessons via Mrs. A D Stotts, and Chas H Watt will speak on April 11 in Diller at 2 pm and Harbine at 8 pm on livestock topics.
J D Fanders announces on hand tires and tubes with a 5 percent discount and notes a 5 percent war tax applying to shipments starting now.
Mrs Dickoff will occupy the Jacob Lottman rental on Hilton Street, moving from Lanham. The unit was vacated by Mrs Ray Green who moved into Mrs Grupe's residence.
A reader letter questions fairness in a village campaign accusing men of misrepresenting facts by claiming women were candidates and trying to run the town. The writer argues the tactic misleads voters and distorts political competition.
The statement notes patience for future conflicts while signaling there is no current objection. It reflects a cautious stance during a period of lingering tension between wars, emphasizing restraint and potential acceptance of forthcoming measures.
Miss Louise Upson married Charles Arnold of Inavale Nebraska at the bride's mother's home with Rev. R W Pruitt officiating. Attendants included the groom's niece as flower girl and Paul Gurney as best man. The couple left for Lincoln then a farm near Inavale.
Mr Wm Wehling and Miss Vena Wilms of the Lanham neighborhood were married March 25 at Marysville Kansas city ceremony details note the couple in this local marriage notice.
Mrs C E Welton a prominent Jefferson county W C T U worker died of pneumonia last Sunday at her Fairbury home. She leaves two daughters Mrs Bernice Creekmar once a Diller teacher in Fairbury and Mrs Inez Jay of Wichita Kan and a son Harry Welton of Fairbury.
Ensign Harrison Line spends a few days this week at his parents home in Diller Mr Line joined the Navy early in the war and went through San Francisco Princeton University where he became an ensign in the pay corps After the armistice he attended a one month course in government insurance at the University of Pennsylvania and was assigned to Great LakesChicago to help service members convert their service insurance into government life insurance He plans to return to Great Lakes Sunday
W. A. Cherry visited his mother and other relatives at Endicott on Tuesday. Mrs. H. T. F. Davis and daughter Elizabeth returned Tuesday from McDonald Kansas where they visited with her brother and family.
Clarence Renz came back Monday from Casper Wyoming where he sought homestead funds but found the desirable claims in the area already taken.
Mrs. Gladys Pavey is staying with her parents Mr and Mrs Sam Freeman north of Diller while Ohiawa schools close for a flu outbreak.
Sunday school at 10 a m new time and morning service at 11 a m. Choir practice is at 8 30. A Lenten service is scheduled for Friday the 4th.
The Sunday school will begin at 10 30 next Sunday as a compromise between times. The pastor plans to be at Rock Creek for the morning service and in the evening Rev Joseph Pope of Montana will speak on Safe-guarding Democracy. The event is a mass meeting under the National AntiSaloon League. a large audience is hoped for from far and near.
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