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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1909
Page
5
Delbert Stotte and Chester Sparks drove to Beatrice Friday of last week while B. F. Blythe referenced potato planting and a few bred sows for gale sleepers.
A Burlington timetable fragment lists local passenger services No 16 and No 15, local freight No 65, and through passenger No 138 and No 66. It provides scattered timings such as 12 43 p m and 4 50 p m with unclear day references. The text also mentions through connections and daily freight services in a condensed schedule snippet.
Summary of dental figures Dr. Leach and Dr Claude Ellis with travel dates. Mentions Miss L O Ballard and Mrs J C McLay at a banquet on Wednesday evening. Discusses agricultural advice on ground preparation and corn yield. Several local residents, including the Parsons stenographer and the Mathews and Maw families, are noted for recent movements and visits.
The Diller Acetylene Gas Company plans to lay another thousand feet of main in a growing residential district where several new houses have been built in the past year.
The Diller Mercantile Co offers a bargain counter with many ladies shoes sold at half price to clear stock. First comers get first choice.
Diller merchants report a 27 percent advance in flour prices at the mills, with local sacks up 10 cents. First grade now $1.70, second $1.60, third $1.50, driven by higher wheat costs.
Notice warns taxpayers the 1908 real estate tax becomes delinquent May 1, 1909. It urges early payment to avoid rush and notes the county needs the money. Signed by Joan Simpson county treasurer.
A Springfield merchant recalls doctors saying his son had consumption and no hope, then credits Dr King’s New Discovery with a full recovery after three weeks. The ad touts the cough and lung remedy as infallible and safe, with guarantee and trial bottle offered by Spear Drug Co.
Big Granite Supply reports all town drays hauling granite to Jim Groody's Washington Marble and Granite Works. Groody, a leading Kansas shipper, sells large carload lots at low prices and keeps his shop highly equipped. He recently bought four new $500 mule teams to speed monument delivery before Decoration Pay.
Bath tubs lavatories and sinks sold by Pickard and Son. Lace bed set now on sale at the Racket. Also a fine line of ladies underware available.
Harve Pittenger arrived in Beatrice yesterday after a short stay in town on a combined business and pleasure trip.
Odell is described as having a building boom with several residences and business buildings under construction. In local contests, Miss Clara Stark Reynolds wins the automobile, Leo Miller Daykin takes the piano, and Miss May True Fairbury wins the top buggy in the Fairbury Journal voting contest.
Albert Leaper faced a preliminary trial in Beatrice last Friday on selling liquor without a license and was bound over to the district court in a $1000 bond.
Roy Geer struck his hand on a circular saw in Fred Oaken s carpenter shop Monday evening, causing a deep cut and substantial bleeding before he could have the wound dressed.
Alex Bell travels to Lincoln with his son in law Billy Hull to draw his Rosebud land lottery claim in South Dakota. Bell holds lottery number 940 and plans to select the claim he drew.
Any lady reader may request a clever No-Drip Coffee trainer coupon from Dr. Shoop Racine Wisconsin. It is silver plated and prevents dripping of tea or coffee. The doctor includes a free Health Coffee book with his substitute for real coffee. Health Coffee gains popularity for taste healthfulness economy and convenience. Made in a minute says Dr Shoop. Try it at your grocer's via Neely's Pharmacy.
School column notes Harrison Line becomes Athletic club president. Debate asks if domestic science should be taught in public schools with the Literary club to answer Friday afternoon. Miss Katharine Roche to spend Easter Sunday at her Wood River home. Literary club meets Friday evening. School report for March lists enrollments, absences, tardiness, visitors, and punctual pupils across all departments.
The Christian church ladies offer a supper and Easter fair in the Methodist church basement. Customers can bring eggs to the Racket for hosiery, towels, handkerchiefs, napkins, postcard albums and enamelware. An ad also touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring tonic.
Notice calls on each church member to supply an article for the Easter fair to be held in the basement of the Methodist church on Saturday evening, April 10.
Mrs Rose Hart formerly Freeman Hall and her young daughter from St Joe Missouri visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Geo Cunningham and other friends in and near Diller.
The Presbyterian Missionary society announces a ten cent tea on Saturday afternoon April 17 at the home of Mrs. Annie M. Diller. A program on the foreign topic India and the home topic Freedmen will be presented. All ladies are invited.
Diphtheria outbreaks reported around Endicott with the death of J C Grandy's child on Wednesday and Chas Kelley a 12 year old girl on Thursday. The town is quarantined, schools closed, and all public gatherings banned by authorities.
County Superintendent Harriss notes the Diller school board approved full pay for teachers attending the Southeastern Nebraska Teachers Association in Beatrice last week. The entire faculty including Prof C L Grimes principal Katharine Roche and Effie B Diller attended, praised for professional spirit.
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