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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1926
Page
5
A Farm Journal verse mocks domestic science by listing food science ingredients and kitchen details. The speaker asks for oleo sodium alkali phosphate casein oxygen and a thermostat note to speed up cooking as a father returns home.
A clipped rural notices page lists sales and ads including aluminum ware sale at Farmers store, eye and ear throat specialist G H Newton in Fairbury, oats for sale, orange cane seed, kaffir corn bundles and oak posts. Local society items note Mrs Diekhoff ill, Mrs Eva Carr visiting, a lost mud chain, and Easter visits by Mr and Mrs Fasnacht and Dora Mason. Assessors plan rounds within sixty days from April 1.
Local ad notes F A Moon and Son provide quality monuments at reasonable prices in Fairbury Nebraska Est 1886 Also listed are sales of good young mares and horses A J Hutchinson located near Diller and Ellis on the P W F Highway Diller phone mentions K C Fouts and family visiting from York Kenneth Fouts serves as extension agent and York county fair board executive secretary The P T A met in the H B assembly room with a Junior orchestra Saxophone solo piano duet remarks by Beat rice Junior High principal H L Linton and the adopted constitution Three new members signed and refreshments provided by Freshmen girls meeting set for first Monday in May
Mr and Mrs A Mayborn returned Sunday from Shenandoah Indiana where they attended the funeral of a brother in law and stayed a few days to visit relatives. Prof C L Westcott was re elected superintendent of Deshler public schools at a salary of 2300 dollars. Westcott formerly led Diller schools. Elias Hadley looked to rent or sell his Diller residence and now operates a restaurant in Tobias with good trade.
An old parable tells of a large thistle among fig trees. A fig formed on a thistle flower due to pollen transfer, but attempts to transform the thistle into a fig tree failed. A horticulturist’s maxim, Men do not gather figs from thistles, reinforces the moral.
Opal Lyons Briggs Briggs Lyons Reeves was found by her brother Leslie Lyons in Omaha and reunited with her father and two brothers after being separated since age six. A misdated birth claim prompted uncertainties but the family will soon unite in St Joseph along with other siblings and parents now identified. The Kansas City Journal note and local Diller figures include memory of Opal's early adoptions and the extended reunion.
Miss Lillian Wohlfarth spent the weekend at her mother's home and returns Monday to Beatrice where she teaches in the city schools.
Mrs M E Geer, who was seriously ill Saturday, is reported much better as she progresses toward recovery.
Eyes examined by Dr. Adams successor to Dr. Garland at 1114 North Sixth Street Beatrice. Dr. Cecil Ellis traveled from Chester to spend Easter with his parents Dr. and Mrs. Claude Ellis.
Harness priced 45 to 63 cents and leather collars 3 1 2 to 6 dollars. Purebred White Wyandotte hatching eggs culled for health vigor and egg production. Mrs F S Teagarden Odell. Coal cars arriving soon from Moffat lump and furnace grades with stored prices offered by Diller Farmers Grain Co.
A roadside junk shop near a railroad crossing in New Jersey displays a bold sign inviting drivers to take a chance and sell their car, promising to buy the vehicle.
Mrs F B Senior visiting with her daughter Mrs J D Fanders has endured a severe ankle sprain for a week. The injury was reported in Fairbury News.
Mrs. Frances Starkey and her daughter Mrs. E S Dunn visited friends locally and in Wymore and returned Tuesday to their home in Fort Collins Colorado.
Samuel Book Bobst of Humboldt Nebraska marks his 82nd birthday on March 28 and asserts he is Nebraska’s champion resident, having lived in the state 72 years. He served as an early pony express rider on the government mail route to Salt Lake City.
The flu has been thick around Shea but everyone is getting better. Mrs. Roy McCune held a birthday party for her two sons Roe seven and Richard two. The Shea community plans a dance in Wagner's Hall next Friday night. Shea Equity delivered a coal car load unloaded by Earl Johnson and Roy Wagner. Alonzo Specht and son Ralph traveled to Fairbury for groceries.
A teller recalls a humorous town moment at a crossroads store involving Tobe Sagg of Sandy Mush and a young driver racing to a railroad crossing. The punch line questions whether the near miss can be called funny as bystanders express concern for the youths and the danger.
Omaha wholesale implement houses report a spring surge in farm equipment purchases across Nebraska and Iowa with farmers buying more machinery than in several years. The strongest rise is seen in demand for farm tractors.
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