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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1907
Page
5
JB Zook ships hogs and Engelmann moves cattle while various residents report births road work and sales. Farm equipment trains hamlet gossip cover jobs travel and local business ads with notes on telephone toll service and insurance offerings.
Initiatory work at the next meeting of Diller Lodge No. 1668 M W A is planned for Saturday April 20 with full attendance urged. C E Wacoooner V C Frank T Pearce Clerk.
Rev. F G Knauer and his wife and family depart Diller last Saturday traveling via Rock Island from Harbine to Nelson Nebraska where he will continue in the ministry preaching for the Presbyterians. The congregation presented a $15 purse to buy a chair in memory of friends left behind.
B F Buy aot Mra J W Curtis of Stella Neb ix visiting here this week with her sister Mra H 8 Tomemaker and family Have you children Want to teach them to shave Set the ex ample and buy your wallpaper at Neeleys Pharmacy
Hay for sale alfalfa prairie and millet offered at a residence 14 miles north of Diller toward Wilmer. Mr and Mrs Clarence Depne arrived from their wedding trip to Kansas City and stayed with Mrs Depne and Mr and Mrs Jas E Kerr until Tuesday before returning to Gilead Nebraska where Mr Depue works in a drug business.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Diller were seen with friends at Odell on Tuesday afternoon as Seco. tr. Hutchinson issued fire, lightning, and tornado insurance.
Diller of H bE Grappe went to Kansas City Wednesday to attend the funeral of his niece Miss Dorotha Teich who visited here last summer. Neeley’s Pharmacy offers a special paper for every poem and the Degree of Honor plans refreshments for their Saturday meeting with Grand Chief of Honor Mrs Mary Latky expected.
Ellis hosts a Sunday School Convention on April 21 with Prof HS Steidly of Lincoln as the featured guest. All Sunday schools from Diller and nearby areas are invited, plus a church picnic dinner the day of the event. D J Woon, Supt Ellis Sunday Schools.
Two cows saved by B F Blythe 40 miles northeast of Diller. Mr and Mrs Cal Herwig of Hub Bell attended a mother’s funeral and returned home Monday.
H. Z. Dillier buys the Lavelle Street residence from Mrs. Copeland for 725 dollars, with ownership transfer completed for the dwelling where Dillier resides.
Dr Claude Ellis the dentist will not be in his Diller office on Mondays Thursdays and Fridays as he will be out of town on those days.
Ella Slayton of Noland Ark notes the cost of Dr King s New Life Pills at 25 cents for health in a malaria district. The ad claims the pills purge gently and impart new life and vigor to the system with 23 cents per dose. Spear Drug Co offers satisfaction guaranteed.
In a March 1907 note the mail man compares quarterly routes from 1903 to 1907. He reports mail pieces rising from 9 004 to 18 133 with 16 265 delivered and 1 886 collected. Money orders rise from 12 to 77. He urges road improvements to assist mail delivery.
The record mentions historic philosopher Socrates, a modern note about Neeley’s Pharmacy, cement sidewalks being laid on Short street in front of homes of B. F. Lightner W. N. Sparkes and J. E. Copeland. Miss Elsie McManes traveled by Burlington to Beatrice to finish studies at Northwestern Business College.
Advertises Preventics as a candy cold remedy that cures seated colds and stops pneumonia if used early. Dr. Shoop of Racine Wisconsin offers mail samples and a book on Colafree. Sold in 50 and 25 cent boxes by Spear Drug. The rest of the text covers Diller Public Schools teacher contracts for next year with several hires and a reappointment.
An editorial urges readers to unite in promoting their town much like military booming. It compares the impact of coordinated effort by boards of trade clubs and individuals to attract business, factories, and development, insisting collective action yields visible growth.
County Commissioner Alex Shep Herd handles county business in the Diller area during a routine session. The brief item notes local governance activity and administrative presence in the district.
The Presbyterian Ladies Missionary Society will meet next Tuesday at 2 30 P M at Mrs Anna M Diller s. Every lady who has a Mite Bag is requested to bring them as they are to be opened at this meeting.
Christ Kielsmeier urges farmers to bring in cultivators plows and equipment for spring repairs. He advertises 20th century farm derricks for loading unloading and lifting tasks and a lathe for turning and machine repairs. He emphasizes affordable prices and invites inquiries.
Elder W T King, returning from Lomax Illinois, plans regular preaching there and moves his family. He has served the Christian church in Diller for years with satisfaction as minister and citizen. The congregation and townspeople regret his departure but expect a larger congregation and higher salary in his new location. His last sermons in Diller will be next Sunday morning and evening.
A car load of polls ordered by the Diller Telephone Company last December arrived Tuesday. The company plans to use many of them to extend its lines southwestward.
A committee of Diller Lodge No. 133 AOUW drafts memorial resolutions for Brother Frank Bethke. They announce sorrow, gratitude, and sympathy, request charter draping for thirty days, and authorize publication in the Diller Record and minutes entry. Committee signatures include W. H. Hauver Claude Ellis and Frank T. Pearce.
Probate notice states creditors of the deceased Otte Emms will meet the administratrix before the Jefferson County Nebraska county judge on September 26 1907 at 1 PM to present claims for examination adjustment and allowance It also notes six months from March 23 1907 for filing claims and that claims not filed by September 26 1907 will be barred The notice will run in the Diller Record for four weeks prior to September 26 1907 by Co C Boruz County Judge
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