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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1941
Page
8
A 1916 Fairbury council vote denied pool hall licenses while notes recall residents moving to Idaho and selling possessions. The town and region are linked by faded tales of saloons, property visits, and curious incidents from decades past.
Forty years ago Campbell Bros Circus posters spread advertising matter for the Fairbury circus season on April 27. Heaggy Hemminger loses a $100 Knight Templar colt tangled in its halter. Willie Diller, near H Z Diller, was kicked in the head but unharmed. Sixty five packages of illegal liquor were consigned to residents of the area.
Fifty years ago Price Brothers shipped five car loads of cattle and Alf Waggoner one to Chicago. John McLaughlin a well known contractor who graded much of the B and M through Jefferson county died April 6 1891 at his home near Wymore. Mr A Friday said fifty years ago farmers moving to town was fashionable but he never did. Mrs Shively and family moved onto M Wrights 80 south east of town and Mr Wright moved into town. This probably establishes the
Clyde Thaber of near Ellis was elected president of the Gage County Farm Bureau last week. W H Spikler of Dewitt was named vice president, with John Rickers Jr of Odell as secretary and Wm Tialist as assistant secretary.
E. F. Russell of Sweet Home Oregon owns a wagon said to have been in continuous use from 1852 to 1925.
After 37 years underground the Campbell Brothers Circus elephant skeleton was exhumed and brought to Lincoln for display in the University of Nebraska museum. Virg Campbell accompanied researchers to Pawnee City to locate the burial site once more, ending a saga begun in 1904 when an elephant car burned and several animals were buried. The search retraced steps to Frank Sander, the section foreman who buried them, confirming the final skeleton in Fairbury News.
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