Local notes and notices from Diller area scenes
Community happenings include funerals travel and visits with relatives births and accidents. Mentions of Mrs A A Bugbee traveling to Missouri for a niece's funeral and a new daughter for Mr and Mrs W H Schnyelle. Also social calls between H K Shutt A L Tristman Mrs Mary Miler and others. Gasoline and coal oil price changes reported along with local road travel and school plays tickets offered.
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A. A. Bugbee
Missouri
Chicken Supper and Farm Fire Reported in Local Notices
The M. E. church ladies will host a chicken supper in the church basement Saturday evening April 30. Everyone invited. A barn on the Garrels farm near Diller burned Friday night around 10. Affects include ten or twelve tons of hay, 200 bushels of oats, three horses, four mules and other items.
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M. E. Church
Garrels
Diller
Editor and party aid discharge from hospital to publish issue
Editor Muth of the Odell Oracle with his daughter and a lady friend visited the Rerold office Monday and traveled to Steele City to assist editor Rengh recently discharged from a Fairbury hospital after an operation to release this week’s Steele City Press.
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Muth
Odell Oracle
Steele City
Rengh
Fairbury Hospital
Doctor Diehl Sees Beatrice Hospital X Rays
Dr. O C Diehl accompanied Mr and Mrs L H Findling to a Beatrice hospital Tuesday where X ray photographs were taken of a gathering in Mrs Findlings car which has troubled her for several weeks. The pictures show no operation is necessary at present.
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O. C. Diehl
Beatrice
Mrs. Findlings
Ice Price Breaks For Self Serve And Delivery
Notice offering ice at 65 cents for customers who self serve and 75 cents if delivery is required. Ice priced at one cent per pound for orders under 100 pounds and 75 cents per hundred pounds for 100 pounds or more. Ice house closed Sundays from noon until night. See L Finley or Sam Thompson. Sam Thompson, Prop.
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L. Finley
Sam Thompson
Fire destroys hay on J W Fouts farm near Diller
A fire last Saturday on Martin Diekman's farm east of Diller burned eight to ten tons of alfalfa and kaffir corn hay after threshing. The blaze began during dinner when the threshing crew stopped. The machine was moved away from the stack, but some seed had not been removed and burned. it was a near miss for the crew.
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Martin Diekman
J. W. Fouts
Diller
Community Notes Include Visits and Play at Opera House
J. E. Copeland and children visited Steele City relatives after trying fresh goods at Miller's. F. J. Freytag and family drove to Havelock for a Sunday visit. A Kirchhoff daughter returned from Byron relatives. Junior class play And Ted Came Back Tonight at 8 p.m. in the opera house. Mrs. T. H. Waggoner and Flora returned from Lincoln after a week with relatives.
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Opera House
J. E. Copeland
Steele City
F. J. Freytag
Havelock
Ted
T. H. Waggoner
Flora
Lincoln
Automobile tire on road south of town notice
John Starr notices an automobile tire on the road south of town and offers to identify and pay for the advertisement. 11 Wm Grune and son, enroute to Humbolt after a thoroughbred bull for their farm near Mahaska Kan, spent Thursday night here with Arthur Grone family. Mrs Warthenne Flora went Saturday to Hanover and tomorrow to Marmora to visit relatives.
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F. E. Hale
Herb Stotts
Hubble
John Starr
Wm. Grune
Mahaska
Kan
Arthur Grone
Warthenne
Flora
Hanover
Tmorland
Seven Year Old Girl Injured West of Diller
The seven year old daughter of John Strain living five miles west of Diller fell Monday and broke one arm.
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John Strain
Diller
Youthful Vandalism Costs Two Boys a Damaged Walk
Two youths from near Diller and near Lanham damaged a newly laid cement sidewalk in front of Mrs. Raymond's residence by making deep heel marks. They paid about $15 to $20 each to cover repairs rather than travel to the county seat. Mayor Shutt and Marshall Copeland investigated the case.
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Diller
Lanham
Called to Her Reward Serena Foreman Steinmetz
Serena Foreman Steinmetz was born near Lancaster Pennsylvania on August 26 1850. She lived in Darke County Ohio Jefferson County Nebraska Endicott and finally died April 22 1921 at age 70 years 7 months and 26 days after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held April 24 at the Endicott M E church with Rev Blough and interment in Fairbury cemetery. Card of Thanks accompanies this notice.
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Serena Foreman
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Penn
Darke County
Ohio
Abraham Steinmetz
Greenville
Jefferson’s County
Nebr
Rock Creek Precinct
Endicott
Havey
Charles
Mary
John H
Diller
Lulu McCreight
Minnie Shaw
Abner
Ida
Steinmetz
M. E
Endicot
Rev. Blough
Fairbury
Electrical hair cutting in France Capitol
In France an electrical substitute for barber scissors is described. A comb carries a platinum wire that heats as current flows. When the comb passes through the hair the heated wire severs hairs at even length and seals the ends like singeing.
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France
How Dike Was Wrecked
A dike near Amsterdam collapsed after heavy rains, undermining the embankment and wrecking a loaded passenger train. At least 50 people were killed and 100 injured as cars tumbled down the bank in a tangled wreck.
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Holland
Amsterdam
Lost French Treasure Seized From Afrique Ship Fire
In Marseille police arrested Jules Carassy an auto dealer as he boarded a train to Paris with 700000 francs in new bills in his suitcase They tied the money to a Dakar bank shipment from the Afrique wreck and noted a 1000000 franc note reportedly stopped before the ship left port
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Marseilles
France
Afrique
Chargeurs Rennis
Bay of Biscay
Banque Francais Afrique Occidentale
Dakar
Jules Carassy
Carassy
Paris
Olor
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Citizens State Bank
H. K. Shutt
Studebaker Auto
Deshler
John Boettcher
Wymore
Mrs
Jack Simpson
Mary Miler
Ben Henrichs
Beatrice Hospital
Ora Miller
Ellis
W. H. Schnyelle
Diehl
Conerius
U. S
John H. Miller
Fred Henrichs
Averil Fouts
Friend
John Ae
Universal Pictures
Anita Stewart
Tee Reele
Tn Eames
Miller’s Iyi
Shutt Drug Company
Diller Opera House
Shutt’s
Farrow
W. E. Willey
Paul S. Beckwith
BASE
Diller, Habka and
Caylor
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