Coming Events and Local Notes Preview Week
Festival dates list: Fairbury Beatrice Diller and State and county fairs from August to September. Dr Fellers dental card to appear next week. Weather hints of cooler season ahead. Railroad crossings warnings possible as season changes. Bell Seibolts Albers travel to Big Springs Nebraska for harvest work.
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Raliegh Bell
Merle Seibolts
Dick Albers, Jr
Big Springs
Nebr
Earl Snyder
Guide Rock Visit Reflected in Local Notices
Cedric Fanders drove to Guide Rock and returned with his wife and children after a short visit with her parents. The village board reviews next year’s expenses and publishes the appropriation ordinance in this week’s Record. Ed Kielsmeir and a Milwaukee friend visited his uncle Aug Engleman north of town and were in town Monday.
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Cedric . Fanders
Guide Rock
Ed. Kielsmeir
Milwaukee
Aug. Engleman
Family Visitors From Fairbuay and Lincoln
Mr and Mrs J D Fanders visited from Fairbuay after Grandma Senior arrived with her sons John and Theodore as they traveled to Colorado. Miss Mabel Jackson and her nephew and niece Edward and Mary Ebey of Lincoln visited sister Mrs O J Mayborn near Odell and returned home Tuesday.
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J. D. Fanders
Fairbuay
Grandma Senior
John
Theodore
Colorado
Mabel Jackson
Edward and
Mary Ebey
Lincoln
O. J. Mayborn
Odell
Fraternal Picnic Boosters Hit Numerous Nebraska Towns
Booster groups posted bills in Steele City Shea Endicott Fairbury Jansen Harbine Ellis Beatrice Blue Springs Wymore Odell Lanham Hanover Hollenberg promising attendance. Mr and Mrs W C Line hosted a noon dinner last Friday with Rev F G Knaver and family of Steele City and Rev Albert G Heyhoe. Knaver once led Diller Presbyterian, now Steele City pastor, Heyhoe leads Diller Federated Community church.
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Steele City
Shea
Endicott
Fairbury
Jansen
Harbine
Ellis
Beatrice
Blue Springs
Wymore
Odell
Lanham
Hanover
Hollenberg
W.C. Line
F. G. Knaver
Albert G. Heyhoe
Knaver
Diller
Diller Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church
Rev Heyhoe
Lincoln State Journal offers two month trial at 50 cents
The Lincoln State Journal runs a two month trial for 50 cents, with the Sunday paper at 75 cents. Matt and Jeff join the comics daily and color pages appear on Sundays. The Journal promises timely delivery on rural routes the same day as printing.
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Lincoln State Journal
Matt
Jeff
Journal
Sunday Journal
Lincoln
Mower theft note leads to barter offer after loss
In a brief note D V Fanders reports a mower thief will be called and offered the roller as compensation. Emma Glathar returns from a Lakes Okaboji vacation with Alma Nebraska relatives visiting. John R Maddox long time Carpenter Co salesman dies suddenly while seated at a Crete hotel.
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Emma Glathar
Lakes Okaboji
Lowa
Alma
Nebr
John R. Maddox
The
Carpenter Co
Omaha
Diller
Crete
Shorty’s Garage Advertises Auto Repair on North Main
Local shop Shorty’s Garage on North Main Street offers auto repair and new parts for all cars. Customer service emphasized by C. E. Piveral with a promise to treat customers right.
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Shorty
North Main Street
C. E. Piveral
Peru Normal visit and city hall Fraternal picnic plans
Dale Bugbee visits his parents in Peru and plans to enroll again at Peru Normal this fall. The village board will open city hall on both Fraternal picnic days to serve as a rest room for ladies and children with the Woman's Club helping. A Hildreth girl found and copied an old love letter from her father and signed a man’s name to it. A local driver complains of noisy early morning engine roars and reckless driving near a church, calling for restraint or jail.
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Dale Bugbee
Peru
D. A. Bugbee
Dale
Village Board of Trustees
Woman's Club
Hildreth
Hildreth Tahaneee
25th Annual Picnic at Diller With Varied Entertainment
The 25th annual fraternal picnic will be at Hartzel's grove in Diller on Aug 10 and 11. Musicians include Pawnee City Military band and Jubilee singers from Omaha. Governor McKelvie to speak Thursday afternoon. Other acts feature Teddy Bros burlesque wrestlers, Ethel Evans readings, Green sisters singing, a children's chorus, violin by Audrey Diller, a Steele City D. of H. drill, Hamberger vs Fyfe wrestling, baseball, movies, rides, and lunch stands.
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Ethel Evans
University Place
Green Sisters
Diller
Audrey Diller
Steele City D
Hamberger
Plymouth
Johnnie Fyfe
Hartzel’s Grove
Nickel Drop Creates Pay Phone Boom
A hundred million nickels were dropped by Americans into pay station telephones last year. The telephone remains a marvelous invention, though its ubiquity makes it seem commonplace and novelty quickly wears off.
Baseball Nonsense Inning Ends With Wild Plays
The line up features odd nicknames at each position with Egg as umpire and Cigar walking Board. Song hits, Saw dust fills the bases, Soap clears the plate, Bal loon pitches and Ice is struck by a ball before Lightning finishes the game with six strikeouts. Lunatic is called out for leaving the base. Bread loafed on.
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Cigar
Egg
Song
Cherry
Lunatic
Picnic crowds plan ice cream and soda supplies
The Diliter picnic organizers ordered 300 cases of soda water and 200 gallons of ice cream from Roy Scoggin at Cocoa Cola Bottling Works. The items will be delivered to Diller in five large truckloads. A second note urges fire prevention as costs drop, urging thrift to restore pre war finances.
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Diliter
Boosters Committee
Roy Scoggin
Cocoa Cola
Diller
Baseball Wordplay Headlines from Osris News
A playful Osris News item uses pun names like Crook and Knife in a mock baseball recap. The narrative notes third and Light out on first, Crook stealing second, Cabbage as manager, Grass covering ground, Spider catching a fly, Steak tagged out, Crock finishing with a strikeout, and a hypothetical shutout if Door had pitched.
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Crook
Cabbage
Knife
Spider
Steak
Crock
Door
Osris
Postal rate figures prompt charge of misrepresentation
The letter from Gering Midwest notes that a mail order house can ship 70 pounds of merchandise for 74 cents into the first and second zones, while 70 pounds of newspaper costs $1.28 for the same distance. It accuses the P O D of lying about parcel post profits and second class mail losses.
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Gering
Midwest
P.O. D
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Diller State Bank
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Fairbury Chautauqua
Beatrice Chautauqua
State Fair
Jeff. Co. Fair
D. V. Fanders
O. C. Diehl
Ononoto
Ner Waggoner Bros
Vol. I
Diller Auto Co
Automobile Owners of
Diller and Vicinity
Dodge Brothers
Diller Auto Company
E. G
Limprecht
V. B. Bell
Nebraska
Beatrice Sanitarium
Beatrice, Nebraska
Clara Rhodes
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C. P. Fall
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