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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1923
Page
3
The notice lists Diller Picnic August 15 to 16 Nebr State Fair September 2 to 7 Jeff. Co. Fair September 18 to 21. It notes E. F. Habicht traveled as a Burlington passenger to Chicago Sunday and Alpha Wiemers returned Tuesday from a road trip to Western Kansas.
Mr T L Ewing of Harbine left on Tuesday evening by Burlington for Stratton Nebraska. Diller defeated Harbine 12 to 5 in the county league ball game played here Sunday.
Little Miss Thelma Snell visits her great aunt Mrs. R. F. Starr then returns Sunday to her home in Superior. The item mentions a loaf offered for ten cents, cheaper than baking.
Mrs Velmar Hale and her children returned Sunday from an extended visit with her parents Mr and Mrs E S Dunn at Ft Collins Colorado. On Thursday August third Miss Pearl Diller entertained at 630 a oclock dinner the Misses Beulah Thompson Alice Line and Elsie Wolters.
P F Ratzlaff of the Blauser place plans a move to California and a public case will be held on the 17th inst. Rev C F Innis has returned from Kingston Missouri after preaching for months and will stay through the conference year. The two year old son of Frank Holtmeier near Ellis lost part of a thumb Saturday evening when his hand was caught in grain elevator machinery.
Unable to keep up payments on a piano offered in first class condition nearly new. Anyone can take it by paying a small amount for equity and continuing payments. Interested parties should write for price and full particulars to Lock Box 716 Omana Nebraska.
In Detroit two wolverines prowled near the outskirts before capture by a posse of two police sergeants using a barrel. A possum was also captured at Grand River and Wabash avenues. East of Dearborn Henry Ford’s deer watch traffic from the wooded edge near River Rouge and Michigan Avenue.
Roy Diller reported wheat at 15 bushels per acre and oats at 37 bushels per acre. The Record may be a day late next week due to the office crew planning a picnic. Arthur Rhoden, son of W A Rhoden near Shea, is reported quite sick at home from overheating. A 22 gauge corrugated iron war material stock will be sold. Mrs Mill Fry, upon learning of her mother Mrs Chas Brandt’s illness, has returned to North Platte. Mrs Fanti and two children have returned to Sioux City Iowa after visiting Mrs Virgil Bell.
Mr and Mrs W N Sparks returned Thursday morning from several weeks with their son Chester and family in Perkins county and Johnnie has quit bathing. C A Green came Sunday from McDonald Kans to visit Diller relatives for two or three weeks before returning to work on the federal road being built through that county.
Funeral services for the late President Harding are conducted in Marion Ohio with memorial rites in the Diller Opera House this afternoon. An order of exercises appears elsewhere in the newspaper.
Mrs. R. E. Colman and daughter Maxine of Lincoln expected tomorrow from Arapahoe where they visited relatives. They will stay in Diller during picnic week at the home of Mrs. Colman's sister Mrs. R. W. Green.
A limited number of free tickets are available for Children's Day at the Thayer County Fair on Wednesday August 29. Eligible school children may gain free admission on that date by obtaining a sign-off from the editor of this newspaper. Call to claim if entitled.
The article notes that under English law a wife may defend her criminal husband by any lawful means to avoid justice, while a husband cannot shield his wife and must hand her over to authorities. This highlights a perceived legal unfairness between spouses.
One of Emil Krebs's children dislocated an elbow Wednesday while playing in the yard. Mrs. Fred Webber, visiting at her sister Mrs. Henry Overbeck's home north of Diller, left Tuesday for Byron.
Mr and Mrs Thos P Price returned Saturday to their home in Kansas City after a good visit with relatives and friends at Diller and elsewhere in Nebraska.
The committee has received assurance that the Nebraska league baseball games between Fairbury and Hastings will be played here during the Diller picnic as advertised.
A former Diller boy writes from Denver, describing Colorado weather, tourism, and irrigation driven farming east of Denver. He notes a 5280 foot elevation, a large camping ground for tourists, growing crops near Towner, and improved roads between Denver and Kansas City, closing with best regards.
An aging rat seeks a peaceful home away from the barn. He moves to a pond bank and discovers why the nightly frog concert lures his ears, deciding the new spot is safer than the noisy barn. The tale blends wit with a rural setting and ends with a note on his cleverness.
Prof. W. F. Petrie reports three skulls found in Egypt older than previously known, suggesting a race predating dynastic Egypt. An ivory knife handle shows Mesopotamian and Persian imagery, including ships and a cold-climate figure with two lions. The finding supports theories of foreign origins for Egypt's early rulers. In a separate note, Mies Helen Manning leads a large photostating division in the U S Post Office, known for handling seven bureaus with expert machine work.
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, a World War veteran, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in Washington. He served as a major with the 311th Field Artillery and was cited for his leadership as battalion commander. The piece quotes Channing on duties and rights as intertwined.
The ad argues catarrh worsens when the body is run down and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a local ointment to relieve symptoms plus an internal tonic to improve general health. It credits Fr. J. Mey & Co. of Toledo Ohio with over years of experience.
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