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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1916
Page
1
Miss Minnie Clausson returned Tuesday evening from attending pworth Assembly at Lincoln.
Miss Eunice Diller of Pittsburg Kansas visits relatives for a picnic. Mr and Mrs B C Burkett from Odell come to see their daughter Mrs B F Lightner and attend the picnic.
Mrs Chas Riley and Miss Lorena Lyodd of Fairbury spent the weekend visiting Miss Gertrude Diller and other Diller friends.
Mrs Sarah Warthen came home Saturday after a two week visit with her sons and families in Beatrice Kansas and Washington Kansas.
A local ad notes a combined dish pan and drainer is for sale at 75 cents, previously priced at $1.50, listing J. O. Blauser as seller.
Mrs Anna Ticnor and her daughter, moving from Colorado to Burchard Nebraska, stopped Wednesday to visit her brother E S Dunn and family. Miss L O Ballard, after a short vacation spent at Epworth Assembly in Lincoln and shopping in Omaha for her store, returned home Tuesday evening.
Ouke Franzen Allen Nelson Scott Miller Emil Tarnow and rank Cully traveled to Omaha on Thursday and returned Friday with two Allen cars. One car was purchased by Allen Nelson and the other by Frank Cully.
Mullen of Baltimore Maryland arrives Monday from Denver after travels in Kansas and Colorado and stops to visit his uncle I D Steiner and cousins C E and Cal Waggoner and families in the area.
The Tristman party reached Dil r Tuesday evening after a hundred mile drive on the return from Yellowstone National Park. They report a delightful time despite several days of rain. They returned via Colorado Springs and Belleville Kansas and recommend that route to travelers to Colorado. Abe reports the western Kansas corn crop as dried up.
Miss Ida Sandman of Fairbury was a Diller visitor Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Folley Fanzen and baby of Deshler visited Diller friends Sunday.
Rhue Green came back Friday from Kearney where he attended summer school at the State Normal.
John Cherry visited a thousand acre ranch in Keya Paha county last week and considered a potential trade. The encounter suggests possible plans to exchange land assets in the region.
Miss Louise Sturdevant of Grand Island, a former Diller schools teacher, arrived Tuesday and is staying as a guest of Mrs. Martha Diller.
The Record appeared on Wednesday instead of Thursday due to picnic day observance in Diller. No workers were available that day, affecting the usual publication schedule.
E S Dunn Claude Dunn Ouke Lottman and Henry Weemers accompanied S C Hutchinson to Fremont on Monday to view a tractor demonstration. The group returned Wednesday evening.
A group of young people gathered for an early Saturday breakfast at Hartzell's Grove. The event honored Mrs. Chas. Riley and Miss Lorena Dodd of Fairbury and Miss Edythe Wrigley of Lincoln, recognizing their local presence.
Miss Inez Cully, who had stayed a couple of weeks with her uncles J. A. and C. T. Cully and other Diller relatives, departed Monday to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cully in Seymour Missouri. She teaches in Sapulpa Oklahoma schools.
Joy Reinhart arrives from Washington DC to visit his parents and relatives and is appointed assistant attorney in the U S land office at Pueblo Colorado He graduated from Beatrice and Diller schools and earned a law degree and master's from George Washington University He trained with a Washington coast artillery unit and plans to move to Pueblo within weeks.
Ed. Woods sells cattle in St. Joe market while neighbors head to Westport for harvest. Bids invited for janitorship. multiple residents visit relatives, attend picnics, and discuss crop yields and a seed corn business. An accident at Central Granaries injures Albert Light. others join excursions to Fremont for a tractor demonstration.
Miss Bessie Cherry arrived Sunday from Beatrice with several friends in an automobile. They visited at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs W A Cherry two miles southeast of Diller. She completed last Friday the nurse training course at Fall’s sanitarium Beatrice and will begin work as a trained nurse after a short vacation.
In the Mary Etta hotel parlor at Fairbury on August 8 at 2 30 PM Miss Belle Sparks daughter of Mr and Mrs W N Sparks wed Mr Earl W Atkinson of Lincoln Rev R N Orrill officiated. The ring ceremony featured white Georgette crepe and tea roses. The groom and bride both hold Wesleyan education with plans to move to White Bear Lake Minnesota where the groom heads the high school commercial department. Attending were family members including Agnes E Atkinson F D Miller and Clifford N Sparks.
Church notices outline Sunday activities at the Presbyterian church with morning Sunday school, preaching and communion, a young people's meeting, and a union meeting at the M E church. The note urges strong church attendance and warns that neglect harms civilization. It appeals to residents of Diller to uphold its good name and ideals.
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