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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1916
Page
1
Inquire at the Record office for rental. Rye for sale. Jofan Fanders, S miles south of Diller Steele City. St. Miss L. C. Ballard was called to Pairburye Mounday due to her father Alex Ballard’s illness.
Dora Wohlfarth returned Tuesday from visiting relatives at Byron and Chester. Revival services at Fairbury led by circus evangelist Jimmy Delk will close next Sunday.
Mrs. Bray from Missouri is visiting at the home of her daughter Mrs. Newt Hays with other relatives and friends.
Mr and Mrs Reed of Wymore visited Tuesday evening with their daughter Mrs W J Frisbie and family and returned yesterday for a brief family gathering.
Dr. A. F. Steffen of Topeka Kansas arrived last Friday for a short visit at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Steffen.
Mrs. Fred Garrels and two sons, formerly of Diller and now in Hanover, Kansas, visited friends in Diller last Friday. C. A. Reinhart has considered Elias Hadley’s lot and a half between the residences of W. Line and W. Hf. Schmuelle for possible purchase.
Mr and Mrs Red Eastwood and Robert Eastwood and their families traveled to Liberty Nebraska on Monday and attended the funeral on Tuesday for their brother-in-law who died of blood poisoning in a hospital in Wee City.
Marshall Lonnon and his wife with three children arrived by car from Colorado Springs. He holds a good position with a mining company and will spend two weeks visiting his parents Mr and Mrs J P London and other relatives in Diller and surrounding area.
A Sunday meeting in Fairbury nominated a candidate for the 15th senatorial district. The district includes Jefferson and Thayer counties. A committee of two Democrats two Republicans and one Prohibitionist was chosen to select a candidate and report within a week.
Peter Rosenbaum offers a stall room for two horses for rent. A draft colt, three years old, described by S. C. Hutchinson. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Powell visited friends at Wymore between trains on Monday.
Mrs Gee Andrews of St Joseph Missouri has visited old Diller friends since Friday. C L Waggoner departed on an early Sunday train to attend a trap shooting tournament in St Louis.
Mrs J Smith Diller and Neal Diller traveled to Lincoln on Monday where Neal was to undergo a tonsillectomy.
Geo M Myers came back Tuesday evening from Sabetha Kansas where he took his wife last Friday for an operation. He reports Mrs Myers is getting along nicely.
The Fremont school board approved its annual levy assuming Nebraska goes dry next fall. It did not consider the $7500 revenue currently derived from liquor licenses each year.
Miss Gertrude Lambert returns to Guide Rock Nebraska after visiting her sister Mrs Cedric Fanders and relatives at Endicott where she holds cases on the Signal.
Mr and Mrs J S Strasser and daughter Florence of Wood River Neb arrived Monday in their Studebaker car to visit their son in law and daughter and brother in law and sister Dr and Mrs H Bauguess.
A highwayman hidden behind a maple tree at the City park corner robbed Emil Tarnow, a Diller barber, Sunday night, taking about eight dollars before fleeing toward the stockyards. Tarnow and Fred Polak chased but could not locate the assailant.
Beatrice city papers report Nebraska Gas and Electric Co offers 4 cents per kilowatt to Plymouth parties for current via Beatrice switchboard or 6 cents to Plymouth for line build to Beatrice. The company would also light Beatrice streets at 24 cents per kW for businesses 7 cents for residences 94 cents for homes, and seeks to extend to Diller and other towns. A village meeting may be held to pursue a Beatrice connection with similar terms.
Nearly one hundred teachers attend the week long institute in Fairbury. Miss Bessie Cherry traveled to Angus Nebraska last week to pursue a professional purse. E F Habicht went to Chicago markets Tuesday to procure goods for the Loock and Habicht store.
Several second hand gasoline and coal oil stores heaters and ranges for sale at a bargain. J. O. Blauser.
Miss Grace Myers and Dr. O C Diehl traveled by car to Sabetha Kansas early Saturday to be with her mother during an operation at the Sabetha hospital and returned the same day.
Mrs Nellie Miller and her son Kieth departed Tuesday for Fullerton California accompanied by her parents Mr and Mrs W N Sparks who travel for the benefit of Mr Sparks health in the move.
Members and all interested are asked to convene at the city hall this Friday at 8 o clock to organize the entertainment program for the coming season.
The opening of the school is postponed one week due to the Cavett and Qeer contractor delay on the new addition. Renovations include dipping seats, re staining floors, cleaning walls and blackboards, and a new superintendent candidate is being sought after the previous one resigned for health reasons.
Miss Nellie Man visits relatives in Lincoln. Louis Oaks of Brownsville Texas visits his uncle Os Oaks. Os Mathias resembles Barrium's fat baby after a bee sting near his eye. The Burlingon offers a Lincoln state fair excursion on Tuesday Sept 5 leaving 6:45 p.m. and returning 7:45 p.m. John Bell and Rhue Green depart for Aurora to attend the Hamilton county teachers institute. Twin cylinder Excelsior motorcycle for sale. C J Waggoner, Orval Cherry, Elwood and James Baker head to Canada for harvest. Rev Fitting travels to Colorado Springs to fetch his family. Ruth Wilson, a city school teacher, visits Memphis and returns to Beat Rice.
After purchasing Mr W N Sparks interest in the Diller Mere Co store the firm requests all debtors to call and settle promptly by note or cash. Early attention is urged to oblige the company.
Farmers and others interested in Hog Cholera Control Measures are invited to a county meeting at the Fairbury Court House Nebraska on Tuesday August 29 at 2 o clock in charge Dr S E Cosford who leads Federal Hog Cholera Control Work in Nebraska The plan aims to assist farmers in preventing the disease in several southeastern counties and seeks township representation to form a preliminary Jefferson County organization
Mrs. C. Erhart and her three children visited at the home of her sister Mrs. Lafe Shipman, northwest of Diller. They returned Sunday to their Kansas City Kansas home accompanied by her nephew Louis Shipman who is attending school there.
Presbyterian morning worship and Sunday school, preaching on One Great Christ in Jacob's Life. Union Young People's meeting at 7 and Union service at 8 at the Christian church. Evening closes summer union meetings. Call for renewed vigor and united spiritual and financial effort.
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