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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1916
Page
5
A good gentle driving horse is offered for sale by Frank Campbell of Diller. The item note appears with a phone contact. Also mentions that on Monday Scott Miller visited relatives in California with his mother.
Rev. F. A. Carmony and family traveled by auto to Corning Kansas on Monday and returned Wednesday.
The report notes a January plan in Janesville and Rock Island to close a deal at a bargain. J. D. Fanders is mentioned. It predicts that after the war the cost of British titles for American girls will soar, except for daughters of munition makers.
Mr and Mrs Harry Harris of Hanover Kansas traveled Sunday to call on the ill sister Mrs E L Loock and returned the same evening placing family concern over distance and duty.
Arthur Treick visited relatives in Sidney Nebraska last week. during his absence W H Plager serves as substitute mail carrier on Route 2.
Luella Kriter and about 35 others were stung on the ankle by a bumblebee at the Diller picnic when a nest at the grove's east end was disturbed, Krider news reports from Wymorean.
The teachers institute at Fairbury this week includes several Diller teachers such as Miss Grace Watson Miss Flossie Raymond Gertrude Diller and Benford Bell Everett Green Ray Remley and Paul Beckwith.
Mr and Mrs John L Waggoner and their daughter attended the funeral of Mrs Anna C Diller and remained to visit relatives before returning by the morning train to Meridian Idaho The family traveled from their home for the services and met with kin during the stay.
Mrs E L Loock, suffering from asthma, grew worse Saturday evening. Dr McCarthy of Lincoln, in consultation with the local physician, arrived at midnight with Capt E J Murfin, her brother. They found her in better shape than expected and she has continued to improve since.
C W Jones from Burford recalls a severe diarrhoea attack two years ago lasting over a week. A druggist advised Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. the first dose brought relief and full recovery within two days. Drug gists endorse its reliability and availability.
Earl Rock arrived in Fairbury seeking his mother who had remarried after leaving Thompson. She was confined in Hastings Insane Asylum about a year ago, and Earl had not seen her for 18 years. He traveled to Hastings to bring her home.
A large gathering of Diller young people attended the Fairbury chau tauqua on Sunday evening, joining community members in the event's activities and audience.
Hogs sold Tuesday on the Chicago market at the highest price since the Civil War reaching 11.30 dollars per hundred pounds. The sale signals strong demand and peak pricing for the pork trade in the era.
The schedule for state fair week lists thirty five special trains operated by the Burlington to Lincoln. The service aims to handle crowds attending events at the fair with direct routes and timed departures from main depots.
Harold Smith arrived Sunday from Table Rock and stays with his uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Henrichs and other Diller relatives.
Miss L C Ballard came back Wednesday from Fairbury where her father Alex Ballard is ill after she was summoned by his condition. Mrs Gee who visited with cousin J G Hilder and family left yesterday for her home in Jersey City New Jersey after a visit here.
Miss Marie Stotts, who had visited with friends in Fairbury since Sunday, returned Wednesday to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 2. Stotts, at the Colman Hotel.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Brown and children and Mr Ross Calhoon of Clarindala drove through to visit relatives in this part of Nebraska and were guests Tuesday of Mr and Mrs B F E Lightner.
S. D. Maw received a telegram yesterday informing him of the death of his brother Fred Maw at his Boise Idaho home after a period of ill health. Fred Maw was formerly a respected Diller resident, owning and residing on the farm now owned by F. E. Wolken, four miles southwest of Diller.
Mrs Sidney Simmons of Fair Bowen New York praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy noting her seven year old son was cured in infancy and other family members have used it with good results. She endorses it as a remedy of exceptional merit and says it is obtainable everywhere.
Chris Hickey seeks a decree of divorce from Fern M. Hickey claiming she is insanely jealous and cruel and does not care for the children. He also asks for custody of the three children. The case may be heard when the district court convenes September 18.
Miss Elsie Tinstman leaves with her parents Mr and Mrs A L Tinstman in a Studebaker trip to Yellowstone National Park and back through Colorado. She heads to Orrville Ohio for a new post as society editress on the Courier-Crescent. Her mother accompanies her to Humboldt to visit sister Mrs J C Herwig and plans a day stay.
Mr and Mrs Walter Patton and their baby traveled yesterday to Burr Nebraska to visit relatives.
Ben Behrends arrived back Sunday after a trip to Sidney Nebraska to survey the countryside and observe the area.
Mrs. Alice Leason returned Wednesday after being called from Lincoln by the illness of her sister Mrs. F L Loock.
Mrs Beckie James and her daughter Patsy Diller from Hollenberg Kansas spent Wednesday visiting Diller friends and relatives.
Fred Shutt a Reynolds jeweler spent Sunday in Diller visiting at the home of his brother H. K. Shutt a druggist.
Miss Mary Ellen Tine departed yesterday for Niobrara Nebraska where she will teach in the city schools. She was accompanied by her brother Harrison Line who joined for a pleasure trip.
Several Diller sports bet on a local horse race near Shea, wagering for a $100 purse a side. A sorrel mare owned by Kansas parties faced George Hudson's bay mare and won easily, accepting the bet as a loss.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Caldwell and daughter Pearl attended a Caldwell family reunion at the home of his parents near Harbine with fifty three people present.
Mr and Mrs George Riddle left the Burling on Wednesday for Seattle to visit her brother E S Hayes and family. They plan to tour the western coast as far south as Los Angeles visiting former Diller friends along the trip.
Advice to maintain bowel regularity includes outdoor exercise, drinking a full glass of water before breakfast, eating ample fruit and vegetables, and establishing a daily bowel movement. If medicine is needed, Chamberlain's Tablets are described as pleasant and mild and are available everywhere.
Special trains for the Diller picnic cost about 26 dollars more than they earned this year, with railroad refunds falling short of the guarantee the committee posted. It is the first time in several years the trains did not pay. The committee had debated abandoning the trains due to rising automobile use but kept them this year. The likely result is that the trains will be cut in the future.
The Lincoln Journal offers to mail The Daily and Sunday Journal until January 1 1917 for one dollar. It promotes a fifty year reputation for independence and truthfulness with complete news market reports and baseball box scores. The Sunday Journal features a colored comic and pages of state news and a new serial The Magnificent Adventure by Emerson Hough about Meriwether Lewis on the Missouri. Send a dollar for a trial to January 1 1917 to State Journal Lincoln Neb.
Miss Lillian Wohlfarth spent Sunday visiting relatives at the towns of Byron and Chester, sharing time with family members and catching up on news.
Chas. With and family, living 14 miles south and 2 east of Diller, attended a Feese family reunion on the Blue river near Blue Springs last Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Harlan Hadley rode the early Tuesday train to Arcadia in Valley county for a visit with relatives and friends lasting a couple of weeks.
A Beatrice man offers a crude description of how women swim, saying the first woman steps into the water and squeals, prompting the others to squeal as well.
Miss Eunice and Roe Diller, who had stayed with their many Diller relatives since before the picnic, returned Wednesday to their home in Pittsburg Kansas.
Mr and Mrs J Fanders returned Tuesday evening from visiting their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Fred Stafford at Fairbury who had recently returned from a trip.
Mr. and Mrs. R I Oaks and their grandson Bradford Diller returned Sunday from visiting his brother Peter Oaks and other relatives at Fowler Colorado. They were accompanied home by Mr. Oaks mother May Geo Oaks who will stay here for a while.
Joe Dingman of Webster City Iowa says recurring liver trouble caused pain in his side back and stomach. He tried Chamberlain’s Tablets and after half a bottle felt fine with no signs of pain. Obtainable everywhere.
Emporia Kansas August 15. Robert L Henderson editor of the Admired Star won a dollar in a justice court suit against I L Chenoweth to compel payment of a year's subscription. Chenoweth admitted taking the Star after his subscription expired.
The pumpkin hidden in corn is mocked by farmers and children yet becomes a divine treat when a wife bakes it into pumpkin pie with cinnamon and sugar. The aroma pleases all, including the husbandman and hired help, who bow in praise. You Know It.
There is widespread catarrh believed incurable by local remedies alone. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo claims internal action to affect mucous membranes and offers a $100 reward for any cured case that fails. Also marketed Hall's Blood Purifier and Hall's Catarrh Pills.
For ten days Diller Mercantile Company offers the Oxford and Slipper Stock at an eighty three and one third percent discount. Also summer wash goods sport shirts straw hats and summer underwear discounted twenty five percent.
Pleasant View items recount visits to Beatrice and Fairbury, church activities, and local travel. John Riddle sought hospital treatment in Beatrice. L J Hill and family joined him. Vera Miller visited Hollenberg and Steele City. Miss Flora Robinson arrived from Fairbury to stay with Frank Robinson.
The article recalls Sydney Smith criticizing historic court practice where defense counsel could not address juries, spurring the Prisoner’s Defense Act of 1820. It notes an 1733 order stopping fees for acquitted defendants, preventingNewgate deaths, and recalls a tale of Irish jurors and a final challenge at the dock.
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