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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
1
A scattered ad and notice page reports a Sunday post office schedule, a newborn to Higgins family, shell rice popcorn priced at Sc per pound, land fencing with no hunting, a Twin cylinder Excelsior motorcycle for sale, and a Thanksgiving service in the M E church. Additional items mention travels to Omaha, a car ride, and a fall injury to Mrs Bray with elbow injury.
Mies Marie Stotts returns from Manhattan Kan to open a home giving with her parents Mr and Mrs A D Stotts at the Colman House.
J C Morehead who lives on the Madder farm about four miles northeast of Diller will have a public sale on December 1 near Salem Nebraska. See bill in this paper for further particulars.
Will Am s acquires the remaining child interest in the old homestead of Mr and Mrs C Amos in Gage County Nebraska The 80 acre tract sits near the old homestead and was valued around 9000 dollars or about 112 60 per acre The buyer views current farm prices as favorable for the purchase despite high costs of production.
The Diller schools closed for a vacation yesterday. Families were told to bring children next Saturday for school pictures. Mrs. J. Smith Diller returned Monday from visiting relatives in Lincoln. A child near Ellis suffered peritonitis last Friday. Miss Cleo Dixon, a Diller high school teacher, was called home to Bethany due to her brother’s illness, who died Sunday. Mrs. Henry Eastwood of Liberty Neb and Mrs. Marsh of Wisconsin visited Diller relatives over Thanksgiving.
A general notice from H. E. Grape watchmaker and jeweler asks those who owe him for repairs watches or jewelry to settle accounts to pay his debts. The appeal emphasizes the need to raise funds.
E. L. Light, Central Grains Co's grain buyer at this station, receives a promotion and leaves today for Morrill Nebraska to oversee the elevator there. A. L. Trist will manage the station here temporarily. Light will not move his family from Diller until school closes in spring.
John W. Mathias installs a sign across the road half a mile north of town to show the direction and distance to Fairbury and Wymore. The device aims to aid auto parties traveling through the country and is touted as an innovation worth emulation.
Mrs C A Reinhart spent Saturday afternoon with friends in Odell. No hunting allowed on my farm or on Mrs W Starkey s land which I am farming. Dr Jos Bixby and Mrs Geo M Bixby of Geneva Neb spent Thanksgiving in Diller with Mr and Mrs Hartzell and Mrs Martha Diller. Grace Myers home from University Lincoln with friend Eythe Wrigley for Thanksgiving.
Miss Bernice M. Dickson a Walnut Iowa high school teacher of domestic science and English arrived on the Rock Island train early Thursday morning at Fairbury. She was met by her parents Rev John W Dickson and Mrs Dickson in an auto and conveyed to their home in Diller where Thanksgiving day joyously observed and a turkey dinner devoured.
Dr. L. A. Powell of Adams Nebraska and his wife announce they will visit their son Percy in Topeka Kansas tomorrow and then spend the winter in St. Petersburg Florida. An Omaha physician will handle his Adams practice during their absence and they invite the Record to accompany them.
At Mr. and Mrs. F Hartzell home a Thanksgiving Party for K. K. K. members featured decorative rooms, a vegetable relay game, and reels filmed by visiting actors. The event announced plans for the year nineteen seventeen and noted bachelor members finding companions. The group ordered a feast with turkey and cranberry sauce served promptly amid festive spirits and piano accompaniment.
Notice lists hog butchering dates Tuesday and Friday with contact 160. H Z Diller. A price 85.81 is noted. Missus Henry Brand returned Sunday from visiting her daughter Mrs Charley Hilder and family at Wymore.
Mrs. Grace Gemeny and her niece Bessie Copeland traveled Tuesday by the Burlington route to visit sister Mrs. Maude Hull in Lincoln.
Miss Alma Zook arrived Wednesday from Lincoln to spend Thanksgiving with her sister Mrs. J. Thompson and other Diller relatives and friends.
Orvil Cherry returned Monday from Canada where he worked during harvest and threshing time and is now at his parents home. Chas Adams and family moved from Rock Creek to a new house built for him by C L E Blauser on his home farm. Adams will work for Blauser next year.
Mrs Robert Steiner travels from Diller on a Saturday visit to her daughter in Wymore and her mother in Alliance. She plans to join her husband in making their home at Blue Island Illinois where he has a railroad position.
The Methodist ladies announce an annual bazaar supper and social in the church basement on Saturday afternoon and evening December 9. Supper will be ready at 5 o clock. Many articles for Christmas presents will be offered for sale. Everyone is invited.
The Board of Education will hold meetings at the school house on the last Friday evenings of each school month from September to June at 8 p.m. Meetings are open to the public and attendees may suggest topics. B. FE. Lightner, Secretary.
A Methodist church invites all to worship with Sunday services on December 3. Sunday School at 10 a.m. Epworth League at 6 30 p m. Missionary lesson led by Rev Carmony. Evening preaching at 7 30 with the theme Feeding on Ashes. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Study Rev 2 1 17. All welcome.
The notice calls all members to attend the November 26 schedule with 11 AM preaching and 6:30 PM Christian Endeavor. Evening preaching follows at 7:30 PM with a Real Gospel service and a strong invitation to join in covenant fellowship and shared joy.
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