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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
1
A promotional notice urges Nebraskan readers to trust banks over keeping money at home. It touts the Depositor s Guaranty Fund and timely interest on deposits as advantages, contrasting old habits with safe, formal banking.
Miscellaneous notes from Fairbury and nearby areas include open Saturdays for photos, a 36-31 score line, trips to Lincoln, pasture requests, beper priced corn pop, Dr. Vieira, Buick Six details, hunting bans on land, planned butchering days, shelling corn, landowner notices, and a remark on the unusually harsh winter with recent snowfall.
A damaged OCR fragment references Mrs Oaks and Mrs King and cites an unclear topic. Names appear amid garbled text with no coherent event or date.
Mies L C Ballard advertises Kodak gifts for Xmas at Shutt Drug Co. A 68 dollar Kimball piano is for sale through Frank Brown of Diller. A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Orvil Rindle near Willer. Three Saturdays left for Christmas photos. Walter Matthews of Burchard visited with family. A Magborn traveled to Omaha to buy 122 head of cattle for area buyers.
Black registered Percheron stallion offered by Wm Behrends of Diller Nebraska contact Diller phone 10654. Also report Odell Wave item noting Jas Barry sold burned light plant wire and machinery to Fairbury junk dealers removing it this week.
Mr and Mrs Joe Dunbar of Mitchell South Dakota visited there on Monday and Thursday with Mrs Nancy Clark. Mrs Dunbar and Mrs Clark were Vid schoolmates and had not met for thirty six years.
Ethel Estelle Picture files for divorce in district court citing repeated insults and alleged spousal abuse by Walter Ray since their marriage on September 24 1914. She seeks alimony and support alleging ongoing neglect and incitement of domestic strife.
The clipped items report F Hartesh traveling to Denver to seek cattle for near town feed yards and John Cherry completing an 1842 ft hog house with 25 windows at his farm 33 miles northeast of Dilfer. Also noted is Mrs Diehl of Fairbury and Mrs F A Barr of Lacon visiting relatives of Dr C C Diehl and a death of Mrs Stewart near Harlan Kansas on Nov 6.
The record lists December basketball games including Fairmont versus Diller on December sixteen and Dillér versus Fairbury on December twenty two with early matchups noted. It also mentions school absences due to sickness and student activities from primary to senior classes at the local school.
Bible school at 9:40 forenoon. Union Christian Endeavor at 7:30 pm. Preaching at 11:00 am and 7:30 pm. S. J. Epler of Fairfield will preach for us. Come.
Church announces Sunday December 17 services at 10:00 a.m. Sunday school 10:00, Epworth League 6:30, hymn and sermon 7:30 on Human Anxiety and Divine Care. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 p.m. All Christians invited. Sunday school exercises Saturday evening December 23.
The Methodist ladies fair and supper brought in a little over 100 dollars and they thank everyone who assisted in making it a success.
Mrs Mary Miller had the Washington Marble Works erect a fine monument at the grave of her late husband P B Miller in Prairie Home cemetery Monday. Mr and Mrs C L E Blauser entertained at dinner last Sunday Gen and Mrs John C Hartigan Mr and Mrs Chas Denney and Don Herald of Fairbury and Mr and Mrs Ernest Habicht and children
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