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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
1
A domestic editorial urges readers to avoid carrying cash and to use bank safety, arguing that bank deposits are insured against robbery and that avoiding on person money reduces risk of hold ups. It uses cautionary tone about highway robbery.
Chunkwood items mention C E Fairbank and Alf Mayborn. Next Monday marks the shortest day of winter. Alf Mayborn returned from a Missouri trip. Lawrence Madden's son recovers from illness. C L Geer drove to Hardy to invoice a lumber yard.
Hay for sale 1st 2nd and 8th cutting of alfalfa. The defender of the people will continue through 1926, start the New Year by paying in advance. A 39 piece dinner set No 4706 gold decorated Homer Laughlin semiporcelain for $8.30 at Miss Ballard's. Little hops is entertained for the recovery of Dr Birdsell at Fairbury who suffered a stroke of apoplexy Tuesday. Mr and Mrs George Phipps and son Richard Allen of Lincoln visited last week at the home of the latter's sister Mrs S J Thompson and family.
Clark's Cash Produce Market today offers hens 18c, springs 18c, roosters 67c, eggs 31c, cream 40c, turkeys 32, ducks 13. Ten members of the NRC club visited Mrs. Will Amos for a pleasant afternoon with rock and luncheon. Burlington begins laying six miles of new ninety pound rails between Shea and Endicott with a fifty man crew, replacing rails laid twenty years ago.
Dr. and Mrs. Claude Ellis visited Lincoln on a business trip. Eyes examined by Dr. Adams successor to Dr. Garland at 1114 N. 6th St Beatrice. Wagons on sale at Callan Bros Diller E E McCune manager offer. Magazine deal with Record advertised. Henrichs family Creekmar Welton visited E L Lollock home Sunday.
Merchants urge holiday shoppers to visit their stores for gifts and deals this season. Early shopping is praised as prudent with a nod to local retailers.
Advertises purebred Rhode Island Red cockerels at $13.75 to $15.00 and Duroc Jersey male pigs at farmer prices. Mentions Ben Henrichs and Ralph Frisbie residence northeast of town. Separately notes Ralph Frisbie Jr. sustained a sharp nose injury when a hay fork broke. Dr Diehl reports the boy improving.
Diller grain market lists corn 60c wheat 1.50 oats 40c with a special price on 26 inch woven wire 20 rd roll at 7.40. Farmers Store run by Carl Braasch and family nearby in Jansen area seen shopping with relatives. Fresh salted peanuts offered Saturday 19.3 to 6 p m at 15c per lb. Teen’s Cafe advertises two pounds to a customer.
L. O. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Colman of Fairbury were seen in Diller on No. 16 while en route to St. Petersburg Florida to spend the balance of the winter. They offered a 25 percent discount on all imported china including hand painted and Bavarian ware.
J W Fouts advertises wood for Mrs Morrisson at her farm three miles east of Diller. Clear ash and oak from the saw sell for 2.50 per rich mixed ash elm and oak go for 2.25. Phone or see me if you want wood.
Christmas Gift Suggestions provide ideas for vehicle essentials. Items listed include spotlights foot feeds fire extinguishers spare spark plugs dash lamps patching outfits tire pumps and assorted car accessories suitable for all family members.
A heavy sleet Sunday night, followed by light snow, left roads slick for motorists this week as crews monitored conditions and warned drivers to travel carefully.
Mrs. Donald Tincher underwent an operation in a Fairbury hospital last Thursday and, according to latest reports, is recovering nicely.
A car load of southern Gage county eggs departed Beatrice for Tampa Florida on Wednesday. The train carried 700 cases of thirty dozen eggs each totaling 252000 eggs and weighed 60000 pounds.
Mrs Elmo Hadley of Lincoln a former Diller resident sends the Record as a Christmas gift to her sister Mrs Tomu Fordyce in Medford Okla Several others are doing likewise.
The paper notes no rural delivery next Friday and says the Record will print Wednesday afternoon and mail Thursday morning to ensure items reach the office by Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Community members are urged to attend next Tuesday evening to express appreciation for nearly two decades of Dr Diehl's health work in the community. The message notes personal contact with residents aids understanding of their troubles and urges timely turnout before his departure.
Mr and Mrs Roy Edgington and their young son escaped on Monday forenoon when their car skidded down a steep Liberty highway hill west of Paul Beckwith’s, turned over and landed upside down. Roy and the child were thrown clear. Mrs Edgington was trapped under the car and bruised. Local residents urged road repairs at the site.
Card of Thanks from W H Hauver and Mrs Chas Finch asks thanks for about 75 birthday cards and flowers. Mrs Finch, living seven miles east and one north of Diller, was run over by a team and wagon Saturday, bruised but without broken bones. Dr Diehl treated and she rested comfortably.
High pressure salesmen push purchases regardless of desire and firms deploy collectors to extract payment, prompting complaints about coercive methods and aggressive collection practices.
The piece recalls Christmas from earlier days with home made gifts such as mittens cookies and a tin monkey toy. It contrasts past and present holiday joys noting church Christmas Eve events cutter rides and simple dinners as richer memories than modern celebrations.
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