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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1921
Page
3
Fifty farmers near the area formed a group and purchased the Jansen equity exchange elevator for thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Other items note a barber's trip to Chula Missouri, optometry ad, a court remark on wives and finances, a Lanham store sale by W H Backeberg to A F Mackie, and newborn kangaroos described as the smallest animals.
A collage of short items notes Fairbury chamber funding a Jefferson county boys pig club, asks whether a divorce was sought by a couple who called each other Daddy and Mother, and mocks inaugurations and Hoover. The piece includes Nebraska banking bill passage, a German for hire joke, and a wordplay exchange about a self consuming meal offer.
A local business office reports solid activity with steady client flow and growing demand. Management notes cautious optimism and plans for expansion in the coming quarters while maintaining service levels.
The Goldenred Highway runs from Nebraska City to Oxford via Beatrice and Fairbury. It features sign posts with G. R. in black on a yellow background and is planned for extensions to Chicago and Denver.
Senator Fletcher of Florida uses a story to show how high living costs hurt people. He quotes a worn citizen who worked forty years and gained little beyond clothes and food. The piece contrasts patient wait in crowds with instant anger at slow phone service.
A 37 page instrument was filed with Register of Deeds Weaver on Wednesday. John H. Krug and Fred E. Krug mortgage $50,000 to Charles N. Hinds trustee for land in Wallace county Kansas. The loan covers three franchises and one contract for electric light and power to Lanham Odell Ditler and Steele City and about thirty miles of transmission line between Hanover and poles wire lines. This marks completion of significant electrical development in the area. Beat Rice Expressa Feb 3.
A grimy individual questions a public bath cashier about bath charges. The cashier offers fifty cents per bath or twelve for five dollars, suggesting a five dollar ticket. The man refuses, insisting he cannot be sure he will need twelve baths at age twelve.
In a fragmentary exchange a character admits fear while another suggests vanity as a remedy. The dialogue hints at social pressures and self presentation in a tense moment.
The passage notes Smifkine gives every girl who attracts his fancy a silk umbrella, and comments that he is something of a refined beau in that social vignette.
The document presents the condition of the Farmers Union Co operative store in Diller Nebraska as of December 31 1920. It confirms assets liabilities and equity including cash accounts receivable and inventories reflecting the store's financial position.
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