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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
8
A reflection contrasts renters with homeowners, noting renters can move if unhappy while owners endure misfortune. It asserts joy in a printing office over those who abuse the editor, versus numerous readers who borrow the paper without contributing to its upkeep.
A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Lawrence Logan on Tuesday February 13.
Mrs J W Mathias and her daughter Grace came back Monday after visiting relatives in Belvidere Nebraska. Fred Oaken of Odell bought the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of 7-1-5 of Harm Meyer for 2800 dollars.
Mr and Mrs Jacob Lottman and Mr and Mrs Martin Frerichs dined with Mr and Mrs Fred DeBoer last Sunday. A local farmer who delivers produce to Diller merchants notes no error in trading despite traveling a bit farther than to nearby towns.
The Nebraska State Experiment Station maintains a free record of all corn for sale in the state. Any person seeking seed corn can contact the department. Indications suggest enough seed corn in Nebraska to meet the demand.
A Danville Virginia resident credits Br King’s New Life Pills with curing severe distress on the left side previously blamed on the heart. The ad promotes the pills for stomach liver kidney troubles constipation headache and debility and notes a 25 cent price at Shutt Drug Co.
The Village of Diller Nebraska invites sealed proposals for materials to build a waterworks system. Proposals accepted until February 28 1912 at 7 00 p m. Plans and requirements from Village Clerk. By order of the Village Council. Signed J Smith Village Clerk Diller Nebraska gb 13 1912.
Local notice recounts Tom Noore from Cochran praising Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for a persistent instep sore. The ad extols quick healing of sores ulcers and burns. Also notes Mr and Mrs A E Price hosting a Valentine themed dinner with eight guests and playful place cards.
A man remembers a brutal Mason City storm that left him chilled and struggling to breathe. A neighbor gave Dr King’s New Discovery. two bottles cured him and he credits the medicine for relief and pneumonia avoidance. Shatt Drug Co. guarantees the sale with prices 50 cents and one dollar, with a free bottle offered.
The Girls' Ken sington club entertained twenty two gentlemen friends with a progressive Valentine party on February 14. The group visited Miss Elsie Tristina, Miss Beth Gretzinger, Miss Effie Diller, and Miss Charlotte Loock, enjoying games, music, and valentine themed stunts. Refreshments included nut sandwiches fruit salad pickles olives white ice cream with red heart centers cake and coffee. Hearts cupids and valentines decorated each home as couples played heart hunt and other games.
A Valentine party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lightner for the K. K. K. ladies and their husbands featured heart themed decorations, discussion topics, and a Leap Year twist where ladies chose a gentleman for refreshments. Toasts by C. L. E. Blauser, O. B. Hill, and J. W. Fouts followed.
Long list of prizes from the Farmers Institute including best ten ears of white and yellow corn, oats, potatoes, alfalfa seed, and livestock premiums. Domestic science awards feature bread, cakes, pies, and jars with assorted cookware and utensils. junior and school-work divisions announce ribbons and small hardware.
Miss Naomi Weddle and Beat Rice visited Blythe at Diller and near Peru Nebraska and returned Monday. The item praises a mother's risk to protect a child from croup and endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy available from Shutt Drug Co.
The residents of Diller briefly free themselves from factional bickering and praise their town. They emphasize varied opinions yet harmony when decisions are made, then all work together for the town’s common good.
Complete Surprise group of 62 neighbors gathered last evening at the Hemmingers home five miles south of the city to celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary. A social evening followed by refreshments ended with guests presenting a stone rocking chair as a keepsake. The Hemmingers, former locals, still have many friends in the area who extend best wishes for many more anniversaries.
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