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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
4
The Hanover Herald notes a stock company forms to open an $8000 general merchandise cooperative in Lanham. Jas Wertz, formerly with his father in Lanham mercantile business, will run the store, a choice praised as ideal by locals.
A 1919 letter from B F Blythe reports a fire at a home near Allen Kansas destroying keepsakes and a stamp collection. The writer notes they saved bedding piano clothes and some items while insurance covers replacements. He asks for a copy of the Record to be sent to McFarland Kansas and sends New Year greetings.
Diller Public Schools opened again Monday with full attendance and refreshed staff and students. Former Superintendent Smith and his wife visited the high school, joined by Rhue Green and Will Diller. New library books arrived and will be listed once complete. Semester end work starts next week and runs to January 9. New pupils Harriet and Jernice Diller enrolled in intermediate and grammar rooms. Seniors held a New Year party at the schoolhouse Wednesday night with refreshments and chaperone Prof. Domer.
Frank Pearce writes from Hot Springs Arkansas after a 48 hour train delay about local life at the spa season. He notes Nebraska visitors and familiar faces including John Henrichs. mentions health improvements and plans to keep in touch with friends while asking to mail the Record to W E Mudge at 621 Park Ave Hot Springs.
Records from three Leghorn flocks, supplied by the North Carolina Experiment Station for the U S Department of Agriculture, show purebred males raise egg production. Flock 1 averaged 89 eggs per hen, flock 2 88, and flock 3 136, a 54 percent increase driven by male breeding, especially in May and June when prices were favorable.
Beaver City Nebraska Times-Tribune notes McDonald Kansas on the branch line as a booming town with a new high school, two banks, a dozen houses, and a railroad coal project. Wheat shipments are projected at about $1,000,000 this year. Harry Hollenbeck named first police judge, and a restaurant earns $3,500 monthly. Land near town has risen from $400 per quarter to about $100 per acre. Nearby residents from Diller have located land near the coming metropolis.
The London Times notes Persia holds vast oil and mineral wealth with untapped fields near the Caspian region and near Isfahan. Transport limitations hinder heavy machinery import and development, leaving much ore and gold deposits dormant awaiting modern logistics.
The article surveys Persia’s mineral wealth, noting gold dust in river beds near Kermanshah, copper seams north of Isfahan in Nantaz, and coal in Kumisheh and Cardish mountains. It argues modern methods, rail links, and capable labor could transform Persia into a major mining country with feasible, income-producing ventures.
Norris Patley on his Penn Yan farm discovered pink raspberry jam in honeycombs while bees removed contents. Bees had dragged jam from a nearby preserving plant about a mile away, with seeds missing. Swarms of bees and hornets repeatedly invaded the plant this summer, driving operators from the factory.
French public frets as commerce with Germany looms after war. A Lille socialite identifies a Paris department store cashier as a former German officer, who denied his nationality but showed a tattoo of the German Emperor. The incident sparks calls for employers to verify employees' civil status.
The National Tuberculosis Association has started a broad educational drive. A health survey shows about 150 000 deaths annually in the United States and one million active TB cases exist today.
The Farmers Mercantile Co of Shea Nebraska is incorporated to transact a general merchandise business for fifty years from April 10 1918 with capital stock of 20000 and 2000 paid in at start. The company must not incur debts exceeding two thirds of paid up capital. A board of five directors will govern the affairs.
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