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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
1
1919 notes report the post office moved Tuesday from its previous location to a new site. Diller university students returned to Lincoln early in the week. Mrs. Maud Hull visited Diller relatives from Lincoln Tuesday and returned yesterday. A carload of salt was just received for butchering at Luock and Habicht.
Dr. A Lynch specializes in general surgery and ENT with an office at Fairbury Hospital 612 5th St Fairbury Nebr. Miss Anna Hill visited her parents Mr and Mrs A J Hill and returned Tuesday to Humboldt.
Sunday new regulations restrict gatherings and isolate individual cases and exposures. In Odell area farmers conducted a wolf hunt covering four square miles with Harry Sailing as head captain and only No 4 shot shotguns permitted.
Mrs J W Fouts and daughter Averil attended the marriage of their son and brother Lieutenant Kenneth C Fouts at Lakota City Nebraska on New Years day. Mr and Mrs Thos Waggoner received a telegram Sunday confirming the safe arrival in New York of their son Grover in the A E F from France.
The Odell Wave issued under new management with James G. Butler taking the reins as J. A. Herman retires. The first issue under Butler’s leadership is described as very credible.
Luther Marstellar, formerly of Diller, wounded in action in France, has reached New York on December 24. He was sent to Camp Merrett, New Jersey, and writes that he will come out all right not a cripple. His parents live in Kansas.
The New Year arrived clear, cold, and calm with a mercury reading eight below. Mrs. Luke Lowe traveled from Burlington to Wymore to visit friends, while Rhue Green visited Lincoln to see his grandmother Mrs. Mary Emerson and other residents of the capital city.
Grandma Depue who had visited a week or two with old Diller friends returned Monday to Fairbury where she lives with her daughter Mrs J E Kerr and family.
Sincere thanks extended to kind friends and neighbors for sympathy and aid during illness death and burial. Mrs John Kuper and family express gratitude. Postmaster J O Blauser moved the post office into his own building on the west side of Main Street a block south of prior location. It will be a very convenient location when we get used to it.
We express sincere gratitude to neighbors friends and pupils who assisted during illness death and burial of our daughter. Thanks also to the Red Cross for their floral offering. Andy Jamison and family.
Word reached here through the Degree of Honor lodge of which he had been a member for several years of the death of F. W. Lohmeyer at his home near Osage Kans. He was an old respected resident of the Diller vicinity and lived on the Starkey farm one and one half miles west of town.
Orvil Strawhacker died of influenza Saturday at midnight. He lived two miles south and three west of Diller on the former Captain Starr farm owned by his father Andrew Strawhacker. Funeral services were held in Fairbury and interment in Fairbury cemetery on Tuesday. He is survived by his wife and one son about seven years old.
John Ku dies at one mile south and three west of Diller from paralysis. Burial at Prairie Home cemetery with St Pauls Lutheran rites. Placards post new quarantine rules by the Board of Health. Red Cross to supply nurses when needed and to accept volunteers to register with the committee led by Mary Miter, L. O. Ballard, and A. Reinhardt.
Nine teen Mable Langworthy daughter of the late Rubert Etn died at C S Caldwell residence in Beatrice on Sunday. Burial followed in Diller cemetery. Survived by brother Colonel Everett of Colorado and by her aunt Will Langworthy of Eltis and Mrs N W Sparke.
John Harm-Kuper born October 8 1875 in Richardson County Nebraska died December 28 at age 43 after 14 years on their Nemaha County farm and 8 children two of whom predeceased him. Survived by wife Sophia Magdalena Dust seven children two sisters three brothers and many relatives with a strong Lutheran faith reflected in verses about Asleep in Jesus.
A letter from Frank notes that Cully will publish next week and that the old board of county commissioners will hold their last meeting next Tuesday.
Kenneth C Fouts and Margaret Bridenbaugh wed at the bride’s Dakota City Nebraska home on January 1 1919. The couple departed for Minneola New York and will reside until Fouts is discharged from Roosevelt Camp Long Island. Fouts, a Benedict Lieutenant, held top athletic and academic honors at Nebraska institutions and served in the army after leaving Yankton South Dakota where he coached agriculture and manual training.
The Prairie Home cemetery association will meet in city hall on Saturday January 11 1919 at 2 o'clock to elect officers and discuss business. The community extends sympathy to Mr. John Jamison whose wife died of pneumonia after influenza, leaving five young children.
The town’s quarantine ends and church services resume next Sunday with morning and evening meetings. The Lord's Supper will be administered during the morning service. Sympathy is extended to the Weddle and Barber families for their loss to influenza. War Activities report due Jan 5 and War Savings stamps should be reported.
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