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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1914
Page
1
Local ad notes Round Oak stoves at Blauser's while warning of a Saturday sale deadline. Community items mention plans for visits, weddings, and family travels including Elk Creek and Beatrice. Neighbors share brief updates on health, carpentry, and borrowing funds in a bustling town notices style.
Blue birds seen this week and meat market tips with hickory smoke. D. of H Kensington to meet Mrs G B Pearce Saturday afternoon January 31. A son born January 19 to Mr and Mrs Garfield Nida formerly of Diller now north of Fairbury. Mr and Mrs E L Loock returned from visiting daughter Mrs E R Henrichs at Gilead. Mrs Arthur E Price in Fairbury this week with sick mother Mrs Nelson hospitalized locally.
Mrs F E Hale came back on the early train last Friday from Blue Mound Kansas where she was called by her mother's illness and death and burial while she was there. Bertha Fishwood started divorce proceedings against Wm Fishwood in Fairbury district court on the 17th. The Fishwoods live half a mile north and two west of Diler. Mr and Mrs A J Keyes visited Omaha with grandson Arthur E Price and wife before driving home to Topeka Kansas.
The report mentions alfalfa hay for sale. F. W. Frisbie, Fisher Musser and a Fairbury friend visited here between trains Sunday. Rex Green moved back from Beatrice and will live in the Showers building and buy produce for Swifts. Mrs. Jos. Girard renewed the Record for her son Taylor Girard in Lexington Oregon. Mrs. Earl McMullin returned from Washington Kansas and visited Havelock.
R F Starr received a telegram from Cisco Texas about his mother’s decline and he left Fairbury that evening. The Diller Vol Fire Co held its annual meeting in the city hall on Monday electing the same officers for another year. They then played basketball and ate oysters, keeping the organization ready for any call.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Foster return home Tuesday evening after a three week stay in Webster City Iowa where Mrs Foster underwent an operation believed to be successful and she is rapidly recovering The Fos ters formerly lived five miles south of Diller Odell Wave
All persons knowing themselves in debt to Mrs. E. B. McClay will please call and settle with Miss L. O. Ballard on or before the 2nd of February. Thank you for your kind treatment and liberal patronage while I have been in business here.
An advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle natural solution for bowel troubles. It claims to stimulate regulate bowels and tone the system with a 25 cent price. Distributed by H E Bucklen & Co Philadelphia and St Louis.
At the First National Bank of Diller annual directors meeting a resolution accepted the Federal Reserve Act terms and sent notice to the Washington Organization Committee. The new Currency Law is seen as favorable to small banks with most national banks and many trust companies likely to join. The eight regional banks will place a regional hub in Kansas City or St. Louis.
Mrs Fannie Wirtsbaugh had visited here with Miss L O Monday and traveled to her home in Lincoln in a noted social mention.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick, who had been summoned from Pawnee City due to her mother Mrs. Kaylor's illness at the home of her daughter Mrs. Thos. Tucker, returned Monday as the mother showed notable improvement.
Mrs Eliza M Starr of Diller died in Cisco Texas at 7 15 Tuesday evening after pneumonia contracted while visiting her son W B Starr. She will be buried Saturday in Richmond Indiana beside her late husband Capt J W Starr. All children including R F Starr and Mrs J C Stucker were with her at the end.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain cough remedy as superior for coughs and colds, claiming it is pleasant to take, free of opium or narcotics, and always cures, with Shutt Drug Co. as the seller.
Presbyterian church notices list morning session on January 25 1914 focusing on advance and peril to the nation with Jeremiah chapters 22 1 5 13 18 amid a home mission meeting. Evening service centers on the spirit of true service.
Unclear OCR fragment shows Thursday pricing notes and selling price references with fragmented vendor terms. Provides little verifiable detail on items, quantities, or entities.
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