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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1922
Page
1
Dr. Claude Ellie took a business trip to Beatrice on Wednesday. Everett Blauner arrived from Powell for a Sunday visit with family. Dr. O C Diehl traveled to Reynolds for a professional consultation on Monday. An irate citizen complained coal prices are a joke. Miss Esther Innis returned to Hubbell after weekend at home in Diller.
A cattle sale by the Di Shipp Assn. includes one car of cattle and other cattle traded. A sale of miscellaneous articles donated for the Endicott M. E. church building was moved from February 3 to February 7 to avoid conflicting with Henry Wiemers hog sale.
Fred Witty and his mother Mrs. Sarah Witty traveled from Wiiets Kansas to bring home their sister and daughter Mrs. R. W. Green who was summoned by her mother’s illness and expected to return Monday after a week or two.
Minnie Wenz, daughter of Mr and Mrs L Wenz living south of town, was taken to a Beatrice hospital Wednesday for an appendectomy. Dr Diebi accompanied her. The operation revealed a very bad condition of the appendix.
The funeral for James Pressnell, killed last week in an automobile accident at DeWitt, was conducted in Fairbury on Monday. Pressnell, about 60, a Rock Island section foreman, is survived by his widow and five children. the family previously lived in Endicott.
At the annual stockholders meeting in Diller last Saturday F W Steffen and A A Eick were re elected to the board of directors. A patronage dividend of 1500 dollars was declared and undivided profits totaled 3259 87 dollars.
John Williamson, a Beatrice area farmer, won first and second prizes plus grand champion for his Hampshire hogs at the Great Western National stock show in Denver. Hog lot averaged about 300 pounds. Williamson earned a top award and a monetary prize.
Dr. Claude Ellis made a business trip to Beatrice on Wednesday. The Methodist aid society sold pies at E. S. Diller's public sale yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Green and daughter Bonnie returned Wednesday noon from visiting relatives at Fairbury and Lincoln.
Frank Carpenter plans to purchase horses in Diller on Friday afternoon February 8. He advertises in the Record and will conduct the sale during the afternoon only.
Miss Van Lew a Diller teacher returned Monday from Lincoln where she consulted a specialist about her eyes.
A local display showcases a new beat cookie arrangement, highlighting flavors and pricing options. City officials note the display aims to attract visitors and boost small business by featuring local bakers and seasonal varieties.
The Misses Alma and Ora Zook of Lincoln spent the weekend with their sister Mrs. H. J. Thompson, traveling from and returning to Fairbury via the Rock Island line.
The D. H. S. athletic clubs postponed last Friday night’s performance of Between the Acts due to several scarlet fever cases in the nearby countryside.
A humorous quip laments a playful Italian laborer in an Americanization class who defines stars as the flowers of the sky, offering a charming alternative to formal jargon.
Dr Claude Ellis and Dr O C Diehl attended the funeral for Dr M F Sigler at Odell on Sunday. Sigler, a World War I veteran, died of scarlet fever at about thirty. He served in training camps and with the medical corps in France. He is survived by a widow, his mother Mrs AR Sigler of Pickerell, and one sister. Burial was in Beatrice’s new cemetery.
In response to scarlet fever in the surrounding community, Diller authorities suspend most public gatherings. Sunday school and churches are exempt for now, and the Farmers Fair supper is canceled as Rex theatre closes temporarily. Caution urged as disease looms.
A clipped line references a birth notice and a private address note directed to Mrs miles north by letter or postal card. The fragment indicates secrecy and a request to sign the frame so the source can be traced.
The first week of the second semester shows unchanged enrollment from the first period with 62 in high school and 93 in grades. The senior class has 12 students evenly split by gender, and scarlet fever outside the community prompts teachers to be extra vigilant. The sophomores enjoyed a social at the schoolhouse Friday, followed by oysters. The physics class studies thermometry and heat, and the Girls Glee Club rehearses for a February 10 program at the opera house.
The text describes an ambitious school program featuring vocal and instrumental performances readings skits and sketches. After a two week rest the team travels to Hanover Kansas tonight for a basketball game recalling a previous big win here. A Beatrice Reserves game was canceled and may be rescheduled.
The Record announces twelve weekly articles under The Cottage Gardener to improve back yard farming. The series covers seed boxes, soil preparation, transplanting, and outdoor seeding with illustrations.
The Louisville Courier-Journal questions claims about American girls being unbalanced and inclined to smoking and sex. It notes literature compares Salome and Thais to modern women while arguing many women historically smoked and worked at home, challenging sweeping judgments.
Zeke Anderson a Pike county mountaineer escaped from Rock Castle convict road camp last spring then went home to plant a crop so his family could save food for winter. He surrendered recently at the state form and has not tried to evade officers since his 1916 sentence of 15 years.
A LondonRoyal Magazine excerpt features a sharp exchange between a woman and Bert during a film. The dialogue mocks Bert for crunching pepperini while a love scene unfolds.
A fragment notes a quip about love as two fools in sequence, attributed to the Arkansaw and Little Rock Gazette with a playful Thomas Cat aside. The text shows light, witty wordplay rather than a news item.
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