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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1916
Page
5
Detached OCR text mentions a two year old Shorthorn bull, Martin Fanders, and a home visit by Mrs. Mire, plus a brief district court session where Judge Emley overruled a motion in an estate contest. Taxes and gas plant issues are noted, with references to a Diller family and alliances arriving by car load for farming.
Geo H Bailey made a business trip to Beatrice on Wednesday. BS Gretzinger of Fairbury visited Diller relatives between trains Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ernest Habicht traveled to Chicago Sunday to buy goods for Loock and Habicht ore. A quip notes the challenge of arguing with a woman reflects a light, humorous mood in local chatter.
A man named Harvey, who visited the home of his brother in law, is reported to have returned to the parental home in Phillips Nebraska after a stay of about three to four weeks.
O. J. Metcalf of Weatherby Missouri credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with a rapid recovery from a severe illness. He bought two bottles and was nearly bedridden before using it, but were soon fully restored. He recommends the remedy to others who seek its value and notes it is obtainable everywhere.
Tarl Slocum twenty one of Diller and Miss Elsie Ruth Kriter of Wymore were married at Lincoln on Thursday. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Kriter, prominent farmers in the Wymore vicinity. Beatrice Express.
Advice urges women who lack exercise to use Cham Berlin's Tablets to ease constipation and indigestion. It notes walking four miles daily is best but pills are easier and pleasant, with wide availability.
The College of Agriculture suggests winter tasks for students and farmers including repairing machinery and tools, oiling gear, repairing harness, pruning trees, cleaning seed, repairing buildings, and marketing grain and hay. Winter milking and calf care become more intensive as cows freshen in autumn.
An old advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as a blood treating remedy for catarrh. It promises a one hundred dollar reward for cures Hall’s tablets claim to remove disease from blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered and a call to buy from druggists nationwide.
Community updates include visits from Miss Irene Blauser and Revaldo Thekson family, Crippled by an ankle injury, and Mr and Mrs Colman en route between trains. School column reports first grade readers, absences for illness, a Hebron-Diller basketball clash, and a patron’s entertainment with talks on music benefits.
W C Line who bought property in Diller and plans moving into town will hold a public sale Saturday Feb. See advertisement in this paper for details. The submarine dispute with Teutons nears settlement with expectations of no more American drownings. Miss Ruth Lamb returned Monday to Beatrice for treatment at the Lutheran hospital for an injured limb, nearing recovery.
Wm Garrell of the old Cully place two miles east and four miles south of Diller will quit farming and hold a public sale next Tuesday February 1st. See his ad in this paper for particulars.
J T Carmichael of St. Francis Kansas, formerly of Diller, writes that his family is well and that they own a new Reo automobile. He notes their wheat crop this year yielded 10 538 bushels with some portions averaging 42 bushels per acre.
Mrs Martha Wilcox of Gowanda New York describes a long cold and cough lasting years ending after using a medicine. She says the remedy broke the cold in a few days and the cough disappeared entirely. She praises the medicine and notes friends also speak highly of it. Obtainable everywhere.
County commissioners report 48 bridges built or repaired within the year at a total of 24280 dollars. Riprapping on the Blue near Weeks mentions 1000 dollars with local property owners contributing. Next year bids will be advertised though steel costs have risen and may limit savings.
A Spartanburg Herald note says the cotton crop is short. The remark appears amid broader regional commentary on farming and economic conditions.
Eugene S Knight of Wilmington praises Chamberisin Tablets for constipation and indigestion. He says the product works well for him and his wife. The endorsement notes availability everywhere.
Walter Prichard Eaton praises the elm as a self sufficient, solitary tree perfectly fitted to architecture. The species grows best in uncompetitive spots like river meadows, forming a noble, symmetrical silhouette and balanced branches that harmonize with civic spaces. The elm earns the title king of urban trees.
In Kunz's tale a meteorite given to Edward Heron Allen accompanies a series of near disasters. A Bostonwoman who acquired it survived a wreck from runaway horses, and later a falling scaffold narrowly misses her. The tale questions whether the stone influenced fate or merely coincided with peril.
A recipe for cleaning with ammonia chloroform and ether is given, plus steps to make a soap lather for rugs and fabrics. The piece then shifts to a country anecdote about nestling blackbirds fed by parent birds, noting two youngsters died after the parents fed them berries from deadly nightshade, observed in the Liverpool Post.
A Liverpool Post contributor shares a humorous tale of a Oxford MA graduate wearing a bright red hood to a pulpit. Later at a parish gathering a hostess comments that his hood clashes with his sour complexion and suggests alternatives like green or old gold.
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