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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1919
Page
1
Dr Diehl reports several new flu cases this week while the store lists gluten corn feed in stock. A Ford car was delivered to Lieut Paul Beck this week by J D Fanders tf F W Lowe.
Mrs. S. Dunn traveled to Lincoln on Saturday to visit her daughter. Mrs. Delmar Hale and family plan updates. Miss Margaret Cherry returned home Thursday after resigning as a nurse at Beatrice hospital.
Saturday evening February 1, the Burnham orchestra presented a jazzy program of latest music in Wymore. Mrs. H OP Grueber and daughter Mrs. Hesterman of Byron visited Mrs. Dora Wohlfarth and family, the host sister.
Charley Adams relocated Wednesday to Dr. Claude Ellis’s Sicily township farm in Gage county and yesterday changed his Record to a Blue Springs mail route. Battery service offers examination before action. piano and phonograph stock advertised. Liberty bonds accepted in partial payment. R F Starr sold parts of the Wm Cherry farm to Elsworth Bugbee and Dona A Bubgee with plans to move by March 1.
Mrs F A Carmony and her son Corp Arthur Carmony recently returned from France. They came up from Blue Springs Tuesday evening to visit old Diller friends, staying until Wednesday evening before proceeding to Endicott.
Mesdames A. L. Tinstman and John Gretzinger returned from Chester where they were called by the illness of their son and son-in-law Clint Tinstman who showed pneumonia symptoms that were averted by careful nursing.
R. Steffen takes a Poland China hog for sale. Jasper Long visits Orleans near his farm. A. Mayborn travels to Omaha for cattle feeder near Steele City. Harlen Hadley moves his shoe shop into the former harness shop building. Clifford Sparks returns from France and is mustered out at Camp Dodge.
Dr A Lynch surgeon eye ear nose throat opens office at Fairbury Hospital 612 Oth St Fairbury Nebr. Wil Boettcher returned last Friday from Camp Meade honorably discharged from military service.
Mrs Carl Franzen welcomed her mother and grandmother the Mesdames Bracken who came over from Steele City for a Monday visit.
The home of Mrs. Cornellia Lottman was quarantined Wednesday after one child developed influenza.
Mrs. L. P. Raymond states she sold her harness business in Diller to Gus Dressen of Steele City. The note dated January 3, 1918, accompanies the brief record. A wolf hunt conducted Monday southeast of Diller yielded two coyotes. one escaped but was later found dead in a creek after the crowd dispersed.
Mrs. Sarah Witty and her brother Sam Foster of Quincy Illinois traveled to Lincoln yesterday to visit her daughter Mrs. Ray Colman and her husband.
Fred Witty and wife from Wieiths Kansas travel Saturday to visit Diller relatives. They see uncle Sam Foster of Quincy Illinois visiting his sister Mrs. Sarah Witty and daughter Mrs. Ray Green.
J. W. Fouts bought all structures on the Ballards lot except the cream station used by J. L. Lamb and will tear them down. He plans to reuse the lumber to build an implement shed on one of his farms.
The note reports Mrs. Mary Green traveling to Atchison Kansas on an early Wednesday train due to Leta’s illness with influenza. Rev H W Wagner returned from Wood River Nebraska after conducting a funeral for a former church member. Diller S A T C boys Neil Diller Arnold Fouts and Robt Fastwood Jr visit from the state university. J W Hayworth sells his farm 24 miles south 2 miles east of Diller and plans to move into town with a public sale on Thursday cb 13th. watch for bills.
Notice calls all Diller area members to gather at the city hall today Friday at 1 o clock sharp for important business. De Eaeet, Secretary-Treasurer No 1169. Families await Miss Bessie Cherry returning from France in February after Base Hospital 49 closes January 20. Nebraskan nurses doctors and enlisted men of unit return home from Toule district about 150 miles southeast of Paris.
A meeting is to be held at City Hall in Diller Nebr on Saturday February 1 1919 at 2 PM by subscribers and others to subscribe to the fund for defraying expenses of a reception to be given the Soldier Boys. The group will organize appoint committees discuss date and character of the reception and attend any other business. H E Green Chairman Committee.
Laurel Camp No 936 installed its year officers on Friday evening January 24 with Oracle Dora Geer 1st Oracle Eva Carr 2nd Oracle Lucy Meyer Chancellor Nettie Franzen Recorder Clara Myers Receiver Lilian Moser Marshal Myrtle Frisbie Asst Marshal Lucy Hadley I Sentinel Anne Diller O Sentinel Mary Hale Manager Eva Stotts Physician Dr O C Diehl, followed by a social and refreshments.
Luther Marsteller, wounded on the St Mehiel drive and treated at base hospital No. 39 for two months, returned to Abaline Kansas after a visit with Diller friends. Draft select from Fairbury to Camp Funston April 30, shipped from New York June 4, reached Liverpool June 17, served on the firing line, left Brest December 24, discharged at Camp Dodge January 20. He keeps a fragment of a high explosive shell as a souvenir.
Mrs Sam-Woods returned Tuesday from Beatrice where she visited Miss Jennie Woods in hospital for an operation from which she has nearly recovered and expects to be home soon. The Lyceum entertainment series Northrup Tree and Cumberland Concert, postponed due to flu, are rescheduled for March 5 and 20. The Fairbury Womans Club requests Diller area ladies to form a Womans Club. meeting at city hall Wednesday Feb 5 to discuss organizing. Some Fairbury Womans Club members will attend.
Wm. Foland, seven, arrested in Diller last week on suspicion, pled guilty in Beatrice justice court to breaking into T. R. Callen and R. L. White stores and the Jumber office of W. M. Munn at Odell, bound over to district court. He had a watch and other minor items, found in his possession, and attempted to cut his way out of Beatrite county jail.
The U S Department of Labor establishes a permanent U S Employment Office at 6th and Edmond St Joseph Mo with Will M Brashier as examiner in charge. It calls for cooperation from employers especially farmers to secure needed help for the coming season. A large list of farm hands, married and single, seeks farm work and are experienced. Farmers may reach us by mail or phone Main 270.
A letter from Bert Walker argues that people differ in how they spend time during wartime. He contrasts preacher meetings, smoky rooms, horseshoes, and work for the war, noting neighbors disagree on idle pastimes and productivity. He emphasizes personal perspective shapes judgments.
Dr Condra of the Conservation and Welfare Commission says Nebraska streams can generate more than a million horsepower, with less than 5,000 horsepower currently produced. The Boelus project is the largest single scheme.
Nebraskana notes Robert F. Gilder of Omaha as a leading archaeologist and landscape artist. A World-Herald staffer for over thirty years, he comes from the Gilder literary family and is respected in scientific magazines. He divides his time between journalism and scientific research and painting.
A brief church notice reports Epworth League held a Sunday meeting, filled cabinet vacancies, and planned a social. Sunday school attendance is rising since the quarantine ban ended, with good turnout last Sunday. Midweek services move to homes but will continue weekly, led by a hopeful pastor.
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