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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
1
The oats harvest is about over and farmers are busy. New wheat yields from 12 to 17 bu per acre. The Diller ball team lost 3 to 0 at Plymouth on Sunday. Revs C F and Iva M Innis swapped pulpits at Odell and Diller Sunday.
Milk cow offered for sale this week by Paul Beck with contact in rural mail line 104 36 21. The rural mail carriers will not deliver Monday the 4th due to a legal holiday. Diller ball team scheduled to play Odell at Steele City on the 4th with a $100 purse split by percentage. Reverend H A Teckhaus of Wayne Nebraska visited Diller friends last Friday.
The editor comments that no woman whose husband has a button detail on his pants should engage in social reform work, reflecting a dismissive stance on women activists. The remark ties gender norms to activism and showcases era etiquette in local press.
Rex Green and family along with J. L. Lamb and daughter Elsie plan to begin an overland trip Saturday in a Ford car to Sheldon Wisconsin. They will visit Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Tristman and family.
A bargain sale offers a six room home in Diller with closets, bath, pantry, cellar with an inside pump and basement. The residence is described as one of the newest in town.
Mr and Mrs Franz ONeil of Omaha spent Monday with Mr and Mrs Scott Miller in this place. ONeil is an army pal of Scott. both served in the Amb Dep t of the 89th division.
Lloyd Callender, a Beatrice drug store worker, has taken a vacation and bought an automobile. He intends to drive to California to visit his sister, accompanied by Beatrice boys, starting in about a week along the energy trail.
The 4th may host a quiz day in Diller while citizens prepare picnics and caution squirrels. Dr W S Diller traveled to Kansas City on business. Funeral services for Frank Murray's baby were held Thursday. Mahaska meets Diller on the diamond next Sunday. W C T U plans a July 8 meeting led by Mrs Musser. Mrs Hartzel to lead the session. Eva Green returned from Wiiets Kansas after visiting mother Mrs Sarah Witty and brother Fred. Eleanor Foreman named principal of Diller schools for next year. L M Cavett couple left for Geneva and Grand Island on a motor trip to visit relatives.
J. Smith Diller is painting his new residence once owned by Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Colman who now reside in Fairbury. Patrice Finelli returned to Omaha after a three week stay with her aunt Misa L. O. Ballard and is reported home from surgery feeling improved.
The editor and his wife went to Dr. Fall's hospital in Beatrice Tuesday morning for an indefinite stay due to a long standing ailment that has worsened in recent months. She was resting easy when visited Wednesday evening.
The local Boy Scout chapter with about twenty members led by Scout Master Scott A. Miller has been soliciting orders for Diller name plates for cars. The sturdy plates, sold in pairs for front and rear use, are expected to be delivered within a few days.
The Central Granaries Co a line elevator operator at this station and subsidiary of Nye-Schneider-Fowler Co of Freemont Neb suspended operations pending a readjustment of its financial affairs It notified its agent here Tuesday to cease buying until further orders Heavy losses from a bad business year caused wheat prices to fall and led to the embarrassment of the firm
The Diller Commercial club was reorganized into the Diller Community Club with a new constitution and by laws. Membership dues are $3 total per year with $1 due now and $2 annual, women honorary members welcomed, and officers elected including F. E. Hale president and J. W. Fotts secretary. A $12.02 balance from the former group was moved to the new treasury, forty six members enrolled, regular meetings set for the second Monday, and plans for a July open meeting with a musical program were announced.
Morris and Frank Hill, once of Diller, now connected with Fairoury and Tecumseh, spent Sunday renewing old acquaintances in town.
Fanders and Robertson announce shipment of Macbeth and Liberty auto lenses, both legal and approved. Customer service offered for quick installation. The note also includes a quirky local anecdote about Specht and housekeeping, ending with a call to phone for service.
The 25th annual fraternal and business men's picnic will be held in Diller on August 10 and 11. The committee includes M W A Hutchinson and C L Geer, A O U W Stotts and Rex Green, W O W Clark and McCune, and Business Men Habicht Tristman. S F Clark chairs, S C Hutchinson secretary, E F Habicht treasurer. The group promises a first rate picnic and urges friends to attend.
The will of Frank Hubka late of Odell was admitted to probate in Gage county Wednesday morning with his widow Mrs Anna Hubka named administratrix. Everett Green traveled from Lincoln and stayed with his family, noting Richardson Fruits and Syrups as a preferred full line supplier.
Dr. O C Diehl and his wife depart on an early Monday train headed to Colorado Springs and other summer resorts. They will spend three or four weeks there so the doctor can fully regain his health before returning to practice.
The Kensington Bible class of the Methodist Episcopal S S held a quarterly gathering at Mrs. John Fasnacht's county home with 55 members and friends. Ten new members joined the class. The program included readings, music, and a lively game followed by ice cream and cake.
Emma D Mills born July 8 1867 in Taylor county Kentucky died June 21 1921 at age 53 11 13. She married Geo M Place at Diller Nebraska parents G T Mills and five children Perley Ira Riley Hazel Ethel. Funeral services Thursday at the Christian church conducted by Rev Buckner Fairbury with burial at Prairie Home cemetery.
Ray Mudge sold a 625 pound hog and others were shown in Diller on Tuesday.
Two threshing machines were unloaded here last Wednesday for Henry Myers and Weers Bros. The Missionary society met with Mrs. Stull Thursday. Ladies sewed at Bedell's for Mrs. Gerard to replace clothes lost in a fire. Henry Deaver visited the Morgans. W. T. Rader bought the Boggs property and will move in soon. Bert Gerald bought the Shea Mercantile Co. house to replace the burned one. Marten anders making pempere riven to thresh. Jinnie Dease around here the fourth, exact location unclear. Call John Watt if interested.
Mrs Henry Arnold and son Darwin travel to California for summer with sister Lisea Campbell. Enroute visit Bennet Colorado. Wm Carpenter learns of nephew Grant Robbins death in Colorado. Burial in Sabetha Kansas. Josephine Ommen visits Fairbury relatives. Mert Murray from Hebron visits home. Clifton Campbell of Pharre Texas visits relatives. Families attend a picnic with neighbors. Mrs O J Schreder and Fern visit St Louis. Free Logan visits Beatrice relatives. Harbine and Gladstone play baseball 11 to 1 in Harbine. Dorothy Arnold outings at Lake Okoboji. Martin Mudrow visits home.
Corrected quotes list Thursday offerings in grain markets. Wheat No 2 hard and Corn No 3 shelled are shown with new Oats offerings as the produce section itemizes prices and availability.
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