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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1919
Page
1
Mrs Veda Tasland and her baby visited yesterday. T Mills reports on a sale listing for a pie plant in Fairbury run by New Bugs Freeman.
Mrs. E. S. Dunn returned Friday after a brief visit, resuming her usual routine at home. She spent several days away visiting relatives and friends, and reports a pleasant trip overall.
Mrs Frank Johnson and her children traveled to Beatrice on Wednesday to spend a few days visiting relatives.
Mrs Frank Pearce and her grandson Frank Cavett returned Tuesday from visiting her brother and wife in Wauneta Nebraska.
Single comb white Leghorn cockerels for sale at 1.00 and 1.25 dollars each. Mrs Julius J Folkerts of Diller Nebraska lists the price and contact. Local notes mention Charley Harvey Miss Mattie Harvey and Miss Jennie Hunnicutt visiting Mr and Mrs Elias Hadley with Diller relatives and friends.
Frank Cally sent a message to his father from Camp Mille New York announcing his arrival from overseas service with the A E F. He is expected to return home in a few weeks as the letter indicates.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Fouts arrived Saturday after being summoned by the father J W Fouts who was ill. The statement adds that his condition is very much better now.
An Evening showing of the moving picture We Can't Have Everything is advertised for local residents. The article notes the film amid discussions on world peace and the peace treaty, referencing broader wartime hopes and the Atlantic seaboard context.
The fragment mentions Mr and Mrs E L Looek and a Sunday event with unclear context and incomplete details.
Weather has been ideal for wheat harvest this week. Dr. G H Newton, eye ear nose and throat, Fairbury Nebr. 47 24.
A terse note by R W Green states a bet must be secured before 12 o'clock noon with the wager to open after that hour.
Mr and Mrs Michael Mitchell living 44 miles south and 2 miles west of Diller were surprised last week to receive a visit from Peter Mitchell who resides at Water Town South Dakota.
Mr and Mrs Volney Raymond and their daughter Donna Jane traveled from Scandia Kansas where Mr Raymond and others ran a drug store. They sold the business back to the party from whom they purchased the stock at a large gain and now seek a new location.
J. W. Fouts, overcome by heat while working on his farm, began travel to Boulder Colorado to enter a sanitarium for the remainder of the hot term. Officials hope Colorado’s climate will restore him fully in a few weeks.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for Rural Carrier at Fairbury Nebraska on July 26 1919 to fill a vacancy at Daykin and other vacancies in the county. Information and application blanks available from local civil service Secretary Lyndon Thornton at Fairbury Nebraska office or from the United Civil Service Commission in Washington D C.
Emil Tarnow and Will Logan, two more of Diller's soldier boys, were honorably discharged last week. Tarnow left from Camp in Indiana and was enroute for Fort Worth four days away. Logan discharged at Fort Worth, Texas, with unclear details remaining.
Farmers Grain Co notes orders to oats and anticipates a car this week. Miss Mabel Jackson visited Wednesday with her sister Mrs. O J Mayborp and family.
A small news note mentions Bat Garland involved with Walker's Goods Store as the wheat harvest progresses and threshing is expected to continue next week.
Bargains on a 1916 Ford and two 1917 models offered by Ray Boeing Auto Co. Enquire with D. Stotts. Mrs. Sylvia Fish and Merle Junior, with her mother, left Tuesday to Denver. Beartice team game details mention a 2 to 0 result and predictions about harvest yields and disappointments.
Allen Nelson formerly of Diller and later a Beat Rice drug store employee traveled through Wymore on his way to France after re enlisting in the army for three years. He is assigned to the medical corps and sent from Salt Lake City Army Camp.
The notice urges Diller's boys to meet July 7 at the nerve hall to finalize arrangements for the July 16 event. Frank T. Pearce, Secretary, emphasizes completing the program to ensure a successful undertaking.
A Fairbury special reports ex senator Wesley Pickens died Sunday at his home eight miles west of Fairbury where he resided since 1869 after homesteading. He was seventy two, married to Maria L Bauer of Jefferson County in 1874. Surviving are seven grown children. He was a Democrat and active in state politics.
The text notes a local shopping push with a Furniture, Stoves and Rugs sale at Free man’s in Fairbury. It mentions women doing the shopping this week and driving to town, along with a brief mention of Volney Raymond’s business trip to Ulysses, Nebraska, and Dale Bugbee’s return from Rochester, Minnesota after accompanying a relative for an operation.
Millard Gemeny left Wednesday morning for Kansas City to meet his sister and travel to Boston to visit their mother, with the journey by way of Chicago.
Mr and Mrs H F Freytag of Sid stopped to visit brother F J Freytag and family before continuing their trip to Kansas City.
Mrs W W Clark of Pocagset Oklahoma and Mrs J W Sutton of Dabot Oklahoma left Steele City after visiting with their parents Mr and Mrs N D T Willey and with Diller relatives the Clarks Millers and T taking their departure from this station Wednesday.
Owing to heat exhaustion I must select a cooler climate for a time. My office remains open under Henry W. Fouts who is qualified to handle the business in my absence. I appreciate your continued patronage in listing lands buying lands and in writing insurance. I seek short term insurance on stock and bin due to high prices of wheat and oats.
With a wheat crop exceeding a billion bushels foreseen in the United States this year, farmers and elevators are urged to market and store grain to reduce losses and traffic congestion. The Agriculture Department advocates stocking as a practical solution, noting gains for farmers when wheat is stored promptly after harvest and protected from sweating, especially in normal weather.
The Nebraska Annual Conference meets at University Place on Sept. 9, 1919 with Bishop Stunz presiding. The General Conference will be held in May 1920. Delegates to the General Conference and a separate laymen conference will be elected at University Place this fall.
The War Department will transfer surplus engineering equipment from France to the Agriculture Department for free distribution to state agencies. The aim is to support Federal-aid highway construction and maintenance, with 20,000 Army motor trucks already allocated by the Bureau of Public Roads under the Federal Aid Road Act.
Readable remnants show butter packing house data with prices and units, indicating fluctuations in supply costs and regional dairy market activity. Details are fragmentary but point to ongoing pricing reports within the butter trade.
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