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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1923
Page
3
A poem extols living as a Regular Fellow with normal joys and fears and a steady life. Included are local items noting Elmer Greider shipping hogs, requests for dry cobs, and farmers saving crops by cutting wheat. Also a note about Jerden Sanmann transacting business at Islay Center, Kansas.
F. E. Hale and family drove to Waverly on the Fourth and spent part of the day with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Greenwood. Parris and Willa Dunn of Ft. Collins, Colorado, are visiting their grandmother Mrs. Francis Starkey and other relatives.
Mrs Carl Sandmann and her three children from Fairbury visited yesterday at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs W A Snyder.
OmahaNebraska dealer Dares buyers to act now as balance due purchase. Piano offered by W F Van Vliet at 1513 Douglas Street with prompt reply requested.
An insurance adjuster reported a fire loss caused by friction, implying an arson scenario to cash a $4,000 policy on a $2,000 home. The remark suggests intentional burning to collect insurance proceeds.
H M Bainer of the Southwestern Wheat Improvement Association urges early plowing to kill weeds. He says double disking or harrowing after plowing and before sowing helps conserve soil moisture, prevents crusting, and makes next year's wheat crop practically assured.
H Evans and a carpenters gang have repaired the court house from basement to attic. Floors desks and window sills were replaced scrap filled and revarnished. Roof and chimneys were repainted and made safe. County commissioners consider remodelling the court room to improve acoustics for lawyers and the judge.
Dr Cecil Ellia announces his dental office will close for about two weeks starting June 22 while he travels in Wyoming. Separate notice indicates Diller stores stayed open Tuesday night this week due to the upcoming Fourth of July on Wednesday. A telephone line ring conveyed the notice.
Officials of the Masonic lodge at Diller have learned that John W. Sutton a former local druggist is gravely ill at his Miami Oklahoma home hospital with peritonitis and is reported in serious condition.
Miss Ethel Woods leaves for New York to attend an eight six week summer course at Columbia University arriving there today after brief stops in Detroit Niagara Falls and Syracuse.
A Boston Transcript report recalls a harp soloist during a rapid pedal passage when a motorist’s boy whispered about gear shifts. A hail storm southeast of Wymore damaged 130 farmers, with 480 acres of crops lost near Diller and thousands of dead birds and rabbits. Estimated damage 200000 dollars.
British manufacturers are refining tiny planes with four horsepower engines and speeds around 50 mph. They require short runs to take off and land slowly. A $2500 prize is offered for a British light airplane contest limited to eight horsepower and total cost under $500, with a September competition.
Corn is growing very rapidly now. John Sparks and Raleigh Bell spent the 4th at Wilber. Farmers in the Diller vicinity celebrated the 4th in wheat fields or while plowing corn. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Smith and Edna of Fairbury called on Dr. and Mrs. O. C. Diehl. Dean Barber, visiting W. A. Raymond at Courtland, Kan., returned home. Mrs. Ruth Blauser, recently in Beatrice hospital, came home Sunday improved.
Dr Greenfield notes a fleet mortgage dated about 2100 B C but questions such early automobile production. The remark highlights an anachronism in the historical record about early vehicle technology.
A teacher asks Johnny where he learned to swear. He answers that he picked it up and suggests going out where it’s being done to listen until you get it. This reflects a streetwise exchange captured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
In a playful street scene Little Bob exhorts his mother to bring money or chocolate before they go out. The mother resists, insisting she will not use any money, while Bob threatens to cry if unprepared. The exchange captures a mother and child negotiating on resources for the outing.
Reformers warn that the rising generation in esinking New York faces moral decline and societal erosion. The piece argues institutions fail to curb excess and calls for stronger civic discipline to reverse the trend.
After three years of disrepute Deutschland Ueber Alles returns as Germany's national song signaling renewed official status and public sentiment.
A Life magazine note advises maintaining personal space and not resting the head on another student’s shoulder. The quirky tip frames decorum as a schoolgirl concern and reflects period etiquette.
Mrs. Carl A. Hanton of Minneapolis recovered a $1,000 engagement ring lost in a washroom at the Elks Club early in 1922. The conscience stricken finder returned the ring by anonymous letter after the club records had been destroyed.
The article discusses preferred wedding days and months noting Saturdays for afternoon ceremonies, plus the shift toward church settings for formal weddings. It outlines acceptable venues from church aisles to homes and praises the propriety of hosts, advising against grooms homes as wedding sites and urging modest arrangements for brides of humble origin.
English Sunday School at 9 30 Divine worship in German at 10 30 English service at 8 00 Church Council meeting at 1 45 Semi annual business meeting at 2 80 German language worship noted by Pastor G F R Duhrkop
Rev. W. F. Clark presides with Sunday school at 10 and public worship at 11. Morning topic Life's triangle. Evening union service with the Methodist church at their house of worship, sermon A Lost God.
Iva M Innis pastor notes Sunday school at 10 preaching at 11 and union service at 8. Work on the Rex Theater convert may allow services back in the church around Aug 20 with a banquet and week of services ending Aug 26. Messages urge stronger church support and more young members to curb social ills.
The text argues that Sabbath desecration leads to moral decay and tyranny. It quotes Blackstone Tallman and Hale praising Sunday rest as essential and warns Methodists against attending Sunday baseball games. It urges Christians to prioritize faith over Sunday entertainment to protect spiritual life.
A very pretty double wedding took place at the Lutheran church in Lanham on Wednesday June 27 1923. Miss Martha Luehring became the bride of Rev. H Hinrichs of Linn Kansas and Miss Minnie Luehring the bride of Mr H Wieden of Lanham Kansas. Rev A Lentz performed the ceremony.
Witnesses described a woman in an awfully deformed condition with hands where her feet should be as she went about darning her stockings, a scene noted by bystanders.
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