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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1916
Page
1
A brief notice outlines interest payments on time deposits within the Savings Department of Citizens State Bank in Nebraska. It confirms timely crediting and availability of accrued interest for customers keeping funds in time or savings accounts.
Diller chautauqua kicks off Sunday featuring thirteen sessions over six days. Morning services free, season tickets priced at 1.50 with single admissions at 60 cents, children 7 to 12 pay 15 cents, under seven free with parents. Tickets transferable. buy at Diller businesses or at the gate. Farmers near Diller celebrated the Fourth in wheat fields.
Local notes record Tom Rigdon spending Independence Day with relatives in Odell, farmers near Diller finishing wheat, and many townsfolk celebrating at Hollenberg. Matches of travel include c. E. Fairbank as Burlington passenger to St. Joe, E. L. Lock and E. R. Henrichs to Detroit, and Miss Georgian Good visiting Lincoln. A four passenger Mercer automobile arrives for A. H. Colman. Mrs. Hannah Ross Morris visits the editor’s family. Fern Raymond returns from Lincoln. A drowning tragedy occurs as Frank Tippen Jr., 17, drowns in the Blue River near Fairbury while swimming. dog signals distress and body is recovered after efforts.
Mrs M E Wallace returns from Nuckolls county visits with friends. Semi annual sale now on at L O Ballard. H S Armstead, who lost his garage and Ford in a fire, built a new garage and bought a Dodge Bros car. Mrs Maude Hull returns to Lincoln planning a Pennsylvania trip with her father Alex Bell in September.
Mrs B F Moss of Webb City Missouri and her granddaughter Miss Helen Dunn visited family in Diller. Bertha Westcott wed Colone South Dakota ranchman E J Tuttle. Loren Dunn returns to Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania as bookkeeper at Diller state bank during Mayborn illness. Mrs Orlen Blauser McLaughlin and daughter travel to join Rev D B McLaughlin in Albermarle North Carolina.
Six un names Gladys Cherry Eva Witty Vera Anderson Benford Bell Fern Hayes and Mary Novotny attend summer school at Peru State Normal then visit Diller relatives. A L Tinstman and wife W G Tinstman and Miss Elsie Tingstman drive to Yellowstone and visit Clint and wife at Hildreth. Beatrice hosts county Republican caucuses Saturday July 22 at 10 AM to select delegates and naming a county central committee.
Public auction of Watson Hardware stock in Diller Nebraska to the highest cash bidder on Monday July 10 1916 at 2 PM Inventories on file in Fairbury Nebraska BR EC Riley Trustee in Bankruptcy. Over in Iowa National Guardsmen forced from camp for refusing oath to fight for Uncle Sam and a court case near the Kansas line ends in compromise. A Peoria operation on E L Loock’s brother involved vertebrae removal and bone graft with a favorable prognosis. Presbyterian Church Children’s Day exercises drew a packed crowd with songs recitations drills and a final tableau praising workers. Judge Kelley presided over a Wymore commercial suit that settled amicably with costs avoided.
Caponizing young roosters yields profitable returns with simple methods. Heavy breeds caponized at 2 to 2.5 pounds, lights at 1.5 to 2 pounds. Rocks Wyandottes and Reds preferred. Losses from lugs are rare and can be avoided with proper technique, while capons command higher prices and tastier meat.
A Nebraska College of Agriculture report finds pumping 100 barrels of water costs 15 cents with a windmill and 68 cents with a gasoline engine when gas is 18 cents a gallon. Windmills last 24 years versus 12 for engines, and larger wheels with smaller pump cylinders boost usefulness.
Dr and Mrs Rauguess arrived back Sunday from Omaha in their Ford. Mr and Mrs H E Grupe and their daughter came back Wednesday after visiting Mrs Grupe’s parents Mr and Mrs C T Sears in Beatrice. Miss Anna Benson of Odell, a city schools teacher in Columbus, Neb, and her sister Mrs Fisher Musser, returned home to Odell Sunday.
There will be no church service next Sunday due to Union services at the Chautauqua grounds. Sunday school starts at 10:30 with arranged classes and music. At 11 AM Rev C F Stevens of Beatrice First Christian Church will preach. A large chorus and congregational hymns promise an enjoyable opening.
A reflective verse extols life as a pretty good world despite grief and sorrow. It highlights friendship, love, nature, quiet retreats, and the belief that heaven will set things right. It urges acceptance and gratitude while noting divine grace guiding each place and circumstance.
The legs of each rowl should be carefully examined for scales. If scales are suspected, wash with hot water and soap, dry, and anoint with carbolated vaseline or a mix of equal parts lard and kerosene. One or two applications are usually enough, but untreated cases can spread to the entire flock.
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