Truthful tales and rumors harm friendships too
A reflection on gossip where false statements harm reputations while honesty could complicate trust. The piece weighs social harm of lies against the burden of truth in friendships.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1931
Page
5
A reflection on gossip where false statements harm reputations while honesty could complicate trust. The piece weighs social harm of lies against the burden of truth in friendships.
Full stock of fly nets at low prices. F. A. Moon & Son, quality monuments at seasonable prices in Fairbury Nebraska. Old-fashioned courtship joke about lower animals. Economize by repairing old shoes at Electric Shoe Shop in Fairbury.
For sale 1 canvas stack cover size 15 by 18 and a heavy khaki canvas tent with fewer poles 9 by 9 feet priced to sell. D W Fanders. Wanted dentists to match cases for false teeth. Satisfaction guaranteed. Dr Leach Fairbury.
Farmers at Diller will buy all kinds of hogs every Thursday at highest market prices. List your hogs with Diller Farmers Grain Co Paul Stark.
Cornbelt Lumber Co of Diller Nebraska advertises screen doors and windows now. Contact for affordable prices.
Poplar Bluff Missouri judge D B Deem, in thirty years on the bench, has eliminated the word obey from 6 285 marriage ceremonies. He says it is the bank and makes people promise to do what they won t.
Mr and Mrs Alvin Hirsch and their young son Freddie from South Bend Nebraska visited Sunday at the home of Mrs Cavett and her husband and the Pearce grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Starr returned early in the week from a trip to Kansas City. They visited his sister Mrs. Jacob Stucker and called on several old friends including Mrs. L. M. Hurst nee Miss Fern Cavett formerly of Diller and family.
Mr. Leonard, the Ellis merchant whose store burned, has moved another owned building onto the site and is enlarging it. He will soon be ready for business again. It is understood Mr. Bone, whose lumber yard and hardware store burned in the same fire, will rebuild.
The N R C group met July 7 at Mrs. Herman Albers residence with fourteen members one visitor and five children present. They chatted sewed quilted blocks and competed in two contests won by Mrs Ben Siebelts and Mrs Orville Richardson. Refreshments were served and the next gathering is planned with ard Frisbie.
Mrs. E. S. Bugbee remains on the sick list while Mrs. W. S. Slocum slowly recovers. Mrs. Leo Dressen to sell household goods at public auction tomorrow afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tincher and Billy visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Bell. Supt. and Mrs. A. J. Nelson returned from Ruskin Nebraska to visit his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Eilert Huliman and son Laurence and Mr. Clarence Huliman spent Sunday with relatives in Falls City. Mr. and Mrs. George Tjaden of Lennox South Dakota visited the Lottmans Thursday through Monday.
A note of thanks from Gus Dressen to Diller residents for support during his son Leo Dressen’s illness. Harvesting is nearly done with grain and wheat markets slow as farmers hold for higher prices.
The Clover Leaf 4-H Cooking Club met at Mrs. Henry Frisbie's home on July 2 with Mrs Hod Green leading in the absence of the regular leader. Creamed carrots potato salad macaroni and cheese custard pie and chocolate pudding were demonstrated and judged. Afterward the group went to the grove for games and a picnic supper.
Mrs Jennie May Pasco 41 wife of Alvin Pasco of 2100 East Coast street Beatrice died at a hospital. She had lived in Beatrice seventeen years and is survived by her husband seven children plus her mother and several siblings. The body is at Simms funeral home pending funeral arrangements.
Mrs. Arthur Grone nurses a badly cut finger while Mr. Paul Stange remains confined by illness. Mrs. Alvin Pasco of Beatrice, formerly Diller, was taken by ambulance to a Beatrice hospital for treatment Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Terri Paseo of Beatrice drove to Diller Saturday and returned with Mrs. Grace Fasnacht and children who stayed until Sunday. A physician notes health mirrors breath holding and wisdom tongue restraint. Tornado activity is rare outside the central United States, especially the Mississippi Valley.
A. J. Nelson, superintendent of Diller schools for two years, has contracted for the superintendency of the consolidated district schools at Barneston Nebraska. The move to Barneston is planned for about August 1.
L. V. Raymond and his family visited Sunday with his mother Mrs. Isabella Raymond. He returned to Lincoln accompanied by his sister Flossie who is visiting at his home, and by her brother Volney and family.
Leo A Dressen born July 23 1888 in Ellinwood Kansas died June 30 1931 aged 42 11 7. He played professional baseball before a late illness halted him. He married Rose Jacobson November 4 1914 in Boise Idaho and they had Joyce Carolynn. Survived by father mother brother Joe sisters Mrs Anna Walker Mrs Mayme Doherty and Mrs Florentina Staten and his wife and daughter. Service July 3 1931 at Congregational church, interment Prairie Home cemetery.
The Dressen family expresses heartfelt thanks to all who ministered to them during illness and death of husband and father Leo Dressen. Joyce Carolynn Dressen also extends gratitude.
Gage county supervisors adopt road committee report detailing 65 percent miles to be gravelled funded largely by state gas tax revenue. In the Seventh District Odell and Lanham will connect, P W F highway gravelled to Highway 77, linking to Blue Springs. Project spans two years with possible fall work start.
At a village meeting the board approved an estimate and appropriation to cover the expense of more gravel for streets in Diller.
Lucille Sparks, a summer school student at the state university, visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Chester Sparks over the Fourth of July holiday.
Mr and Mrs E R Henrichs came back Sunday from an auto trip to western Kansas and eastern Colorado to care for grain on land near Kanorado Kansas owned by her father E L Loock who could not make the trip. They visited with Mr and Mrs Harry Remley at Towner Colorado.
The Mera Rosa 3rd year sewing club met at the Ellison home July 8 with all members present. The next meeting is planned for July 22 at the Renz home. Refreshments of caramel cake and pink ice cream were served. visitors are welcome. Wilma Ellison, News Reporter.
The piece argues birds are natural enemies of insects and essential to humanity. It cites dramatic insect reproduction and notes a small bird can destroy thousands of pests daily, urging that birds be spared not only for humane reasons but to defend civilization.
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