Beatrice Area News Briefs Highlight Local Happenings
Albert Leaper lost a $50 cow Saturday. Mrs. E. B. McClay returned Monday evening from Fairbury. B. Hill received another car load of manufactured ice from Beatrice Wednesday. Dr. Viera returned Monday from Red Cloud after attending a friend’s wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Ballard of Fairbury visited at their Ballard home. Verona Bell returned to Beatrice from a stay with Miss Weddle. Della and Renelda Fanders travel to Peoria Illinois for a couple of weeks. Frank Gerwick returned from Excelsior Springs Missouri healthier. No wheat was marketed in Beatrice Tuesday. 63 pounds per bushel yield 374 bushels per acre at 88 cents. The A O U W lodge organized in Diller twenty five years ago last Monday. Gertrude Lamb returned from Cub Creek visit. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr and Bernice Kerr returned from Greead visit. Wm. Stether requests a change of his Record address to Agra Kansas. Mrs. Wagenaar moved to her own residence. Miss Pearl Bell’s sixteenth birthday celebration at the Bell home. Burlington weed burner routed through division. A Wymore girl who was attacked by a stranger is recovering. Frank Pospisil graded a half mile road along his farm north of Diller. Patrice McElwee returned from Omaha where she clerks in a department store.
Local Happenings In Diller And Nearby Areas
Monday events include Clark arriving with a load of hogs and H Ex Grape's business trip between trains. Dora Mathias Nelson and her son visited Diller from Chicago, while a 104 pound boy was born July 8 to George Henrichs and wife. Cloyd Cully fractured his hip falling from a self-binder. A Dempster Windmill is for sale. Wheat harvest progresses. oats being cut. Mrs Rebecca Ballard of Fairbury visits relatives in Diller. Very hot days and a hot south wind disrupted alfalfa stacking. Mrs J C Herwig of Humboldt visits A L Tristman family.
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George . Henrichs
Crop prospects brighten near Wymore farm
Uncle Billy DeLine from Wymore visited a farm about a mile southeast of Iller on Monday and appeared pleased with the crop prospects.
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Billy DeLine
Wymore
Eee
Iller
Outbreak of Typhoid Reported at Beatrice Institution
Typhoid fever outbreaks continue with a new report at Beatrice state institution for feeble minded though not as severe as last year. Local notes mention Hastings leafleting a dandeliion contest with 98 800 plants in three days and Florence VanHorn departing Beatrice for Syracuse Nebraska to visit relatives.
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Beatrice State Institution
Hastings
Eight Annual Chautauqua Program Preview at Fairbury Park
Official program outlines the eighth annual chautauqua to be held in Fairbury city park from August 9 to 18. Includes details on events and a note about a picnic at Difler. Also references legal text 6882, section 129, statutes of 1905 and cautions on misinterpreting its meaning.
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Fairbury
Difler
Loock Family Visit Spans Nebraska Trip
Loock party arrived Tuesday from Slippery Rock Pennsylvania, visiting Nebraska relatives. On Wednesday they went with Miss Charlotte Loock to Gilead Nebraska where Mrs Loock had been staying with her daughter Mrs R Henrichs for two or three weeks, returning that evening.
Woman's Work On Farm Encouraged By Labor-Saving Devices
A writer argues that farm women benefit from labor saving machinery in the kitchen and that easing their labors does not promote idleness. The excerpt emphasizes practical efficiency in domestic work and rural life.
Couple from Simpson Visit Diller Friends
Mr and Mrs John Pulice and her two allegideas came up Saturday from Simpson Kansas in their car to visit a few days with Diller friends and relatives.
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John Pulice
Simpson, Kan
Diller
Miss Hale Returns From Colorado With Mother
A fragment from a Nebraska page describes Miss M Hale returning Sunday from Colorado with her mother. It notes a distant brother and unclear details about a residence belonging to Carl Gale, formerly of Diller, now in Beatrice, struck by lightning Tuesday, damaging the roof and shocking a family member.
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Carl Gale
Diller
Beatrice
Local Resident Reaffirms Support for The Record
John Peffer, longtime reader now in Dayton Ore, renewed his subscription this week. He says he has not lost interest in Diller and reads the paper eagerly at its arrival, noting crops are thriving but haying hampered by excess rain.
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John Peffer
Dayton
Ore
Peffer Aarys
Diller
Enkina
District No 70 Diller Board Reorganized Officers Elected
The board of education Dist 70 Diller reorganized Monday with President J O Bilauser and Secretary J ce Fouts among the officers. Treasurer M emittee on Post Dr H and W C Line named. rest include age books and supplies J W W Fouts and J Smith Diller. The secretary will mail 8th grade graduates within ten miles of Diller copies of the new rules course of study and tuition rates from the Record's press for patrons to examine.
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Board of Education Dist. No
Diller
J. O. Bilauser
J. Ce Fouts
Treas
Dr. H
W. C. Line
J . W W. Fouts
J. Smith Diller
Cheyenne Frontier Days Show Moves to Lincoln
The State Fair acts include areca roama in soil exhibits and Sept 2 6. The Cheyenne Frontier Days Show moves to Lincoln with Siem Gilllies air exhibition Sioux tribe rough riders real cowboys 70 outlaw horses buffalo team.
Beatrice man injured in wagon accident
S C Philips of Beatrice, a driver for a delivery wagon, had his left wrist broken Tuesday when the team became fractious and ran into a telephone pole. He was thrown from the wagon seat and sustained the injury.
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S. C. Philips
Beatrice
Warrensburg Man Visits Kin After Funeral Journey
Dan Lewis of Warrensburg Missouri stopped at Superior on his return from a brother in law’s funeral to visit his father in law Adam Herwig and other Diller relatives for a few days.
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Dan Lewis
Warrensburg
Superior
Adam Herwig
Hill Family Visit From Tecumseh
Mr and Mrs C B Hill and son and Mrs Hill s mother arrived last Friday afternoon in their Ford car and visited his brother O B Hill and family till Saturday noon when they returned to their home at Tecumseh Mr witts is a salesman for a Nebraska City wholesale house and uses his car in covering his territory.
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C. B. Hill
Miss Gertrude Diller Hosts J U Gs for Florence VanHorn
Monday evening at LaValle street Miss Gertrude Diller entertained the J U Gs in honor of Miss Florence VanHorn of Syracuse Nebi. The gathering featured pleasant conversation music and games.
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Gertrude Diller
LaValle Street
Florence VanHorn
Syracuse
Nebi
Rural Mail Carriers to Receive Higher Pay
The article states that from July 1, 1912, rural carriers on standard 24 mile routes will be paid $1,047 per year, distributed monthly. For routes longer than 24 miles the pay rises by $44.75 per mile annually for each mile over 24, and a reduced rate applies for routes under 25 miles.
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Washinon
PD. C
Sam Gaisford Returns Home After Wife's Hospital Stay
Sam Gaisford left Wednesday to resume housekeeping with his wife who had been in a hospital for several months. They reside in Rogers Arkansas.
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Sam .Gaisford
Rogers, Ark
Diller Fraternal Picnic Grows Into Local Reunion
The Diller fraternal picnic has become an annual old home gathering inviting former residents to reconnect and celebrate community ties. Organizers emphasize warmth and shared memories as old friends renew acquaintances and plan future visits.
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Diller
Clinton L. Tinstman to wed Elizabeth Gretzinger
Invitations issued for the marriage of Clinton L. Tinstman of Harlowton Montana and Elizabeth Gretzinger of this city. The ceremony will take place on the 24th at the Gretzinger residence, parents of the bride.
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Clinton L. Tinstman
Harlowton
Mont
A. L.tinstman
Elizabeth G. Gretzinger
John Gretzinger
Bones Exhumed Near Diller City Hall for Identification
Thos P Price of the geological department at the State University Lincoln viewed bones unearthed during basement excavation at Diller city hall and water works. The specimens were described as fragmentary mammoth or mastodon remains, with uncertain identification. The university gratefully accepted the samples and notes on their location for its records.
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Diller City Hall
Thos.p. Price
Geological Department of
The
State University At Lincoln
Aymammoth
University
July 14 Sabbath Service at Union Church
There will be the usual morning service on Sabbath July 14. Union services at the Christian church in the evening where Rev. Ogden Jr will preach. Wm Boyle pastor.
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Christian Church
Ogden, Jr
Sabbath services and union sermon announced
Methodist Sabbath school at the usual hour and preaching at 11 a.m. at Diller and 3 p.m. at another location. No evening service. Union services at the Christian church led by Rev. E B Maxcy.
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Diller
The
Christian Church
E. B. Maxcy
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First National Bank
Albert Leaper
E. B. McClay
B. Hill
Dr. Viera
Red Cloud
B.E. Ballard
Ballard
Verona Bell
Ethel Weddle
Della
Renelda Fanders
Peoria
Frank Gerwick
Excelsior Springs
A.O. U. W. Lodge
Gertrude
Lamb
Cub Creek
J. E. Kerr
Bernice
Giead
Wn. Stetber
Reams
Kan
Agra
T. E. ‘Wagenaar
Esq. Kelley
Myron Patton
Wigee
Pear] Bell
Bud’’ Bell
Burlington
Frank Pospisil
Patrice McElwee
Omaha
Ik ‘Clark
H. Ex Grape
Ae Between
Dora Mathias Nelson and Son
Chicago
Cloyd Cully
Rebecca Ballard
J. .C. Herwig
Humboldt
A. L. Tristman
Chamberlain
Fern Raymond
Nebr
Miss M Hale
Colo
Shutt Drug CO
Wm. Boyle
Methodist
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