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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1905
Page
5
News fragments report bulk and package seeds offered by J. C. Bhraser, cattle shipped to Chicago by Dr. K. R. Fritz Wells and Mayborn, and homesteads for sale by Dr. L. A. Powell. The column mentions a Portland trip, a housework change for Mrs. Jas Pickard, and a divorce filing by Ida Miller Bixby cites desertion and drunkenness.
Notice of settlement requests from J. L. Lamb after selling pump and wind mill business to Geo Picard and Son. Special Burlington Route train from Red Cloud to Beatrice Chautauqua on Sunday July 16th at 1 A M and return leaving Teatee at 6 P M. Round trip fare from Diller is 90 cents. Also remarks on telephone lines and Belt system reaching 20 000 cities against harsh terrain.
The relatives of the late Mrs Geo Ownes express gratitude through the Recoup for sympathy and condolences during sickness, death, and burial. Miss Venia Kellar of Lincoln gave a reading at the M. Eve church on Tuesday evening under Epworth League auspices. she is a Diller High School alumna skilled in elocution. Receipts totaled $11.25.
The message features Uncle Sam giving wind and rain forecasts and advising farmers to delay potato spraying until tomorrow. It notes that over 100,000 farmers in Ohio already receive government weather forecasts by phone, with Iowa and Illinois gaining similar services, and Secretary Wilson hopes the service will expand to all farmers with telephones.
M Wright ships a load of hogs and plans another market shipment today. Forest Hurtzell and A H Colman guests to the Pacific Coast trip. Uncle Bill Delane visits from Wymore near Diller. Old settler picnic set for August 16 17 18 at Endicott. Diller photo gallery to open July 25 26 and weekly thereafter.
The president announces an extraordinary session on November 10 to address railroad legislation.
The Burlington offers Beatrice tickets with a round trip to Diller for $1.20. Travel is from July 6 to July 18 inclusive. Return limit is July 19. Ask agent for particulars.
The Park Row Building in New York City is described as the highest occupied structure, rising thirty one stories with towers reaching 390 feet. Without the towers the roof stands at 336 feet and includes twenty eight stories with 950 office rooms. The building cost four million dollars.
Diller and nearby residents joined the crowd to hear Governor Folk speak on the grounds at Fairbury. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Josh Robertson, Mr and Mrs F D Carr, Mr and Mrs Frank T Pearce, EL Z Tomemaker and family, and Miss Olive Ballard with Miss Fannie Diller.
At high noon Wednesday Eld W. T. King of the Diller Christian church presided over the marriage of Melford J. Patton to Elva O. Hiner at the brides parents home one tile north west of Endicott. About seventy guests attended a sumptuous dinner and the couple will reside with his father Robin Patton two miles southwest of Diller until spring.
Paris reports a so called diamond cure for consumption and urges use of a remedy praised by W T McGee of Var tiber Tennessee. A testimonial claims fourteen year cough relief and permanent cure from Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. Spear Drug Co advertises 50 cent and 1 dollar sizes with trial bottle free.
Gertrude Lamb and Mabel Folkers visit relatives and attend Chautauqua in Beatrice. The Twentieth Century Limited wreck costs insurers over a million. Harve Pittenger of York plans leasing his Diller area farmland for another year. Dr W T Jeffryes, ex‑resident, sells Arvada property and practice and will visit Dilek friends. Before 1906 three Indian reservations in MT WY UT to be opened for young men seeking independence to claim land.
A pleasant surprise party may be given to your stomach and liver by taking Dr. King's New Life Pills. They relieve pain and discomfort, aid dizziness and constipation. 25e at Spear Drug Co's drug store.
Diller attends the Fairbury chautauqua on Tuesday to hear Lawson of Frenzied Finance fame. Also present are Rev. and Mrs. F G Knauer Mr and Mrs A L Trist man Miss Sophia Johnson Miss Agnes Friday Mrs Lottie Miller Miss Mable Jackson W J Diller Ernest Habicht Carl Habicht Wm Kunter and Billy Hull.
Ruth, the daughter of RE N Dewey of Agnewville, Virginia, was thought near death from cholera infantum last summer. After using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, she improved within five hours and recovered after half a bottle was given. The Spear Drug Co. offered the remedy for sale.
A neighbor woman, seeing several people in rigs near Jacob Stucker’s home, phoned her husband and thought bandits had ransacked the house. They checked and found pallbearers returning from a funeral including Henry Madden Thomas Copeland J H Carmichael and G B Pearce. The woman maintains they looked like a hard lot.
A humorous reminiscence portrays a city girl’s dream of marrying a farmer and wandering together through life. Instead she endures a demanding day of farm chores, muddy fields, fence repair, and a misbehaving billy goat, learning that rural meandering is tougher than imagined.
Chicago dressmakers say women already wear hoopskirts and demand grows rapidly. If outfits match 50 year old proportions, the poor will be left behind. Rev. F. G. Knauer and wife hosted the Presbyterian church choir at the parsonage last Friday with ice cream cake and musical novelties.
Chicago based factoring house seeks a trusted assistant familiar with local territory. Permanent office position with weekly pay of 18 dollars. No investment required and no previous experience necessary. Apply to Manager Branches at 328 Dearborn St Chicago.
William Fisher died Sunday night at his brother Fred Fisher's home near the Upson church from a neck cancer. Born July 2, 1856 in Hanover, Germany, he was 49 years old. He was a widower with a daughter. Funeral held Monday at Bld. W.T. King officiating, interment in Upson cemetery.
Railroads in Nebraska post a fare of one dollar and fifty cents for round trips to the Epworth Assembly at Lincoln starting August 2. Nearby points with fares one third lower apply the lower rate. Season tickets cost a dollar. all expenses are low. The event is billed as the best ever with expected large attendance. Prospectus and program offered free by mailing a request to President N. O. Jones in Lincoln.
A. H. Colman arranged a Wilmington area celebration before leaving on his Pacific coast wedding trip. Three to four hundred guests attended at B. F. Lightner’s lawn, with twenty two gallons of ice cream and twenty three cakes served on three long tables. Phonograph music fireworks and canton crackers provided entertainment as children filled the first seating, and guests wished the couple a happy journey and safe return.
A reflection on saving habits notes that saving ten percent is hard but beneficial. It compares daily spending to future gains and suggests small investments like seeds or Chamberlain's remedy can prevent larger costs later. Spear Drug Co. sells the remedy.
The article notes a ten million dollar annual deficit in rural delivery, roughly 300 dollars per route, and dollars lost to towns when residents buy from distant cities. It urges farmers to support local markets to boost home town values and prevent dull communities, urging loyalty from D. M. Carr.
An act of Congress opens the Utah Uintah Indian Reservation, over two million acres, to public settlement around September 1. The land will be allotted under the Homestead Act in 160 acre tracts via a lottery, inviting all U S citizens who have not claimed homestead rights.
Village of Diller invites sealed bids for a brick sidewalk 4 feet wide on Lot 12, Block 9, 1st addition. Sidewalk to be laid flatways with edging on end and a 2 inch sand cushion. Bids due July 20, 1905 at 8 p.m. by Village Clerk Henry Eaton. The board may accept or reject any bid.
W. W. Watson City Engineer estimates cost to pave brick sidewalk ordered June 1 1905 by the Village Trustees Diller Nebraska. Plan is brick laid fiat with edging set on end and a 2 inch sand cushion for a 4 foot walk at 35 cents per linear foot.
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