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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1927
Page
5
The Diller community lists events from Aug 17 18 and Aug 30 Sept 2 with the Jefferson County Fair. Local M W A meetings occur on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. A grain shipment to St Joe markets and twin births near Diller are reported along with farm yields and a call to obtain the 1926 Yearbook of Agriculture through Congress members.
Dr and Mrs Claude Ellis returned Monday evening from a trip to their wheat ranch near Kanorade Kansas where they left Friday morning. They report the wheat crop not very good this year but the corn prospects are mighty fine all the way.
It notes painter Rolf Beckmann of Diller for painting and wallpapering. It mentions Dr. Adams successor to Dr. Garland at 1114 North 6th Street Beatrice and a wage statistic claiming 14 cents a minute as the highest in history. It also reports Henry Wiemers delivered the season’s first wheat load graded No. 1 at 62 pounds per bushel selling to Diller Farmers Grain Co. for $1.23 per bushel.
Mr and Mrs E L Dougherty of Bruning Nebraska visited relatives including Mr and Mrs Arthur Grone and family Mr and Mrs G L Richardson and family and Mr and Mrs Frank Grone during the past week providing a family gathering in the area.
Mrs. Ray Colman and her daughter Maxine, who stayed with sister Mrs. R. W. Green and family since Friday, returned to Lincoln Tuesday. They will shortly depart for Los Angeles to spend weeks with relatives and visit friends in Yuma, Arizona.
Geo Sibles reports 21 bushels per acre, Albert Hubka about 27, Henry Frisbie 18. Will Henrichs threshed 16 acres at 27, Paul Renz 13 acres at 214 total bushels, Fred Henrichs 38 acres at 19 per acre.
The piece by Elmo Scott Watson highlights British colonist and forgotten hero William Boquet who aided Braddock’s defeat era, then saved Pennsylvania and the Atlantic seaboard from an Indian attack. It contrasts popular history with his overlooked victory and urges readers to learn this American story for their children.
Advertisement copy lists Diiler Filling Station for barrel oil delivery and F A Moon and Son monument makers in Fairbury Nebraska established 1886. Adds a political stand on regional division, plus a quip about bathing suit fashions and an old fashioned question.
E L Loock travels with daughter Mrs E R Henrichs of Fairbury to his wheat ranch in Western Kansas. Mr and Mrs Less Hill and family drive to Peru where daughter Opal Hill stays for a six week term at the state normal school summer session.
Mr and Mrs A F New returning from Oregon plan to settle on their 400 acre farm near Washington Kansas. They visited briefly with nephew Will Bond and family as they traveled through Beatrice yesterday.
W R Barnett spent the first part of the week with his son C Barnett helping finish cultivating corn before threshing time. He returned to Lincoln Thursday and then took his two little girls Lucile and Margaret home with him for a visit.
A writer scorns the dull hometown and urges a younger woman to seek glamour in larger places. The piece contrasts local life with tales of marble cities, reading, and distant markets, while urging care not to abandon familiar duties.
A stray remark on money making machines and license plates aside, the piece reports Mrs. S J Thompson visiting family in Dorchester Nebraska and D V Fanders returning from Idaho with renovations at the front office. It includes a crop report: winter wheat yields a record 21.6 bushels per acre, 74,740,000 bushels total, 3,457,000 acres. It also riffs on historical myths with references to Columbus and Cortereal, noting scholarly debates and a Brown University dig near Assonet Massachusetts.
A. Marsonn and W. C. Lies sign attestations before the officer, dated on the lithday. The commission expires March 5th, 1980.
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