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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
1
Thompson, Mrs. John Kuper returned Tuesday from visiting relatives at Auburn. 51 team of separates for sale.
A tatted bourdoir cap was lost on Main Street Saturday night and left at the Record office is requested by Miss Anna. Hill visited relatives after arriving Tuesday from Humboldt to stay with her parents Mr and Mrs A J Hill. The Diller Shipping Association under F E Hale sent another hog car to the St Joe market Tuesday.
Dr Claude Ellis drove to Lincoln Sunday after his wife and daughter Ethel who had visited a few days returned Monday.
The four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Emil Krebs swallowed a pin Tuesday evening. A local physician was hastily summoned and removed the pin from her tonsil.
Mr and Mrs Charles Maller of Graff and Mr and Mrs James Lutcavish of Te umeeh drove to Diller on Saturday to visit the families of Newt and Charley Hayes and Asa Richardson.
Curtis Geer and his mother Mrs Martha Geer traveled with relatives to Savannah Missouri on Saturday seeking treatment for a suspected lip cancer diagnosis.
A 12 year old boy, son of Louie Wheling, was badly bruised last Friday when the hay wagon he was driving ran away about five miles south of Diller. No bones were broken and he was recovering.
Mr John Wrigley Mrs Gee Myers and Grace drove to Lincoln in Mr Wrigleys car for a weekend visit to Mr Ed Wri a ogle Fromarry with them. They stayed until Monday visiting Diller friends.
A four year-old child of Mr and Mrs Job Meyer living north of Diller was reported to have a swollen nose. The parents sought medical help in Neocausus where a Diller physician had been summoned to treat the swelling.
Mrs. W. A. Carico of Wylmore visited Tuesday with Diller relatives and friends to a straight rye tour at J. D. Fanders.
Mrs J W Mathias has moved into town and is occupying the L M Cavett property on Castor Street.
Seven black shepherd pups for sale by Geo Grubber of Diller. Phone contact available.
MaCage Wright traveled Tuesday to Savannah Missouri to consult a medical specialist about a suspected cancer on his hip.
About 3000 dollars worth of silks dress goods hosiery gloves and jewelry were stolen from D F Isaacs general store in Jansen Tuesday night.
Due to caret fever at Fairbury the Republican county convention is announced to be held in Jansen on July 27.
A. J. Hutchinson threshed 28 acres at 17 bushels per acre and 42 acres at 124 bushels total, with the 70 acres averaging 14 percent bushels per acre.
Mrs. John Mathias and two other families report their sons’ ship arrived safely overseas. The notice confirms the successful voyage and arrival of the vessel amid wartime conditions.
Professor W L Loyd begins a singing violin cornet clarinet or any orchestra instrument class on Tuesday July 23. Mrs Stotts at the hotel is the contact for details and Mrs Loyd will also start a piano class on the same day.
Mr. Maw and Mrs. S D Maw and Fay arrived home Saturday after a three week journey to their old home in Davenport Illinois. They were accompanied home by Mrs Maw's sister B Knougse who visited here Wednesday. Mr Maw reports plenty of rain and good crops in Eastern Iowa.
A blunt warning notice cautions speed violators that arrests and fines are their own fault and urges compliance to avoid penalties. The second and final notice stresses personal responsibility for speeding infractions.
Community items include a Victor chick food pitch from J. D. Fanders, movement of Paul Renz and Harry Lohr to Camp Dodge, a July 17 1918 birth to Mr. and Mrs. Herman G. Stahl, Quentin Roosevelt killed in action, A. T. Watson visiting Shea, Delmar Hale resigning to work in Waverly, reclassification of Jeffer county registrants, and a party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. John Carico with neighbors in attendance.
Miss L. O. Ballard and Mrs. A. C. Wood led a petition in Diller asking the ringing of the war angelus at 11 o clock each day starting Saturday until the allies win. It gathered more than one hundred signatures, with one exception.
R F Starr chairman asks Diller residents to observe a War Angelus starting Saturday July 20 at 11 o clock. Citizens should pause work or pleasure for one minute each day to join in petitions for speedy victory for our arms and allies.
Camp Funston now a year old, with an outlay of 12009000 by army contractors. At peak, 15000 workers built a vast cantonment and the Zone, a modern city center with a main street lined by new business buildings.
Mr and Mrs Frank T Pearce visited Blue Springs Sunday evening with Rev and Mrs F A Carmony formerly of Diller. Carmony resigns as Blue Springs Methodist pastor to join Y M C A work in France for two years. Mrs Carmony will accompany him to New York then live with an aunt in New Jersey. Their son Arthur transfers from Camp Cody to Ft Sill Oklahoma.
The July 13 1918 letter from Mrs H S Armeted of Diller Nebraska encloses a subscription payment for the Record Tecumseh Nebraska clerked as a neighborly request. She reports dry conditions with wheat fair and corn needing rain and mentions kind local people.
Mr Geo Pitts an elderly settler from near Diller Gage County was severely injured Monday forenoon when he fell from a back porch onto rocks. He received twelve facial stitches and suffered spinal shock but is improving under Beatrice nurse care.
Miss Ethel Harkins daughter of Mr and Mrs A J Harkins of 3103 Kingman boulevard wed Lieut Charles Edward Reinhardt of Camp Dodge. The ceremony took place at Union Park Presbyterian Church with Rev R K Porter officiating. Attendants were Miss Fern Miller and Lieut William Carpenter. The bride, a Drake University student and Iota Alpha Omega sorority member, and the groom, from Diller Nebraska, both noted in local circles.
Fairbury Nebraska July 10 1918 instruction from County Council of Defense urges English only telephone conversations unless parties cannot understand English. Operators must enforce by cutting off Germanspeaking users and urging use of English as German language will soon be forbidden. Signed John C Hartigan chairman.
Church notes report Walter Hauver began painting the church last Monday and the Rev M E Gilbert will lead the final business conference of the year on Friday July 19. Epworth Assembly in Lincoln Nebraska at Epworth Lake Park runs August 1 to 11 with prospectus available at the church literature table.
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