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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1916
Page
5
S F Clark operates thirty bee stands and expects to sell a thousand pounds of honey this season. Miss Adeline Miller returned Wednesday from a week visiting friends in and near Fairbury.
A warning urges travelers to carry Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, stating bowel attacks can be sudden and severe and the remedy is obtainable on trains and steamships for ready relief.
The draught and recent showers have damaged properties around Eckwell five miles southwest of Fairbury. A man bitten on the neck last week died Monday night after swelling and pain followed the bite. an Omaha doctor could not help. The piece also notes social comments on women's skills and economic cooking.
A fragment discusses stomach pains cured by Chamberlain's Tablets, written by Emma Verivin of Lita Ohio. It also recalls Abraham Lincoln on leg length, joking that short legs would prevent sock gaps. readers are reminded of old-time ad copy and political quips.
The Fairbury M E church voted unanimously to invite Rev Orrill back for another conference year. The church resolution will go to the annual conference this fall for bishop assignments. Rev Orrill has served Fairbury for over ten years as pastor and district superintendent.
The Lincoln Journal announces a special offer to mail the daily and Sunday editions for one dollar after the presidential election. It promises full coverage of world events and Nebraska soldier news, urging readers to subscribe and read about their servicemen. The Sunday issue is highlighted as a big special feature.
An automobile accident at Rock Creek bridge six miles east of Fairbury left Mrs. Mosher seriously injured. The car, carrying John Z. Mosher Reynolds Nebr four Mosher children and Minerva Hiatt, backed down a hill after engine failure and overturned, breaking the windshield to free Mrs. Mosher.
Mrs. Sarah Warthen visits her sons in Beattie and Washington. Mrs. C. E. Caldwell returns from Flanigan. R. F. Starr sells the Henry Steffen 80 acres south of town to Lincoln parties and 160 acres in northwestern Kansas.
A reader from Wilmington North Carolina praises Chamberlains Tablets for constipation and indigestion and notes their mild gentle action. The testimonial claims the product provides a pleasant laxative effect and availability is broad. In other notes threshing rigs crowd the Diller area and shoe shop hours extend to 9 30 Saturdays.
An ad promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for summer, claiming high value. The Democ rats caucus selects delegates for county events and lists nominees. Threshing yields reported across area with several fields averaging 21 to 60 bushels per acre. Editorial reflections praise newspapers, advertising as a guide to reliable goods and local life, amid a column on modern civilization and onlookers at Beatrice Express reactions.
Mr and Mrs Jackson their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs John Henrichs and two other daughters of Bruning Nebraska were guests Sunday of Mrs Mary Miller Also Mr and Mrs S D Maw and Mrs Christie Thompson Mrs Jackson is an old Iowa friend of Mrs Miller Maw and Thompson They drove from Bruning in their automobile returning that evening.
The Pleas ant precinct caucus met in city hall Monday night nominating Assessor W. H. Plager Constable Ott Fox and Oliver Farrow Road Overseer Dist No 9 Chas Nickeson Dist No 43 Will Carpenter Dist No 44 S F Stull Dist No 45 W J Frisbie for precinct offices Delegates to the county convention at Fairbury Saturday include Clyde Hutchinson W C Line J W Fouts Frank T Pearce Henry W Fouts Chas Barber C Hutchinson W A Snyder A J Hutchinson Arthur Treick Harrison Line J T Henrichs F W Steffen and Wm Tasche Precinct committee consists of W C Line Frank T Pearce and W E Mudge
Mr Volney A. Raymond 25 and Miss Esther M. Green 20, both of Diller, married Monday evening July 17 at 7 in the Second Presbyterian manse Lincoln. Bride daughter of H. E. and Mrs Green, groom son of Mrs Isabelle Raymond. They return to Diller and begin housekeeping on Laramie Street.
There is widespread catarrh. local remedies fail as the disease is constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio, is taken internally and works through the blood to the mucous surfaces. A hundred dollar reward is offered for any case it fails to cure. Send for testimonials and circulars. Also Hall's Pills for constipation.
A week long stay on the State Fair grounds offers camping after harvest. The event features a top tier amusements program with automobile racing by the world’s best drivers, four days of horse racing, Ruth Law performing daring night flights, seven bands and a grand double quartet.
Joseph girl visits the packing houses and returns excited by the cleanliness sanitation and orderly operations. She observes refrigeration cooling salt piles and large scale meat processing with surprising efficiency and notes substantial costs and fees involved in car sorting.
Oil strike near Curtis Nebraska disclosed by S Glasscock who owns farmland. First oil found twelve hundred feet down then further wells sink one thousand six hundred feet as oil shows stronger with depth. Superior Press reports the finding and ongoing drilling.
Spectators filled the stands as a man attempting to break the speed record was killed during a high profile Saturday event. The scene recalled older eras when bullfighting faced taboos, now seemingly accepted in select regions.
Articles of Incorporation detail the Diller Farmers Grain Company as a Nebraska corporation based in Diller Jefferson County. It outlines business to buy, sell, and store grain and related products, own elevators and warehouses, set capital stock at 10060 dollars, commence 1906, and run with a five member board and annual officers.
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