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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1910
Page
1
An ad boasting a line of toilet articles aimed at refined ladies promises strong appeal. The copy emphasizes quality and tasteful design to attract female customers seeking high standards in personal care products.
Fire and weather notes? Dr. Ellie will be away from July 18 to late August. Mrs A M Diller visited Mrs Emerson in Beatrice, returning Tuesday. Miss Lulu Scholle of Hebron visits with Miss Fern Raymond and friends. Daisy and Ruth Lamb spent Sunday with their mother at Sycamore Springs Kansas, returning Monday evening.
Three month old shepherd pups offered for sale at one dollar each. Enquire at this office. Reverend William Boyle and wife left Monday evening to spend four to five weeks vacation at Palmer Lake Colorado.
The 12 year old son of R B Albers living on the W H Diller farm three miles northeast of Diller fell from a cart Sunday and broke an arm. Cash Don and Patrice McElwee visited their mother Mrs Ida McElwee in Diller and joined a family picnic on Indian Creek Wednesday. Golda Miller spent two weeks vacation visiting friends in St Joe Trenton Mo Pittsburg Kan after duties as stenographer for Fairbury Wind Mill and Iron Works.
The notice asks readers to share interesting items near Diller and promises a reporter to verify details. It emphasizes improving the news service for the community and benefiting subscribers.
A. D. Colman departed for Chicago yesterday to purchase goods for his jewelry store. Mrs. Henry Fasnacht and daughter Pearl returned Tuesday from a two week visit in Randolph Iowa. The picnic committee hired the Fairbury band to perform at the fraternal picnic in Diller on August eleventh. Golda Blythe, visiting her uncle B F Blythe northeast of Diller, returned to Blue Springs. Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, guests at the Wm Nida home four miles west of Diller, returned Sunday to Pawnee City.
Quinter Fry's wheat threshed and hauled to Diller sold by the Diller Farmers' Grain Co for 92c or 80c above test at 62 lbs per bushel yielding 17 percent per acre. G W Carmichael's horse kicked by his 9 year old son who struck it with a stick. Dr Taylor attended to a head wound. News from Steele City Press.
Dr. Ellis and family depart Sunday for Denver to attend the national dental convention. They will visit mountain resorts and spend about a week with his mother in Wyoming after the meeting.
A Diller note urges residents to endure hardship with optimism. It laments complaints about hard times and predicts crop failure this year while urging people to stay positive for family and town.
B F Blythe of Diller Nebraska, a prosperous farmer and cattle feeder, boasts that their region has the best roads in the country. He cites a 1200 pound steer shipment worth 775 dollars and notes the community's voluntary road upkeep. He praises improved auto travel, road maintenance, and the shift from wagons to cars. Additional notes mention Blythe's 40 years in Gage County, his other carloads of cattle, a newborn in Specht family, Hollenberg Kansas picnic, and travel updates from Foote, Mayborn, Starr, and Mrs. Jennie Bixby party.
R F Starr sold last week to Peter Keaten the G C Blauser quarter forty four miles northeast of Diller for twenty thousand dollars. Rev Wm Boyle officiated Sunday morning at the marriage of H C Wykert sixty seventy eight of Troy Kansas and Sarah Jane Hammond fifty eight at the home of her daughter C A Maxwell in this city. The bridal party left on the noon train Sunday for St Joseph Missouri.
A Wymorean source notes that Burlington General Manager Holdrege told Omaha visitors there would be no changes to Wymore operations. Rumors claimed shop work would move to Havelock and repairs split between Red Cloud and Table Rock. Committees from Wymore sought confirmation in Lincoln and Omaha last week.
Mrs S J Clark arrived Wednesday from Wymore to visit relatives in Diller. Notices include a request for a second hand eulky or gang plow and a suggestion to try an ice cream soda at Chipperfield Drug Co.
Mrs Wm Barton returned home last Friday from Illinois where she had been summoned to attend the funeral of her father.
Tuesday evening the rear axle of the Tristman auto broke near Harbine. The occupants were brought home by Arthur Price who was alerted and went after them with his car.
Mrs John Langworthy of northeast of Diller suffered multiple painful wounds on her feet after stepping on a grain sickle Tuesday. A doctor treated the injuries and expects a good recovery barring complications.
The Fairbury Chautauqua schedule spans August 12 to 22 featuring a $2,800 program. Notable acts include Frank R. Roberson Montaville Flowers Bachoritch Orchestra Lincoln McConnel Gov J Frank Hanly Strickland Gillalay Mrs Lenora Lake and more. For details write FL L Rain Manager.
Job printing orders for the Record printery are urged. The Presbyterian Coterie will meet next Thursday with Mrs. Ian Bell and all the ladies are invited.
Mrs J B Wright passed through yesterday returning from Denver to Beatrice. George Mason of Beatrice, former resident, visited Saturday night and Sunday at J W Mathias’s north of town. Esq D R Kelley left on No 16 Tuesday to visit daughters Mrs Ollie Reitzel of Parsons Kan and Mrs C A Mille in Council Bluffs IA, planning to stop in Lincoln to see son C H Kelley.
A. J. Hutchinson, owner of The Diller Livery, offers for sale one new carriage, two new buggies, several other buggies and driving harness. Also two or three work mates available.
G W Carmichael and family from near Steele City visited Sunday with Jasper Long a mile west of Diller and met Chas Hickham and his wife and child who had returned Saturday from St Francis Kansas. They then went Monday to Odell to visit Mr and Mrs Wm Carmichael.
Corrected every Thursday Diller markets list Wheat No 2 and No 8 prices with 56 to 58 pounds, plus Corn varieties white yellow and mixed shelled. Nonsense trailing text follows, not part of agricultural listing.
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