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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1923
Page
3
List of local events including Diller Chautauqua from July 30 to August 3 and Diller Picnic on August 15 and 16 Nebr State Fair from September 2 to 7 Jeff Co Fair from September 18 to 21 with regional schedules and dates.
A lighthearted line notes that even cider will be at work soon while joking that a wife allows the husband to speak only when he is asleep. The quip plays on domestic roles with a humorous twist.
Mr and Mrs Will Carrico and daughter Melva traveled from Wymore to spend a day or two here with friends.
D W Griswold received word Monday of the death of his niece Mrs Mable Parson near Randolph Kansas. She was buried Tuesday. Riley Tucker and daughter Mildred and Mrs Chas Hayes returned Friday from an auto trip to Auburn Nebraska where they visited friends and relatives.
Mr and Mrs A H Colman left Fairbury Saturday to visit her brother Leslie Osborn and family at Racine Wisconsin before touring the eastern states.
A Californian invents a combined screen and glazed door mounted on an overhead track enabling use as either screen or door depending on weather. The device offers flexible entry while protecting interiors from insects or cold air.
Mr and Mrs John Gretzinger Jr and their children spent Monday visiting relatives in Byron before Mr Gretzinger returned to Kansas City on Tuesday to resume work. Frances Eick who studied at Wesleyan University returned home near Diller on Saturday with roommate Ruth Baker who will stay at the Eick home for a period.
Miss Veda Cavett returns from Omaha to visit Diller relatives then depart for a nurses training course at a hospital in Norfolk Nebraska on the day of departure.
John Starr visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Starr during vacation and returned early Sunday on the train to resume work on the advertising staff of the Chattanooga Medicine Co.
Mrs Jacobs, Mr and Mrs Burney Hendry and daughter of Elmyra New York, visited Lovie Wenz then left on an early Monday train for Iowa to visit friends.
Mrs Ida Woods left Steele City this morning by the St. Joe and Grand Island line for Lancaster Kansas to attend the 40th wedding anniversary of her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Mart McCullough former residents of the Diller vicinity.
Person unable to meet payments offers a near new piano in first class condition to buyers who cover a small equity amount and continue payments. Interested parties should write with price and full details to Lock Box 716 Omana Nebraska.
W. E. Fanders and family left in their auto Tuesday for Sheboygan Falls Wisconsin where they intend making their home.
The aid society of the Federated church collected 40 dollars at an ice cream social held Saturday night at the Colman House.
Mrs. Mary Emerson and Mr. J. H. Emerson, and Miss Nellie Green, motored down from Lincoln Saturday night and spent Sunday with Diller relatives.
A two day picnic on August 10 and 11 is planned at Jansen. The Jansen band, engaged for the county fair, will provide the music.
Mr and Mrs W E Anderson return from southern Kansas vacation. Mr Anderson reports the Kansas wheat crop is very poor until within about twenty five miles of home.
Large white finish cups and saucers described as first quality for hard service. Sold by set at 90 cents each.
Mrs Newt Fisher of Thayer Kansas visits at Geo Fisher’s home then returns to Endicott after being called by the death of her father W A Compton.
The fragment shows Angela Scott in the Kansas Register commenting on a fashionable flapper. She describes looking in a mirror, brushing on paint, and declaring plans to go downtown, inviting others to join the outing.
Ray Waiman, a Washington county youth, drove a blue racing car into Fairbury and passed a hot $120 check at the Ford garage. He was captured at Ragan, Nebraska, and returned by Sheriff Tippin. Authorities allege he also wrote and cashed no fund checks at Beatrice merchants and professional men, earning several hundred dollars.
The Guide Rock Signal reports about 38 Poland China bred sows shipped to Guide Rock farmers from a controversial Improved Livestock Association. Prices range from 145 to 155 dollars per sow, with a buy back of two offspring at 75 dollars each. Critics call the scheme a bubble and urge buying bred sows locally for 35 to 50 dollars with pedigrees.
The Record acknowledges receipt of late copies from Herford Texas presented by Bert Frisbie a former resident of the Diller vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hargis of Detroit visited Mrs. Wilson Brandt and family this week. Mr. Hargis plans a two month stay while Mrs. Hargis travels to visit relatives in Lincoln.
Ab Bristol a linesman for Diller Telephone Co. at Beardsley Kansas admitted unloading a car of coal and receiving 42.00 dollars at one dollar per ton as easy money on vacation last week.
E F Habicht left Monday for Chicago to buy goods for his store traveling via Weassington Springs South Dakota where his brothers Carl and Max Habicht run a large store and one will accompany him to market.
Miss Gladys McIntyre of Lincoln arrives Sunday for a visit with her grandparents Mr and Mrs D K Calkins of Blue Springs and her uncle aunt and cousin Mr and Mrs L D Calkins and daughter Bernice.
The year and a half old child of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Kroetchen living on the Mitchell farm four miles south and two miles west of Diller drank coal oil. The child became very sick but recovered after Dr. Dieh treated the case.
Rev. W F Clark pastors Sunday school at 10 and public worship at 11. He will fill for Rev. Mr Knauer at Steele City Sunday evening. Union service led by Rev. Mrs Innis. thanks to Jefferson Co Fair managers for fans to help cooler attendance.
The notice outlines Sunday school at 10 a m preaching at 11 a m and union evening services at the Federated church. It announces next Sunday’s election to select one delegate for the Lay Conference in Lincoln on Sept 22 1923 and urges official Board attendance after morning services.
There are no preliminary numbers this year at the chautauqua. Each afternoon and each evening will be filled with the best of talents and worthy of anyone's patronage.
Oliver Diehl describes a circuit from Cheyenne Wells to Colorado Springs and Mesita on a chautauqua assignment. He notes a desert road trip in an old Ford roadster, visits with R. F. Starr and Eleanor Savage, Pagosa Springs observations, hot springs, a rock quarry near Mesita, and a lively park setting near a swift river.
Oliver writes from Pagosa Junction and Telluride describing two-hour train delays delaying a Durango arrival, rough narrow gauge equipment, and mountain slides that buried sections of track between Telluride and Ridgway. He notes scenery, high passes, and hopes to reach Ridgway and back to Nebraska, while Beuford Bell travels with him.
A Pagosa Springs resident writes of receiving a letter, expresses joy about hearing from the sender, and describes a recent trip to Colorado Springs as pure great. The note mentions a card illustrating the trip and a clue about figures along the side.
The narrator recounts an eight hour trip ascending to Pikes Peak using a telescope to tell time from Colorado Springs. They note scenery along the way including Garden of the Gods with recognizable formations and a stop where two Indians made jewelry at a midway house called Glen Cove before the afternoon program begins.
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