Corn and livestock notes Amid drought and deer
Corn looks fine despite dry spell. Wanted to buy stock pigs and sows to farrow. F Hartzel notes and Moon & Son advertise monuments at seasonable prices in Fairbury Nebraska Est 1886. Shoes repaired at Electric Shoe Shop. Dentists seek failed false teeth cases with satisfaction guaranteed. Local families travel to Lincoln and Kansas City. a swallow of poison wheat caused no lasting harm. grasshoppers menace South Dakota Nebraska Iowa counties. Earl Atkinson and family visit from Pittsburg. editor returns from Kansas City with granddaughter and family staying for Diller picnic.
Hog market listing note at Diller Thursday sale
Farmer Paul Stark advertises hog buying at Highest Market Prices with Diller Merchants Grain Co. Readers are invited to list their hogs and bring them to Diller on Thursdays for bidding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diller
Diler Meriers Grain. Co
Paul Stark
Local notes on doors bids and family visits in Nebraska towns
Community announcements list affordable screen doors and windows from Cornbelt Lbr Co in Diller. Neighboring families from Blue Springs Lincoln and Clay Center attend reunions and visit Key radio station, with mention of teaching positions and a drowning incident prompting travel to Des Moines.
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Cornbelt Lbr.,Co., Diller, Nebr
John’ Koch
Blue Springs
James Hays
Herbert
Barber and Garnet
Clay Center
Nebr
Key
County Commissioners Set Meeting For August Fourth
Dr Claude Ellis traveled to Chester Wednesday after his wife visited their son Dr Cecil Ellis and family. The old Harbine school building sold at auction last Saturday for 107 dollars to Wm Sandman who will move it to his farm. The outbuildings sold for 29 dollars.
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Claude Ellis
Chester
Cecil Ellis
Harbine
Wm. Sandman
Pleasant Hill Meeting Notes and Hot Weather Summary
Pleasant Hill members met at Faith and Hope Rent's home on July 29 1931 to discuss issues demonstrate and judge activities. The group planned an August 5 meeting with Ethel Mildred Roseman and others. Reporter Hope Renz notes extreme heat with many locations reaching the century mark on thermometer readings across the state including Alliance 104 Auburn 102 and Red Cloud 108.
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Pleasant Hill
Faith
Hope Rent
Ethel
Mildred Oe
Leona Roseman
Wm, Glathar
Frank Roseman
Clarence Renz
Edna Wehling
Mildred Glathar
Hope R
Renz
Diiler
Alliance
Auburn
Broken Bow
Columbus
Culbertson
Pairbury
Fairmont
Gordon
Grand Island
Hartington
Hastings
Holdredge
North Loup
Oakdale
O'neill
Red Cloud
Sidney
James F. Colgrove dies after long illness in Odell
James F. Colgrove died at his Odell home after a nine year illness. He is survived by his wife and two sons and one daughter. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at the Odell Christian church with burial in the local cemetery. Mrs. Maude Hurst and family visited in Odell from Beatrice and Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Fern Hurst
Betty
Donald
Diller
Will
Carico
Melva
Lincoln
John
Steele City
James F. Colgrove
Odell
Odell Christian Church
Semi Annual Apportionment Of State School Fund
Fairbury News reports the July semi annual apportionment of the state school fund totaling 515,974 70. Jefferson county receives 6 542 37 while the county totals reflect 1 898 64 for 95 districts and 4 643 73 from census, with fines and licenses adding 50275, boosting per pupil by over ten cents. The three fourths share is based on census yielding about 95 cents per pupil, slightly below last July, with main fund sources including bond interest insurance licenses and leases. Neighboring counties receive varying amounts including Gage 9946 68 Saline 6632 41 Thayer 5538 67 Fillmore 85656 Nuckolls 4811 99 Douglas 55146 18 Lancaster 29427 22.
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Jefferson County
Charles W. Taylor
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Theseas
Gage
Saline
Thayer
Fillmore
Nuckolls
Douglas County
Lancaster
Fairbury
Leo Dressen Saint lefty star dies at Diller Nebraska
Leo Dressen former Saint first baseman who played 1915 to 1921 died Tuesday in Diller Nebraska. He led the American Association in stolen bases three times 1917 1919 and 1921 and topped runs scored in 1917 and 1920. Dressen was known for speed defense and a 300 batting average era before modern ball changes.
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St. Paul
Leo Dressen
Saints
Diller
Nebr
George Jacobson
Lincoenne
Dreasen
Lexington Park
Fleet
American Association
Dressen
Lee
St. Louis Cardinals
Chick Autrey
Death of Leo Dressen Remembered by Millers Boss
Mike Kelly, manager of the St Paul Millers, mourns Leo Dressen a top base runner and fielder. Dressen starred for the Saints before and after 1919 1920 pennant teams and later played in the Midwest League before illness ended his organized baseball career.
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Saints
Dressen
Chick
Minneapolis
Millers
Vernon
Hollywood
Hibbing
Wisconsin
Mike Kelly
The
Minneaphs
Leo Dressen
Kelley
Rival suitors and a woman's aging soiled line
Rival suitors for a girl’s hand run neck and neck. A woman is rarely called an old maid before she acts like one. Since the river was discovered its name has appeared as Mechesebe Michispe Misiepi Mississippi.
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Americaherento River
Mississippi
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F. Hartzel
Fairbury, Nebr
Electric Shoe Shop
Leach
Carrie Wrigley
Edith Dale
Bob
Jack
Wrigley
Carrie
Martha
Mel Nelson
South
Dakota
Nebraska -and-Iowa
Earl Atkinson
Pittsburg
A N. Sparks
Atkinson
Univeeahe
Fred Steffen
Clarence Steffen
Richard
Ruth
Steffen
Pleasant Hill Snaps
McCormick-Deering
S. C. Hutchinson
State
St. “Joseph
Excelsior Springs
Diller Record
Ntlewoman
America
Bargein Otter
Maine
R.F.D
American Poultry Journal
the Country Home
Everybody's Poultry Magazine
the Farm Journal
Gentlewoman Magazine
Pathfinder
Weetty
People’s Popular Monthly
Standard Poultry Journal
Woman’s World
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