Record Vol XXXV No 12 Update Missing
A brief notice notes the Record issue remains Vo XXXV No 12 and that volume aid numbers on the first page do not show a change from last week.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1921
Page
3
A brief notice notes the Record issue remains Vo XXXV No 12 and that volume aid numbers on the first page do not show a change from last week.
A short notice states Mrs. W. G. Robertson offers music lessons at her home. The snippet adds a quip about a “gay world” and does not provide additional context or names.
A campfire meeting is set for June 14 at 7 30 p m at the home of Bernadette Freytag. In Auburn Illinois at 6 15 a m on June 1 a girl named Virginia Jane was born to Rev and Mrs C W F King formerly of Diller. Both mother and child are doing nicely.
Miss Esther Innis a Wesleyan University student arrives Wednesday and will spend the summer at the home of her parents Revs. C. F. and Iva M. Innes.
Art Etchison left the area on the 17th via the evening train. He had visited with his mother Mrs. Etchison at the home of his brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs S C Moser.
The Missionary Society of Federated Community Church will meet Thursday June 9 with Mrs H K Shutt hosting and Mr Carrie Calandar leading. The group will discuss the West Indies topic.
Friends of Dr O C Diehl of Diller report he is recovering after a serious illness of typhoid fever. He is receiving treatment at Fulls sanitarium.
Mr and Mrs Will Clark and their Boulder Colorado family travel from San Diego and Ocean Park California where they spent the winter. They left May 24 and are en route home via their automobile with many relatives and friends in Diller and vicinity.
Ford offers a touring model without a self starter at 415 dollars in Detroit while Dodge touring car sells for 985 dollars, a reduction of 300 dollars. Ford’s lowest prior price was 360 dollars in 1917 for the touring car.
A county court Saturday morning heard a petition for the appointment of Mrs. Anna Hubka as administratrix of the estate of her husband Frank Hubka who died May 25. Rentals from real estate amount to about $3 000 and the personal property was estimated at $10 000 Beatrice Express.
Mr F W Wesenberg and his daughter Mrs O Lottman and daughter Jennie went to Lemars Iowa to attend a relative funeral and returned home Saturday. They also visited their cousin and daughter Mr and Mrs George T at Remsen Jr Mr Wesenberg stayed longer for a visit.
Mrs Bernice Creekmar visited from Fairbury to see her friend Mrs Violet Fry and other Diller acquaintances, while the note muses on how some people seem brainy or hairbrainy.
Mrs Frances Starkey and her son George moved into the Asa Colman home after remodeling repairs and repainting. The notice mentions a policy offering a tuition refund if a graduate does not find a position within 30 days of graduation or after sending for the catalogue from Grand Island Business College Nebraska.
Charley Barber led three truckloads of well fed cattle from his feed lots to the St. Joe market Monday. Cattle sold for 7.45 dollars per hundredweight, a good price for the day as the market was off 25.
Officials from the Northwestern, Burlington and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroads pledge to halt gambling on trains. Conductors will have arrest powers to enforce the new policy.
Wymore businessmen press for Barneston dam completion to obtain hydro electric power for transmission to Wymore’s municipal plant. Barneston project expected finished early in 1922 per Beatrice Express. Mrs. Jessie Morrison Spillios, after attending her mother's burial in town, returns to Ocean Park California as grandmother of an 83 pound boy born June 3 to Chester A Morrison and his wife.
Mr and Mrs Chas Brandt received a telegram from their daughters in Pueblo stating all are safe following a cloudburst flood that devastated the city last Friday. About 500 people were reported killed and property losses reached 20 million dollars.
The notice directs Diller telephone subscribers to follow clause twelve prohibiting outsiders using their line without paying the necessary charges. It calls subscribers to govern themselves and enforce the contract terms.
After shelling corn at Henry Wessel's, Wessel Shipper Ed Shipper Arch Carmichael Dewey Snowman and Roy Diller killed 314 rats in the last week. They report 199 in three to four hours, plus 75 and 40 on prior days, suggesting others imitate the effort.
A short ad notes cabbage plants for sale at the Methodist parsonage priced at a quarter per hundred. The rest of the text consists of humorous aphorisms about common sense lies and money, with no clear news event.
Jansen News editor and John A. Bartel tour the Rohrbaugh farm seven miles from Fairbury. They describe a 540 acre property with timber and prime pasture, noting the largest and most modern farm residence in the area with independent electric lighting, a wood furnace, abundant timber and spring water for stock. Dairying and 17 cows milked daily are mentioned, with milk hauled to Fairbury each morning. The Blue River and timbered landscape frame a villa-like farmstead praised as superior to city life.
California’s prune harvest reached 200 million pounds last year and is forecast to hit the same level again. The piece humorously notes heavy traffic from over nine million autos clogging streets as a backdrop to the fruit boom.
The piece argues that used crank case oil from cars or tractors can serve as an effective, inexpensive vermin spray for hennery use. It suggests draining the oil regularly and replacing it with fresh oil, claiming the refuse oil kills vermin while caring for machinery.
Dr. G H Newton of Fairbury Nebraska advertises eye ear nose and throat services. A D M Ackerman of Fairbury Nebraska invites readers to remember them for glasses and optometry specialists.
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