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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1904
Page
1
Fragmented items list services and events including insurance offers, sales of prepared food for poultry, a note on Sunday train service, coal on hand, travel mentions to Omaha and St. Joe, and various visits and purchases. Notable names include J. D. Fanders, J. B. Zook, Nelson, H. Dawson, Dr Potter, Clarence Long, W. M. Carmichael, E. L. Loock.
Local notices discuss land sales within 1 to 3 miles of Diller with Herman Sasse, plus updates on wheat readiness, teaching contracts in Blauser district, saloon license opposition, Dr Feese’s practice moves to Diller on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and teachers meeting in Fairbury. Also market ads for gas stoves, travel notes for Frank Miller, and a Cascarets health ad promoting bowel health with 10 cent box.
Those seeking wy trotters should come soon as some will begin training July 2 and prepare for the Nebraska state fair and other events. The Percheron Slerman will be kept at the farm the entire year.
Remote family faces injuries from accidents and uses Bucklen’s Amica Salve. The ad claims it treats burns cuts wounds and ulcers and names J. W. Sutton’s Drug Store selling the 25 cent ointment.
Fire and wind insurance offered for Kimball's Laundry through SPEAR Dave Co. Dr. Gritzka moved to Dr Powell's residence area west part of town. Various local sales include an iron bed for 1.98 and a sideboard for 12.00. Town social events and visits to Odell noted along with real estate purchases and hardware association trip. Notices urge settlements of debts and mail address requirements.
An agency announces they have the C. Shinn lightning rods and invite inquiries from homeowners seeking to rod houses or burns. EB Lame notes their rods as the best option and offers to provide figures for installations.
Leonard general agent of the State Savings and Loan Association of Beatrice was in Diller Wednesday in the interests of that organization, and the Record man is the local representative, opening up a handsome amount of new business in addition to the existing business the Association already had there.
Mr Bicknell Young of Chicago Minos a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship will deliver a talk at Simpkins Opera House Fairbury Tuesday June 21 1904 at 8 p m Admission free All are cordially invited.
Fresh testimony floods in praising Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. A Virginia man claims three years of bronchitis vanished after using the remedy. Also touted as effective on lung and throat troubles including pneumonia and grip with a guarantee from J W Sutton druggist for trial bottles.
Mrs. Chas Rheinhart visits Beat rice days. flags displayed in Diller and Fairbury business trips by A Friday and J E Clark. June 11 1904 birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs John Folkers. Diller residents travel, appoints and relocations noted including carrier appointment June 15 and Dr Folsom eye clinic on June 25. Timothy hay sale set for next week at four and five dollars per ton.
Elmo Hadley returns from Endicott with a relic gun found near Thompson. The old arm bears Uncle Sur’s initials and was discovered by Dr. Fairchild who built a 12-room house.
Travel to the St. Louis exposition with return tickets and tiered durations. Good fifteen days for 15.20, sixty days for 16.90, and all summer for 20.25. For details, consult the ticket agent. The St Louis expo is in full operation and viewed as a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Mrs H Newson of Decatur Alabama endured three years of pain from indigestion and stomach and bowel trouble. Doctors failed until she tried Electric Bitters which she says cured her completely. The medicine aids liver kidney stomach and bowel troubles and costs 50 cents, guaranteed by J W Sutton Druggist.
Beatrice business visitor J. W. Sutton spent Wednesday in town. Req. Kelley conducts strong sales of town lots and lands. J. W. Sutton and family plan a Monday departure to attend the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Summer begins next Tuesday.
A notice lists a job offering for a few horses at $1 a month and mentions C. E. Fairbank living 2 miles east of Diller. It notes Diller Ewporth League delegates Sadie Bixby and Hattie Sparks in Pawnee City and J W Fouta addresses for Fairbury July 4 events. It also records Walter Delano as a former Commercial Hotel landlord among Cripple Creek disaster victims and details a June 15 1904 real estate transfer in Diller showing Jos Dymacek selling Lot 3 Block 1 to Harlan Hadley for $25 and then to Fauuie Dymacek for the same price.
A vintage ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for sick and nervous headaches. It promises pure blood and better health. Sold by J W Sutton, druggist, at 25 cents with a money back guarantee.
W P Milla and wife came back Saturday from the Pacific coast tour. They say they enjoyed visits with former Dillerites now in the west but Nebraska remains best. On the way home they stopped at Storm Lake Iowa to visit Alvin Shively and family and Mrs Frank Adama. Their daughter Bertha joined them for the trip home.
The ad promotes Green's August Flower as the cure for a bad liver and dyspepsia. It claims the drink promotes buoyancy and vigor and has been a household remedy for over thirty-five years. Trial size is offered, with regular bottles at a small price, at Neely's Pharmacy.
J W Fouts returns from Lincoln after postmasters convention. Frisbie enlarges farm residence with wall under work and new addition. O J Maybon at Lincoln this week. 41 Smith Diller assists in Diller State Bank in cashier’s absence. Col John W McDonnell of Fairbury to wed Genevieve Conrad June 22 at St Michael’s Fairbury. Chas Osborn travels to Lincoln to qualify as substitute railway mail clerk with six months to resign rural route post. Geo Strockey loses a milch cow struck by Burlington train. cow had broken free and was killed.
At a Saturday meeting the A O U W lodge voted unanimously to hold its eighth annual picnic at Diller on Thursday August 11 1904. An executive committee led by Frank T Pearce and a finance committee were appointed to ensure the event. The notice also inserts a moral reflection on liquor sales and business complicity from a Valley news letter.
At a directors meeting Mr. R. J. McClelland resigned as national secretary and Mr. J. W. Sutton of Diller Nebraska was elected successor. McClelland will still oversee field work representing the company in the Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Sutton is noted as a leading Diller businessman and is expected to bring capable service as secretary. residence relocation to Beatrice not yet known.
Market reports strawberries priced at 1.40 per twenty four box case. The Diller State Bank front received a fresh coat of paint this week. A black hog weighing about 180 pounds is missing from stock yards two weeks past. Notices seek information on the hog. Mrs Depue and Babe Kerr returned from Holton Kansas and plan to stay through summer before returning to Daykip around September first.
Jane Gilleland Van Buskirk Allison born June 7 1816 in Fairview Guernsey County Ohio died June 13 1904 near Diller Nebraska aged 88 years 6 days. She married Fisher Allison Oct 22 1837 in Toronto Canada and later lived in Dix Indiana Milledgeville Illinois and Milledgeville IL before moving to Nebraska to reside with daughter Mrs Newton Musser. She was a devout Methodist and mother of thirteen with four sons in the Civil War. Funeral held at her Diller residence with burial planned in Milledgeville Illinois according to family funeral rites.
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