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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1916
Page
1
Summer started midweek as Allen Nelson departed Tuesday for a brief vacation. A notice asks for an old paper and states they will call around July 1. C. E. Campbell near Harbine underwent a hernia operation at a Beatrice hospital last week.
The item lists financial safeguards from the Depositor's Guaranty Fund of Nebraska and notes various small town happenings. It mentions savings and time deposits, a near new buggy sale, poultry and dairy prices, village firecracker concerns, visiting relatives, flower gatherings, and strawberry sales figures from several local plots.
Several fine showers this week. Ice house open on Sundays till 10 o clock. If W A Raymond. George Renz made a business trip to Beatrice between trains Wednesday. Try our Victor chick food Es Vwy prepared for young chicks er J D Fanders. Save your old paper till about July 1st when I will call for it are E K Ellermeier. Mrs J L Wheeler and son Ray of St Edwards came Tuesday on a visit to her daughter Mrs H K Shutt and family. We just received a car of McCormick twine. Better call us up and let us save some for you S C Hutchinson.
Family gathering planned at the Presbyterian church on 11.4 M. Sunday June 25 with reminders to bring the family. Grace Watson attended summer school at the University School of Music in Lincoln focusing on violin and voice culture. St John Masonic Lodge in Glasgow, Scotland traces 900 years of existence and received a charter of incorporation from Malcolm II in the early 11th century.
Several Kansas towns join Manhattan in digging dandelion roots and selling them for 15 cents per pound as a substitute for crude drugs. The scarcity of medicinal herbs drives demand for these weeds as a usable substitute in medicine.
Dan Buller aged sixteen son of a Harbine grocer was kicked in the stomach by a horse last Friday and died Saturday. The funeral was held Monday with burial in the Jansen cemetery.
The Burlington railroad has planted two hundred thousand catalpa trees on its right of way. Company officers expect the trees to improve the appearance of the right of way in a few years and prompt questions why other railroads do not follow suit.
Local planning for a Fourth of July celebration in Wymore announced. Farmers report a second plowing of corn and wheat nearing readiness for harvest. J. E. Kerr and daughter Bernice and Mr. Davis visited from Steele City, while Miss Fern Raymond traveled to Lincoln on Thursday morning’s early train.
Miss Esther Gretzinger traveled yesterday to visit her sister Mrs Clint Tristman and family in Hildreth Nebraska.
Mrs Mary Miller and her daughter Adeline left Tuesday for a ten day visit with relatives in Lincoln and Winside Nebraska.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Boettcher traveled last week to see their daughter, Mrs. Anna Lund, at her home in Lindsborg Kansas.
C L Waggoner tops shooting tournament in Marysville with 194 of 200. Local visitors Beatrice Ballard sisters visit Aunt Miss Ballard. Rohrer and Tristman couples travel. Carranza forces clash with U S cavalry near Carrigal killing forty and taking seventeen prisoners. Robert Williamson returns home to Sabetha after visit with parents in Diller. J A Cully and Floyd visit Fairbury for tonsil surgery. Kielsmeier party returns from Denver trip. Diller village board seeks bids to build electric light plant or transmission line to serve twenty four hour power at low cost.
A small gold monogram pin with letters A Z was lost between H. Z. Diller's residence and the Presbyterian church. Return it to the record office and receive a reward.
The Record corrects a previous report stating Mrs Miller received two thousand dollars from the MWA for her husband’s beneficiary. The actual amount was one thousand dollars and Mrs Miller expresses gratitude to the order for its prompt payment.
Will Wolcott, a Reynolds Ilat mail carrier, was struck by lightning Saturday while five miles west of Reynolds. The bolt disabled his car by energizing the electrical system and burning out the coil box fuse. the engine died after a brief gasp and the car swung slightly. Wolcott remained unharmed.
J D Fanders departed on the early Monday morning train to Flint Michigan to attend a Buick dealers gathering funded by the company. Mr and Mrs A J Tinstman and daughter Mrs W G Tinstman and Mr and Mrs Jacob L Rohrer spent Saturday in Beatrice in Mr Tristmans seven passenger Studebaker car.
Forrest Warthen traveled from Washington Kansas last Friday to spend a week visiting his grandmother and Aunt Flo.
Miss Nancy Trauvernicht and her sister Mrs. F E Wolken with family visited here about a week and returned Wednesday to Wymore.
Monday's stock shipment lists Fred Henrichs with one car cattle, Theo Henrichs with one car cattle, Farner's Shipping association with one mixed car and one car of hogs. The widow of ex county treasurer A M Davis, sister of Cr Clark of Steele City, was buried Wednesday in Steele City cemetery after dying at their home in Kansas.
Sunday schedule includes Sunday School at 10, worship at 11 with Isaiah's Vision and Commission, evening service at 7, and a 8 oclock song service. Special youth events, union prayer meeting at Presbyterian Church Wednesday 8, and July 2 children's program listed.
By order of the Village Board and Town Clerk, a prohibition on shooting firecrackers or explosives on Commercial Street and within one block on Castor Street is issued. The Children's Aid Society of New York will host an orphan party at Fairbury on June 30 to place children in Jefferson county homes. Applications may be filed with local committee members H F Hole Luther Nelson Dr A J Coates Ed Howell R J Davis and Vine Pease. Distribution at Steele's opera house at 10 o'clock on the above date.
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