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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1921
Page
5
The piece blends a light verse about a cheerful town on the River Smile with brief rural notes. It includes farm traffic, wheat harvest chatter, and a few local mentions such as Grace Sternkaup visiting Oshkosh relatives and S. F. Clark delivering a Holstein heifer for $100 to J. C. Long in Haddam Kans.
Thieves gained entry by throwing a brick through a plate glass window at Ackerman jewelry store in Fairbury on Sunday night and stole watches valued around $200.
E R Ward and family from Lincoln traveled by car on Su day to visit his sister Mrs C H Wright. They were joined by their father W T Ward and wife and returned to Lincoln that evening.
James Gray of near Isabel Kansas shipped a calf hide to a Kansas City hides house. It sold for 1.10 while transportation cost was 1.08 leaving two cents in payment. The Columbus Telegram quotes this remark about Bergdoll and Carpentier.
A blend of brief items mentions Clark Miller of Fairbury visiting Diller with relatives, S J Thompson and wife visiting Wm Kennedy's family near Fairbury, and Ensley Carmichael and wife staying with Diller relatives. It notes local opinions on airships and jokes about the Volstead act, plus fashion jests about height and style.
Um Um Food Sale announced for Saturday afternoon and evening at Mr Snyder's store hosted by the Pollyanna class. Miss Caroline Hiatt has returned home to Beatrice after visiting with her sister Mrs Frank Cully and aunt Mrs Ruth Bowers. Chas Gaisford and family from Gage Oklahoma and Mrs Chas Gaisford of Ellis visit S F Clark's home this week. Mr Gaisford is a cousin of Mrs Clark.
Classified ad offers rugs at 8.90 for 9x12 and 60 cent mats 18x36 from A Palmer Co Beatrice Neb. News items report Adah Diehl and Eva Green driving Monday to Vliets Kam where Green stayed with her mother Sara Witty. Diehl visited relatives in Blue Rapids Marysville and returned Wednesday. Howard Smith former Diller School superintendent now at Peru State Normal attended summer school with wife near Steele City and will teach at Bayard Nebr next year.
State College of Agriculture endorses a fly repellent for cows to ease milking in hot months. A home formula uses fish oil one gallon, two ounces pine tar, two ounces pennyroyal oil, and half pint kerosene. Apply lightly with spray cloth or brush. odor repels flies and keeps cows calm.
Diller will play Ball at Plymouth next Sunday. The Diller Shipping Association, F. E. Hale manager, sent two cars of stock to the St. Joe market Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Tristman began an auto trip to Wisconsin on Sunday planning to stop that night with relatives at Courtland.
Former Diller pastor Reverend F. G. Knauer is now permanently located as pastor of the Presbyterian church in Steele City, with his family relocating from Hastings last week. Miss Creola Hadley leaves Beatrice to return to school at Endicott after resigning from her stenography position with Dempster Manufacturing Co. in Beatrice. she attends Peru this summer and reports pleasant surroundings and enjoyable work and social life.
Frances Tandy and Ray Remley wed Tuesday at Trinity Methodist Church in Denver. Rev. Edwards officiated a small ceremony with relatives and close friends. The bride teaches music in Denver Public Schools. the groom manages the Supply Department of Grauman Social Fountain Co. They left for a wedding trip to the Atlantic Coast and will visit Ray’s parents in Diller before resuming their journey east.
Miss Belva Kinnamon and Claude Woods eloped to Lincoln where Rev. J. K. Shellenberger performed the ceremony. They will live on the Woods farm in Diller. Miss Kinnamon, daughter of the Kimmons, is a Fairbury High School graduate and former teacher. Mr. Woods, son of County Commissioner Woods, is a Diller High School alum who attended the state university and Lincoln Business College.
A fragmented tongue in cheek note about a nighttime lawn mower disturbing residents at 4 A. M. The piece imagines the mower’s noisy routines rousing neighbors and questions why it should operate so early, implying a clash between yard upkeep and civility.
Two threshing machines operate near Fairbury as Ed Jones fences a 120 acre field with a twenty bushel yield at 63 testing. Fred Ackman reports nineteen bushels on a 25 acre field and Mr. Gaylor eighteen on a small field. Many fields remain unthreshed and may yield under ten bushels as threshing season begins.
Grain at the elevator nearly vanishes after a strong wheat run. Farmers plan to do much of the work themselves this year. Sunday night Bert Gerard's house burned, windmill ruined, only a package of government bonds saved. Cause unknown. insurance fell short of loss. Ray Remley and his wife arrived from Denver.
Mrs Adolph Arpke left Fairbury Thursday for a Wisconsin visit. Franz Mudrow family attended Richard Mudrow funeral in Edgar. Mildred Lucille moved in with Geo Arnold on June 8. Bert Davenport of Hebron visiting sister Mrs Frank Shipman. Jay Saum and son Virgil of Filley visited with her parents Sunday.
Mrs. Tom Murray and Florence Shipman visited relatives near Jansen. Harlan Weaver's family visited Ellis. Richard Douglas joined the Mudrow home on June 12. Fairbury visitors included Mrs. Russel Campbell Mrs. Henry Arnold and Mrs. O J Schroeder. Omaha visitors were Mrs. Buller and Pete Buller. Jansen and Harbire clashed in ball Sunday Harbire winning 20 to 5. Mrs Henry Arnold shopped Beat rice Monday.
Diller markets list No 2 hard wheat at 1.07 dollars and No 8 shelled corn at 41 cents. New oats offered at 26 cents. Produce table notes butter packing butter and various small lots including roosters and seed eat items with miscellaneous prices.
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