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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
4
Local notes list Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show scheduled for Fairbury on July 3 1915. Other items include cattle shipment by George Henrichs to St Joe market the sale of Uriah Hadley residence for 435 dollars and a lightning strike injuring Mrs Charley Wright.
A scrapbook-like recap notes events from 1900 including Willie Diller injuring his foot on a nail, Mrs S R Merrill and two children leaving for Boulder for the summer, L P Raymond selling a circle swing to Lanham residents, and Masonic officers listed. It also recalls water tanks by John Lamb for 4th of July, Eve era wardrobes, and E L Loock counting 177 school children in 1900, split 82 boys and 95 girls.
Fifty years ago the Diller Cornet Band was engaged for Steele City Fourth of July celebrations in 1890. Miss Alice Geer completed a year of schooling in Jackson with recitations and songs. Jake Wortman, a horse thief, escaped from Beatrice jail after injuring the jailer with a leg broken from a bedstead. The Beatrice Chautauqua attracted attendees from Diller including Park Koons, W W Fry, T P Price, J O Blauser, Fannie Diller, Mrs Jos Bixby and others. Sells Barrett’s circus drew crowds, six unnamed young men set out at dawn to attend, and Mr Pearce commented that many local young ladies would have enjoyed joining.
The quetzal, a striking Central American bird, remains unfazed by a nearby gunshot and does not move from its branch. The creature’s calm behavior highlights its bold adaptability.
J H Reed, a Kalamazoo cripple, runs a Bird Library with over 100 canaries and other songbirds. He lends birds to invalids and shut-ins who request them by postcard and physician note, along with cage and feed. Reed, recovering from a fall, started three years ago to brighten sick lives with birds.
Dr. Thomas E. Snyder of New Orleans a government entomologist says termites annually damage woodwork in homes to about 40 million dollars. He urges insulation to keep wood from soil contact and soil poisoning or masonry drilling to inject poison, preventing termite movement between timber and earth. He notes termites use soil contact for moisture and may tunnel through stone foundations or cracks.
The Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina is among the oldest in North America, formed by westward crustal crumbling and erosion over 140 million years. French botanist Andrew Michaux in 1794 climbed the peak and reportedly sang the Marseillaise with a guide, declaring liberty and republican praise.
European culinary tradition holds strong in New Brunswick with Scotch English Irish and French descendants preserving menus and recipes. French cooking blends with orchard dairy and coastal seafood producing cod cutlets halibut lobster rich pea soup and wild strawberry omelet. The fare suits summer fishing swimming and boating programs.
Chinchillas in captivity are fed once daily in the evening with vegetable matter and grain foods like rolled oats and corn, plus abundant green feed such as alfalfa hay and lettuce. Typhoid fever remains a US risk as germs survive months to years, spread by fecal matter, and are killed only on surfaces by sunlight. A water-powered clock in Rome’s Villa Borghese uses falling water to drive its mechanism and has kept time for over a century.
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