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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1918
Page
3
A fragmented item mentions seed for sale by J W Fouts and seed corn testing. It notes a Red Cross benefit and an opera event, plus a birth of an 8 ½ pound boy to Mr and Mrs Herbert Beckwith near Diller on February 28. A Nebraska town ordinance banning German language on streets is referenced and Mrs Ray Green's return to Lincoln to teach is noted.
The Dortohy Reeves Co. played in the opera house every night but one last week and left Sunday to fill a week’s engagement at Oketo Kansas.
E. E. Scott, living near Beatrice, will move this week onto the Geo. Fisher farm four miles west and one north of Diller, a property now owned by Wm. Tanner of Beatrice.
Women often become nervous and despondent. When this is due to constipation it is easily corrected by taking an occasional dose of Chamberlain's Tablets. The tablets are easy to take and pleasant in effect.
F. W. Lowe delivered Ford cars to Rupert Andrews Jno Franken H H Beckwith and the Steele City Telephone Company during the past week. He expects to obtain additional cars the coming week as part of next deliveries.
Dale Bugbee, once local postmaster, enlisted in the U S Navy last fall and arrived last Thursday from the Great Lakes training camp on a 30 day furlough. He looks hale and hearty and the naval life appears to agree with him.
Clarence Harrington, 35, of Reynolds in the county's southwest corner, shot himself with a shotgun early Sunday. He and his wife, married less than a year, had a dispute after she danced with other men at a party the night before and refused to dance with him. No inquest was held.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio. The firm asserts Hall’s Catarrh Medicine cures by acting through the blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered free by mail.
Mrs. A Friday visited Fairbury native S J Friday and old Diller friends as hens formerly barred from sale begin producing eggs for market.
Mrs Sylvia Fish and her daughter Adaline return to Lincoln after ten day visit at Mary Miller home. The notice also advertises three to four tons of fine loose prairie hay for sale by L M Holland in Diller. phone contact provided.
Beatrice region brief reports a Beatrice county judge wedding Odell M Fred Van Lanningham and Agnes Novotny both 23 from east of Diller. It also notes William Carmichael listing stock placements for the season and prices for cattle horses. A Hospe Co Omaha announces 35 piano bargains from 50 to 2000 dollars and new pianos and player pianos from 225 up.
A strong north wind blew all day Monday raising dirt that obscured the sun. After a moonlit night, Tuesday began with a south wind stirring dust again though less intensely than the previous day.
Red Cross Auction plans form in Fairbury with committees working county wide. Donations range from a pound of butter to a registered cow. Organizers expect a large crowd and an all day sale beginning in the forenoon to accommodate offerings and benefit charitable relief efforts.
J. W. Fouts sold the P. W. Price 120 acres to B. F. Mathias for 8400 dollars. A 73 pound boy was born the 33rd instant to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Schultz of Beatrice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Schultz, former Diller residents.
Advertisement lists one hundred bushels of yellow shelled corn from the 1916 crop for sale at two dollars fifty cents per bushel. Seller identified as Christ Knuepple with Ditler phone.
De Cleatus A. Bugbee, 28, of Steele City, and A. M. Holcomb, 27, a Lincoln teacher, were married at Lincoln Thursday afternoon.
Allen Nelson formerly of Diller now a prescription clerk at Harper's Drug Store in Beatrice completed his army physical examination at Fairbury last week Thursday. He was placed in class A-11.
J L Easley of Macon Illinois attests Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been his sister’s favorite medicine for colds on the lungs for fifteen years. He adds he has used it himself for colds and it always relieves promptly.
On March 1 many changes take effect around Diller. John Greider relocates to the old Sammy Diller farm now owned by W C Line. Elmer Glathar farms the Charley Brandt place. Geo Riddle returns to town, taking Arthur Price’s residence.
Supt HB Smith led a party of fourteen Boy Scouts on a trip to Steele City last Saturday. Ford car prices rose by 90 dollars as Dillerites celebrate the raise. Roy H Edgington and Albert B Sass were the only locals drawn in the last 15 percent of the first draft aimed at training camps this week. Sunshine Circle members sent flowers to Paul Beckwith and Gertarde, now hospitalized in Boston and Omaha. Five carloads of stock were shipped from Diller Monday. Blauser plans to move into a new bungalow on his 80 acre Lincoln area farm. About forty five neighbors surprised Mr and Mrs S D Maw before they move to Diller.
Scott A. Miller of Camp Funston visited over Sunday at the home of his mother Mrs. Mary Miller. He is pleased with the treatment and training he is receiving and says his superior officers are spoken of highly. He gets plenty to eat and looks well.
An old advertisement describes bilious attacks causing constipation nausea and headache. It promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a liver tonic and stomach cleaner with quick recovery and a cost of a quarter.
The state fair board engaged Hagenbeck's circus for a second appearance next September with a four day run replacing five. Automobiles races with fireworks will be held Monday, labor day, and the show runs every afternoon and night from Tuesday to Friday of fair week. Last year the circus drew the largest crowd, earning the show a share of gate receipts just over $20,000.
The damp March weather favors pneumonia germs and warns that a cold can develop into pneumonia. Early treatment is advised, with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy recommended at first signs of a cold, and readers are told to ask others who have used it about its value.
The wife of Homer S. Yeakle, county commissioner, died suddenly last Saturday at their Endicott area home two miles north. A daughter of ex-sheriff and Mrs. Wm. Bonowitz of Endicott, she left two children aged four years and one month old. The couple had sold their farm after a public sale two days earlier and planned to move March 1 to the Grape property in Diller.
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