Local Additions Report From Dewitt To Diller
Miss Kitty Otierry returns from Dewitt last Saturday as Mrs Scoville hosts Mapdsy visit Hebron Hod Gusset bonds with home folks at 4 Lee Calkins moves to John Clark s dairy farm for the season Mrs Cora Colman and children go housekeeping near depot Billy Riddle s drug team chases through town scattering egg cases Dr Diehl returns home from vacation after a bad weather spell Fred Robinson Lincoln barber pleads guilty to second degree murder gets life sentence Mrs Will Wylie and children visit from Galena Kane moving to Black Hills Phillips Comedy Co from Loock s opera house all next week with nightly program changes two hours of farce music novelty acts mind reading bills forthcoming
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The
Phillips Comedy Co
Loock’s
Opera House
Notice to Horse Owners From Lincoln Seller
Notice to horse owners: a 3 year old black Percheron from Lincoln Nebraska purchased Feb 22, recorded 61308. Described as stylish with coach-horse action and sound legs. View at Merrill farm, one mile south and east of Diller. BEN BEBRENDS Wa. GoEge 21. The farmer should prepare tools for spring. Farm Journal.
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Lincoln
Nebr
Merrill Farm
Diller
BEN Bebrends
GoEge
Farm Journal
Ward family history obituary fragment from Nebraska church member
Sarah Jane Googe born in England August 29 1849 came to America at age three, lived in New York Ohio and finally Nebraska. She married W. Ward May 23 1869 and bore five children Richard H deceased in infancy Edward R in Ellis Nebr Hong M Wright in Diller Nebr Wm Ward in Portland Ore and Alice E Orm in Oregon City Ore. She joined the Dutch Reformed church and later the Methodist church.
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Sarah Jane Googe
England
America
New York
Ohio
Nebraska
Sarah
W. 2. Ward
Richard H
Hdward R
Ellis, Nebr
Hong M. Wright
Local Social Notes Include Sickness and Travel
Alex Ballard has been ill with grip since Sunday. Morris returned Wednesday from a business trip to Odell. Flora Warthen visited Beat Rice to spend a day or two with friends.
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Alex Ballard
Mre
Chas
Morris
Odell
Flora Warthen
Beatrice Au
Maw Visits Kinney Relative Ties in Nebraska
Mrs D. Maw traveled from Burlington to Kinney Nebraska on Tuesday visiting relatives for a few days.
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Burlington
Kinney
Neb
Fine February Close and March Start Delights Readers
The last day of February and the first day of March were two of as fine days as one could wish for at this time of the year.
DeVries Cousin Wedding Draws Lincoln and Beatrice Attendees
Miss Lena deVries of Lincoln and Miss Bena deVries of Beatrice returned home Tuesday after attending the wedding of their cousin Miss Hannah deVries.
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Lena deVries
Lincoln
Bena deVries
Beatrice
Mise Hannah deVries
Ballard Elected Secretary of State Postal Clerks
Miss Bert Ballard of Fairbury won the secretarial post for the state postal clerks association at Omaha last week. She previously lived in Diller and has served eleven years at the Fairbury post office. Mrs Gear and daughter Ada M Cully attended the A N A Surprise for Mrs Charley Tomemaker, their names left out by the compositor.
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Bert Ballard
Fairbury
State Association of Postal Clerks
Omaha
Ballard
M. E. Gear
Ada M. Cully
Charley Tomemaker
Wilde youths end trapping season on regional sloughs
John Wilde and Fred Wilde, aged 17 and 19 of Beemer, close their winter trapping along the sloughs and Elkhorn river. They report 3 428 muskrats and 108 mink taken since November 1. Muskrats sold at 37 cents each yield 1 254 36 dollars and mink ink at 3 dollars each brings 309 dollars, totaling 1 563 36 for just over three months of work.
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John
Fred Wilde
Beemer
Elkhorn
Brown-Colgrove Nuptials Near Odell In Rural Ceremony
Owen E. Brown and Nellie J. Colgrove married at the bride’s parents home five miles northeast of Odell on February 24 at 8 pm. Rev. G. Emery officiated. The bride, daughter of James and a prominent farming family, has worked at the Independent Telephone office. The groom, a farmer near Diller, plans to move to Colorado with his bride. About fifty relatives and friends attended.
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Owen E. Brown
Nellie J. Colgrove
Odell
Stella Vrooman
G. Emery
Christia
James Colgrove
Brown
Independent Telephone Company
Diller
Colorado
Times Change in Farming Weights and Wages
An old farmer laments modern shifts from hogs sold for nine fifty a hundred to selling bacon rind and cows to city life. He contrasts past practices with today’s money focus, noting hog cholera, banked profits, and a move from rural work to urban schooling and chewing head cheese.
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Kansas City
Oera
Milking a New Cow A Satirical Guide From Jefferson Bounty
In a humorous county column, the author mocks farm lore by describing a perverse method to milk a new cow. The piece juxtaposes absurd “calf” play with crude instruction, ending mid-sentence as the sting of satire lingers on rural gender roles and farm humor.
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Diller
How to Test Seed Corn for Farmers Education Campaign
The Omaha commercial club promotes seed corn testing with a germination box. Ears are labeled and kernels tested at multiple points, germination timing spans four to six days, and ears with strong growth are kept for seed. Seed testers are sold by implement dealers or seed houses. a Lincoln inventor claims a four eight passenger biplane.
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Omaha Commercial Club
Relic Mayflower Tobacco Box Passes Through Generations
A Holdrege man owns a metal tobacco box shaped relic said to have traveled aboard the Mayflower. It has been handed down through generations with the eldest son receiving it at each father's death.
Change in prices since 1866 newspapers note
A humorous historical comparison shows 1866 prices for eggs and sugar, butter and coal oil, and wheat to calico dresses. It contrasts three dozen eggs per pound sugar, six to eight pounds butter per gallon coal oil, and two bushels wheat per calico dress with modern ratios, praising farmers and condemning trusts.
Probate Notice in Jefferson County Nebraska
In the matter of the estate of Caroline C Mathias deceased John W Mathias petitions for administration to A Mashy Administrator March 1 1910 hearing set in county court Fairbury hearing to show cause publish notice in Diller Raconp for three weeks before the hearing Judge presiding
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Caroline C. Mathias
John W. Mathias
Mashy
Fairbury
Said
Bors
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Black Hills
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