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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1919
Page
3
Farmers sowing ate and Rex Greer business trip noted
Fragmented notes mention farmers sowing a phrase ate and a business trip by Rex Greer to Steele City. A six pound boy born Tuesday March 11 to Mr and Mrs Orin Miller in Ellis. Blair Burkett of Odell spent Sunday night with his son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs B F Lightner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SB. “Ofters
Rex’ Greer
Steele City
Orin Miller
Ellis
Blair’ Burkett
Odell
B.F. Lightner
Take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Endures Time Tested
Birth notice reports a son born to Mr and Mrs Cornelius Eden four miles east and forty four miles south of Diller on Wednesday March 2. The infant weighed seven pounds and is described as a healthy boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornelius Eden
Diller
Willard
Wilt Bro’s
Alpha Martin Visits Atchison for Possible Work
Alpha Martin traveled to Atchison Kansas on Tuesday to visit his father and relatives and may stay if he finds suitable employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpha’ Martin
Atchison, Kan
For Sale White seed corn crop of 1918
A few bushels of white seed corn from the 1918 crop offered for sale by Earl Weigel.
Cumberland Concert Entertainers At Methodist Church
Seed Corn and Wood priced for sale. Joe Hiatt reports the fourth Diller entertainment. Dale Bugbee, recently discharged from government radio service, visited with his parents. The Cumberland Concert Entertainers will perform at the Methodist church next Thursday night March 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diller
Cumberland
Methodist
Dale Bugbee
D. A Bugbee
Government Radio Service
Philadelphia
Great Lakes
Chicago
Easter date shifts as Faster Sunday rules apply
The text explains Easter Sunday this year falls three weeks after Easter last year. It notes the Faster Sunday date is determined by the council of Nice rule: Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of
Nice
Rural Mail Carrier Resigns. Route to be Covered in Interim
Clyde Hutchinson with twelve years on rural route No 3 out of Diller resigns effective Monday March 10 Clifford Sparks takes over temporarily until a regular appointment is made Hutchinson plans to move to Colorado to farm and will auction his personal effects in Diller on Saturday afternoon See bills for particulars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Hutchinson
Diller
Clifford Sparks
Mr. Hutchinson
Colorado
Alls Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure for Deafness
Catarrhal Deafness is blamed on inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and claimed to be curable only by constitutional remedies. Alls Catarrh Medicine is described as acting through the blood to restore mucous surfaces. Circulars offer free information from Joeney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joeney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Victor Adverts Chick Food For Young Chicks
Local notice mentions J. D. Fandera promoting Victor Chick Food for young chicks. It also notes Eunice Scott from Omaha visiting her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Eob Lightner, and Mrs. W A Cherry traveling to Omaha to visit her daughter Mrs Earl Pearce and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D.fandera
Eunice Scott
Omaha
B.ob Lightner
W. A. Cherry
Earl Pearce
Local notices and farm progress in Rock Creek area
Transacting business in Dilter Tuesday, E. B. Déuehler of Rock Creek precinct noted. Beughler continues work on a new farm house nearing completion and move in readiness. A household health tip suggests eating slowly and limiting meat, with a tablet remedy before bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Déuehler
Rock Creek
Dilter
Beughler
Strawhacker family to stay on northeast Fairbury farm
A.M. Strawhacker and daughter-in-law Mrs. O. M. Strawhacker will remain on the farm north east of Fairbury until her brother who is in France returns. The Presbyterian Ladies Missionary Society will meet Thursday afternoon March 20 with Mrs. Sarah Darr and Mrs. Effie Clark as leaders. The meeting date changes to the 3rd Thursday from the 3rd Saturday of each month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.M. ‘Strawhacker
Fairbury
O. _M. Strawhacker
France
Steele City Press
Ladies Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Sarah
Effie Clark
Card of Thanks and a Fairbury Wedding
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for support during a trial period. A Fairbury wedding at the Methodist parsonage joined Roy McCune and Esther James with plans for farm work this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy McCune
Esther James
Fairbury
E. E. McCune
Shea
Ethel James
Diller Telephone ‘Central
McCune
Which Was Worse A Farmer Chooses Between Bicycle and Cow
A farmer visits a hardware store where the proprietor urges a bicycle purchase. The salesman boasted of a cheap ride for 35 dollars, promising ease around the farm. The farmer jokes he would rather spend the money on a cow, arguing riding a bicycle or cow would both look foolish.
Forgot What He Needed From the Republican
In Mt Giliad Ohio a man came to the office seeking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after his wife asked for it. He tested clerks who named every similar product but the exact Chamberlain's. The piece urges stores to post clerks and avoid substitutions to prevent customer disappointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican
Mt. Giliad
Ohio
Morrow County
Chamberlain
Chamberlain’s
For sale and local notices in fragmented column
For sale a 240 egg incubator remark. The omission of an item from the published statement. The Diller State Bank requires republication this week. Wm Grone, visiting with his brother Arthur, returned home at Malaska. Geo M Place was a Buington passenger yesterday for Lincoln to seek services of Dr Bauguess, previously of Dilli, for an operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diller State Bank
Wm. Grone
Arthur Grone
Malaska
Isan
Geo. M. Place
Buington
L »Coln
R. H. Bauguess
Dilli
Regular teachers examinations and reading schedule
The notice lists March 15 for Feirbury examinations titled Her and Steele in City Ons y Sa one day. Henry Abrams is cited among participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Her
Steele
Onsy ‘Sa
Henry. Abrams, Ei
Alma Zook Visits Lincoln Figure Returns Home
Miss Alma Zook and her friend Captain Lester G. Drake visited here with her sister Mrs S J Thompson and family. They returned on No 1 Wednesday to Lincoln after a stay with the Nebraska State University community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Zook
Lester G. Drake
Forar
Nebraska State University
Lincoln
Departure of the Colonel and Bugbee Families
Steele City Press notes the Bugbee families moved this week to newly purchased farms south of Diller. The Bugbees are longtime, industrious residents. best wishes are extended for their new home and future success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele City
Dana Bugbee
Diller
Bugbee
Steele City Press
Packer Family Attends Wood River Funeral
Julius Packer his wife Mrs Will Packer and daughter Beulah with James G Packer of Wood River Neb attend the funeral of Jas Packer Sr Mrs Hiram Packer and her daughter from Culberston Neb also present Hiram Packer unable to stay for the service after being present when his father died
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Packer
Will Packer
Beulah
James G. Packer
Wood River
Nebr
Hiram Packer
Culberston
Jas. Packer
Hiram. Packer
Pension Granted to John F Lichty of Diller
Col E L Loock reports from Washington that John F Lichty of Diller has a monthly pension of 12 dollars from March 4 on a Norris bill. Lichty is the son of the late Civil War veteran Jacob P Lichty and is totally blind. He resides with his sister Mary Lichty in the Lichty home, which he owns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cot. E. L. Loock
Washingon
John F. Lichty
Diller
Mar
Norris
John
Jacob P. Lichty
Mary Lichty
Lichty
Remembering Charles T. Sears Beatrice Resident Dies at 74
Charles T. Sears died Saturday evening at his home 612 North Tenth Street Beatrice aged 74. He was born September 6 1844 in Calliston Spa New York and came west in 1869 teaching in Sidney and later farming near Diller. Survived by wife Eva Brown four daughters two sons three grandchildren and several relatives. Funeral Tuesday 2:30 PM Centenary M E church Beatrice burial Evergreen Home cemetery Beatrice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
North Tenth Street
Beatrice
Mr. Sears
Callston Spa
New York
Sidney
Eva Brown
Nebraska
Diller
Sears
Tey
William Hemphill
Lincoln
W. E. Keeler
Maude Grape
Boyd M. Raynor
Filley
Alex Seara
San Pedro
Calif
C. Othu Sears
York
Centenary M. E. Church
J. Franklin Haas
Evergreen Home Cemetery
Obituary of Theodore De Condit of Diller Nealsville burial details
Theodore De Condit born January 1836 in West Bloomfield New Jersey died March 11 1919 at age 83 years 2 months 2 days. Married Catherine Peterson October 30 1857. Survived by daughters Lillian Sarah Warman and Mrs Paul Stange, five grandchildren six great grandchildren six sisters and five brothers. He had lived with daughter Mrs Paul Stange near Diller for two years after a Paralysis stroke. Funeral in Nealsville Wisconsin with Rev H Wagner at the Stange home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore de Condit
West
Bloom
Sarah Warman
Minn
Paul Stange
Herman Stahl
Condit
Diller
Stange
H. Wagner
M.F. Church
Nealsville
Wis
James Packer 78 Dies on Nebraska Farm in 1919
James Packer born May 10 1840 on old Broadway New York City died March 8 1919 at his Elm Township Gage County Nebraska home after a paralysis strike a week earlier. He served quietly in Civil War times by raising food for soldiers and moved to Nebraska in 1881 where he built a fine farm and home. He married Julia F Goodrich Oct 9 1864 and fathered nine children Charles J Hiram A James G William H Julius F Walter C died 1884 Edda F Packer and two daughters survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Packer
Old Broadway
New York City
Elm Township
Gage Co
Nebraska
Packer
Mystic
Connecticut
Judge Holmes
Lincoln
Nebr
Aiailor
Eternearly
Iowa
Elm
Mr. Packer
Julia F. Goodrich
Charles J
Beatrice
Hiram
Culberston
James G
William H
Julius F
Road River
Walter C
A. Frisbie
John Grider
Diller
Edda F. Packer
Packer Dies After Long Illness at Home
The obituary notes the death on the ninth day of July 1897 at the present home. He married Miss Nannie Shaft in 1903 and they had one son Dewey E. Packer. Surviving are his wife six sons two daughters one brother in California three sisters in Elkader Iowa and Washington. Funeral services were held Monday at the home with Rev H W Wagner of the M F church officiating and burial followed in Prairie Home Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nannie Shaft
Gage County
Dewey E. Packer
Mr. Packer
Cal
Elkader
Iowa
Washington
M.F. Church
Prairie Home Cemetery
How Cities Are Made In The American Midwest
A description of how a station on a railroad journey becomes a village and then a city. It outlines the sequence from platform and elevator to a general store newspaper cemetery opera house church school and politician, then the census, post office, telephone, and finally chartering a city led by a mayor. It notes cycles of growth, creeds of reform, and the allure of power.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Opportunity Knocks
Earl Weigel
Joe Hiatt
Eve
Sr W. EF. Myers
Charles T. Sears
MR. Farmer
Gus Dressen
Jefferson County Assessment Association of Diller
C. E. Carr
Roy Diller
V. Pres
Sec’y
August Engelmann
P. H. Shea
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