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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1924
Page
3
Local items from Diller Nebraska include Mrs. E J Schenk on sick list and M W A meetings on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. Shipped hogs, visitors from Belville Kansas and Newland North Carolina, and neighbors traveling to Fairbury St Joe Plymouth Wymore.
Electric arc welding offer from Alber Auto Co Beatrice Nebraska urges customers not to discard broken parts and promises guaranteed work or money back. The item on hand is a motor block and the ad lists a phone and address.
Mr. Dan Griswold remains confined to his house due to heart trouble. Miss Eleanor Diehl returned Saturday from Lincoln after visiting relatives. Marguerite and Bonnie Green came back Sunday from Lincoln where they visited friends and relatives.
Mrs. Fred Hicken is confined to her bed with heart trouble at the home of her daughter Mrs. Joe Larkins near Eilis.
Beatrice area brief notes mention Mrs. W. G. Robertson returning home from a Beatrice hospital after surgery and Irwin Shutt, a Beatrice resident, taken to Fall’s hospital for appendicitis surgery. Forest Hartzel delivered two carloads of fat cattle from his south town lots to the St. Joe market.
Unconfirmed reports claim an African lion swallowed a flivver weeks ago and died after the engine ran, the animal shaking for about fifteen minutes before death.
The village of Diller enforces a sidewalk bicycle ban by order of the Village Board. Bicycle riders are urged to comply to avoid trouble, with Chas. E. Waggoner as Village Clerk issuing the directive.
The Woman's Club hosts an Irish night on March 20 with hostess Mrs. S B Viers. The program features Irish readings, songs like When Irish Eyes are Smilin and My Wild Irish Rose, and performances by Mrs. Pengelly and Mrs. Frank Cully.
List of candidates filing for Jefferson county offices includes Louis Nutzman for county judge, Louis Jardun for county commissioner, Frank Wells for representative, Herman Meyer for senator, Gladys Hughes for clerk of the district court, E R Bee for 17th district, with F A Leonard for county assessor and C J Clark for the same post. The 17th district covers Jefferson Saline and Thayer counties.
Misa Beulah Thompson spent the weekend in Lincoln visiting relatives. For Sale kaffir corn seed 1.00 per bit take at once. The Farmers Shipping Association sent a car load of hogs and a mixed load of hogs and cattle to the St. Joe market Tuesday. A Kansas woman won a one cent judgment against a man who kissed her.
Martin Senours paints sold by Cornbelt Lumber in Diller Nebraska with a guaranteed satisfaction. School primary Monday night nominates trustees for two three year terms and one one year term with Geo Henrichs Dede Fanders and C L Waggoner retiring. Beatrice gun club accepts a ten man team challenge from Diller gun club for a fifty third event at Beatrice grounds on March 20 with a return match at Diller grounds later.
A petition circulates asking the village board to allow voters to decide in the spring election on buying fourteen vacant lots known as the chautauqua grounds for playground and park use. The lots on both sides of Main Street are offered at under one third of former prices, and strong local sentiment favors the purchase. Submitting the issue to a public vote is seen as harmless.
In the village primary held Monday at city hall F E Hale was elected chairman and S C Hutchinson secretary. Three retiring members S C Moser S F Clark and R W Green were renominated. A committee of L M Cavett W S Filley and Frank T Pearce was appointed to fill vacancies on the ticket if needed. There will be one ticket in the field this year but write-in candidates may be voted for.
The Federated S. S. Kensington group met at Mrs. H. K. Shutt's home for aFriday gathering. Officers elected for the year include Pres. H. K. Shutt vice pres Ray Green treas Horace Green and sec'y O. C. Diehl.
Adventure Magazine notes guide John Bull described a black bear's cleverness in 1852. Indians vouch for the bear’s wind wary behavior, cave lair tactics, and when smoked out by a hunter it remains hidden then advances. The piece questions John’s account of a hunter entering a cave to kill a bear.
At Maison Hogrelle near Camp Coetquidan Guer Brittany the widow Hogrelle ran a combined restaurant and grocery. Americans arriving for supper paid 5 francs for a French style broiled chicken with sides, while later prices rose to 40 francs plus champagne, as American troops grew in number from 200 000 to 2 000 000. Vivienne and Germaine assisted in service and charm.
Lilac buds survive freezing by a waxed outer sheath that hermetically seals the inner tissues. Corky layers prevent water loss while internal spaces accommodate ice expansion, allowing buds to endure alternate freezing and thawing without damage.
An elderly man known for sociability and learning faces a drunk and disorderly charge in a rural magistrate court. He declaims about mankind and poets before the judge interrupts, sentencing him to ninety days and ordering a list of alleged associates to be rounded up.
The advertisement argues catarrh worsens when health is poor, noting catarrh is a local disease influenced by constitutional health. It promotes a treatment with a internal tonic and local medicine, and cites Keney & Co. Toledo Ohio as makers.
Certification of a true statement of financial condition for the Farmers Union Co op store as of December 31 1923. Manager E J Schenk attests to accuracy to the best of knowledge and belief.
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