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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1907
Page
5
A mixed local notices list reports livestock shipments, new staff at the Diller State Bank, business sales and promotions, parish meetings, and construction activity. JOE Clark ships cattle. Miss Golda Miller finishes Lincoln Business College. Miss Grayce Bell starts as stenographer. John Deere planter sales. bank building contract let. church women elect officers. various moves and arrivals noted.
Reverend Knauer of the Presbyterian church at Diller announces his resignation effective April 1 after morning services. He has calls to Nelson Nebraska and to Africa as a missionary and has not chosen. Nearby, Mr Bell plans moving part of his hotel to another lot for a residence, spurring questions about future use of the old hotel site. George Fisher sells a 53 acre farm near Diller for 100 per acre to George F. Riddle who plans to make it his home. Fath Preventies advertised as cold cures with samples available by Dr. Shoop of Racine Wisconsin sold by Spear Drug.
The village primary nominated Alex Bell and J D Fanders for two year trustees. Voters may decide on building a town hall at the April 2 election. A controversial end of meeting ballot counting was viewed as a harmless joke by residents.
About four inches of very wet snow fell Saturday. Roads, once improving, turned frightful as the storm battered travel and thawed into slick conditions.
Walter Mathews and his wife with two children came Wednesday from Liberty Nebraska to visit his sister Mrs Steve Maw and family. Mrs John W Miller and two boys who had stayed with Mr and Mrs H B Fairchild at Endicott returned Tuesday to their home in this city. Miss Olive Ballard returned Wednesday from a week in Omaha studying millinery and is expected to present Easter hats for Dillon ladies.
Miss L O Bauuard offers linen lawn and wool shirt wares and tailored effects from 1.75 dollars. Miss Lettie Taylor, sister of James Taylor killed Saturday night at Bliss Oklahoma, attended his funeral with Maude Baumgardner and Mrs. Geo Cunningham from Odell.
Mrs N F Rowan of McDonough Georgia credits three bottles of Electric Bitters with curing her chronic liver and stomach trouble and a blood condition turning her skin red. She says she is now twenty years younger and can work easily in her husband’s store. Guaranteed by Spear Drug Co. Price 50 cents.
Henry Lohmeyer and his two daughters returned last week from attending the silver wedding of his brother F. W. Lohmeyer at Olivett Kansas and the marriages of two of his daughters. On their way home they visited relatives in Kansas City for a day or two.
Notice is hereby given that an election will be held at the Bell Hotel Building in the village of Diller Jefferson County Nebraska on Tuesday the 2nd day of April 1907 between nine oclock A M and seven oclock P M for the purpose of electing two village Trustees to serve two years and to vote for or against the building of a town hall. Alex Bell Attest Chairman of the village Board of Trustees Henry Eaton Village Clerk.
Harry King reports a move from a St. Joseph law firm to a master mechanic's office on the Missouri Pacific at Osawatomie Kansas. He becomes a sonographer earning double his former salary and expresses satisfaction with the new position.
Mrs. S Ruppee of Ava Missouri credits Dr Kings New Discovery for saving her sons life after a severe lung illness. She recounts using the remedy on medical advice and notes the boy recovered, returned to carpenter work, and has stayed well since. The ad promises guaranteed cough relief and offers 50 cent and 1.00 bottles with a free trial bottle.
A concise critique notes a shortage of young men in small towns. It observes plenty of agreeable girls and older residents, but questions why the male youth migrate to urban areas. The piece hints at broader social and economic causes behind the trend.
Wymore Arbor State suggests not repeating overheard phone remarks. A friend advises local merchants should advertise heavily to head off mail order houses, noting successful mail order firms rely on big ads. The idea is to boost local trade by aggressive advertising.
Carpenters list several spring projects including Mrs. Jennie Bixby altering stairs removing hallway building a new front porch and installing new windows C A Reinhart adding a kitchen bathroom and porch Mrs Christie Thompson enlarging her home by extending the east side and A L Tintsman making alterations and additions to his residence.
The Presbyterian Church will hold regular services next Sunday morning and evening. The Ladies Missionary Society meets Saturday March 16 at Mrs J Smith Diller's home at 2 30 with topics Equipments for America's Evangelization and Africa. The weekly prayer meeting will be in the church with study on The Triumph of Gods Will Matt 6 10 led by F G Knaver.
The passage notes that a farmer is nearer the kingdom of heaven than most, secure with three meals a day and self sufficiency. Cattle sheep and fowl supply food clothing and revenue from fields, a generous but common provision that many farmers overlook as ordinary while others judge success by merely ending the year with a profit.
Albert Steffen assists Fred Steffen while Henry Steffen travels to Ellis and Beatrice. Mail was late last week and most movers have finished. Martin Steffen was ill over the weekend but improving. Dvorak reports settling near Lanani. Hooper visited relatives Friday to Monday. Greenwood, Dilker, and Morehead moved farms. A recent snow has melted leaving mud and a freeze upcoming. weather suggests no good days until after Easter and oats may be sown in a few days.
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