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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1921
Page
1
Sunday marks the start of spring. Oats planting near completion. Several local notes report family births and travels. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Elza Jami son northeast of town. Mrs Nellie Hilder undergoes appendicitis surgery at Rice hospital and recovers. Funeral in Chapin Illinois pulls Henry Wolters and Mrs Stahle away.
Dr. W. S. Diller traveled to Ottawa Kansas on Monday to retrieve and drive home a Ford car bought by his father H. Z. Diller from Edwin Reinhardt, a former Diller boy.
George Pickard received a notice Monday announcing the birth of a son on the 13th inst to his grandson Wm G. Pickard formerly of Dilller and wife at their home in Norfolk Nebraska.
Arthur Friday sustained a cracked shin bone in the right leg after a horse kicked him last Saturday. An X ray taken at Fairbury shows the injury is very painful, but he is as well as could be expected, according to Dr. Ciehli.
A mix of farming, travel and business notes fills the page. Potatoes planted, a queen incubator for sale, pneumonia risk to E E Hill of Orvil Dean, Mrs. G M Myers visiting Lincoln, Walter Pitts visiting from Pawnee City for a gate event, Clyde Zook and family returning to Table Rock, Warthen family moving to Washington Kansas, corns and bunions treatment offered at hotel, 103 diners at Colman Hotel, deadening material offered by Avery Lumber Co, county commissioners back a Pawnee Wymore Fairbury state highway petition and a second highway proposal from near Diller to Fairbury via Steele City Endicott.
Sheriff Tippin was in town yesterday tagging autos with old numbers. The 16 year old son of Mr and Mrs Dick Albers is recovering from pneumonia. Rev Mrs Innes went to Odell to assist at a union meeting. Mrs T H Waggoner and Mrs W S Filley returned from Maryville Missouri. Jas Pickard of Alliance, who visited with his father, George Pickard, and other relatives left for Lincoln and Omaha.
Advertisement notes purebred eggs for setting from 8S C W Leghorns at 1.25 per setting and 5.00 per 100 plus 1.50 per setting for 8C R I Reds. Then a report that R W Green accompanied his sister Helen Green to a Lincoln hospital for treatment after an appendectomy with a painful wound. Also mentions Avery Lumber Co products and a rural accident where Roscoe Colman was thrown from a horse, sustaining bruises but no broken bones.
Patrons in Diller and vicinity are thanked for their support at the hotel opening last Sunday. The hosts Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tristman and Mr. and Mrs. J. Gretainger announce Sunday dinners priced at 60 cents and invite advance notices for plans to dine with them, though it is not required.
Hilda Patton joins the third grade as a new pupil. Edward and Arnold Ashhleman moved away from District 70 and are missed by classmates. Japan study blends art language and geography in the third grade. The primary and intermediate grades held a kite tournament last Friday west of town. The Aldeving Cup was not offered, praise was given to the kite champion. Eighth grade works on county exam questions. Sophomores favored a school party.
Friday evening at the house featured games stories and candy making in the domestic science kitchen. The domestic science class ends bread making this week with biscuit lessons improving on the first attempt. Nellie Hilder of the Junior class is in Beatrice for appendicitis surgery and recovering well. The normal training class visited for reading history language and music while three ladies from the Fairbury W C T U spoke with Mrs Shoebotham reading poems by Mrs Blantchard and Mrs Harley Rogers. The Seniors display their banner and the Juniors show pep. Dr C E Leach and optometrists advertise services and eggs and lost scarf notices appear.
We start you in the candy business at home or small room with everything furnished for a weekly earning of $30. No experience needed. Advertise candy. Send self addressed stamped envelope for free particulars to Bon-Bon Candymakers Co Desk A Broad St.
Market notes show butter packing shifts by Epes AP and related firms. Trade terms and prices appear in fragmented form with limited details on quantities or dates.
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