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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1924
Page
3
Four young writers earned prizes in a contest on In the Hour of Trial judged by Reverends Duhrkop Clark and Pengelly. First prize DeVere Hale. second Mildred Mayborn. third Clarence Hullman. fourth Opal Jackson. The bank awarded an extra prize when a bank officer's daughter won.
A compact profile of George Washington from his Virginia birth to his leadership in the American Revolution. The piece highlights his boyhood, surveying work, Braddock’s campaign, the Valley Forge winter, French aid, and the Yorktown victory, concluding with his enduring example in a time of trial.
A fable tells of two frogs in a cream bucket. One tires and sinks while the other keeps paddling and survives by turning cream into butter. The milkmaid’s scream prompts escape as the survivor reaches safety. The tale imparts a moral about perseverance through adversity.
The Cornbelt Lumber Co in Diller Nebraska offers Martin Senours brand paints varnishes and oils with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee for every can sold.
The item notes Marvin London has measles and mentions Sudan and millet seed for sale. It lists C. R. Steffen and Henry Wechsels with sale notices and a yearling Durham bull for sale. The M. W. A. meets on the second and fourth Thursday each month. Lilac buds and swelling tree buds are observed in town. The Diller gun club sent ten men to Beatrice for a postponed match. Mrs. Frank Pearce returned from Fairbury due to her mother Mrs. Hannah Morris's illness.
Rev Duhrkop conducted the funeral at Sterling on Tuesday. The report notes a carload of poles delivered to the telephone company and a forecast warning farmers to exercise care when selecting seed corn. The season began with the first rain, about half an inch, on Monday night. The N C S A club will meet at Mrs Filleys home Wednesday afternoon April 2.
The Royal Neighbors meet on the 2nd Friday afternoon and 4th Friday evening each month. Miss Eva B. Shuman, Jefferson County County Superintendent, joins the executive committee of the Nebraska State Teachers Association. Mrs Belle Atkinson and her young son arrived from Pittsburg, Pa., to visit her relatives. Avoid telegraph business slogans in questionable matters.
Kaffir corn seed s offer about 80 bushels for sale with a government germination test of 84 percent at $1.25 per bushel. Purebred White Wyandotte hatching eggs bred for quality and egg production available at $5.00 per 100 at the farm five miles southeast of Diller or $6.00 shipped. Contact Arthur Friday, Diller, phone 130:08, and Mrs. F.S. Tea garden. tf
Alber Auto Co in Beat Rice Nebraska advertises electric arc welding for broken parts and motor blocks with guaranteed workmanship or money back. The note includes address 113 No 4th St and phone 950 with a 4t classifier.
F. E. Starkey from Eaton Colorado visited his mother Mrs. Frances Starkey but was sent home by telegram about his grandchilds probable fatal illness. His sister Mrs. E S Dunn of Fort Collins had joined him and planned to depart soon.
Capt. Robert A. Bartlett of the Roosevelt fame showed motion pictures to the National Geographic Society at the Masonic temple. The films depict Newfoundland seal hunts north of the Grand Banks, ice trapping, and the processing of seals from catch to leather and other products.
Kansas City board of education ousted E. E. Damon, a high school printing instructor, after a stormy session charging him with kissing a senior girl. Damon claimed a plot against him and about 300 students applauded as he spoke. The pupil testified the kiss was on a dare and that a refusal would have been a failed score.
Shepherded items show rural life with cattle shipments to Kansas City and family visits across Endicott Fairbury Humboldt Wymore and Steele City. Notable incident includes Roe McCune injuring a hand in a power washer. a newborn son to Mr and Mrs L F Barber on March 25.
A brief note from 1934 cites a young woman across the way who says she does not blame France for a complaint she heard, reflecting everyday neighborhood chatter syndicated by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
An advertisement asserts catarrh is worsened by run down health and is eased by Hall's Catarrh Medicine, including an internal remedy and a tonic. It credits Keney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio, and notes long-standing druggist distribution.
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