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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1907
Page
10
The article profiles E L Loock of Diller born 1857 Peoria Illinois who moved to Diller in 1880 started general merchandise in 1881 and built a large two story tile brick store with an opera house above. His honesty energy and public spirit helped grow trade and solidify Diller's prosperity.
Andrew H Colman a Nebraska entrepreneur and banker long associated with Colman & Diller is expanding the Colman Block in Diller. The new hotel on the upper stories will open in April with modern amenities while the first floor houses a potential clothing store. Mrs J Sholle of Lincoln to manage.
The Diller Independent Telephone company, incorporated in 1899, now operates about 427 phones and connects with most principal Nebraska towns. Capital stock is 25 000 dollars with 16 000 paid in, 119 stockholders. President E L Loock treasurer T P Price secretary A L Tristman and lineman W G Tristman lead a prosperous, solid management.
Kristofell, a sweeper at the Rock Island roundhouse, was killed when a switch engine backed a line of cars into the east end of the yards. He had just left the roundhouse after a new quitting time took effect and stepped onto the track to let a westbound passenger train pass. Despite attempting to climb aboard the engine, he was struck and the cars passed over him. The coroner ruled death due to his own carelessness. Kristofell, from Crete, Neb., had lived here a year with his wife and four children. The body was sent to Crete for burial. his family has faced other hardships recently. He belonged to the Modern Woodmen of America, which escorted the body to the train.
High School notes report that Mr. L. E. Mumford from Lincoln judged the declamatory contest at Fairbury High School on March 22 1907. Winners were Jessie King 1st with 271 points Glen Dickens 2nd 263.5 Walter Slaughter 3rd 263. The article also notes visits by Hebron teachers and John Gilmore chosen to represent the F H B Athletic Association at a League No 3 meeting in Beatrice.
County Superintendent Ollive W. True reports Dist 10 for the month ending March 22. Data shows Mrs Sadie Noble with 18 days taught 10 enrolled and 9 average daily attendance. pupils Paul Backer Martha Backer May Noble Verna Noble noted as not absent or tardy.
The narrator describes a six day voyage across the Atlantic from Fairbury to New York and a large steamboat crossing to Liverpool. He tours Hamburg Berlin Paris Spain Rome and Switzerland noting harbors grains grapes silk cork volcano and the Alps with people and customs along the way.
Ernest Kaissel, age 12, describes traveling from Fairbury Nebr North America to Hamburg Germany. He notes Russia’s short summer and long winter and Norway Sweden as the Scandinavian Peninsula. He returns home tired. The fare is ninety dollars each way.
Special correspondence from Fairbury reports Eva Shepherd visiting Alex Shepherds from Friday to Sunday and Eliza Dawson as a Fairbury visitor. Others mention W Vaughan visits, Helm trial attendance by about twenty five witnesses, property moves by McKeight Shaw and Bracka farm residents, and various local travels and town happenings.
Special Correspondent Ed Jones reports a new well and windmill. visits and social events fill the week. Mrs Lyman Carey remains seriously ill. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs Sym Gaylor. Socials, travel, and school updates abound as a railroad survey stirs local farm owners.
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