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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1917
Page
5
Victor chicks and Red Poled cow and heifer offered for sale by J. D. Fanders with a notice dated 4 27 21. Mrs Forest Hartzell returns from Geneva Nebraska after visiting Dr Jos Bixby. Burlington fence crew builds a new enclosure around the section house grounds and paints it in railroad color.
If you are troubled with chronic or muscular rheumatism give Chamberlain's Liniment a trial. The relief from pain which it affords is alone worth many times its cost. Obtainable everywhere.
A fragment notes Mrs. Nancy Clark offering a nearly new 3 hole gasoline range for sale. It mentions farmers unable to work fields for a week due to near continuous rainfall and anticipation to begin corn planting when weather permits.
The governor's cleanup effort was washed out by rain and nothing was accomplished. Residents question scheduling another event as garbage accumulates around homes and could be hauled away to the creek.
L. R. Lambert reports a profitable sheep business with about 110 ewes and 90 lambs. He finished shearing last week and sent 900 pounds of wool to the Kansas City market on Saturday.
A Brandon Springs Alabama parent, S W McClinton, reports Chamberlain's Cough Remedy quickly relieved his baby’s severe whooping cough. The ad notes the remedy is highly obtainable and widely used.
Thursday of last week marked the 70th birthday of Mr. John Gretzinger. Mr. and Mrs. August Engelman and Mr. and Mrs. Folkert Fanders visited Gretzinger as old neighbors from the farm northwest of town. Other invited friends were delayed. The Nebraska College of Agriculture urges farmers to plant beans on winter killed wheat ground and offers seed at cost, not above 22c per pound for navy beans and 18c for Pinto beans. A new Bean Culture circular from Extension Service is free.
A brief note states the five pointed star once used by Pythagoreans as a health symbol appears on a package of Chamberlain's Tablets. The text claims the tablets ease indigestion biliousness and constipations and invites readers to obtain them widely.
The University of Nebraska department of agricultural chemistry urges greatly increasing corn use as human food due to possible wheat shortage and larger corn acreage. Corn and its products can substitute wheat flour in mixed diets, helping meet threatened food shortages.
Announcement states that starting May 1 1917 the Emmert Brown livestock commission at South St Joseph Missouri will be succeeded by the American Live Stock Commission Company. George Andrews formerly of Diller will be one of four equal partners, continuing as cattle salesman in the new firm.
The item notes that autos have no business on roads in their current condition and remarks the photo car will close until Saturday May 12. It reports a birth in Diller and a shipment of stock to the St. Joseph market, plus garden delays due to cold wet weather.
A dealer advertises leftover fly nets from last year for sale at the same low price while stock lasts. The note is signed by V A Raymond and lists a 5 F 11 model reference.
Mrs Anna Radin of Spencerport New York reports long running stomach trouble relieved by Chamberlains Tablets praising their positive lasting relief. She says the tablet has done wonders for her and she values them highly. Obtainable everywhere.
Nebraska railway commission records show Odell farmers filing articles of incorporation to start a competing telephone firm with a $5 000 capitalization and an expected 400 subscribers. The commission requires a system map and detailed cost estimates before permit issuance.
The Twelfth Grade English class lists events at Diller High School including a May 24 commencement by Rev. Jefferies of St. Paul Methodist Lincoln. Senior play Professor Pepp set for May 22 at the Diller opera house. Senior-Junior reception May 1 at the Line home and Colman hotel with a blue and white banquet. mentions several staff and student participants.
A short 19th century style notice sells a remedy for catarrh and constipation. It mentions Toledo and urges readers to send for the Sedicins tale to obtain the cure.
Sugar reaches 11.00 per hundred pounds in Diller as F. W. Frisbie sells his dairy business to brother W. J. Frisbie and customers shift their buys. The best flour sells at 3.95 for a 48 pound sack, a relief to pockets.
Residents note plans to curb water use as forecasts describe a bone dry period beginning May 1 while this month has seen daily rain so far, contrasting with expected drought risk and agricultural impact.
Mr and Mrs Geo W Pitts arrived on the early train yesterday morning from Loretta Louisiana where they spent the winter with their son Walter Pitts They expect to remain here this summer.
In Diller area a dispute over deeds by W E Mudge to Nathan and Charles Mudge is on trial in Beatrice with 32 witnesses subpoenaed. Separately, Diller village trustees were reorganized with H Z Diller and H K Shutt joining, old officers re elected, and bids accepted for city hall painting.
University Farm poultry chief urges increased production as a wartime policy. Last year high prices kept storage eggs short by about 25 percent for 1916 17, and this year promises continued profitability despite high grain costs. Patriotism and profit drive farmers to expand output.
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