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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1915
Page
1
Local residents record visits and travels with Fairbury district court jury service in progress. Mrs. Cherry and children return from Lincoln. Rev H A Teckhaus attends Lutheran conference in Berlin Neb. Kensington meeting postponed due to bad weather. many neighbors visit kin across Diller Rock Creek and nearby towns.
Shutt Ding Co. 3t Sam and Ed Woods shipped a mixed car of stock from this station on Wednesday. Miss Eva Crocker has been elected to teach in the schools of Alliance, Nebraska, at a salary of 70 dollars a month. Mother's Day falls on May 9. Will you wear a white flower or not.
Dr Ellis completes basement work for new East Main street office building. Mrs Walburn returns to Endicott after caring for her parents. Weather turns cold with rain and wind, roads slippery. Bible school delegates attend convention in Steele City on Monday and Tuesday. Mrs Wheatley and Miss Kauffman travel to Chicago after visiting relatives. M W A moving pictures draw large crowd at Diller Electric theatre. Mr Renner of Lincoln lectures on the orders sanatorium near Colorado Springs in the fight against tuberculosis.
Frank Grabber returned from Lincoln after visiting his wife at her mother's bedside Mrs. C. C. Amos died Wednesday morning. The body arrived on No. 15 that evening. The funeral will be held today at 2 o'clock from the Methodist church with Rev. Frank Mills officiating. An obituary will be published next week.
Rev. Fitting and his family traveled from Kansas at the start of the week to visit Diller relatives. His wife is sister to Mrs. Dora Wohlfarth and Mrs. J. H Patton. Fitting formerly served as pastor of St. Paul’s German Lutheran church in this place.
Mrs. M M Carpenter of the Diller area died after a brief illness on May 3 1915. Minnie Waggoner born February 1 1881 in Carlisle Pennsylvania moved to Nebraska with her family in 1883 married M M Carpenter November 12 1903 and had one daughter Faye with two children dying in infancy. Funeral held May 5 at the Diller Methodist church with Rev Frank Mills officiating. Interment Prairie Home Cemetery.
Melvin Carpenter and daughter Faye express heartfelt thanks to friends for aid and sympathy after the loss of their wife and mother. They also thank those who contributed flowers as tokens of love and esteem and wish blessings on all during days of sorrow.
Mrs Frisbie's mother, who had visited here recently, left Sunday for her home in Wymore. Mr and Mrs Frisbie accompanied her and returned on the evening train.
Mrs. Black returns to Belvidere after a visit with her son F W Black a Burlington station ticket agent. Mrs Sarah Witty travels from Fairbury to Yuma Arizona upon word her son Edwin Witty ill with typhoid fever in San Francisco and possibly dying. The Methodist note covers Sabbath school near 100 attendees and upcoming District Conference with Dr Schell as speaker, urging Mother's Day flowers and large attendance.
Sunday May 9 1915 schedule includes morning Sunday school at 10 and preaching at 11 with Mother’s Day thoughts. Junior C E at 4 p.m. Senior C E at 7 p.m. Evening sermon explores Why of Presbyterianism.
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