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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1920
Page
1
Notice items record Mrs Nancy Hudson returning to her residence yesterday. The column also lists a for sale notice for a barn 42 by 60 by 16 feet in soft pine with price on application from G C Blauser. Additional notes mention a wet April and local movements of families Sallie Kelley and Julia Johnson to Cherokee Kansas.
The item notes a good riding horse for sale named Raleigh Bell. Other snippets include Carey Wilt moving into the John Lichty property and Dale Bugbee finishing school north of Jansen last Friday. Lincoln university students Miss Grace Myers and Eva Line spent the weekend at home in Diller.
Two red polled bull calves at six months old are mentioned. Arthur Vieths, 21, is noted. Mrs. L R Lambert of the Shea neighborhood spent time between trains Tuesday afternoon visiting Mrs Cedric Fanders. Mr and Mrs A A Ballard and daughter Louise visited from Beatrice in their new Oldsmobile. Mrs Grace Gemeny and niece Bessie Copeland left for Los Angeles to join her husband. Mrs Dr Wiers' mother visited en route from Omaha and returned to Red Cloud after hospital contact with her son Robert.
A nurse visited Monday evening to care for Mrs. John Specht residing one and a half miles northwest of Diller. She underwent an operation on Tuesday by Dr. Taylor of Fairbury and is recovering nicely. Dr. Diehl has charge of the case.
The Republican County Convention will convene Tuesday May 11 1920 at 10 o clock in the morning in the Court Room at the Court House Fairbury Nebraska for the purpose of electing Delegates to the State Convention and for such other matters as may properly come before it. C O Marthis Co Clerk
Two or three warm days this week started the trees leaving out. Five passenger Ford car for sale. Born May 4 a 84 pound boy to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Farrow. Mrs. Ella Daniels was a Burlington passenger for Beatrice yesterday. E R Henrichs and family of Deshler spent last Sunday with Diller relatives. When in doubt about your eyes or your glasses go to A D Acker Fairbury Nebraska, a registered optometrist. Pearl Bell teaches in Steele City spent the weekend at her home in Diller.
W S Lambert of Guide Rock visited Saturday to see his grandchildren the Fanders, the twins, who were returning Monday.
Seehoto graphs and samples of soil and crops at office. R. F. Starr handles Eastern Colorado land inquiries and guidance. Contact details and visuals available at the office for interested buyers or investors.
A limited number of purebred White Rock eggs for sale are described. One pullet reportedly laid 28 eggs in 28 consecutive days. The note includes a health quote from Dr. McCollum and details on village board turnover with H. K. Shutt elected chairman and C. E. Reinhart Clerk.
Next Sunday Mother Day. Mr. LaForrest Raymond and son Bobbie of Lincoln visit their mother Mrs L P Raymond in Diller with Volney Raymond and Donna Jane of Stella joining for a brief family gathering at the Ray mond home.
The Gage county campaign aims to exceed a 20000 pound clip with proceeds to be disposed of at a cooperative sale in Beatrice.
The Women’s Club meets May 11 at Mrs. Ray Green’s home with a Home Economics program led by Mrs. Christie Thompson. A round table discussion and a recipe roll call precede informal visiting and fancy work, with special music by the music committee. A health bulletin cites U S bureau of labor data showing farmers live longer on average, up to 68.5 years, while bookkeepers and office assistants average 36.5 years.
Mr and Mrs Heary Hemminger of the Ellis neighborhood visited Saturday with their Diller relatives C E and C L Waggoner and their families.
John Babb former local resident visited his brother Otis Babb and family not knowing they had moved to Minnesota. He returned to Omaha Tuesday after a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. Issac Saylor and Mrs. John Hayworth.
Corrected weekly farm market update lists Wheat No 2 hard at 2.75 dollars per bushel and Corn No 8 shelled at 1.65. New oats offered at 0.90. Produce table notes butter prices and egg and hen costs in terse, abbreviated form.
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