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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1932
Page
5
Local ads note for sale items from cane seed to brood sows and dental services in Fairbury Diller and Steele City Nebraska. Upcoming Beatrice Boosters band visit and Diller arrival indicate community events.
We are in the Market all the time for those fat hogs. We pay the highest market price and take them anl day. Get our bid first and sell at home. Diller Farmers Grain Co. I R Andrews
Fairbury Electric Shoe Shop offers men soles 85c and 1.00, men heels 35c and 50c, ladies soles 60c and 80c, ladies heels 25c and 35c. Located north of Bonham theatre, owned by F Mathis.
The town of Medicine Lodge Kansas will preserve the home of its famous resident Carrie Nation as a memorial. The house will include the hatchet she used to wreck the Cary hotel bar at the start of her temperance campaign in the 1890s.
A boy named April Fool Johnny shouts about a stranger with the maid and a kiss, only to reveal it was his father in disguise. A second fragment discusses coating corn seed with coal tar to prevent soil picking and aid drying and planting.
A. H. Coleman and S. R. Merrill from Fairbury visited yesterday. The note draws a parallel between Yellowstone Park bears and local bear feeding, then mentions Wall Street variety as a contrasting topic.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas Carr and Gene Diller of Fairbury spent a day as guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Clark, sharing fellowship and hospitality.
Big truck gaso line hose missing between Specht’s corner and Fairbury on P W F. Liberal reward offered by Guy Cassel for recovery.
Robert Beckwith and his lady guest spent Sunday at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H Beckwith in Carleton. The visit highlighted social ties within the community.
The senior class of the D H Ss will present their play The Charm School in the Diller opera house next Wednesday night.
Mrs L M Cavett and her daughter Mrs L M Hurst visited Fairbury on Wednesday and dined with Mrs Alvin Hirsch, sister of Mrs Hurst.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Walker and granddaughter Billlie Hurst of Beatrice visited Sunday evening with her son Lloyd Hurst and family in Diller.
A marriage license was issued on the 4th in Beatrice for Edward H. Weers 27 of Diller and Christina L. Gebhard 19 of Blue Springs. Dr and Mrs W S Diller and two children of St Francis Kans and Mr and Mrs H Diller of Lincoln visited their aunt Mrs Willis Clark over the weekend.
Attendees of the county Sunday school convention at Diller Congregational church report a pleasant and profitable gathering. The program proceeded almost as previously published in the Record.
The pupils and their mothers of District 56 and teacher Miss Margaret Logan enjoyed a wienie roast at Camp Quivira six miles west of Diller on Tuesday. Prizes from Educational Day funded the event and helped cover expenses.
Clayton Kolb was arrested after passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a Fairbury filling station last Sunday. He was taken to Fairbury by Sheriff Helvey and later transported to Omaha after a Beatrice arrest. Kolb reportedly admitted passing the bill and stealing $17 from the proprietor, but he would not reveal the bill’s source.
A local ball club showcased its ability at Odell last Sunday amid warmer weather. The team is gaining attention as new ball suits may arrive, with supporters hopeful for a strong season and possible matinee with the bacon referenced in a masked, casual note.
Invitations have been sent out for the Junior-Senior banquet to be held in the basement of the Methodist church tonight. Mrs. W. L Filley and Miss Clara Overturf traveled to Edgar on Sunday to visit Clara's parents.
Mrs. Cleve Hiatt and daughter Orpa Lee from Hebron spent the weekend with their mother and grandmother Mrs. S. M. Hughes.
Mr and Mrs L V Raymond and relatives Wilfred Robert and Phyliss Joe of Lincoln spent Mother's Day at Isabella Raymond's home. Mr Pe Tristman and Mr and Mrs Clark visited a patient at Beatrice near Ed Bartlet's home, a distant relative of Mrs Clark.
Five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas Young near Ellis is in pneumonia treatment while nurse Ma nH Bebee tends to the patient.
Old neighbors report the death of Charles Taylor a former resident southeast of Diller in Gage county at his Ponca City Oklahoma home on May 5th.
Mrs. W. H. Clark of Boulder Colorado stayed in Diller from Monday to Wednesday visiting her sister in law Mrs. Christie Seaman and other Diller relatives and friends after attending a funeral in Chicago.
Mr. Steel of DeWitt was visiting canyons west of Diller when a 22 rifle discharged striking his right great toe. He was brought to Diller where the wound was disinfected and dressed by local responders.
In England a slow automobile race was run where the winning car averaged only half a mile per hour but kept the motor from stalling, suggesting it will not set a new motoring fashion.
Dr. Claude Ellis relays from Mrs. Bauguess of Detroit that her husband Dr. Harry Bauguess, former Diller physician, is in critical condition and not expected to survive the week. Geo Davis and his Kansas City pilot visited May 1 at the Wrigley home near Harbine. Carrie Wrigley of Diller enjoyed her first airplane ride with her niece during the visit.
Extension poultryman advises housewives to preserve fresh infertile eggs while cheap. Mix one quart water glass with nine to ten gallons water, boil, cool, and pour over about twenty dozen eggs in a sterilized five gallon container. Use the container to chill the eggs, cover with two inches of solution, and store in a dry, well ventilated cellar.
Mrs. Ludwig, ill at her home, is being cared for by Mrs. Fred. Clark in her daughter’s absence.
Mrs Geo Phipps and children and Miss Aura Zook of Lincoln were Sunday guests at the home of their sister Mrs S J Thompson.
Dr and Mrs Claude Ellis and their son and daughter in law Dr and Mrs Cecil Ellis of Chester spent Mother's Day at the home of the latter's son in law Mr Ross Hays and daughter near Blue Springs.
Miami Coupland Cavett Eaton was born January 2, 1854 in Dearborn County Indiana and died March 5 in Lincoln Nebraska at age 78 years 4 months and 3 days. She married Andrew J Cavett in Indiana in 1857 and had two sons L M Cavett and Alva A Cavett. Her husband died in 1884 and she remarried Henry Eaton in 1885 in Kansas where they lived four years and had son Clarence L Eaton. The three sons survive, Henry Eaton died in 1908. She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1874 and moved from Diller to Lincoln in 1906. Funeral services were held at the L M Cavett home in Diller with burial in Prairie Home Cemetery.
John Rohifs Sr born 30 1858 in Ostfriesland died May 4 at his Lanham Nebraska home at 73 years 11 months 4 days. He joined Stedesdorf Lutheran Church in Germany and remained faithful. He emigrated to America in 1880 living in Peoria Illinois and later near Burehard Nebraska. He married Johanna Peters in 1887. He moved to a farm near Hollenberg in 1908 and to Lanham in 1920. Eight children and twelve grandchildren survive Anna Loges Gerhard Elizabeth Johann Johanna Petersen Carl and Ollie among others. Funeral at Lanham residence and Lutheran church conducted by Rev F Albin Heinz with burial in church cemetery.
Congress continues debating budget balance amid staleness and inaction. Nebraska wildlife enjoys protection through strict laws and multiple game refuges as part of broader conservation efforts.
Nebraska derives its name from Indian words meaning shallow water a reference to the Nebraska river shaping the state's nomenclature.
Seventeen inmates at Huntington West Virginia jail used guitar strings and a valve grinding compound to mill through bars and attempt an escape.
A. W. Fullager recently delivered more than 6,000 Indian head cent pennies to a local building and loan company in Mansfield Ohio. The odd collection was turned over for storage or return to circulation as part of a personal shipment.
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