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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
8
In Vermont, a Holstein calf missing since May reappeared among a deer herd on Shrewsbury Peak. Farmer John Wyman used grain and a rope to trap the wild cow, but she broke free the next day and fled back toward the mountains, refusing to rejoin civilization.
Pittsburg Dispatch reports Ottawa police challenged an elderly couple on a fire escape outside the Ottawa opera house while the pair attempted to reach gallery seats. The man urged his wife upward and joked about the show, then slipped and fell as the ladder gave way.
The Lewis and Clark exposition will feature an irrigation exhibit showcasing large scale western projects. Models display water storage in reservoirs canal and flume conveyance and distribution to farmland with dam and river flow measurement equipment. A on site irrigation farm demonstrates crops grown on irrigated land near Guilds Lake.
In a small Massachusetts town a man famed for two feats travels to Europe and performs a reputed miracle in Rome. He supposedly extinguishes a taper that has burned for seven centuries before a shrine, then proclaims in pride that it is out.
A page notes Japanese library demand shows fictionRarely requested with math science and medicine dominating 21.6 percent of requests while literature and language account for 20 percent. It highlights gardening as a healthful pursuit and urges amateur gardening as sanity. It also quotes Sir Hallowell Rogers on youths preferring tennis over golf for vigorous activity.
The Burlington Bulletin promotes low summer excursion rates to Denver, California, eastern resorts, and the Big Horn Basin country. It highlights special rates for Epworth League conventions, daily departures starting June 1, and extended limits for long trips. Agent Watson and W. Wakely Jr. urge travelers to consult the Burlington office in Omaha.
At a May 18 1905 meeting the Board of Trustees of the village of Diller Nebraska estimated $2300.09 in necessary expenditures for officers salaries street and bridge work printing and fire protection for the fiscal year starting May 1 1905 to be spread on the records and published by law. Total revenue for 1904 amounted to $810.37. Alex Bel Chair and Henry Eaton Village Clerk signed the notice.
The 1905 ordinance text shows sections setting levies for village purposes on assessed property within Diller. It directs 10 mills to general fund and 4 mills for specified purposes with adoption on May 18, 1965. Signed by Chairman Alex Bell and Village Clerk Henry Eaton.
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