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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1916
Page
1
Local notes from Diller Nebraska detail school closures, town notices, births, and Memorial Day plans. Reports mention births on May 14 and May 17, 1916, a chautauqua date set for July 9 to 14, and a Union Memorial Service for May 1 and Decoration Day events.
LaForrest Raymond and his wife with a baby from Lincoln spent Saturday to Monday visiting Diller relatives and friends.
St B F Henrichs and Dr C B Ellis rode to Lincoln on the early Tuesday train for a Nebraska State Dental Society meeting and returned yesterday.
Mrs M E Wallace travels Monday from the Burlington line to Nuckolls county to visit relatives. H H Green purchases the east side barber shop of John Greider and invites former patrons to stop in for hair cuts shaves or baths.
E. E. Weigel came back Monday from Des Moines Iowa where he visited his son Bruce who holds a manager position for a branch of the Omaha News Co.
We express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and friends for kindness during illness and at the death and funeral of our nephew and cousin John Fahseler. The relatives.
Applications for free high school tuition must be filed with the County Superintendent on or before June 1 to allow school boards to authorize tuition provision by the second Monday in June. Non resident students must apply each year.
The Fairbury Men's Glee Club under Miss Edna Smith with Mesdames Hills Worden Lulu Groff and Mr. R E Cressey presents a Sacred Concert in the Opera House Sunday evening May 28 at 8 o'clock. Accompanied by Mr. R C Harriss, the event aims for a full house.
The senior class play Esmer alda was postponed from last Saturday due to bad weather and held Tuesday night in the opera house to a packed house. The performers delivered a superb rendition praised as possibly the best class play in Diller. An eight piece Fairbury band provided splendid orchestral music with a standout trap drummer.
Saturday afternoon May 20 hosted by Miss Fannie Diller with Mrs Maude Grape leading. Discussion covered Home Cuba and Porto Rico and Foreign Siam. Quarterly offering collected.
A paving ordinance before Fairbury city council would create a paving district surrounding the public square and extending two blocks north to the northwest corner and three blocks west to the city park, including a block in each direction from the corners.
Due to the pastor’s Rock Creek appointment and the Union Mothers Day Service at the Christian church there will be no preaching at our church Sunday. Sunday school at 10 and Epworth League at 7. County Sunday School convention at Rock Creek M E church Monday May 22 offers a full program. Union Prayer Meeting at the M FE Church next Wednesday night.
The Presbyterian church announces a Sunday schedule with 10 a.m. Sunday school and 11 a.m. preaching service. An afternoon program is not listed, with a union meeting planned for the evening at the Christian church.
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