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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1909
Page
5
Rain brings better spirits in Fairbury and surrounding areas as trains run west and local services continue. Community notices include advertisements for cream separators, coffee, and pharmacy promotions, plus reports of lodge events, new members, and road work. Local residents Hannah Adams, O. F. Rigdon, and J. Riddle featured among weekend visits and wolf-hunting near Ellis.
J W Fouts of Diller attended Friday evening's Commercial Club banquet and joined the discussion on good roads. He is known as the man who does things in the good roads movement around Diller.
Memorial and Decoration Day plans outlined for Diller with a union memorial sermon May 23 at 11 in the Christian church led by Elder Carry of Lincoln. Decoration Day events include 2 pm May 29 at the Masonic hall and a procession to Prairie Home cemetery, followed by a sailors and Marines memorial at a bridge south of town. The Diller Mercantile Co. advertises specials this week.
Miss Lambert remains home ill at Guide Rock while Miss Agness Freeman visits Beatrice High. The Literary Club purchased a mission clock and stools for the library and lab. County Eighth Grade Commencement is at Fairbury on May 29. Public schools close May 28 with a grove picnic and contests. State inspector Prof. A. M. Voss praised the high school. Chapel honored athletic contest winners with blue red and white ribbons.
Beatrice records show a man fined ten dollars and costs for plowing up a street. The Pickard & Son's listing highlights baths lavatories and sinks as available items in the same period.
Photograph gallery opens each Wednesday. Endicott visitors Mr and Mrs Herm Fairchild spent time between trains with sister in Beatrice. J B Zook sold his Diller residence to Mrs Christie Thompson for 1050 and moves to Fairbury to run a large rooming house. Amended petition filed in district court by Cora Caroline Colman in a 10000 damage suit against Albert Loeper for alleged debauchery of her husband.
Waggoner Bros advertise plenty of millet seed on hand. Local notices mention Mrs. Mary Emerson sick with gall stones since Monday evening and Miss Aura Zook returning to Lincoln after visiting friends at Fairbury and J. B. Zook family. An ad promotes No-Drip coffee strainer and Dr Shoop Health Coffee with coupon offer and a claim of real coffee taste without coffee content.
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