Diller Chautauqua and Picnic Dates
Diller hosts a Chautauqua event from June 4 to 8 with a community picnic planned for Wednesday and Thursday August 13 and 14 in Diller.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1924
Page
3
Diller hosts a Chautauqua event from June 4 to 8 with a community picnic planned for Wednesday and Thursday August 13 and 14 in Diller.
Various small items report illnesses and recoveries, school and graduation notes, farm activities, livestock shipments, price changes, and local celebrations. The Steele City Press notes Mrs. George Strokey sickness, a Diller picnic, eighty two Fairbury graduates, hog shipments by Farmers Shipping Association, a gasoline price drop in Omaha, surgeries, field replanting after fly damage, visits from Kansas City, Endicott advertising Fourth of July, T N Reiber’s return to work, visits from Fairbury residents, and Memorial Day address by Senator Smrha at Steele City.
Miss Ora Zook stayed in Lincoln from Friday to Sunday as guest of her sister Mrs. Sam Thompson and family. She plans to visit Troutdale for the summer starting next Sunday. Also attending the graduation were Cole, Mr. and Mrs. V A Raymond and daughter Donna Jane of Courtland Kansas, and Miss Nellie Green of Lincoln, sister of graduate Marguerite Green.
Dry seasoned furnace wood for furnace heater and cook stove five dollars per load delivered twenty eight forty five on site. Straight oak and walnut six dollars. Seasoned oak and walnut posts two for two sixty five cents. About May 1st. J M Hiatt.
Mr and Mrs W N Sparks and their daughter Mrs Belle Atkinson and son Rogs have been visiting since last week with Mr and Mrs W F Myers in Lincoln. Mrs Atkinson intends to return from Lincoln to her home in Pittsburg Pa.
An old advertisement describes Catarrh treatment with an ointment that acts through the blood of mucous surfaces to relieve symptoms. The product is sold by J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio and boasts over four years on the market.
Weddle and Leaper sent a car load of hogs to the Kansas City market on Tuesday while wheat fields show heading out. Seed bearing trees including maples ash and box elder yield well this year. Mr and Mrs Guy Hill of Beat Rice attend commencement at Geo Riddle home. Diller school year closed with commencement in the opera house. A sewing attachment ad is included. Sun day game canceled due to Meta Pickering death.
The Steele City schools graduated a class of twelve last Friday night. Prof. C. L. Westcott of Blue Hill, formerly of Diller, delivered the commencement address which was well received.
Claude Woods returned from St. Joe where he marketed light cattle shipped from Steele City selling at $9 per head hundred rate. John H. Crane of Steele City area was arrested for liquor possession and fined $100.
A party from Diller toured Arbor State park Sunday to view soldiers from Ft Riley en route to Lincoln for drill. The contingent included four hundred men two hundred fifty horses ten heavy cannons several wagons and field artillery with a hospital corps.
A Willey's Knight sedan carrying a Thayer county number overturned Monday evening on the Goldenrod highway at a point 74 miles north of Diller and 3 miles west of Ellis. Four ladies were inside, with the driver unhurt, and the group was helped by passing travelers who righted the vehicle. The car sustained minor damage. The ladies continued home.
A car carrying Geo. Hiatt and Frank Bosak of Wilber wrecked two to three miles south of the penitentiary on the Cornhusker highway en route to Lincoln. Bosak died that night from injuries including a likely broken back, while Hiatt suffered minor lacerations and bruises and was taken to a Lincoln hospital. Hiatt is a son of Col Hiatt and formerly lived near Diller. He visited Lincoln recently.
Reports note corn struggles from lack of warmth and moisture. Mr and Mrs O J Mayborn traveled to Lincoln for the state bankers convention and to visit relatives. Dr Claude Ellis and family returned from Lincoln after attending the state dental convention. Hog buyers announce weekly sales at Diller every Saturday and Tuesday before noon with prices at 60c under the St. Joe market for all hog classes, per Harry Weddle and John Leaper.
Rebecca Helen Stamp born August 5 1835 in Hardin County Kentucky died May 20 1924 at her Butler Missouri home aged 88 years 9 months 15 days. She married Levy Shively May 29 1862 and had four children two sons two daughters with two deaths. Survived by daughter Celesta Adams son Alvin C Shively and son-in-law F G Adams. Also granddaughter Vera Adams and three step grandchildren Edith Randall Zella Clark and Mable Hill. Funeral conducted by Rev Clark at Prairie Home cemetery.
A snappy note riffs on earnings versus legal costs in Hollywood, joking that even as movie stars earn big money they pay lots to lawyers. It mentions a hazardous road crossing labeled No. 12,345 where a driver’s distraction for romance could endanger safety.
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