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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1926
Page
5
Memorial and Decoration Day services planned at Diller with attendees from Lincoln and Beatrice. Chautauqua events run June 5 to 10. Local notices include M W A meeting dates, medical practitioners in Fairbury and Beatrice, and community social gatherings at Carmichael and Siebelts homes.
John Kuper and sisters Miss Hannah Kuper and Mrs. John Sodman of Humboldt surprise their sister Mrs. John Plager and family in Munday. The visit aims to cheer Mrs. Plager who is recovering slowly from illness.
The semi annual Gage and Jefferson county convention of the Royal Neighbors of America will be held at Reynolds, Nebraska, on June 7. Mrs Frances R Torkelson of Lincoln, chairman of the board of supreme auditors, will be present and give an address. Mrs E L Jenkins is oracle of the joint Gage and Jefferson organization. The county camps decided to join forces two years ago.
F. A Moon & Son, quality monuments at reasonable prices, Fairbury, Nebr. Est. 1886. Marten Fanders and wife of Beatrice visited Wednesday with relatives and friends in the Diller vicinity.
Roy Roelfs advertises Keffir corn seed with 88 percent germination and 974 pure at 1.25 per bit. Leonard Richardson had visited Kansas City with cattle and hogs and returned Tuesday. The note also mentions chautauqua week and a season ticket for a vacation under a big brown tent. Margaret Edna Meyer, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer, was baptized at St Pauls Lutheran Church last Sunday morning.
A seven and a half pound daughter was born Monday to Mr and Mrs Claude Nider at their home one mile east and 13 south of Harbine. The mother is Matilda Wolters.
Roy Geer of the Cornbelt Lumber Co reports a sale of lumber for a 50 by 60 foot barn to be built by John Gill on his farm five miles west of Diller. Verlin Borur, bank bookkeeper, is happy as his wife leaves Kansas to join him in Diller and they will live on Hil ton street in Mrs Frericks residence.
Physician and surgeon offers diagnosis and treatments by the Electronic Reaction of Abraine for chronic diseases and nonsurgical cancer treatment. Competent nurse attends. Office 4104 Court St Beatrice Nebr Phone 209.
Clarence Thompson of Ellis and a Diller school graduate who taught the past year at Arcadia arrived for a short visit with his mother Mrs. Emma Carpenter and relatives. He will attend Peru summer school and return to Arcadia in September where he was elected at an advance in salary.
B B Kensington spent Tuesday afternoon at Mrs Will Woods home. Mrs Beckwith suggested ideas including a cake cutting in which Mrs Nida was honor winner. The group voted to discontinue thru the summer. The next meeting will be the second Tuesday in September with about ten ladies planned for a special entertainment.
The storm reduced attendance but the Opera House graduation proceeded with 17 graduates on the rostrum plus one absent due to illness. Miss Vasta Packer led the graduating march. speeches were given by Berenice Diller Bernice Calkins Mina Benjamin while Supt Springer distributed diplomas and the valedictory was read. Reverend Hawkins offered the address and benediction closed the ceremony.
Rev. Otto Bergfelder and family attended the new Tabetha home orphanage dedication in Lincoln last Thursday. Dr. Manges of Harrisburg, Pa., delivered the principal address to a large crowd.
Mrs Sophia Mathias and her granddaughter Pearl Fasnacht spent the weekend with her son Roy and his family near Ellis, sharing time together in a rural outing and reunion.
Mrs Albert Leaper has suffered a period of illness described as intestinal flu lasting three or four weeks and is reported to be in serious condition.
E. L. Loock traveled to York Hastings and Deshler at the start of the week and noted a general shortage of moisture in most places visited.
Cliff Crooks of Fairbury has filed for bankruptcy listing debts of 56485 and assets of 25450. The Jenkins Crooks company business history is noted as the firm involved with the filing and merchandise stock figures are included in the statement.
Audrey Diller finished teaching a term at Stanton Nebraska and is home for a week before heading to Chicago for the summer with Nutrine Candy Co. The job is the same position he held last year, alongside his brother Neal who also works for the company.
The county board plans a session on June 2 to discuss local matters and set upcoming agendas. Officials urge public attendance and note items of fiscal and municipal importance will be on the agenda.
Diller alumni reunion picnic is scheduled for today with plans for a more extended notice to follow next week. Local attendees and former students are encouraged to join at the event site.
Monday is a legal holiday so the post office will operate Sunday hours and rural carrier service will be unavailable that day.
More than three hundred birds have been banded and released at the government bird banding station at Fairbury this season.
Mr and Mrs Benjamin and daughter from Hubbell attend graduation exercises where Mina Benjamin graduates as part of the class.
Neal Diller, formerly of Diller boy, currently credit man for Nutrine Candy Co. in Chicago, spends a week in New York City as a delegate from the Chicago Confectioneers Credit Assn. attending a National Credit Men's Convention.
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