Memories Of The Past In Diller And Surrounding Areas
Local column recaps events from 25 years ago including elections at Shea elevator and Italy joining the Allies, marriages and funerals, barbershop moves, a scarlet fever quarantine, two wrestling match cancellations, a car accident with injuries, and school commencements with diplomas awarded. It notes Adam Herwig's death and community church and education milestones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Germany
Austria
Wm. Riddle Sr
Higginsville
Diller
Presbyterian Church
Aouw Lodge
Adam Herwig
Herwig
America
Nebraska
Hope Reformed Church
Oregon
John Cretzinger
Forty Years Ago At Diller Schools And Town Events
Details from a 1900 to 1940 snapshot include Prof E E Boner leaving Diller to practice law in Colorado and a 40th celebration plan with a $250 fund. Park Koons received a Washington censue bureau clerk post at $300 yearly. Decoration Day honors rose from four graves to 34 29 veterans across wars. Diller High School's 1900 class had six graduates with individual orations, salutatory and farewell by Maude Price May Lowe and others, diplomas by P W Price, EE Oner as superintendent. gate receipts totaled $29.30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Diller
Mesdames Hartzell
Kerr
Grace Watson
Diller
L M Cavett
John Clay
Prof E E Boner
Colorado
S Park Koons
Washington DC
Park
Washington
Stisl
Prairie Home Cemetery
Decoration Day
Samuel W Diller
Issac Fry
J M Geer
Frank Powell
Effie Belle Diller
Lizzie
Olive Zoo
Maude Price
May Lowe
William Oeachbger
P W Price
EE Oner
Fifty Years Ago Mill Fire in Steele City
Fifty years ago a Steele City flouring mill owned by Ross and Knapp caught fire around 5 o clock Tuesday morning and burned to a total loss. The blaze destroyed the structure and equipment, with limited chance of salvage. Local volunteers fought the flames but the mill was a total loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele City
Ross & Knapp
Addison Sheldon Chiding Movie Makers Over Neb History
In a column by Will M. Maupin, Addison Sheldon state historian protests Hollywood depictions of Nebraska history. He recalls Union Pacific and Plum Creek as examples and notes his preference for accurate portrayal. The piece retells frontier anecdotes about Jack MacColl in Dawson County and a Jackson, Nebraska, moment involving a canteen incident and a stern Bryan rebuke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will M. Maupin
Addison Sheldon
State Historical Society
Sheldon
Nebraska
Wild Bill Hikok
Union Pacific
Shel Ion
Plum Creek
Lexington
Jack Mac Coll
Mac Coll
Dawson County
MacColl
MacCell
Jacksonville
Col. Bryan
K. P
Log Scale Rule Defined for Board Foot Calculation
The log scale rule shows board feet obtainable from logs. It uses the log diameter in inches inside the bark at the small end and length in feet over all to estimate volume.
Lincoln's cash crunch before his White House tenure
On February 11 1861 Abraham Lincoln left home to be sworn in as President and was so poor he had to borrow money to cover his early White House expenses for the first month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Washington
White House
Wise words from Uncle Eben about fear and folly
A rustic proverb speaks of courage and risk, noting that true bravery and foolishness share a stubborn calm. The speaker reflects on how fearlessness can mask poor judgment in both the brave and the foolish.
Homeseekers excursions and local land deals in Diller area
A fragment from a 19th century notice recounts homeseekers trips to Diller, family visits from Carlisle Pennsylvania, and land sales. Widespread agrarian details include a 112 acre Bradt farm sold to P D Mills at 35 per acre, with Mills noted as father of T Mills and Mrs Geo Prc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Couurt
Wm Bradt
Diller
P D Mills
T Mills
Geo Prc
M Mills
Texas
Bradt
Mra Elizabeth House
Black Forest Colors Throughout the Seasons
The Black Forest shifts with the calendar becoming arctic white in winter scarlet with cranberries and yellow with arnica in June russet in autumn and blue gray with amtists in fall.
Bees Visit Many Flowers
A bee visits about 27 flowers in a minute while the general average is 15 per minute. With an eight hour workday this results in roughly 7 200 visits daily.
U S Soldiers Fight in Meuse Argonne Battle
The Meuse Argonne offensive was the largest U S military engagement in World War I lasting 47 days with about 1 200 000 American soldiers participating in the battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
United States
Meuse-Argonne
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jacob Bowers
Omaha
Shea Elevator
Delbert Stotte
Endicott
Rebecca Gerard
Eusley Carmichael
Ira London
Elna Stahl
Harbine
Sieboldt Sieboldts
Anna Junker
Fairbury
John Greider
Main Street
Record Office
Adam Gretzinger
Walter Leaper
Wayne Mann
Frank Durly
Henry Arnold
Geo Specht
Specht
John Specht
Millard Gimmeny
Spechts
Opera House
Lissie M Campbell
W Claude Dunp
Fern Hava
Ruth L. Lam
WG Sandman
Esther L Steff
Edgth
E Wrigley
C L Westcott
Dera J O Blauser
Board of Education
Nellie Green
Isable Fouts
Carrol Diller
Harold Hutchi
E L_ Loock
J W Sutton
J W Fouts
Frank T Pearce
Thos P Price
Tassimia
DOVER
Ork
Abe
Uncle Eben
Hemminger Brothers
Geo Myers
Misa Mary E Hemminger
Ida Myers
Carlisle
Mra H Steinburg
Otto Willens
Emma Ommen
Mre Shultz
Ilinoia
Willema
Viers
ACME
Bonham Theatre
Fairbury, Nebraska
Clark Gable
Joan Crawford
Cartoon
Walt
Disney
Adobe
John Steinbeck
Adso Western
Dorothy Lamore
Robert Preston
B. Edw
Ackerman Optometrist
J. Monroe Davis
B. Charles Pease
Diler
Drs
Hull & Hull
Scottsbluff
Odell
General Hospital
Odell, Nebrasia
Staleys
Leip
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