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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1903
Page
1
A compilation of brief items notes elections in the district, local visits, births, arrivals, church events, and upcoming sales and entertainments. Mentions include judges elected, new post office quarters, harvest season chatter, and social gatherings in Diller, Fairbury, Sutton, and surrounding communities.
Local notices report 1904 calendars at the office and Sutton's stock of school supplies. Beatrice guests include Dr and Mrs M Davis hosted by Mrs Elizabeth Gillispie. Zook carts hogs to St Joe market Tuesday. Perry Cully scouts cattle near town. Republican ticket wins in Gage County by large majorities. Obituary notice: W P Lillie of Rockford Nebr inventor of the Lilliecorn husker dies. Diller items cover wagon inquiries, shipments to Whatcom Wash, Halloween social postponed, insurance prompts, property improvements by M Wright, and church supper proceeds for parsonage.
Eight yearling eee bulls sired by Conductor, Reg. No. 113165, priced 18 to 30 dollars. E L Looex and Miss Mary J Wood of Blickwell Okla visited with Albert Wood and family, then left for Nodaway county Missouri relatives. Rev. J Schaff new German Lutheran minister will preach next Sunday. his family remains at Rich Hill Missouri but expected soon. Latest returns indicate re election of Scott Merrell Billie Diller Oscar Garnsey and W W Watson with no opposition. Temperance lecture by Rev Shepherd of Fairbury postponed due to weather. Charley Packer family return from Mitchell county Kansas to live on Emery farm leased from Thos Hood next year.
An advertisement touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a universal remedy that cures dyspepsia jaundice fever and constipation regardless of age. It emphasizes respect for the elderly and promotes the pill priced at 25 cents at Sutton's drug store.
Last Saturday Halloween saw poor weather and extra police presence curtail activities. A boys built play house behind the Presbyterian church was burned, suspected arson. Official election returns for Jefferson County were received too late for full publication, listing judges and county officers with precinct tallies for each candidate.
Miss Harriett McCaslin of Topeka spent part of Monday and Tuesday with her parents at Valley View Farm before departing for Diller Nebraska. She has accepted a position as stenographer and assistant bookkeeper at the People’s State Bank. Her friends extend congratulations and best wishes for success in this stepping stone to greater attainments.
A fragment notes J BeOmner of Franklin Grove Ill injuried by a runaway bicycle and cured by Bucklen Arnica Salve. It mentions Judge Setton of Fairbury withdrawing from a race and being appointed a supreme court commissioner, resigning district judge. An auctioneered sale by J B Wright for Emil Tarnow near Diller lists livestock and household items, with sale at 10 o clock and noon lunch, terms in bills.
Monthly report for No. 64 notes first week attendance 14 on average, three week average 27, tardies 25. Pupils Glenand Smo adloff Blanche Redden present daily. Irene governee Blanser Bertha Long Na Maud Leah Bessie Stewart absent one day. Three pupils David Redden Leslie Barber Henry Fanders quit to busk corn. Patrons urged to help morning punctuality between 9 and 9 30. Minnie Hanicat Teacher.
Mrs J W Sutton invited about fifty guests to the Sutton home on Friday evening October 30 to surprise John Sutton for his thirty third birthday. At eight oclock he arrived to cheers and a lively evening of music whist high five cribbage and flinch followed with cake and coffee.
B F Bass of Fremont North Carolina testifies that after severe sickness and kidney trouble he used Electric Bitters and was completely cured. He reports neighbors also cured of rheumatism neuralgia liver and kidney complaints with the remedy. Available for 50 cents at Sitton's drug store.
Cef Smith a Fairbury printer died last Friday and was buried Sunday by the AL O UL Wolodge lodge he belonged to. He was sixty and served in the 11th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War. He had lived in Fairbury since 1580 working at the Gazette and later in a job office. He married his second wife recently after the first wife died in 1894. Physicians noted possible slow poisoning by arsenic and an inquest was held while a Lincoln chemist analyzes his stomach liver and kidneys for the report.
The weekly school notes recount rainy day absences for Inez and Ralph Cully, a county seat trip by Forest Raymond, and Golda Miller missing no words in Friday’s writing exercise. Two hundred words were written, with plans to finish a thousand words in the Roll of Honor spelling book Monday. A visitor described as an acrobat impressed the high school, and Thanksgiving mood filled the month.
Desirable residence for sale notes George H. Tonnemaker as contact and G W Smith, Neely's pharmacy, mentions voting for Reavis. Steiner from Diller area reports 160 acres of corn yielding about 50 bushels per acre. Special examiner M N Steele from Salt Lake City inspected the fourth rural mail route out of Jiller and argued against its current establishment.
Carelessness causes railway wrecks and throat lung suffering alike but Dr King’s New Discovery offers cures for consumption coughs and colds. Mrs Lois Crage of Dorchester Mass is cited among lives saved by the remedy. Guaranteed by J W Sutton druggist Echoe 506 at $1.00 with free trial bottles.
Ordinance No. 52 amends Ordinance No. 33 to set an annual license tax of $1 on all male dogs and $500 on all female dogs within the village limits of Diller Jefferson County Nebraska. The amendment excuses conflicting provisions and was passed October 15, 1803, with Thomas Copgranp as Chairman and Frank Ty Peance as Village Clerk.
Ladies invited to preview Fall and Winter millinery stock in 1903 offerings. Miss L. Oy. Ballard showcases designs and creations by skilled milliners.
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