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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1925
Page
1
R. C. Chunkwood for sale from C. E. Fairbank. 31 Ralph Frisbie has a new Ford touring car. Ab Cully visited Beatrice Wednesday. Dry chunkwood for sale plus windmill tower and pump from W. C. Line. Pay your debts early. Oscar Amos drives a 1926 Chevrolet sedan.
Vester Carmichael notes a seven acre corn field yielded 534 bushels per acre on Dr. Ellis' farm just south of town. The event details are posted for the City Hall hosted supper by church ladies.
Market ad lists prices for hens 15c, springs 13c, roosters 8c, geese 12c, ducks 15c, turkeys 1 each, cream 43c. Note about N R C meeting with Mrs. Frisbie November 3 and next gathering with Mrs. Eick November 17 after weather slowed attendance.
The Girl of the Limberlost played at Rex Theatre last Friday and Saturday to benefit the library. The library received 19.70 of the proceeds. Part will pay rent for the library room and the rest will buy new books.
Mr. and Mrs. Green R. Jones and daughters Billie Jean and Donna arrived Friday from Clay Center Nebraska to visit Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Moser. They brought their grandmother Mrs. Etchinson who will live with her daughter Mrs. Moser again. Jas. Etchinson of Hershey Nebraska joined and will stay to help care for his mother.
Thanksgiving thoughts urge gratitude and family time as the Cornbelt Lumber Co and local clergy call on community mercy efforts with Red Cross involvement. Also offers for sale Rhode Island Red cockerels and Duroc Jersey pigs, plus a note praising Frank Pearce’s long-running Diller Record tenure and Fairbury News endorsement.
The wedding of Charles E. Faulder and Jennie E. Woods took place Thursday in Lincoln with Rev. Ray Hunt officiating. Mrs. Faulder once lived near Diller and has resided in Beatrice recently. the groom is a Beatrice native. They plan a brief honeymoon and will reside at jeed Jefferson Street in Beatrice.
A Lenox furnace was installed in St. Paul’s Lutheran church that week. People may buy a box of fruity Jello from Mrs. J. A. Pickard, call 20. Mrs. Ollie Brooks of Superior came to care for her ill sister Mrs. R. F. Starr.
Saturday specials list Parker House rolls Graham Gems and cinnamon rolls priced 12c a dozen while cookies cost 18c a dozen and two dozen devils food cakes 25c cookies and doughnuts 25c a dozen at Emerson's Bakery only
The Woman's Club schedules a November 16 meeting at 8:00 p m with hostess Mrs Carrie ting and co hosts Mrs Berti Re oe Mrs Scott Miller ine Tera Sone Seay bak. A Western Cities Roll Call and Original Verse The West will be featured with special music.
A northwest wind blew four inches of snow off wheat fields and piled drifts on east and west roads, making them nearly impassable. The weather moderated and most snow vanished by writing time. The J N Club met at Mrs A J Hutchinson's home on November 11 with nine members and three children, electing officers for the coming year. next meeting set with Mrs Mable Grone on November 24, moved to Tuesday due to Thanksgiving.
Mrs Claude Woods and Mrs Wm Woods hosted a shower for Mrs Chas Faulder of Beatrice formerly Jennie Woods of Diller. Fifteen guests enjoyed gifts, a radio serenade of Love You Truly and warm congratulations to the newlyweds, with baskets of flowers carried by Carolyn Rose Clark Evelyn Beckwith and Marjorie Lou Woods before refreshments.
Alberta Folkers and Mattie Henrichs lead for a Sunday event with officers planning contest rules soon. A Thanksgiving party is hinted by the party committee, with notices to watch for particulars. The B B Kensington marks its thirteenth anniversary on Tuesday November tenth at Mrs Ben Henrichs home. Fifteen members and children enjoyed Rock games and a business meeting electing officers. Refreshments included chicken sandwiches pickles fruit salad coffee and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. The next gathering will be at Mrs Ray Hudson home on November 24.
The Community Club entertainment committee proposed four winter lectures by Prof. Morton Supt Beatrice public school on Schools and the Community, a lawyer on Law Observance and Good Citizenship a doctor on Health and Hygiene and a preacher on Religion and the Community. Lacking treasury funds of about 48.00 the plan was not acted on and the Record will publish the proposition for response from interested members with name and fee. Committee members are BE Loock Dr Viers and O J Mayborn.
Dr. S. B. Viers and family traveled home Sunday after visits with relatives in Superior and Red Cloud Nebraska and Lebanon Kansas. They were joined by the doctor's father who came to share New Year’s Day turkey with the Viers family, an invitation extended last spring by the doctor's wife.
Two couples from Diller Harry Keating Lorenz Willems Mildred Tucker and Mamie Basta narrowly escaped carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday night after the exhaust pipe on their Ford coupe disconnected and fumes seeped through the floor. They stopped near Ben Siebolta’s home where Dr Diehl arrived and revived all passengers. The incident warns against driving with a broken exhaust system.
Thursday market briefs show wheat and corn prices listed as No. 2, with white varieties noted. Butter fat values and spring poultry prices for roosters appear in the day’s market summary.
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