Be a Sport and Smile Says Carol Rickert Poem
A short verse urges readers to smile and be a sport. It speaks in a light cheer and encourages a ready grin to brighten others. Carol Rickert is credited.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1922
Page
3
A short verse urges readers to smile and be a sport. It speaks in a light cheer and encourages a ready grin to brighten others. Carol Rickert is credited.
The morning temperatures fell below freezing. Miss Fern Hayes was a passenger on No 15 Thursday morning. John and Clara Steiner moved back to the Lichty property. Diller schools close Wednesday noon through the week for the teachers convention in Lincoln. Glen Lynch injured at Fairchild Bros. clay pit near Endicott when a rock rolled and struck his back.
A music recital is planned at the M. E. church on Tuesday evening October 17 performed by the music directors of Doane College. No admission charged.
The editor and family departed this morning for Moorhead Iowa to spend a day or two with Earl Pearce and children and to stop briefly in Omaha to see Mr and Mrs L M Hurst and Fern Cavett.
Mrs. Frank Johnson travels with two children to Omaha on No. 16 Tuesday as a delegate from Pleasant Lodge No. 96 D of H to the Grand Lodge convening there this week.
A son was born to Bill Cooper’s family during threshing and a ten pound boy followed the next day at Shirl Davis’s. Charles Gould planned to thresh the following day but chose to stack grain and wait for cooler weather.
Ben Roelfs living two miles north and four west of Diller visited town Tuesday after a rock struck his foot while he was building a cave and walling it up with rock. The blow crushed the big toe but doctors expect to save all toes.
H Z Viller sells the Diller butcher business including meat market slaughter house and feed yards to Herman Peters of Lanham. Peters will take possession next Tuesday or Wednesday and has rented the Christian parsonage as a residence. Diller plans a trip to Excelsior Springs for rheumatism relief before pursuing other ventures.
Catarrh is a local disease influenced by constitutional conditions. Hall's Catarrh Medicine includes an ointment for quick relief and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to aid ridding the system of catarrh. Sold by druggists for over 40 years. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Rev Innis of Diller elected secretary of group one Beatrice conference district. The district includes eleven pastoral charges, meeting held Monday at Fairbury Methodist church with Dist Supt Gettys presiding. Delegates present were Mr and Mrs E L Loock R F Starr and Quinter Fry.
Dean Barber broke his arm roller skating on the sidewalk and was taken to Dr. Taylor in Fairbury for an X ray and reduction if needed. Rev. H. E. Grieb and F. W. Steffen returned from Sutton where they attended a Synod meeting as delegates for the Harbine Reform ed church.
A biting political column laments overwhelmed eleemosynary institutions and crowded state houses. It laments restricted access to hospitals and jails while urging swift cures, urging decisive action against faddists and hobbyists as society tilts toward excess.
In Diller the landowners Marten Fanders W C Line and Bert Bell with neighbors rounded road corners near Prairie Home cemetery before the Community Clubs road committee could approach them. The local effort, praised as commendable, may spur more corners to be fixed by either the club or other residents.
The Record notes creditable showing for Diller banks this week. A peach freight from Brigham Utah to Wymore cost 445.75 for 1190 miles. A 15 year old no funds check artist cashed small sums at Diller after checks drawn on Ellis Bank. He was arrested, fined five dollars plus costs. his father paid the fine and costs and took him home. No names are published due to high standing of parents.
Amos Fincel and Everett Clark in a white Oldsmobile collide with an Essex sedan driven by Mr. and Mrs. Clayt Gish of Beatrice on the Cornhusker Highway near Blue Springs. Mrs. Gish bruised. Billie Gish cut by glass. no serious injuries. Both cars damaged. drivers reportedly did not see each other.
Diller area breeders Henry and Alpha Wiemers report Chester White hogs winning multiple prizes at Nebraska state fair Jefferson county fair and Gage county fair. Notable wins include Chief Justice 2nd aged boar and The Constructor with junior and grand champion honors. Litters from the sows sold in February yielded over 100 dollars each. Alpha Wiemers notes Pawnee county fair drew record crowds.
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