16 Oct 1903
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
1
A potpourri of tiny items from Odell to Haddam and Diller including calendar samples, real estate and business transfers, marriages, travel notes, road advocacy, political notices, and upcoming meetings. Mentions Sutton window displays, B& M railway activity, and plans to form a farmer grain company with an elevator at Diller.
Sunday School at 10 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. Subject Christ in Industry. Epworth League at 6 30 p.m. Preaching at 7 30. Subject What is Man. Prayer meeting at the parsonage next Thursday night. The public is invited to attend all these services. Frank Micks Pastor.
A mix of short items notes from the office and community life. Mentions include price requests for Sheridan coal from G H Townemaker, travel notes about Clyde Wright, Mrs Reinhart and W C Frisbie, Miss Alice Roosevelt submarine voyage claim, local shopping at Sutton's Drug, a Red Cloud wedding trip, household organization tips, prairie garden observations, and upcoming auction details for Otto Kruger near Diller with a sale of horses cattle and farm implements. Also references to auto factory counts and a funeral in Stewarteville Mo.
A group of young ladies from Elder King's Sunday school visited him Saturday evening and presented a large medalion picture as a remembrance of their pleasant relations in the Sabbath school.
Revs Marsh of Beatrice and Collinson of Burchard conduct two meetings at the local Methodist church one last night and one tonight. Collinson once lived here and still has many friends glad to meet him.
Report of School District No 74 for month ending October 25 1903 shows total enrollment 21 average attendance 11 tardy marks 19 visitors 3. Pupils present every day Bennie Elia Hattie Kumansky and Glenn Howard. Daisy London Teacher.
Advertisement urges farmers to print their names on envelopes and writing paper. Local printer offers printing services at reasonable prices and invites farmers to visit the office.
J. W. Strawn, national representative of the National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church, will speak Tuesday evening October 20 at 7 30. The talk invites all to learn what the Christian church is doing for orphans and the aged.
Call Geo H Townemaker for Sheridan eval. Births: a daughter born Oct 12 to Mr and Mrs Fred Kenworthy northeast of Diller. a 12 pound boy born to Mr and Mrs Chas Caldwell about 5 miles northeast of Diller. Also remarks on pre marriage compliments and insurance prompts.
Gifford returned Thursday morning from representing San Grail Lodge 141 of Diller at the grand lodge meeting of the Knights of Pythias held in Lincoln starting Tuesday. Les Butterbaugl states his new baler is in good order and ready to bale hay or straw on short notice with hay at 100 dollars per ton and straw at 1.15 per ton.
A Kansas City pauper closes a toast to woman with a pointed remark urging women to stay true to their nature. The line expresses a skeptical view of change aligning with personal desires rather than inherent character.
A 19th or early 20th century advertisement extols Cascarets as a natural laxative to keep bowels and liver active, claiming six million users and a price of a 10 cent box. It notes 17 000 rural mail carriers delivering to 12 million countryside residents over 500 000 miles daily and forming the Rural Free Delivery Carriers Association.
Steffen has leased his farm to Charley Adams and Lew Meyer and plans a public sale of stock and farming implements. The event features thoroughbred Duroe Jersey hogs and starts Friday Oct 23 at 10 o'clock with a free lunch at noon. Boss Wright, the local auctioneer, will conduct the sale and Henry Stall of Harbine will clerk.
The author ponders why men in their fifties and sixties with substantial wealth keep chasing money and land. They endure endless labor and stress for years, only to face a funeral, probate, and the break up of their earnings.
Mrs R V Folkers and her daughter Maud return home from California where Maud spent a year for health. Maud sent a fruit package with grapes apples pears and lemons praising their quality as samples of what she lived on, noting health improvements.
A large crowd attended the Christian church last Sunday evening to hear Frd. W. T. King deliver his farewell sermon. He spoke to the youth and expressed gratitude for the kindness shown by Diller’s young people. After the service the choir sang God Be With You till We Meet Again as worshippers filed past the altar to bid the couple goodbye. Mr King served here three years and was beloved by all. They departed for Hutchinson Kansas Monday morning to join Mrs King’s parents.
I M Raymond of Lincoln Nebr attended a Peoples State Bank stockholders meeting in Diller on Monday. P W Price of Topeka Kansas spent Sunday with relatives in Diller and joined the stockholders meeting Monday forenoon, returning on No 16 that afternoon. <end>
Peter Jansen of Jansen Nebraska acquires 50 000 acres from Saskatchewan Land Company in Winnipeg and secures option on another 50 000 acres. He plans to settle 1 000 Mennonite families on adjacent homesteads in north eastern Assiniboia and south eastern Saskatchewan.
Kerr reports two alleged swindlers forced him to withdraw 3000 dollars. He used the telephone to summon fifty neighbors who formed a posse. Farmers armed with shotguns exchanged fire and the robbers were captured in a cornfield.
The tenth grade enjoys studying fables by the Old Romans while several pupils miss due to rain. Intermediate room notes include new curtains and glowing praise for Roth Sparks’s spelling. A Quaker meeting rumor caused hall noise and Miss Lamb, Harry, and Ralph King joined the spell down. Some pupils recite Rainy Day and The American Flag. tardiness is rare in the intermediate room. Grace Myers visits Pennsylvania and 65 pupils are in the primary department with 45 showing no absences or tardies last week.
Arthur E Price, assistant cashier, was elected a director at a stockholders meeting held here Monday forenoon. The article notes various local observations and quotes about modesty and misstatements.
A farmer explains success by bringing home more value than he spends. He aims to sell more in value than he buys and to grow everything on the land for his own use, trusting the land to produce.
Low fares list 25 dollars to Portland Tacoma Seattle and San Francisco Los Angeles 22.50 to Spokane and similar cuts to hundreds of ports. Sale valid daily through November 30 with personally conducted excursions and tourist cars to California and Seattle. inquire nearest Burlington Route agent.
The famed Lincoln car once held by the Union Pacific railroad for thirty seven years was sold to new owners who will showcase it at the St Louis exposition. It stood on a siding in Omaha yards and was part of railroad exhibits in Chicago and Omaha. Built at Alexandria Virginia's military shops in 1864 the ironclad armor sits between its inner and outer walls.
A fragment reflecting on British policy in India, meat prices, and society’s fixation on punctuality. The note laments time pressure in daily life from fights to trains, warnings to act on time, and the universal struggle to “kill time” as hours pass.
A historic offer proclaims that The Weekly State Journal will switch to a 25 cent annual subscription for new subscribers, promising eight to ten pages weekly with national and Nebraska news, suitable for the whole family. It urges Nebraska families without a daily paper to subscribe and to share the deal with friends in other states.
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