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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1925
Page
5
H H Creen and family motored to Fairbury yesterday. The M W A meets 2nd and 4th Thursday each month. Dr G H Newton eye ear nose and throat practice Fairbury Nebr. Chas Barber was on the Omaha market yesterday buying cattle for his feed lots.
F. A Moon and Son advertise durable monuments at reasonable prices from Fairbury Nebraska with an establishment date of 1886. The notice highlights generations of craftsmanship and local service to area families seeking memorials.
Mr. Chas Brandt and his granddaughter Miss Mamie Brandt visit relatives at North Platte for a week or two. Oats priced at 7 cents per bushel and ear corn at 10 cents per unit. Fred Sagse advertises.
Bert Miller of Steele City Nebraska offers several car loads of potatoes for sale with a post November 1 relocation to Hemingford Nebraska. The notice signals available quantity and transfer point for buyers.
Nebraska announces 1926 automobile plates with a black background and light green numerals. A total of 255,000 plate pairs are ordered at a cost of 50,000 dollars.
A sharp social observation notes the Republic’s stage as a man cannot donate a dollar to the Red Cross but can spend five dollars to attend a boxing match. The remark contrasts charitable giving with spectator sport spending to critique public priorities.
Ab Bristol a lineman with the Diller Telephone Co and companions from Odell returned Tuesday from a hunting trip. They traveled as far west as Grant Nebraska and reported bagging many prairie chickens.
Mr and Mrs Thos Waggoner returned Saturday evening from a ten day trip to Kentucky where they visited three noted caves Crystal and Mammoth including a boat ride in the latter They sent a postal card view and a chestnut burr noted as a curiosity in the country
The Jefferson County Fair issued 3050.50 in premiums this year with 241 for horse prizes 612 for cattle 838 for swine 367.75 for poultry 345.25 for farm products 526.80 for women’s department and 118.70 for schools. Rain likely caused receipts to fall short of expenses this season per the Fairbury Journal.
Mrs. Willis Clark and daughter Carolyn Rose visit relatives in Lincoln. Don Tincher and family move from Odell to Diller and will occupy the O. B. Hill residence on Castor Street.
Price urged buyers to stock up on cabbage for kraut with a note from E. F. Habicht saying now is the time to buy while prices are favorable.
Albert Lukas bought the Thos. Price tenant property near the Burlington depot for 280 dollars. He took possession of the property yesterday.
The pupils of the Diller schools are entitled to much credit for the able manner in which they edited the paper last week. We'll all have to admit that they made a very credible showing.
Mias Alice Specht was taken to a Fairbury hospital last Friday for an operation and is reported as getting along as well as could be expected.
One writer claims excess beauty but a reader from the Ozarks counters with the view that there is only a lack of usefulness. The remark frames a local debate on value and virtue in society.
The St. Francis Herald notes substantial checks from mail order houses to the city council for streets and alleys, a county road draft, and gifts to schools and churches. The piece stresses the firms profit from the area and their generosity toward local needs.
Mrs Grace DeVries mother of Mrs John Lottman and her two daughters along with relatives departed Monday October 5 heading toward Twin Brooks South Dakota after visits with Mr Konstant's family in George Iowa and Milbank. A farewell gathering of about forty friends and relatives gathered at John Lottman's home.
Mrs L. M. Cavett is due home today after spending most of the week in Geneva Nebraska with her brother Dr Jos Bixby and her children.
The third and fourth grades work on a sand table project depicting an Indian camp. Sixth graders prepared North America maps while seventh and eighth graders completed Asia maps. They also wrote auto biographies and arranged them in booklets and are doing a book review. Visitors Mrs. Brooks and Mrs. Starr attended. Elizabeth Starr, teacher.
In town a man nicknamed Bro B astonishes residents after shaving his whiskers and claiming a second childhood Following a wild broomstick ride he explains he was exercising his colt A city official intervenes while bystanders react with disbelief and humor
The piece traces Halloween to ancient Celtic harvest rites and the feast of the dead. It explains how Pope Gregory IV shifted All Saints Day to November 1 and All Souls to November 2 to curb pagan practices, noting lingering Halloween traditions that persist today.
A meat expert asserts chuck steak offers nutrition comparable to porterhouse though its chewing exercise leaves the eater hungry for more.
Ensey Carmichael is building a new barn on his farm. The Rock Creek church Missionary Society met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. W. T. Logan. Dainty refreshments were served at the close. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Carpenter and family were Saturday dinner guests of Wm. Carpenter and Emily. Mrs. Roy Kline and children visited at the Earl Riddle home. Mrs. Vance Carmichael is on the sick list. Donald Friday was absent from school due to illness. Mrs. Frank Bryant returned from Steele City where she aided her son and wife who were sick. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sisk and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCune. Henry Jess drove from Omaha for a short visit and then left for Colorado on business.
A reflective note urges restraint in spreading news about neighbors. It warns that bad reports cause harm and exaggeration, while good news has little impact. The piece advocates charity, self-control, and choosing constructive words before sharing information.
Mrs Scott Miller and her two sons Junior and Richard visited the Wm Kennedy family in Fairbury from Monday to Thursday evening last week while Scott Sr attended the American Legion convention in Omaha.
Odell undertakers were summoned to prepare the body of Sim Hogrefe, 66, who shot and killed himself with a 382 caliber Colts revolver at his son’s residence two miles southeast of Odell, amid ill health concerns.
A licensed restaurateur faced charges for supplying liquor to three men between 9 and 10 pm without a meal. The defense said each man received a pie, argued as a meal. The stipendiary ruled in favor of the defendants.
A Ruskin passage emphasizes that true art honors the laborer regardless of subject, whether a rose petal or a precipice, as long as the artist labors with a solemn purpose, patience in the heart, and diligence in the hand.
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