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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
1
Seed priced at $1.00 per bushel with notes on seed treatments and paint for a corn crib. Various residents report travel to Sidney and Lincoln for work and visits, including Alex Bell, Clara Steiner, and Mrs. Clark. Local business mentions include Shutt Drug Co. updates and a shooting tournament at Edgar. Quinter Fry estimates corn yield near 0.60 bushels per acre.
Rehearsals progress for the Oratorio of Esther the Beautiful Queen to be staged Friday and Saturday evenings October 29 and 30. Leading roles and Jewish and Persian choruses are well prepared with a large children’s chorus. Cast and chorus will wear brilliant period costumes. The ruler Ahasuerus presided over 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia. Tickets are urged to be procured early to hear the greatest light operatic oratorio written.
Local items report an ostrich selling for 1.50 at Loock and Habichts and include social notices such as Edith Wrigley riding with Lincoln yesterday, Mrs. Carl Franzen visiting Steele City relatives, a found ladies pocketbook, and inquiries at the office. Other notes mention Dr. O C Diehl returning from Lincoln with a new Buick roadster for practice, Mrs. Roy Payne and Ada Cully visiting, Wm Lohmeyer’s return from Kansas on a business trip, and Fred S Clark’s cancer operation in Savannah, Missouri confirmed as satisfactory.
The Cosmopolitan announces a subscription price raise to 3.00 for two years starting November 10. The offer to take subscriptions at 2.00 for two years will run until that date. Ear! Pearce.
Mrs. Durst family and relatives return to Elk Creek after visits. LeRoy Cherry travels from Wymore to aid John Cherry Sr whose shoulder injury mends with age. Gerner family returns to Herrington Kan from Diller. car left for repairs. Nancy Clark heads to Grinnell Iowa to tend sick brother James Paul, with daughter Adah Also twenty Diller youths attend Katzenjammer Picnic in Fairbury. proceeds fund a city pool.
Mr and Mrs Frank Gaines spent nearly a week with relatives at Diller and Beatrice and left Tuesday for Culver Indiana. They traveled from the San Francisco and San Diego expositions and stopped in North Yakima Washington to visit her father and other kin. Mr Garnes is a brother of the late Mrs A Blauser near Diller.
Rev. Fiting and his relatives and friends, who have been visiting here, returned today to their home in Glasco Kansas.
Chas Hunnicutt of Steele City formerly Diller places an auctioneer advertisement in the Record announcing his services.
At an orchard sale J D Steiner offered hand picked apples at 40c or delivered for 50c. In the same Wymore game last Friday Neil Diller sustained a dislocation of his left shoulder and Paul Beckwith suffered a thumb joint injury.
The Presbyterian church notes a ladies coterie at the home of Mrs H Z Diller on Thursday afternoon Oct 28. It praises a Sunday school session with strong organization and invites unchurched neighbors to worship. A large choir has formed and will enhance services. Sunday schedule Oct 24 lists 10 am Sunday school 6 30 pm Epworth League 7 36 pm song service and sermon The evening worship hour is changed and all are welcome.
Misses Averil Fouts and Florence Line and Mr. Dale Reinhart, who visited with their home folks at Diller since Friday, return to Lincoln to attend the state university. John Starr and his parents, R. F. and Mrs. Starr, auto trip to Wyoming and Colorado, returned to Ft. Morgan, Colorado, with plans to reunite in a week or ten days.
New angora scarfs from Loock & Habicht announced along with moving pictures at the Electric Theatre in Diller. The program runs every Friday and Saturday night, inviting patrons to enjoy cinema screenings.
G. T. Mills returned Tuesday from visiting his son W. P. Mills and other relatives at Atwood Kansas. He traveled with relatives and shared updates about the trip and family news in the community.
Christian services listed for Sunday October 24 include Bible school at 10 a.m. Nemesis iDoe. my 0. 6:30 p.m. preaching at 7:30 p.m. at the church.
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