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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1921
Page
5
Funny verse hints at animals and jail quotes while local notices report Mrs. T. H. Waggoner visiting Lincoln and Ora Zook visiting with Mrs. S. J. Thompson. Duroc Jersey boars for sale priced right. Tanlac claims by Shutt's Drug Store. Deshler visitors Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Henrichs at Diller. Greenwood family visits in Waverly.
Omaha prepares for Armistice Day on November 11 with a monumental disarmament parade and mass meeting led by local organizers.
F Hartzel received one of four car loads of baled alfalfa hay purchased at Fairbury about ten days earlier for 12.50 per ton. A Missouri jitney bus incident followed within a week as four men were hurt attempting to crank the vehicle. an observer notes such accidents occur when a bicycle is crossed with a mule.
More than 50 Omaha doctors will tour Nebraska October 30 to November 5 educating the public on cancer. Operated under the American Society for the Control of Cancer, the crusade will visit every city and town over 500 population with free lectures.
A fragment mentions Dru Testimonials linked to F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. The readable text provides no date or outcome details.
The shipping association sent two car loads of stock to the St. Joe market Tuesday. John Clausson is moving his pump shop into the Kielsmeir building which he recently purchased. Tanlac is advertised by users in Shutt's Drug Store.
The next meeting of the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners is scheduled for November 8 in Fairbury. The session will address county matters and public concerns.
Frank Johnson and family and Mrs H H Green and her young daughter traveled to Beatrice on Sunday to spend the day visiting relatives.
Carl Sandman became a Standard Oil salesman in Diller and started work Monday. He moved his family from Harbine on Tuesday. Don Gridley’s venerable father, who visited near Shea for weeks, returned Wednesday to Humboldt with a son who drove over by car.
The Beatrice chamber of commerce announces a poultry show the first week of December with no entry or admission fee for exhibits or visitors. The group will raise funds to cover expenses and provide prizes for participants.
The village council authorized purchase of privately owned wells and cisterns to operate water supply. Byron sits on a watershed ridge between the Little Blue and Republic rivers with only three wells. A local company owns the main well and cisterns, selling water for fifty cents monthly. it agrees to sell for a small sum. The water board will install gas engines, repair cisterns, and sell water similarly, with no mains or water tower planned.
R. F. Starr returned Sunday from a business trip through central parts of the state. Rev. E. L. Jambey conducting revival services at Odell visited there Tuesday with Rev. Innis.
W H Schmuelle assisted with clerical work during the Goodrich bank reorganization at Fairbury. The quotation suggests a speaker complains about coworkers stalling work by playing horseshoes outside his office while he was busy.
Over a quarter of a million well known men and women from different parts of the country have signed written endorsements for Tanlac. Shutt's Drugg Store.
The local market has advanced from 1 cent to 24 cents per bushel on several grain kinds in anticipation of Interstate Commerce Commission freight-rate cuts set to take effect by November 20.
E E Shultz and Frank Mathias returned from Colorado last Saturday. Through Mr Shultz Mr Mathias traded his two farms of 480 acres east of town for a 1640 acre ranch north of LaMar Colorado. Mr Mathias will move onto his ranch next spring.
Mrs Mary Fasnacht received a telegram from Salina Ohio and left on an early Sunday train to be with her mother Mrs Sarah Giel age 92 at her bedside. She was accompanied by her daughter in law Mrs Frank Fasnacht.
The party from Diller rode to Barnest on Sunday afternoon to view the large hydro electric dam under construction across the Big Blue river. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mudge, Mrs. Isabell Wieths and daughter Hilda, F. E. Hale and family, W. E. Anderson and family, Dr. and Mrs. O. C. Diehl, J. L. Lamb, C. E. Piverat, Miss Elsie Lamb, Mrs. Ruth Blauser and children, and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Waggoner and family.
A city lecture at Diller City Hall on Wednesday November 2 features Dr J S Taylor of Fairbury under the American Society for the Prevention of Cancer. The talk aims to correct cancer myths, show recent medical progress, encourage early treatment, and prevent spread with free admission and no collections.
With coal prices high, residents plan to burn wood and coal, hoping hardwood chunks yield similar heat for about six dollars less per ton. Corn on the cob and shade trees being converted into fuel are also mentioned, as unemployed workers cut trees for sale.
S. T. and Mrs. Savage plan a mixed business and pleasure auto trip starting Thursday. Local notes report visitors at the Specht home for Sunday dinner with Alonzo Specht hosting and Will taking his usual Sunday nap. A furnace was unloaded for Jess Bros. this week. The Equity haus sold most of its corn to feeders, with L. Barber and Henry Wiemers receiving the bulk.
A fire Monday destroyed a small frame chicken house near the Luthern parsonage in the southwest corner of town. Ashes dumped against the building shortly after noon, but a bucket brigade saved the barn and adjacent structures despite a strong south wind. Rev. Duhrkop arrived to help control the blaze.
Everett Blauser a rural mail carrier from Powell visited here Friday night with his parents Postmaster and Mrs J O Blauser It is claimed that three billions of dollars are hidden around houses and carried in pockets by people of the United States All this is subject to almost instant destruction by many causes If this was deposited in banks thus releasing it for useful purposes it would go a long way toward financing necessary business today besides according the depositor a source of protection and income
The Youth's Companion offers a 1922 subscription bundle including 52 issues plus remaining 1921 issues and a 1922 Home Calendar for 2.50. An option adds McCall's Magazine for 3.00. Subscriptions are available from Commonwealth Ave and St Paul St, Boston Massachusetts.
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