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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1915
Page
5
The Weather Bureau forecasts higher temperatures Wednesday followed by a moderate fall around Friday and seasonable temperatures thereafter. Generally fair weather is expected across the region for the week starting Wednesday September 1, 1915.
A brief notice from the Record office requests a barn space in Nebraska for housing three horses. Enquiries should be directed to the Record office.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Stotts and children rode between trains on Wednesday afternoon visiting friends at Odell and with relatives at Humboldt. John Plager visited his wife and children over the weekend. A 64 pound boy was born to C E Bigelow and wife Maude Folkers in San Francisco on August 13 1915.
Miss Grace Nelson a teacher in the Omaha public schools and sister Mrs Arthur E Price left Monday for Fairbury to visit her mother a few days before the opening of school.
A seventh grade party was held Wednesday at P B Dilter's home for Donald Gillis who is set to leave the area for South Dakota the next morning. Ice cream and cake were enjoyed as the group had a pleasant afternoon. I D Steiner returned from Buffalo Montana to inspect government land and plans were made for his son John Steiner and daughter Clara Steiner to homestead 320 acres each with Miss Passmore accompanying them from Lincoln to settle.
A College of Agriculture forecast says Western lambs will be profitable this fall with high prices. Sheep perform well on a weeds-only ration, leveraging abundant weeds in many Nebraska fields due to excessive moisture. A July purchase of Utah lambs by the Agricultural Experiment Station gained 10 pounds per head in the following month on a weeds-only diet.
Mrs Elias Hadley traveled to Wyoming yesterday for a short visit and plans to stay through Saturday.
The article notes numerous forest reserves in Diller remain overgrown with noxious weeds, seen as a disgrace to the city and property owners. It also mentions a horse barn for rent to students and reports a marriage license issued in Beatrice for Mevers and Balmer.
Mr and Mrs Garfield Nida announce the birth of a daughter Marian Pearl born Aug 28 near Fairburnes, formerly residents of Diller and Shea vicinities.
Members of the Mi oOWe A. lodge are urged to attend Saturday night September 4. A musical program lunch and important business are planned by the committee.
A reader from Montpelier Indiana praises Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as superior to all cures for colds and claims it never fails to give prompt relief. The notice urges trials and notes the remedy is readily obtainable everywhere.
Esq D R Kelley sent a nine foot field corn stalk to the Record office showing three large ears. Two ears measure twelve inches and one ten inches. He farms an acre and a half and expects about 150 bushels from the patch this year.
Mr and Mrs Henry Scheele of Sheboygan Wisconsin stopped here on a trip from Colorado to visit cousins Mr and Mrs Folkert Funders. They expected to make one or two more stops en route home. Scheele runs a marble business in Sheboygan and enjoys the vacation trip.
The infant found abandoned on a Plymouth flat car, about two days old, now named Mary Doe, will be shown at the state fair after rescue and care at the orthopedic hospital in Lincoln. An incubator from Omaha will house the child during the exhibit, with no clue yet to the mother.
Beginning in September the post office will issue a receipt to senders of Parcel Post to prove mailing for a one cent fee. The receipt does not insure delivery or loss, and no addressee receipt is provided. Optional insurance is available: up to 5 dollars for three cents, up to 25 dollars for five cents, up to 50 dollars for ten cents, or up to 100 dollars for twenty five cents, prepaid with postage.
Article extols organized playground activity as essential for child development and school discipline. It argues recess should be active with teachers supervising, reducing bad language and fostering cooperation, honesty, and loyalty among pupils. Local notices follow about visits and family travels.
A Gates New York woman writes that two bottles of Chamberlains Tablets cured her biliousness and constipation. Edward Morrell of Clifton New Jersey, age 80, recently received a postal card postmarked June 16 1881 in New Hampton and arrived in Passaic July 25 1915. the writer had died fifteen years earlier.
In Diller many praise Adler i ka a simple blend buckthorn bark glycerine and related ingredients as a thorough bowel cleanser. Advertisers claim it relieves constipation and gas quickly with one spoonful and one minute after ingestion. Shutt Drug Co. distributes the product.
After a woman passes thirty the birthdays run together like moving pictures. Mr and Mrs Thos P Price and Jo Blauser had been to Akron Colorado for the funeral of Clark Blauser and returned home yesterday.
A testimonial from Miss Clara E. Driggs of Elba New York praises Chamberlain's Tablets as a quick relief for headaches dizzy spells and digestive disorders. The note calls the remedy worth its weight in gold and claims availability everywhere.
Burlington Railway issues warning to children as schools reopen. During the year ending June 30, 1915, twenty children were killed or injured by trespassing on railroad property or crossing tracks. Parents should teach children to look for trains and avoid lingering near stations.
Thos P Price cashier swears the statement is correct and a true copy of the report to the State Banking Board. The document lists cash items due from national and state banks and other deposits totaling 248 816 51 with a depositor’s guaranty fund of 24 365 72. Notary Frank T Pearce witnessed the sworn statement dated August 25 1915 with commission expiring February 21 1918.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew London and their child departed Tuesday forenoon by car to Colorado Springs for a two week stay with relatives.
Big displays of farm implements threshing machines and tractors will headline the Nebraska State Fair from September 6 to 11. Leading 1916 automobile models will also be shown at the event.
The State Journal of Lincoln cuts a one dollar trial for the Daily and Sunday to January 1 1916 and the Weekly Independent Farmer to attract new readers. The publishers tout Lincoln’s only morning paper and Nebraska’s coming farm paper as essential during the wartime period. Subscriptions available at the Record office.
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