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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1928
Page
5
Harold Bowere of Valentine Nebraska and his mother J A Pickard of Beatrice Nebraska visited Tuesday with Diller relatives and friends.
The funeral of Norval Carpenter was held Friday from the Baptist church in Harbine with burial in the cemetery north of the town.
A folksy quatrain urges authentic living and cautions against pretension. The speaker compares self to simple, humble forms and praises straightforward honesty over flashy showiness.
Mixed notices list rye for sale by Henry Wiemers and various ads for farming equipment, livestock, oil delivery, and monument makers. Also includes eye exams by Dr. Adams, a manager job post, coal prices, a Daily Chronicle quip, and local shoe shop offerings in Fairbury Nebraska.
A bishop notes that sermons urging repentance may be ad to portions of congregations. He warns that without conversion, they will be dammed to some extent. This blunt framing targets spiritual seriousness and accountability.
In Indiana a group of 35 golfers continued play despite a heavy shower while 63 people crowded a local bathing pool. As rain began, everyone fled to a shelter house, suggesting golf might be a mental disorder in jest.
Mrs. Harry Patton on the sick list. Sale of red and yellow tomatoes by E. E. Weigel. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Rhodes and son John of Beatrice visited Dr. Diehl. Kodak train wreck views shown at the Record office. C. H. Koenig, candidate for county commissioner second district, in town and left his card.
Mr and Mrs Geo Riddle and Mr and Mrs R L Oaks returned late last week from Sycamore Springs Kansas where they spent about ten days together with friends and relatives.
Joe Criger 48, longtime caretaker of the Jefferson county court house at Fairbury, died Monday afternoon of heart trouble. Local news notes include travels of residents to Lamar Iowa and Marshall Minnesota, a three day electric cooking demonstration by Beatrice Power Co at Diller, and visits by George Hollenberger of Benkleman.
A record breaking freight train carrying 92 wheat loads and 11 empty cars traveled from Red Cloud to Kansas City through Wymore on Tuesday. It measured three fourths of a mile, weighed 6000 tons, and was moved by a single engine and crew at about ten miles per hour including delays.
A tongue in cheek note imagines a phone user compelled to address the operator as Germany while the operator is forbidden to bob her hair or wear jewelry, highlighting humor around restrictive etiquette in a Soviet setting.
The Sunday State Journal shows Miss Nellie Pierce daughter of Mr and Mrs J E Pierce of Beatrice formerly from Diller who left last week to join the art department in Hurley New Mexico schools. She is a Beatrice high school graduate and studied at Peru Normal for two years.
James Goodrich Packer was born in Clermont Iowa on November 26 1871 and died at his Wood River home on September 9 at age 56 after a period of illness. He lived in Diller Nebraska and Wood River Nebraska where he worked in farming and business before retiring to Wood River. He is survived by his wife Nora Bell Saffell two sisters and four brothers along with nephews nieces and many friends. Funeral services were held in Wood River and Diller conducted by Presbyterian and Congregational church ministers with interment in Diller cemetery.
The family thanks friends and neighbors for support during the death and burial of husband and brother James G. Packer. Gratitude is extended to flower donors singers and the minister for their kindness and consolation.
Mrs. C. H. Cully and her son Gayle returned Sunday from a three week visit with relatives and friends in Wayne Page and North Loup Nebraska.
Wrtemers Bros of Diller won multiple prizes at the Nebraska State Fair last week for hogs including first prize junior boar and grand champion boar. They sold 12 head, with the 2nd prize senior gilt shown against the champion sow at Iowa State fair later sold to the U S Government Experiment Station in Maryland.
The article The lacks a fixed pronunciation rule and English usage leans away from the long ee sound before vowels. It notes a historical elision of the e and suggests modern practice favors the short the.
Mrs Smith sat at her dressing table combing her hair when her daughter Helen burst in and teased her about the white hairs in her head. The child noted the frayed threads in the mother’s hair in a playful moment.
The Bureau of Plant Industry reports two periods of maximum corn growth, one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon. It notes that unlike some plants, corn does not reach the same growth levels at night under good conditions.
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