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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1909
Page
5
A poetic line listing roles from politician to farmer, praising the farmer as the sustainer of all trades. The verse emphasizes interdependence of society with the farmer at core, noting if farming failed, all professions suffer.
A miscellany from Diller includes shop notes, social updates, and local events. Items mention H. EF. Grapes selling South Bend watches, visits to Beaver City and Omaha, church conferences in Lincoln, Dragging of main street fund, and a birthday party for Pearl Hooper with about forty five guests and ice cream.
Odell will try to enforce her unit swearing ordinance. Seven bars of wood laundry soap for 25c at the Racket Saturday only. W. ER. Mudge and wife returned Saturday from Idaho Utah and Colorado. Mr and Mrs Emil Tarnow and Onuka and Folley Franzen were at Fairbury on business. Cash McElwee is in Fairbury finishing woodwork in John Henrichs' new house. Burl Ballard will decorate walls next week. Cement sidewalk on south side of Kelly Street. Oaks family putting theirs in this week. Mrs Fennel of University Place visiting. Miss Bert Ballard and mother visited Diller relatives. Miss O Ballard received fashion catalogues from Chas A Stevens & Bros. inviting calls to view latest productions.
John Mathias reports peach deliveries this week from his orchard with an estimated 600 bushels for the season. He recalls selling 12,000 rox eting cars in Diller this season and plans to convert part of his forty acre farm north of town into a park, with further notices to follow.
C 8 McClure urges townsfolk to attend a union service next Sunday at 8 p m in the M E Church with Prof Grimes Supt Diller schools delivering an address benefiting the town and its developing school program.
A jumble of local items lists goods at the Racket including seven bars of laundry soap for 25c and a One Minute Washing Machine ad. Mentions moves, visits, rail travel, and clerks at Spear Drug Co, along with various personal updates and small business notes from Fairbury and surrounding areas.
A clergyman recalls a wedding mix up when the best man arrives late claiming the cab broke down. The bride smiles, and the official feared a botched ceremony as the clergyman admits his inexperience and proceeds with the service.
Mr and Mrs John tiilder of Odell visited with son George and wife on their farm near Diller. The Pacific Monthly from Portland Oregon offers information on dairying fruit raising poultry raising irrigated lands timber lands and homestead land. Subscriptions and bundled offers with McClures Magazine Woman's Home Companion Review of Reviews and Human Life are advertised with varying prices and mail orders to The Pacific Monthly Portland Oregon.
Albert Loeper, Elm township farmer, was arrested after a June grand jury indictment charging him with selling liquor without a license. The five counts allege sales of whiskey and beer to Albert Friabie on several dates and to John J. Clancy. Loeper posted bond with Brown as surety to renew for upcoming court sessions.
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