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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1922
Page
5
In a World War I trench tale a Black soldier faced a German attack scenario and answered that the enemy "might know where I WAS but not where I IS," a line credited as a sharp defiant joke amid the fighting.
An inter county convention of the Woman's Clubs of Jefferson and Saline counties will be held at Western Nebraska on September 28 with state and district officers present. Social evening hosted by Mrs. O J Mayborn on September 26 invites families of club members to attend and report.
Snapshot of local notes with odds and ends on fair dates and social maxims. Brief mentions include a Steele City property purchase by Frank V. Lowe and a cranberry and plum delivery from Nevis Minnesota.
A writer muses that radiophone voices sent into space ride the vast sea of waves into endless time. This idea suggests eternity as today’s spoken words endure across ages with global scope and deep reflective potential.
Mr and Mrs Roy Edgington and Mr and Mrs A E Southwick with son Raleigh returned Saturday from a western tour. They enjoyed Estes and Pingree Parks in Colorado visiting Fort Collins Loveland and Denver and traveled through Danbury Minden Nebraska before returning via the D S D to Fairmort Hebron on the Meridian and home.
Citizens showcase tidy homes and streets with fresh paint and graded roads. Front and back yards are neat, yards sanitized, and school playgrounds ample. Store windows display thrift, churches filled, and no street loafers. A strong civic spirit grows as residents hustle for Diller.
An advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine can relieve catarrh and related deafness. It mentions an ointment component that is said to quickly reduce inflammation.
LaVern Pickard spends the week at the Jefferson county fair in Fairbury. Ben Miller from Lincoln, a Remington Typewriter Co salesman, visited with his cousin Scott A. Miller and family. The Fairbury Chamber plans a local observance of Rock Island railroad’s 70th anniversary on Oct 10.
Wheat seeding is underway. W T Anders owns a store and dwelling on East 3rd Street in Fairbury. Henry Wiemers is sick and missing reports on his gale. Shea area dominates county fair prizes with Maxard Harold Logan Leslie Stull Fred Lambert Henry Wiemers and L R Lambert among winners.
Dewey Stillwell, convicted in Gage county for assault to commit rape on September 12 1918, seeks parole. His hearing is set for October 10 1922 at 10 am at the state penitentiary with interested parties required to appear and show cause.
The excerpt contrasts dawns and noons with evening, suggesting childhood, youth, and manhood mature through changing skies. It speaks of storms with silver linings and a calm twilight, valuing resilience and hopeful vision across life.
Directions for White Relish and Green Relish include chopping cabbage celery beans onions and cucumbers with salt and water then soaking overnight. Morning cooking with horseradish mustard celery seed sugar and vinegar yields tender vegetables to jar for preservation.
Gather the small button mushrooms and wash them. Peel if desired and cook. Add one cup of vinegar to a quart of mushrooms then season with salt and spices to taste. Simmer until tender, then ladle into jars and process while boiling hot.
Apples surplus to use can be ground, juiced, and boiled to bottle hot. The method yields ready mince meat and flavored pies with extra sweetness from the juice.
Edith Wharton narrates a World War II era vignette from the sec ond Maine front where a khaki clad nurse asks if a wounded man is an officer. A grim corporal replies the patient is a man after noting multiple wounds and repeated injuries without complaint.
Report notes that Ethel Stella’s marriage ended in failure and mentions Clara acknowledging the husband’s wealthy father remarried.
Miss Winetta Stacks, superintendent at the Methodist Episcopal Deaconess home in Philadelphia, recalls a boy who pulled his own tooth with pliers to learn to blow a flute. In a later recital the child finally produced notes on the instrument, despite the painful start.
On his first day at school Harry struggles with spelling arithmetic and geography but boasts he has the biggest feet in the class. His mother expresses disappointment yet Harry finds consolation in peer praise.
Mickie urges readers to back the paper to ensure prosperity and growth. He links financial health to community backing and the paper’s continued presence in the town.
The piece notes Colorado hosts over 1000 curative springs rivaling European spas. It cites Solly praising waters equal to Ems and superior to Nauheim and Spa. Steamboat Spring is said to boast the largest and most varied group with 150 springs and 99 named waters known to the Indians.
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