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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
4
A jumble of 1908 campaign notes and editorial remarks. Mentions H. Hinshaw and Uncle Joe Cannon, Bryan, Roosevelt, Hitchcock, and rural life aims. Quips on candy consumption and political will, with dated framing and provincial newspaper tone.
A wealthy farmer explains success comes from understanding every detail of the business. Relying on others risks malpractice and loss, while personal mastery prevents fatal errors and fosters profit. First understand every aspect, then proceed.
Fragmentary reflection on success and fate. Emphasizes personal choice and habit over luck, arguing two equal upbringings yield different destinies. One rises through self-value while the other sinks into poverty, shaped by belief in a living and the driven will to improve.
A fragmentary note describes men in the country delivering continuous strokes on a mover slowly advancing. They focus on power and progress, seemingly unaware of life’s broader meaning, driven to complete the task to its end.
Local items mention frosts forecast for the area and minor injuries from a wagon accident. Neelys Pharmacy sells Pinecalve Carbelived. Thos P. Price attends State Bankers Association meeting in Lincoln. Mr and Mrs S D Maw visit Ralph Maw in Pierce Nebraska. Rev and Mrs W W Kratver visit their daughter’s family after conference. Jobo Wright and Frank Maranville arrive for a family visit. Advertised remedies claim to aid indigestion and rheumatism.
Jefferson County school teachers listed as receiving their mail through the Piller office with a member of the staff.
Fragmentary note requests guidance for strength and support for elderly and frail, mentioning a person and living conditions. Text is garbled but centers on aiding weak family members and seeking assistance or resources.
The annual session of the Methodist conference met at Auburn and moved Rev J H Weatervelt from Diller to Lewiston. Rev Nathan English of the University steps in at Diller for the next term, replacing the outgoing pastor.
F. M. McMaoee pours concrete sidewalk along hotel property on lower Commercial Avenue. Abe Watson returns from Missouri to farm south of next east of Niles. Gertrude and Lottie Loock enroll at Lincoln’s Livevin Eustaces College. Mrs. Nettie Mormon travels east on No 14. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup advertises remedies. Elias Smith’s long barn burns in a thunderstorm five miles north east of Diller, destroying hay and grain. neighbor Mr. Littrell loses horses.
The Record notes a sale to Thee Price of the Caps Joe W Starr farm at S17 acres 44 miles southwest of Diller for 25200 dollars about eight dollars per acre. Starr previously sold to A M Strawhacker of Steele City. The farm is well improved with two houses and a fine set of fruit and forest trees. Starr reportedly bought the land long ago for eighty cents per acre. Future plans unknown, but he may move to Diller and his son Fred, living on the land, plans residence construction. Local residents welcome the family to Diller.
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