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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1918
Page
1
Huy Bonds promotes Back the Guts that Hit the Huns. Miss Ballard debuts fall and winter hats. Allen Colman announces sale on Oct Sth. Camp Funston trip noted. Local ads refer to flour sales and various visits. Community news covers travel, illnesses, and social events with brief notices.
Miss Fern Hayes teaches at Valley school near Steiner district in Gage county where Robert Eastwood resigned to attend the State University. Miss Beulah Bell plans to leave for Topeka Kansas to enter Washburn College. The call for 82 men within five days after October 7 will exhaust the Jefferson county class and pull numbers from June 1918, while questionnaires are being filled by September 12 registrants.
Receipts from a watermelon patch under forty acres by the river near Freemont exceed $16,000 with ongoing field sales. Melons are large and exceptionally sweet, one weighing 63 pounds and priced at $2.15 each. Profits are about $400 per acre, and a field recently sold for $100 an acre.
A brief notice invites readers to buy tickets for an upcoming lecture course at the town drug store. The item notes a killing frost and mentions visits by Dr and Mrs Bauguess of Lincoln to Diller friends on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A fragment notes Dempster one horse wheat drill and Thomas press drill. It reports many have paid up arrears and advanced their Record subscriptions this past week. A Lamb and daughters trip in a car with Mr and Mrs Tinatt begins a Sunday journey to Denver via Hildreth and Perkins County.
Otis Eastwood and family visited from Liberty last Sunday to see his brothers Robert and Fred and their families. Their mother, who had stayed several weeks, returned to Liberty with them in their car.
Dr David W Fletcher presents a Lyceum talk at the opera house next Wednesday night titled America and What It Means to Me. The event aims to interest every red blooded American with a timely cultural lecture.
During the week of September 23 to 30, a Belgian relief drive asks for strong practical garments for all ages and both sexes, plus baby cloth, blankets, ticking, sheetings, and shoes of all sizes. Leave bundles at the Red Cross Room in Opera House Block or call the committee to arrange pickup.
A claimed yield of $25 bushels per acre near Kanab Utah is described as possibly the world’s acre yield record for potatoes. The notice underscores meeting Uncle Sam’s requirements and references back subscriptions and a year in advance.
Nebraska suffered a corn loss of 60 762 000 bushels between August 1 and September 1 due to drought and heat. At 1 55 dollars per bushel the value of the loss is 94 181 100 dollars.
The first number of the winter entertainment course will be presented at the opera house next Wednesday October 2. Season tickets cost 1.50 for four numbers with children at 0.75. Single admission is 0.50 and 0.25 for children. C L Geer and family drove to Waverly for a visit with Mr and Mrs Walter Greenwood. Roy reports seeing souvenir pieces of the aeroplane that carried Quinten Roosevelt to his death on the fighting front in France.
Dr. Bauguess v Mrs. Shuffler regarding guardianship of the doctor's son ilobert occupied the Fairbury district court Tuesday. The trial lasted all day with witnesses not allowed to hear each other. It adjourned to Wednesday with a decision pending on the new guardian and possible schooling for the boy.
The event features Burnham's Marimba jazz band with Cabaret singers performing Saturday evening September 28 in Wy yrasere. Nearby, several draft selects near Diller passed the physical in Fairbury this week and were told to hold themselves in readiness for a call to service within days.
Breeders are informed that the service fees for horses and jacks will be reduced for the fall season. Horse service $8.00, four year old jack $12.50, young jack $10.00. Sam Friday. 2t
Bert Miller Peter Wenz Martin Wickman Joe Miller Louie Lohr Earl Weigel and Quinter Fry plan a motor trip starting today to Hemingford Nebraska to see the county and work awhile in the potato field.
Mr and Mrs A L Tristman visited Sunday with relatives north of Beatrice and were joined by cousins Mr and Mrs Chas Pitman of Chetek Wisconsin who are spending the week with them.
A church reports strong attendance and calls for cooperation to ensure a successful year. The pastor will lead services next Sunday morning and evening. Sunday school meets at the usual hour, inviting all not attending elsewhere. Epworth League resumes devotional meetings and invites town youth to join. The church aims to do good for all seeking better things.
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