Corn progress eases frost risk in locality
Most of the corn in this locality is now out of the way of frost, signaling safer conditions for harvest. Farmers note rising warmth and reduced danger of crop damage as nights stay milder.
28 Sep 1917
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1917
Page
1
Most of the corn in this locality is now out of the way of frost, signaling safer conditions for harvest. Farmers note rising warmth and reduced danger of crop damage as nights stay milder.
Mrs Dick Fanders returned Wednesday from visiting friends at Sterling Nebraska. These times test not only the boys but their fathers and mothers as well.
Mrs Brower of Shenandoah Iowa is visiting her sister-in-law Mrs A Mayborn in town.
Deputy Co. Treas. E. L. Jenkins of Fairbury was a Diller business visitor and pleasant caller at this office yesterday.
Miss Anna Hill visited at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hill and returned Sunday to Humboldt.
Mrs Clinton-Tristman and a young boy arrived Tuesday from Hildreth Nebraska to spend time with her parents Mr and Mrs John Gretzinger and other Diller relatives.
Dr and Mrs Claude Ellis and daughter Ethel visited their son and brother Cecil Ellis in Lincoln where he attends the State University during a Sunday trip.
Mr and Mrs E Habicht travel to St Joe this week to buy goods for Loock and Habicht store and to enjoy fall festivities. They returned yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Patton of Colon Nebraska who attended their only child a small boy in the cemetery and Fairbury last year are visiting this week with relatives in the vicinity of Diller.
Mrs. Gus Beekman and Miss ee per ak one who opened the funeral Mel Patten accompanied by a party from Pairbury enroute home to visit Diller relatives left for their Barr home after the services.
Mrs J A Rameey and her family from Beatrice visited Sanday with relatives including Frank, Mrs Fred Davis, and two children. The group traveled with Mr and Mrs Geo Fede and other companions for a social gathering and reunion.
Rain on Wednesday helped the winter wheat crop. Henry Brandt purchased the M. Wright property adjacent to the Christian church on the east.
Mrs S O Murdock and her son from Arapaho Nebraska are visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Asa Colman.
Miss Marie Stotts a DeWitt schoolteacher spent the weekend at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs A D Stotts and returned to DeWitt on No 16 Sunday.
Green coffee sciew and dried apples are among the few foods that have not risen much in cost since the beginning. The note suggests how to set the table economically using these durable items.
A small top opening barrel decorated in national colors is set in Ray Green's restaurant to receive tobacco for American soldiers in France and is being rapidly filled.
Mrs Tholen and her daughter Lydia Tholen of Chapin and Herman Diekhoff of Alma Missouri visit Mrs Willems of Shea and her daughter Mrs Lottman in Diller along with relatives Rose Butterbush of Bluffs Illinois and other family members.
The Diller Mercantile Company and Roy Diller announce a fruit sale of pears in Diller on Friday and Saturday and possibly longer. The pears are good sized solid and high quality priced at $1.75 per bushel. Direct from orchard to consumer. Come and see them.
The body of Roy White died after an appendicitis operation at a Nevada hospital and was received at Burlington station in Diller on an early Wednesday train. His son also died in Colorado near Mr White. the obituary notes he lived to be seven years old.
October 11 12 notes list a light frost and a small local report. Bessie Cherry nurse returns from Pawnee City on a case. Allen Nelson and Miss Beulah Bell take an early train to Sabetha Kan to visit relatives. Mrs W W Wyatt of Shenandoah Iowa visits cousin Miss L O Ballard. Miss Pearusch returns from Bellevue Iowa to live with Mrs George Henrichs.
Mies Fern Raymond and Master Dean Barber toured Odell between trains Sunday. A large acreage of winter wheat was sown near Diller and most of it has emerged and looks healthy.
Loock and Habieht inform customers who ordered peaches that their car load was shipped Wednesday. Orders must be picked up at the agreed price of $2.00 per bushel and recipients will be notified upon arrival.
Dr. Holman and wife of Minneapolis visited here late with his sister Mrs. I H Moulton and her husband.
Several litters available with seven to nine pigs each and one Chester White boar around 150 lbs. Contact Theo Henrichs for details and prices.
Mrs Mary Mitchel received a telegram Sunday announcing the death of her brother Thomas M Coghlan in Chicago and went Monday to attend his funeral.
Mayborn arrived from Omaha Tuesday with four car loads of large cattle for Fairchild Bros. of Endicott. This brings his total purchases for the firm to eleven loads over the past two weeks.
Miss Nellie Baker living 34 miles north and mile east of Diller underwent a home appendectomy Monday morning and was reported in very satisfactory condition after the operation.
Lieut. 8S. 8B. Viers left on the early Monday train for Kansas City to report for duty in the Veterinary Reserve Corps of the U S army. His family will remain in Diller and the doctor’s note confirms headquarters at Kansas City for now.
Mrs. Frank Vietha traveled by early train Wednesday to attend the funeral of her late husband’s father, Mr. Ditmar Vietha, who died last Saturday at age 94. He lived with his daughter and son in law Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Madden near Sidney, Nebr., and burial was planned at St. Edwards, Nebr., his former home.
A daughter was born on the 20th to Mr and Mrs Howard Linville of Odell. Mrs Linville is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Nelson who reside five miles southeast of Diller.
Bud Bell Seede Weimers Geo Henrichs and the Renz and Henrichs couples were on an early train yesterday to attend the fat stock event in Joe.
Ray Colman arrived Thursday evening from Deming New Mexico to visit his wife and daughter at the home of Mr and Mrs Asa Colman in Diller and Mrs Sarah Witty in Lincoln He is a ticket agent for the Southern Pacific at Deming and was granted a sixty day lay off due to ill health He reports meeting several Diller boys now with the troops at a nearby Camp
Rev F A Carmony and his wife relocate this week to a new assignment at Blue Springs after two years as pastor of Diller and Rock Creek churches. He preached at Frisbie schoolhouse and Pleasant View church with devoted assistance from his wife, earning enduring affection from congregations and the wider community.
Parties indebted to me will find their accounts at one of the Diller banks. 21 Dr. Viers.
Rev. H. W. Wagner and wife from Clarks Nebraska will preach at all services in Diller next Sunday morning and evening.
Mrs. Sarah Shoup and Miss Mary Sumner-Findling of Los Angeles visited the Ballards at Fairle and Diller yesterday while enroute to New York City. They are in Iowa Indiana and Ohio with Shoup being a sister of Miss Ballard's mother.
Cal Waggoner led the Lincoln gun club shoot with a 145 of 160. He then opted for a preset where and joined a hunting trip to the hill country with his father.
Witness describes traveling with C. W. Langley from Virginia State when a car darted across the road. Langley braked hard and shut off power to avoid a collision, expressing shock at the sudden danger.
Thousands of acres in the Sand Hills region are covered by alkali lakes. Until three years ago their waters were a nuisance as cattle drifted into them during storms and bogged down in rains. The lakes also wasted space that could be grass. About three years ago two University students Modigett
Grain column lists GRAM Wheat No 2 hard and Corn old in ear with Jets Corn new. The terse item records price or status changes today in a historic market snippet.
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