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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1895
Page
4
Community notices from Diller and nearby towns recount visits, marriages, school enrollments, illnesses, and local business activity. Highlights include Mrs. Hattie Hudson's wedding, diphtheria concerns, farmers shipping corn, and social events in Loock's hall with modest proceeds.
A remonstrance opposing a change of venue in the Zimmerman and Henry murder case circulated in Diller earlier in the week and was signed by nearly all residents.
The official test of the new water works system in Hanover Kansas has just completed and will be conducted next Tuesday. The Recoup acknowledges receipt of an invitation from the mayor to attend the event.
Jos. Sadie returned from Mound City Missouri where he bought a half interest in a meat market. He says the business is good in a fine town and that crops were excellent this year. He expects to move his family there in about a week.
It is reported that naval veteran Jack Kennedy, who lives with T. J. Grogan on the Fitzgerald ranch west of town, has been awarded a pension between four and five thousand dollars. The report is hoped to be true as Kennedy is aged and in need of support.
Literary exercises will be held Friday afternoon in the Diller public schools for the primary and intermediate departments. The advanced department’s program was postponed after dissent over workload. The regular Friday program continues with visitors welcome to observe school work and elocutionary aims.
Mrs. Lilian E. Johnson will present a first class musical and elocutionary entertainment at Lovck's Hall on Saturday evening December 14 starting at 8 o'clock. Featured will be Lullaby songs by young girls and a Tableau d Art by eight ladies trained by Mrs. Johnson. Proceeds aid local relief. Attendees invited for an uplifting, bright evening.
Fragmentary notice shows The Doenen Company based in Chicago seeks gentlemen in Nebraska for salary positions. Unclear details, includes instruction to enclose stamped envelopes and apply via third floor Omaha Building, Omaha.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions salary figures and a company but lacks clear event or persons. The readable items point to an institutional or corporate note about compensation and duties without explicit outcomes or dates.
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