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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1931
Page
5
A patchwork of ads and small notices from a Nebraska paper includes auto repair tales, selling of stove wood and eggs, monument services, painting offers, trucking ads, and a weather blizzard report. It notes a fatal snowstorm across Colorado Montana and Wyoming with ten deaths and schoolchildren among the victims.
A new salesman sent to Borger Texas finds the only available hotel room is half of a private dining area. A screen splits the space with a young woman on the other side. He discovers the woman is dead and the clerk confirms the grim setup.
Charley Brandt is reported quite sick at his home in Diller. Volney Raymond of Lincoln will join his family in spending Easter Sunday with Diller relatives.
A newspaper note claims the Farm Board will stay out of the wheat market going forward. A Chicago man files for divorce after waiting 34 years for his wife to return, illustrating patient desperation. In Steele City, Mrs. Faye Clark helps in Clark's store during Mrs. Bond’s flu absence.
Principal W A Wagner, a popular teacher at Diller School last year, has been asked to remain at Lindwood for another year.
Tom Harris and his wife who attended the funeral of their cousin Miss Charlotte Loock began their return journey by auto yesterday. They reside in Mansville Wyoming.
Change in running times brings No 14 east bound and No 16 west bound trains into Diller at 2 45 A M No 14 stops for eastbound passengers while No 15 does not take on passengers at this station
The American Architect notes the oldest mortgage record found by a Penn expedition in 1893 on a clay tablet. It records a 430 B C borrower in Nippur who pledged ancestral lands as security for 30 bushels of dates. Similar agreements were used as far back as 2200 B C.
The Bureau of Mines outlines powder usage for blasting rock. It states 2 to 10 pounds per ton for small blasts and 3 to 4 pounds per ton in some cases, varying with rock type, hardness, exposure, and opening tightness. Proportions rise or fall with quantity and rock, with 40 to 60 percent powder used in ordinary blasting for many rocks.
Next Sunday is Easter. Some people think it time now to plant potatoes. Miss Helen Green of Gothenburg and Miss Nellie Green will spend Easter Sunday with Diller relatives.
A large group of Diller residents and children attended the Fairbury event for the county high school musical contest. The Diller public library association will hold its annual meeting for officer elections in the library room next Monday at 8 PM, with all interested invited.
The Fifteenth century Muckross Abbey founded by Donald McCarthy houses Franciscan friars. Towers and east window survive while interior monuments mark McCarthy Moore’s remains. Night reflections on Lough Oughter and surrounding peaks add a solemn Irish scene.
A birthday gathering unfolds Tuesday evening in Mr. A A Eick s living room with his wife present. Guests include Edna Effie Eula Addie Leonard Frisbie Brunk Clark Rose Hutchinson Calkins Blue Springs. gifts and prizes mark the party as friends wish many more birthdays. Refreshments follow as the group departs with warm wishes.
A horticultural note describes the sweet gum tree Liquidambar styraciflua as tall with furrowed bark star shaped dark green leaves and corky twigs. It praises street planting value while warning tender roots and noting resin used for chewing gum and medicinal uses.
Oscar Amos served as a subscription caller at the Record office during the week.
Miss Adelia Hays, a teacher in the Lincoln schools, is spending the spring vacation at her parents home of Mr and Mrs Chas Hays.
A Sunday report notes injuries from auto crashes, described as part of a recurring pattern across the week. The article remarks on Saturday through Tuesday incidents as a regular trend, implying persistent road danger.
John Maw aged son of Mr and Mrs S D Maw former Diller residents died Tuesday at his home near Atwood Kansas He is survived by his wife and one daughter and other relatives He was buried yesterday in the Blue Springs cemetery
Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne and seven others died when their plane exploded in mid air and crashed in a pasture near Baer Kansas during bad weather en route to Wichita.
Mrs Jas Hays hosted a J N C Club gathering on a Wednesday afternoon April 1 with nine members and six children present. Miss Adelia Hays of Lincoln attended as a guest and refreshments including pineapple cake with whipped cream coffee were served. Mrs Bowen invited the group to meet at her home April 15 and bring thimbles.
The Diller stores will remain open on Wednesday and Saturday nights to accommodate workers who labor in the fields during the day and trade after working hours.
H H Green and teammates who started last week for Atwood Kansas were in a wreck near Smith Center. The crash sidelined both vehicles with Floyd Man the sole injured in Hod's party losing several teeth. They repaired to Fairbury and returned home by auto.
A major quake nearly razed Managua on Tuesday forenoon with a potential death toll over 1,000. The ensuing fire likely completed the devastation while the 60,000 population faced mass homelessness. Red Cross and other groups are providing relief efforts.
The N B C met March 31 at Mr and Mrs Henry Saathoff with young men entertaining. Guests included Anna Romish Donna DeBoer Carl Mueller Herman and Anton Saathoff. A late lunch followed, and attendees expressed a hope to reunite next season.
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