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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1935
Page
5
A magazine clipping explains why banks provide checking accounts. It notes banks collect checks, protect deposits, invest funds, and must meet on demand the checks drawn. Banks bear risk across distances and maintain records, passbooks, and staff to serve depositors.
Corrected market tally for Thursday shows No 1 wheat at 1.87, No 2 corn mixed and white corn at 93, with various odd figures and codes appearing as typical market shorthand. The fragment indicates a brief commodity price snapshot with several unclear entries.
Mr and Mrs Orville Richardson were Lincoln and Omaha visitors Monday. Mr and Mrs A G Richardson traveled to Tecumseh and Syracuse Saturday. James Hays underwent an appendicitis operation Monday and remains at Odell hospital. The Congregational church ladies plan their annual supper and bazaar on Saturday April 13 at the church annex.
Mrs Christie Seaman returns to her home in Diller after spending several weeks visiting relatives in Pittsburg Kansas last week.
Mrs. J. H. Smith and her children Jimmy and Parale visited the Place home in Pickrell for the weekend. Mr. Smith joined them on Sunday.
Dr and Mrs Viers traveled to Red Cloud on Wednesday to spend the day with Mrs Viers parents. The doctor notes Diller is two and a half hours from a desert, reflecting travel observations from the journey.
Mr ee Mrs Claude Nider Mr and Mrs Herman Sixel and Mrs John Brasch of the vicinity south of JHarbine visited Diller on Wednesday evening for the cooking school program.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Cole of Fairbury visited the A. O. Richardson home Sunday. Mr. Cole is an uncle of Mrs. Richardson. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kenning and family were also visitors at their home.
Mrs Alvin Hirsch and her children Freddie and Bobbie visited from Fairbury staying with sister Mrs Lloyd Hurst and relatives. Mr Hirsch joined the visit Sunday and the family returned home afterward.
Mrs Sparks, visiting from Liberty, spent Wednesday afternoon and evening at the local cooking school. She won several prizes including the capital prize with number 13.
Cleo Given confined to bed by illness. Serenus Viers recovering from measles. Ralph Carpenter troubled with eye pain. Mr E L Jenkins, Fairbury land man, visited Diller on Wednesday. Mrs Richardson at the office reported potatoes up for a week.
Mr and Mrs Cal Waggoner and their son John Steiner joined a Beatrice outing as they shopped in the town. The event highlights a quiet family excursion in the local scene.
Mrs. Paul Renz remains under medical care while her cousin Mrs. Christina Malpert helps with the household duties.
Mr and Mrs Tinsley who resided on the Oaks farm one mile west of town during the winter have moved onto the Newman farm south of Diller.
A man named Diller sustained a broken right wrist Tuesday after his tractor backfired while he cranked it. He described the pain as severe but improving and remained hopeful about recovery.
Mr and Mrs Frank Grabber and daughter Betty together with Mr and Mrs Howard Peters were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Will Ames last Sunday. The gathering honored Velma Ames on her birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Nelson and A. T. Nelson drove to Lincoln Sunday to see Mrs. Davis. They report her rapidly recovering and expect she can be brought home in a few days.
Dr Viers drove to Fairbury Friday night to meet his sister Mrs Cox of Wabaunsee Kane who visited the Viers home. His brother Frank Viers and wife of Superior came Wednesday to spend the day.
A letter from Mrs Virginia Mills of Council Bluffs Iowa accompanied by a money order extends her Record subscription to 1987. She was formerly known as Jennie Kelley when younger.
Frank J. Weber and his family recently moved to the Diller community from Carns Nebraska. They occupy the Mrs. George Goit farm located four miles east of Diller. Weber joined the Record’s reading family last week.
Dr and Mrs Ellis drove to Wilber last Sunday to visit friends Mr and Mrs Turner. Mrs Turner stayed for a week long visit. Their daughter Ethel and her baby boy visited at Ellis parents home on Wednesday.
A performance of The Poor Married Man is scheduled at the Diller Opera House Wednesday night. The event offers free admission.
The ad argues checking accounts offer practical value beyond simple balance tracking, highlighting easy access, debit features, and built in budgeting tools as reasons to choose their bank. It emphasizes customer convenience and security as core benefits of maintaining a checking account with Diller State Bank.
Charles Leaper takes up residence in Harbine occupying a small tile bungalow just north of Weatherford's warage.
Miss Bert Ballard and Mrs. McClay of Fairbury called at the Willis Clark home one and a half miles west of town last Sunday.
Joe Carpenter and his daughter with Mr and Mrs Harvey Powell departed for Emmit Idaho to take on employment at a local fruit farm.
Miss Ruth Stahl spent a weekend at the Paul Stang residence while taking a short vacation from duties at Peru Teachers College.
Miss Marion Diller traveled from Ruskin Nebraska where she teaches to Geneva with a group for the District High School Musical contest. She stayed Saturday and Sunday at her father J Smith Diller’s home while her father drove a load to Geneva from their town.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Grone and daughter Violet with Mr and Mrs Isaac Saylor traveled to Carleton Nebraska on Sunday. They visited friends Mr and Mrs Elmer Harold and family and enjoyed the 100 mile trip without fatigue.
Last Wednesday afternoon and evening the City Hall hosted a cooking school sponsored by A B Harris of Fairbury and led by Mrs Florence Mc Reynolds Williams. She demonstrated food prep and Kelvinator use, offered practical budgeting tips, and prizes including prepared foods butternut coffee and ice box dishes were awarded.
At the April meeting the Diller Library association reported year end totals: 1551 books available, up from 1372, a gain of 179. Loans reached 6253, up 304, with 5507 adult and 746 juvenile loans. A weekly winter story hour engaged about twenty children, and over a hundred books were mended monthly. Expenditures of 12835 included 75 from town, 5 from the Woman's Club, 5 from Puppet show sales, with remaining from memberships and fines.
Town council warns youths about bicycle riding on public sidewalks under ordinance 40. Section 1 makes sidewalk cycling unlawful with penalties including a $5 fine for first offense and $1,000 for subsequent offenses. Parents urged to inform their boys.
Mrs. Etta Ballard McClay and Miss Bert Ballard of Fairbury were callers at a Diller event. McClay, Diller’s first school teacher, and Ballard, a Diller pioneer and Fairbury assistant postmaster, planned to attend if Nebraska claims them. The ladies recall Alex Ballard who built Diller’s first building a blacksmith shop and the history paper that inspired the 1930 50 year Woman’s Club celebration.
Jefferson County farmers filed 1240 applications for corn hog contracts and 1292 contracts were completed in 1984. Officials expect total contracted acreage to exceed last year as 1935 provisions often combined two or more farms under a single contract. Some farmers could not sign 1935 applications, but new signers offset the loss.
Mr and Mrs Wilbur Green and two boys came from Powell Wyoming this morning after a message from Mr Close about Burlington track work starting at this place Wilbur aims to regain foreman duties Veral Green and wife are said to be progressing well Tank bought a 15 fishing tackle likely to net about 1 trout worth 14 in fun
The Daily Lincoln Nebraska Journal prints editions after 6 PM and delivers late routes and towns. It advertises lower annual rates than other big state dailies, with three month and annual subscriptions including or excluding Sunday editions.
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