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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
8
Recurring items recall local history from 25 years ago including Hollenberg schoolhouse fire Burlington station sidewalk and Dr Claude Ellis buying land for the Record office. Notes cover village politics bonds restaurants and a Boer War memory with details of a Wyoming accident involving Homer Clark.
Forty years ago Solis Pitts left Denver after medical college study while Mrs Kendall died in California after paralysis at age 66. Mr Kendall was Mrs Osborn’s father as Alex Ballard returned from Hardy to open a Diller blacksmith shop. Cash McElwee visits relatives. W N Sparks bought J Cross Dr J W Milker residence for 1100 dollars, occupied by Sparks since then. Bert Ewers returned from California 40 years ago.
Fifty years ago this week corn rose to 19 cents per bushel. Mr and Mrs O Franzen left for Peoria Illinois for a two week visit to their old home. P B Miller removed a piece of steel from his thumb after twenty years in place. J S Tate, once a Beatrice figure, was elected mayor on the Prohibition ticket. Dr O C Gifford offered fifty dollars to anyone proving honesty since childhood. The new town board elected F I Pearce chairman with Chas Pearce secretary and O Gifford treasurer. GT Miller’s father visited after 32 years, aged 80, with plans to travel west. R V Folkers bought two vacant lots. A corn husking machine invented by Mr Duon of Beatrice was tested and praised. About fifty masked dancers attended a Diiler Social Dancing Club ball at the opera house with the Shepherd Brothers providing music. They later dined at the Commercial Hotel with F B Emerson serving.
A fragment lists individuals with costumes like Pocahontas and Sailor and notes a bank report for Diller State Bank Nebraska dated March 26 1940. It includes assets liabilities and capital figures with names tied to costumes alongside a formal sworn statement by cashier J Mayborn and notary S C Hutchinson.
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