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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1940
Page
5
Market report from Black Brothers shows Wheat No 1 Carp and yellow Corn with noted prices. Eggs sold at 26 cents per dozen and Leghorn hens range 43 to 51 pounds. Hogs priced around 5.80 per hundredweight with grain market details supplied.
Sale items listed include Bonham Theatre tickets at a discount and Holstein cows coming fresh. Contact Diller H. D. Rippe at phone 104 27 for details.
Best paints enamel varnish and oils offered by C L Geer Ller and Coal. Readable text shows a short advertisement style listing of product types and seller.
See Bert Pease for shirts sport ensembles made to order suits trousers dresses and all types of uniforms. Phone 15402.
The Sparks Family expresses gratitude to friends for sympathy and help during their great sorrow after their mother’s death.
Trade notice lists poultry feeds calcium carbonate laying mash cottonseed meal oil meat poultry concentrate soybeans poultry meat scraps tankage grain bean and shorts. John Steiner referenced before grain sale. Includes a sale date code 4 25.
Mrs Viera suffered a crushed index finger when the car door closed on it during Tuesday noon in Lincoln while the Peases visited the city for a shopping outing.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Wymore plan move to Wichita Kansas where he has accepted a salesman position for electric appliances at a Montgomery Ward Store.
Joyce Wiemers celebrated her fourth birthday Tuesday evening with family and Joyces parents helping. Mr and Mrs Stevens and their family assisted, while Mr and Mrs N B Tyler recently spent weeks at their daughter Mrs Joe Nippert home and returned to Hadley Minnesota. Mrs Saylor met friends at the Methodist Sale in a wheelchair though happy to see them. Fayette Horton and Glenn Ball rode to Salem Nebraska to visit his parents. Visitors returned to Diller Sunday evening as Rex Green and wife visited Lincoln Tuesday and checked on Esther Raymond undergoing treatment at Green Gables hospital.
Mr and Mrs H V Clark of Lincoln visited the Methodist parsonage on Sunday. Mr Clark is the oldest son of Rev and Mrs W H Clark. He works as an accountant with the Iowa Nebraska Power Company.
Mr and Mrs Earl Tyler of Bingham Lake Minnesota and Mrs Tyler s brother and wife Mr and Mrs Chauncey Kingsley of Jeffers Minnesota were Friday night guests of Mr Tyler s sister Mrs Joe Nippert and family. They were on their way to Muskogee Oklahoma.
Mrs. Harry Davis called on friends in Diller on Wednesday afternoon, renewing old acquaintances during the visit.
Will Fox came back to iller last Saturday evening after spending a week at Washington Kansas serving as relief section foreman for the railroad.
Mr and Mrs Bert Holst and Mr and Mrs Elles Shane and families of Crete spent Sunday in the Lorren Stephens home south of Diller.
Mr and Mrs John iico and Rev and Mrs W H Clark visited the county seat this forenoon riding in a Carico sedan with Mr Clark driving.
Grandma Freitag came back to her Harbine residence last Tuesday after spending most of winter with her son Geo Freitag at his farm southwest of town sought by the local note.
Mrs Arthur Weir and Lor raine Schutte of Fairbury and Gertrude Weier of Lincoln visited relatives in the Diller vicinity Sunday afternoon.
Roy Patton celebrated reaching his fifty year milestone at his residence last Sunday. The event was a quiet family gathering with ice cream and cake as the refreshments.
About twenty people attended the Epworth League social at the Methodist church with Rev and Mrs Clark present. After lively games refreshments were served and guests enjoyed the event.
Robert Maw rides a bus from Beatrice for Great Lakes Training Station after a ten day visit with his parents. He expects transfer to San Diego California at the start of the month to be assigned to a war vessel.
Mr and Mrs Daniel Torrey and Mrs Alvin Hirsch with three sons visited the Cavett home for an hour or two Sunday afternoon. The Hirchs plan to move from Fairbury to Powhatten Kansas where Alvin is named Rock Island section foreman. Powhatten lies in northeastern Kansas about seven miles north of Horton.
The Dorcas Society met Thursday afternoon April 18 in the basement of the Methodist church with good attendance. President Mrs. Mattie Clark opened, devotional led by Mrs. W. H. Clark, yearbooks handed to each member, and a solo “Spring Time” by Mrs. Floyd Hughes. Contest results announced for music romance and musical rose won by Mrs. Ernest Schultz and Floyd Hughes. Guests included Mesdames Smith and Ernest Schultz. A lunch of sandwiches pickles salad and coffee was served by committee members.
Mrs Scott Miller visited the Stoffer residence in Crete to lunch with Dr and Mrs B S Stoffer. They discussed India experiences including Mahatma Gandhi and Ghandi’s fluent English. Scott Jr is a sophomore at Doane College and a psychology class trip to Lincoln was noted.
Pastor W H Clark invites all for Sunday School at 10 A M with District Superintendent Dr Huntington preaching. Choir participation requested. Community sale netted a little over 30 dollars, planned on short notice. Farmers expect busier times. December 1st hoped. Appreciation for local business cooperation in Diller.
Rev L J Wolff pastor C L Hullman superintendent S S Sunday School at 9 30 English service at 10 45 Luther League at 8 00 Choir practice Wednesday evening at 8 00 Ladies Aid meets Thursday May 2 Congregational meeting after church Sunday morning service
Pastor Howard H. Pyche will be out of town and no preaching service will be held Sunday. Mrs. Earl Weigel is superintendent of Sunday school.
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