Diller Picnic Event Notes Amid Fragments
Fragments indicate a Diller Picnic event with dates August 8 and 9. Text shows garbled lines about speakers or displays and mentions settlers, a fair, and local days. No clear outcomes or names are readable.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1949
Page
1
Fragments indicate a Diller Picnic event with dates August 8 and 9. Text shows garbled lines about speakers or displays and mentions settlers, a fair, and local days. No clear outcomes or names are readable.
Parade lineup at 5:30 pm features a long list of floats bands and groups including the Bugle Corps Pillerommunity and the Plymouth band. Historical sections feature wagons cowboys and antique cars with themes from Indians Trapper Pilgrims and Pony Express. Organized by Arthur Wieths and Mahlon Wolken the parade plans note comics may move during the route but should not appear ahead of the historical portion.
Fragmentary list shows baseball game between Odets Jr Legion and Jansen Jr Legion at 6:30 p m plus Fairbury versus FW Drum and Bugle Corps at 8 p m. Includes acts like Piller Band and Home Talent, Governor Peterson, Nick Nelson magician and Barbera Shop Quartet.
The program lists Odell versus Chester at 3 00 p m and a Diller Band show at 7 30 p m followed by a girls sextette at 7 45 p m and a Ranch House Revue at 9 00 p m. Captain Sanders reports Nebraska Safety Patrol data on night driving hazards with 348 speeding arrests and notes weather and farm conditions, plus library hours and a community notice inviting old dishes and furniture to be displayed.
The County Agricultural Conservation Committee announced county wheat allotments totaling about 68.0 million acres to be harvested next year. Farmers must contact the county office if they believe they should have received an allotment. Acreage allotments limit government price support spending, not production.
Norma Harvey Stahl born 1911 in Nebraska to Jess and Ethel Harvey. She lived with grandparents after 1918 flu deaths, married Herman Stahl in 1931 at Marysville Kansas, had a son Robert and a daughter Ruth, long hospital stay in Fairbury followed by death on Monday July 35 1949. Survived by husband, son, daughter, brother Gerald Harvey, Melita, grandmothers Carrie Wrigley and Mary Harvey, and many relatives including attendees from Wayne Beatrice Portland and Fairbury.
Schedule notes for the San Antonio area listing events on August 9 with references to a 540 annual Dillier Prenic. Details are fragmentary and not fully legible.
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