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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1929
Page
1
Local notes report a Diller picnic planned for next week at the Diller State Bank area. Farmers say many have halted fall plowing awaiting timely rain. Smallpox quarantine of H. H. Beckwith ended recently. Visitors join family gatherings in Crab Orchard and Lincolnd? areas as kin travel between Phillips Nebr and Kansas. Local residents share arrivals and visits with relatives across the region.
Dr. and Mrs. Claude Ellis attended the funeral of Ira M. Miller who died at Lincoln and was buried in Wyuka cemetery. Attendees from Diller and nearby areas included Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hays, Mrs. Bertha Ellis, and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Waggoner.
Rev Dan Gretzinger of Bloomington Sr and his wife visit with his father John Gretzinger and relatives. They will lead the Congregational church evening services Sunday. Mrs Gretzinger will sing several numbers.
George Lampe of Lanham suffered a severe head cut and eye injury after his car rolled four times on the highway west of Lanham. He was taken to a Beatrice hospital for treatment of injuries received in the accident.
H. H. Green drives the Essex he recently traded for as a welcome rain fell Thursday morning. Dr. Cecil Ellis of Chester attended the funeral of his uncle Ira M. Miller in Lincoln last Saturday.
There are no convicts awaiting death sentence in the Nebraska penitentiary and there are more bankers than bootleggers serving time.
Mrs Claude Dunn and twin daughters Beulah and Beatrice of Loveland Colorado are visiting at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Bert Bell. Mr George Fisher and Mrs Mary Green left last week for a visit with relatives and friends at Powell Wyoming and will tour Yellowstone Park before returning.
Mrs Geo Tjaden who for seven weeks helped care for her mother Mrs Onka Lottman who has been seriously ill left for her Lake Andes South Dakota home.
Mr and Mrs Harold Hutchin whose son had spent part of their vacation at his parents home Mr and Mrs S C Hutchinson returned to their Omaha home Monday.
4 H Club A Happy Homemakers Cooking Club will meet at their leader's home on the afternoon of August 10. The girls thank Mr Shutt for allowing the use of his store window. Mrs A D Brown of Seattle Wash recently visited Steele City with Mr and Mrs Callander. Mrs Brown is Harry Browns mother and is returning from a Panama Canal trip from Seattle to New York.
The report notes a drought breaking light in the vicinity on Thursday morning. Evylin Elway of Lincoln is visiting Eleanor Diehl and returning home Sunday evening. Sophia Math and granddaughters Pearsea Asnacht and Isabel Mathias met with Mrs Jesse Ferce in Beatrice. E R Henrichs of Fairbury has been ill at her parents' home in Diller. Druggist Harry Shutt reports catching a ten pound catfish in the Blue River near Steele City. Arthur Pirone and Fred Frisbie with wives began a western trip through the Black Hills and Yellowstone, aiming to Idaho Oregon and the coast.
Mr and Mrs Childs Clark and daughter Jeanette with Mrs Earl Pearce drove from Omaha Sunday to visit relatives in Endicott and to see her husband's parents the Pearces and children Louise and Rajjih. They returned to Omaha Tuesday.
The 33rd annual Dillér picnic announces an 18 passenger airplane charter costing 61000 dollars to appear on both days next Wednesday and Thursday. A balloon ascent parachute leap merry go round ferris wheel animal circus free platform acts and a brass band will entertain attendees.
William Filmore Barton born March 8 1855 in Carlinville Illinois died August 4 1929 at age 74 in Diller Nebraska. He married Harriet Hanshaw September 27 1882 at Palmyra Illinois and they had four daughters and one son. The family moved to Nebraska in 1888 and settled near their present home. He joined the Christian church of Diller about 1897. Survived by wife Harriet daughters Addie Bell Eula Calkins Bernice Hudson and Jennie Windsor son William R Barton Jr six grandchildren two great grandchildren one sister Mrs Sarah DeFord Lincoln Nebraska and brothers Charles Barton Lincoln Nebraska Andrew Barton Virden Illinois. Funeral held at home Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev W E Ludwick with interment at Prairie Home cemetery. Card of thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy during illness and burial.
Mildred Mayborn and Flossie Raymond return from summer school at the State University. They note the Record announced the picnic schedule earlier. the event now shifts to Wednesday and Thursday of next week due to the hot weather.
Mrs. DID. .W.-Fanders and her children Gordon Gretchen and Wendell returned Wednesday from Guide Rock where they visited her parents Mr and Mrs .W.S. Lambert Her nieces Alice and Della Lambert accompanied them back to town and will visit for a while.
Mrs S M Hughes suffered a painful fall Sunday evening when stepping from the dining room door to pull the porch light. She slid into an open cellar way, sustaining a back head gash a broken rib and multiple cuts and bruises. Mrs Warthen alerted neighbors and medical aid. daughter Mrs Cleve Hiatt arrived from Hebron to nurse her.
Mr and Mrs Berty Frisbie of Hereford Texas arrived Friday night for a visit with their sons Henry and Frank Frisbie and families. They express satisfaction with their Texas home and Bert notes they nearly raised a large wheat crop despite no rain, a notable effort in difficult conditions.
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