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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1931
Page
5
Short items list shop ad for Russell's Shoe Shop promising better service and materials. Also mentions sale of rye seed at 45 cents per bushel, a lost wheel between locations, rental for a barn room, a visiting brother of T H Waggoner, a picnic, and Moon & Son offering monuments at seasonable prices in Fairbury Nebraska Est 886.
An old classified style ad urges parents to have children’s teeth treated before school opens. Dr. S. B. Viers and Dr. Leach, dentists in Fairbury, advertise best materials for the money with different prices for different grades. Also mentions Electric Shoe Shop with varied offerings.
A note invites hog buyers to list their hogs with Diller Farmers Grain Co. Paul Stark. It mentions burning wheat in public schools as a means to reduce grain surplus and raise prices, a proposal attributed to Donald Muir legislator and large landowner.
A jumble of small notices mentions Flora Warthen confinement due to illness and a request for the finder of a 50 pound black male pig to notify Victor Anderson of Diller. The rest records social visits, fairs, reunions, injuries, and a motor trip in Indiana Pa.
The 35th annual two day picnic in Diller concluded with a large crowd in Plymouth band led by C. C. Clark and marimba group from Beatrice. Rex Green chaired the first evening and greeted attendees. Attorney General Sorenson spoke on law enforcement. Attractions included a Ferris wheel, a baby glider, arial acts, and dance games. Outgoing residents gathered, noting many former Diller neighbors attended from Lincoln Polk Endicott Beatrice Fairbury and other towns.
A reader notes daily loss of minutes chasing mislaid letters documents hats spectacles and parked cars. The author praises a timely newspaper article urging better organization and placing items rightly, then jokes about misplacing scissors.
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