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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1936
Page
5
Classified notice listing Bernard Behrends seeking corn cutting work with contact. Also ads for sale cook stove and other items, and sale of yellow corn oats barley oil meal and tankage by Diller Elevator Co. Includes subscription offer for Lincoln Daily Star and a list of 31 picnic dates in nearby towns with event dates in August.
At a meeting of the village board of trustees on July 17, 1936 the estimated expenses for the year beginning May 1 were put at 2970 dollars. The amount was ordered to be spread upon the minutes and published according to law. John D. Steiner, chairman, Chas. E. Waggoner, village clerk.
The Rev H H Ve and Pastor Mrs Ray Lamb lead the 4 PM Sunday service at City Park with the Supt S S S S arranging the program.
Local items note 8 45 A M weekday broadcast. Wig Green was sick Thursday and could not perform on the Burlington section. Mrs Ray Eick hosted dinner guests including Mrs Maxine Babcock and her son Roger from Lincoln. QO Moore’s young son fell from a tree Friday injuring his arm and causing pain for several days.
Mr and Mrs O J Mayborn and daughter Mildred traveled by car to St Joseph Missouri yesterday for business purposes.
J B Boss Wright arrived at Diller on Tuesday to join the town picnic. He travelled from Kansas City where he had visited a daughter and her family.
Oliver Diehl, confined to a room at Odell Hospital for four weeks after an appendectomy operation during hot weather, is expected to be released and return home on Monday.
Mr and Mrs Car Sandman and family left Wednesday for their home in Grand Junction Colorado. Their son Dale stayed to live with his grandparents and attend school while helping with chores and errands due to his grandfather's poor health.
Mr and Mrs George Renz welcomed nieces and nephews for a short Tuesday afternoon visit. Those coming included Mrs Louis Renz, Mr and Mrs Alvin King and their young daughter, and Mr and Mrs Fred Schiermeyer.
Dale and Fern returned Wednesday evening from a visit at their uncle's home in Wayne Kansas. Two cousins joined them for the picnic. The uncle and aunt are due Saturday for one day of the picnic and to visit with Harry Close and family.
Those who have supported this paper by their subscriptions since last issue include Claude Woods Albert Hubka George Novotny Rudy Hubka Mrs H T F Davis John F Miller Erma Sible Herman Sixel Henry Fanders John E Wrigley Hugo Schuette Thos Baumfolk Hollenberg Clarence Wolters Harbine Dick Ketten Jansen Wm Glather.
Perley and sisters Hazel and Ethel with Mrs Ira Place and son Rhee spent a week in the Rockies visiting Denver Lookout Mountain Idaho Springs Grand Lake Estes Park and returned via Big Thompson Canyon Greeley Cheyenne and points beyond the Wyoming Capitol. They report daily rain and cold at times with cabin fires needed at night. The author jokes that rain would be unlikely if lifted a mile or two above Diller.
Mr and Mrs Cal Waggoner motored to Omaha Saturday afternoon. The former attended a blue rock shoot.
Mr and Mrs Henry Achte meir and two daughters traveled to Marshalltown Iowa last Friday for a family reunion of the Achtemeir clan.
Fred Meyers Fred Hicken and Chas Jamison left Monday morning by auto bound for Powell Wyoming Idaho or any seaport with job prospects.
A man by relation to John F. Meyer, living north of Diller, was a heat victim last Saturday while working with a straw-bailing crew. He is recovering and progressing well now.
Tom Baumfolk of near Hollenberg adds a "full size" International truck to his fleet for heavy box and rack hauling. This new rig increases capacity for local transportation duties and signals ongoing growth in his trucking operations.
Mr and Mrs Elmo Hadley of Steele City visited with Mrs Maude La Gorgue and their Kansas City cousin Saturday evening to hear the band concert.
Mr and Mrs Ira Peek and children Dona and Joe Ann traveled from Auburn Friday afternoon to visit Mrs Peek’s aunt and uncle, Mr and Mrs George Renz, for a few hours.
J. R. Andrews suffers an infected arm carried in a sling for days. The infection arose from desk chafing at the Diller Elevator Co grain office. He is reported to be improving despite the ailment.
Mrs Carrie Wrigley arrived Monday from Wymore with her granddaughter to attend the annual picnic. Miss Martha Wrigley visited the home of her cats near Harbine, while Mrs Wrigley stayed in town.
Miss Delpha Wiemers is home from a three weeks visit with her uncle's family, Mr. and Mrs. Orval Wiemers, at Grundy County, Iowa. Her brother Leonard stopped en route home from Detroit and picked her up. They arrived here last Thursday evening.
Rhue Green and Mr and Mrs Volney Raymond visited home folks from Lincoln on Sunday. Rhue has been casting up talent for an entertainment program in California and paused en route to his home in Los Angeles.
Rev and Mrs Ehlert of Cortland with Mr and Mrs Fred Layer and family of Evanston Illinois visited the parsonage home of Rev H H Proett Thursday. The group had been seminary students together in their younger days.
Rev Ahrens and his daughter from Rosemont Nebraska with son Edward Ahrens and family of Rudd Iowa and Mrs Anba Brandan of Rudd visited Rev and Mrs H H Proett and family Tuesday. They left Wednesday morning for Rosemont. Miss Bertha Dahlman, who had stayed two weeks at the Pruett home, returned home with them.
Mrs Ina Hil and her children Max Irene and Glenda spent a week in Colorado returning Saturday. They visited Fort Collins with Lew Starkey's family and went fishing in the mountains. En route they saw relatives in Denver and Brownfield and stayed overnight in Formosa Kansas with Chas Warthen. They then traveled via Washington to the Marstellers who were released from quarantine after their son Ray had scarlet fever.
Miss Dorothy Carico of Falls City visits for a family picnic and enjoys time at the home of her grandparents Mr and Mrs John Carico.
Mrs. Ollie Armsted of Auburn and her niece Mrs Don Russell of Tecumseh visited last Thursday with friends Mr. and Mrs. G L Richardson and family. Armsted owns the farm where the Richardsons reside.
Mr and Mrs Bert Frisbie of Hereford Texas arrive from Lincoln to visit son Henry Frisbie and family. They stay with Mrs Frisbie's sister Mrs John Greider and plan to visit Frank Frisbie in Ogema Wisconsin. Bert notes local dryness despite rain 15 miles away. he remains active and even speaks Bohemian with neighbor John Sible. Mrs Frisbie and sister Maggie are described as not growing old.
Mrs Lizzie Greider celebrated her 90th birthday with a Saturday evening concert by Diller band under Mr M O Wood. Guests included four sons and many friends who shared greetings, cake, and ice cream as the family marked the milestone with warmth and cheer.
Western Railroads run the fastest schedules with a sixteen hour day trip between Chicago and Denver and a thirty nine hour forty five minute trip from Chicago to the Pacific coast.
I express my thanks and appreciation to my friends who remembered me on my birthday.
A grateful note from Mrs May Carmichael and family thanks neighbors and friends for sympathy acts and floral offerings during the illness and funeral of their husband and father.
Harry G. Taylor, chairman of the Western Association of Railway Executives, says American railways represent an investment of 26 billion dollars, nearly equal to the present national debt. The statement frames rail infrastructure as a sizable national asset and obligation.
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