15 Aug 1930
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
1
Local items note upcoming fairs in Jeff. County and nearby districts with dates August 26 29 and August 29 September 4. Labor Day looms as schools prepare and residents express town loyalty to the newspaper and merchants. Community visits and family travels are listed among the scattered notes.
The Record invites readers to submit news about the Diller vicinity and neighborhood events. Items should reach the paper by Wednesday. reporters cannot attend all meetings. Local notes include sickness lists and visits such as Wm Behrends illness and travels of Mr and Mrs C B Ashcraft and John Harvey.
Prof. W. A. Wagner, a former Diller schools teacher, moved his household goods Sunday to Linwood Nebraska to teach for the upcoming school year.
Herman Diekman and family traveled Sunday from Burlington Colorado to attend a picnic and visit his parents Mrs Harm Diekman and other Diller relatives.
Mr and Mrs V A Raymond and children Donna Jane and Dickie of Lincoln visited Diller relatives Tuesday and Wednesday and attended the Diller picnic.
Mrs. C. Moser was brought home Thursday evening from Beatrice hospital where she underwent an operation and is making a fine recovery.
Beatrice Nebraska ad copy notes drying and airing with open windows. Mentions paint products in colors around 230 dollars per gallon and 5 gallon containers offered by Gambie Stores.
Hod Diller, longtime Lincoln quarantine officer, is on vacation visiting relatives in Fairbury. He has served the city in public health quarantine duties for four years.
The 34th annual Diller picnic drew huge crowds for the final night, with a record turnout despite rain the prior night. Judge Messmore spoke for J. N. Norton, an auto crash sidelined the Musical Swangles, and a 4–0 ball game saw Ellis beat Diller. Balloon ascents and an airplane offered thrills as attendees praised the event’s orderly, festive atmosphere. Many former residents, including families from Beatrice Lincoln and Omaha, attended, sharing in the town’s pride and memories.
Fifty four carloads of iron pipe and couplings arrived at Hollis Kansas to build a natural gas line from Amarillo Texas to Chicago Illinois. Dunn Brothers and Smith Brothers of Fort Worth Texas hold the contract. A large crew and machinery are assembling there to begin construction.
A letter from Frank Hale Selma Colorado, formerly of J Brush Colorado, states Mrs H Emery of Lan ce California died on the 4th of this month. She was known as the wife of J H Emery who died recently. The note mentions rain and good crops in the dry lands and valley, with hope for a strong harvest season.
A barn on the Charley Finch farm seven miles east of Diller burned Tuesday night after a lightning strike. The blaze destroyed the barn and its contents, including a team of mules and about a thousand bushels of wheat.
Will Rogers stands as the only man who can joke with the powerful and exit unscathed, earning praise for his fearless humor.
Word arrived yesterday that C A Leaper of Osborne Missouri a former Diller resident passed away and will be buried today local details indicate burial to occur in the community where he lived.
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