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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1950
Page
3
The Nebraska State Highway Department announces a major maintenance program with 1,222 miles of gravel and resurfacing to be bid on August 24. Work spans 42 counties in 62 units, involving 135 thousand cubic yards of gravel and a hundred mile truck caravan.
Classified listing shows multiple John Deere tractors from the 1930s to 1980s with rubber and steel tires. Includes B models with starters and lights, model A tractors, Oliver and IHC gear, plows 2x14 and 2x16, a 12 ft dump rake, a Case drill, and miscellaneous farm equipment. Some items specify attachments such as fertilizer, cultivator, and beam or bottom components.
The notice states a good supply of 88 ft by 15 gauge baseties and offers delivery on new items including John Deere semi mounted or pull type corn pickers, wagons and boxes, disc tillers, plows, PTO hay balers, spring teeth barrows, side rakes, grinders and hammer mills, Valley Meyer or Bus Brown elevators.
Review of local incidents from fifty years ago recounts near misses a horse turned buggy over in a storm and a broken buggy bow, lightning burning grain stacks, and neighbors saving one granary. Park Koons and Rev R J Lockhart head to Washington and New York for work and rest.
The 12 year old son of R B Albers broke a farm while riding a cart three miles northeast of Diller near the old W H Diller farm. Cash Don and Patrice McElwee from Fairbury joined their mother Mrs Ida McElwee and other Diller relatives on an Indian Creek picnic. Golda Miller spent two weeks in St Joseph and Pittsburg Kansas visiting friends. Rosco Colman returned to Omaha after visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Allen Colman. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Joe McGillicuddy of Fairbury, formerly Agnes Friday. W C Line filed for the Republican nomination for senator in the 23rd district comprising Jefferson and Thayer counties. Mr Live had served two terms as representative from the county.
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