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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1933
Page
5
Miss Bonnie Green left Saturday with her sister Nellie of Lincoln for a motor trip to Chicago to spend two weeks at the world's fair. T Logan advertises seed rye and cobs for sale while M J Wolken offers alfalfa seed and a 25 model T Ford sedan.
Shoe repair and harness parts offered with open hours until nine in the evening at Fairbury Electric Shoe Shop located north of the Bonham theatre. Plus local family notes mention Little Mary Elizabeth Freitag visiting relatives near Odell and Mrs Dora Wohlfarth Gretchen returning from Chester with Dr Cecil Ellis and family attending the Diller picnic.
A.R. Milow, a local druggist, reports W. L. Adams suffered heart stoppages after meals due to gas in the stomach. Adlerika is said to have relieved the gas, and Adams now eats freely and feels well.
At an adjourned meeting on July 11 1933 the village of Diller Nebraska trustees estimated expenses for the fiscal year starting May 1 1933 at 250000 and ordered the figure spread on records and published. A Snyder chairman and Chas E Waggoner clerk signed the record.
Mr and Mrs Clifford Garten report their baby is on the sick list. Frank Nelson and family of Fairbury attended the local picnic last week. Odell picnic postponed to Monday due to rain. Vester Carmichael celebrated a birthday with a watermelon feed at home. L M Cavett and Belle Bixby with their nephew John Bixby drove to Lincoln yesterday.
Louie Lohr and sons Louie Jr and Theodore with Martin Diek of Goodland Kansas paused homeward from the worlds fair for a short visit with relatives. Mrs Margaret Hiatt and daughter Orpha Lee of Hebron came last week for a stay at Mrs S M Hughes and attended the Diller picnic.
At a Lincoln state conference of Seventh Day Adventists S G Haughey of Fairbury was reassigned as superintendent of the Fairbury district after recent meetings in Diller.
Mr and Mrs Ben Albers and three children from Goodland Kansas visited for the Diller picnic and stayed with relatives through Sunday. They formerly resided here and Ben's mother returned home with them to spend the winter.
Dr and Mrs Pickett of Odell Mrs Guy Hill of Beatrice Charley McCune and family of Fairbury and Orville McCune and family of Diller shared a picnic dinner Wednesday at the home of Mr and Mrs E E McCune. The doctor and wife arrived to drive their horseless carriage in the parade.
Farmers from Pleasant Rock Creek Endicott and Newton precincts may file their Tripple A wheat contract applications Friday September 1 from 8 A M to 6 P M at the Fairbury courthouse. Experienced staff will assist and a sample blank is available at the Record office.
County Treasurer August Kroll reports gas tax receipts for Jefferson County from January 1 to August 15, 1933. Monthly totals range from 68 cents in March to 3 747.51 in July with a total of 18 439.11. The tax rate was one cent until May 15 and 1 2 cent after.
The program committee thanks Mrs Bond and her decorating committee for the platform work. It also honors the girl's high school sextette German band saxophone trio and saxette players Donna Jane Raymond and the Diller band. Special thanks go to Mrs Anderson and Mrs Miller for parade and pageant help. The 50th anniversary will be in two years with continued community participation expected from 300 parade participants.
A meeting of Hanover boosters will be held in Diller at 10 15 a m next Thursday. A M Wilcox aged 84 longtime Steele City area resident who settled there in 1880 died Sunday in Odell hospital from appendicitis and related complications.
Mr and Mrs Will Carico and daughter Mise Melva of Wy more visited his parents Mr and Mrs John Carico and attended a local picnic during a visit last week.
Herman Sixel who broke a hip in Omaha while accompanying Emil Krebs with a stock shipment is reported to be recovering very nicely.
Clara Neimeyer visiting Rev. and Mrs. Helms returned Monday from Chicago where she attended the world's fair. A trailer on her car was wrecked at Waverly and Roy Patton pursued it on Wednesday.
Mr and Mrs Wm Tristman and son with Mr and Mrs fd Best and Mr and Mrs Vester Carmichael gathered at the Heorichs home for a Sunday picnic dinner. Ice cream and cake were served in the afternoon to Vester Carmichael.
Mr and Mrs Willis Clark hosted last Friday dinner with relatives and friends, including Mr and Mrs Eugene Diller of Fairbury, Mr and Mrs Frank Shoebotham (nee Harriet Diller) and baby Eugene of Fullerton, Mr and Mrs Glen Blauser and three children, and Mr and Mrs Jess Brandt of Lincoln.
A westbound train was delayed about three hours Wednesday morning after a 54 inch rain Tuesday night washed out roughly 300 feet of track a mile and a half west of town and raised Indian Creek to the depot at Diller. The season’s heaviest rain damaged plowed fields and limited farm use, but later proved little beneficial to corn ground.
Mrs. Virginia Mills of Council Bluffs Iowa visits relatives in the area including R L Oaks and J A Kelley before departing Tuesday for McDonald Kansas to see family. She renews her Record subscription and is noted as daughter of the late D R Kelley and wife of a pioneer postmaster and merchant.
The Schroeder reunion took place Tuesday August 13 at Chantaugud Park Beatrice with a noon basket dinner of fried chicken and trimmings. A social afternoon followed and many snapshots were taken of the group. Attendees included Mrs Sophia Schroeder Mathias of Diller and numerous relatives from Kansas Nebraska and California.
Mr. and Mrs. Foreman Fielder and their Ellis family visited the Findlings in town last week and attended the picnic at their home.
Person requests used pianos for sale and offers cash. Reads: notify P. O. Box 62 Beatrice Nebraska, will view and buy if price and piano suit.
Gertrude W. Lambert praises Diller Nebraska for a successful picnic with home talent programs a fine band a standout pageant parade and a high school girls sextette. She commends the town and notes the passing of Old Man Low Mood with sympathy.
Farmers Union picnic set for Tuesday August 29 at Sandman's grove three miles north of Harbine. National President John A. Simpson will speak at 10:30 AM about agriculture and cost of production measures. Louisville Farmers Union band to perform, NR A march featured. Afternoon program includes locals, baseball, sports, and a basket lunch with free coffee and ice tea.
The Vilage Board of Trustees met at a called session at Cornbelt Lumber Co office. Present were Snyder Geer Andrews and Anderson. Bills were read and allowed for July salaries and various city services including painting, labor, material, and pumping. The board adjourned at the call of the chairman.
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