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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1929
Page
1
Community items include grape sales and a listing for Complete Insurance at Diller State Bank. Family visits, registration day for Diller High School on Aug 31 1929, injuries at a feed grinder, sick lists, and social gatherings with notes on clubs, birthdays, and neighborly visits in Diller and Fairbury.
Mr Bristol Sr visits Wichita daughter. Will Frisbie and Nelsons visit Diller relatives. Pastor Dixon hosts Supt A J Nelson. E L Loock family attend Fairbury illness. Born an 84 pound boy to Mr and Mrs Max Bell in Concordia Kan on the 23rd.
Billy Brunner son of Mrs. Eliza beth Brunner of Peoria Ill suffered a painful toe injury when a large sliver pierced under a toenail while visiting his grandparents Mr and Mrs John Folkers. Dr Diehl extracted the sliver.
Reports from Diller and surrounding areas note visits by Mr and Mrs Ira Place and son Gerald to Lincoln on Sunday. Other items include new residents moving in and various minor injuries, with a large visiting group of relatives totaling thirty from multiple towns.
A souvenir card from Mr. and Mrs. Herman Peters notes arrival in Jerome Idaho OK and a fine trip with many sights. The image features a Snake River ranch on the old Oregon Trail. Ethel May Woods returns from Camp Kiwanis Lincoln Camp Fire Girls Camp to visit her parents and resume duties as executive secretary.
The Diller Schools plan a pre opening faculty meeting August 30 and registration August 31 with classes starting September 2. Superintendent Nelson leads a staff including Wagner as Principal and several teachers for Latin math history English domestic science and grade levels. Nelson also heads the orchestra and invites student participation to boost school spirit and community pride.
The B. B. Kensington group met with Mrs. H. Moffit on August 27. Five members three children and four visitors attended. The afternoon included visiting and sewing. A picnic at Diller was set for Sunday September 8.
Howard Vernon of Fairbury Nebraska, one of two men who escaped the Frankfort marshal during the Lanham Nebraska bank robbery, has been partly identified as the robber who sat in the car while the other bandit looted the bank. Vernon is sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary on a charge of stealing the getaway car, to run concurrently with his parole. The other man remains at large with clues pointing to a possible third participant. A car was found abandoned south of Lanham and another left in Ford County. The Frankfort marshal said the short man in overalls claimed to be Vernon. The other man is also reported as Vernon. About $800 stolen from the bank remains unrecovered.
Congressman Sloan will deliver a Labor Day address starting at 6 00 p m over KGBZ radio station in York on Monday September 2.
Frances Axtel Edna McCurdy Fay Craig and Max Leonard win the 4 H Health Contest in Jefferson county out of sixty three contestants They will advance to the State Contest at the Nebraska State Fair In older girls Frances Axt er of Fairbury places first with Katherine von Fairbury close second McCurdy of Endicott tops younger girls Rachael Helvey places second In older boys Faye Craig and Lee Coffin win first and second with Max Leonard Donald Craig also of Fairbury ranking in younger boys In charge Raymond Nixon Ass t Co Ext Agent.
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