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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1949
Page
2
Diller defeated Endicott 28 27 in a tense basketball game on Tuesday. George Clary Alles Brett and Donald Ramish starred on offense while Loren Grone and Bob Harding contributed on defense and scoring. The Diller team also won the second game 22 14 as Harding added 8 points.
The text notes Christmas preparations beginning in the grammar room and a six week term starting. It mentions a Christmas wish for snow and a Thanksgiving vacation ending, with teachers traveling to relatives in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Missouri City for the break.
Diller High School lists December games against Steele City Reynolds Daykin Odell Plymouth and Kenny with home games and travel plans. Knowles plans to start a pep band soon to perform at home basketball games.
Funeral home handled the burial for Mollie T Ribble Waggoner. Interment was at Prairie Home Cemetery beside her husband with many relatives and friends in attendance. The service included numerous locals from Fairbury Beatrice St Francis Kansas and Lincoln among others. The Rose Beyond the Wall poem reflects memorial sentiments.
Recap of Elmo Hadley and Lucy Brant wedding near Diller on December 6 1899 officiated by Rev Lockhart with over sixty relatives present. Includes town notes on residents marriages deaths illnesses land sales and community events across Gage County Nebraska and nearby towns.
A Wednesday high school assembly featured a program with speeches by Evelyn Hays on what Thanksgiving Day should mean to us and Doris Benz on the meaning of Thanksgiving. The program also included two songs by the tripple quartet, Come Ye Thankful People Come and Prayer of Thanksgiving.
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