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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
8
A jumble of reminiscences notes local events from 40 years ago including Ewing building an ice house at Harbine and land value gains from rural routes. Johanna Beender arrives to care for her brother in law’s home, while Mrs Miller and Mrs Fanders attend East Lynne in Fairbury. Several job changes and bank appointments are listed, plus church hall use for a bazaar and road railroad shifts.
Fifty years ago a new Methodist church at Holenberg was completed. Zook and Clark shipped two hog shipments to Omaha and one to St Joseph that week. Frank Truxan his wife and two children were ill with diphtheria at their Odell home. John London northwest of town received a pension of twelve dollars per month. Price Brothers bought the grave monument at Prairie Home Cemetery for Frank Petit, paying four hundred fifty dollars. Folkert Fanders rented his farm south of town to Peter Rosenbaum and planned a move to Colorado. HS Meyers installed Fairbank scales near the post office, later becoming the property of J B Zook and Son.
The Diller School staged two one act plays directed by Miss Stoneman in the Opera House Tuesday. The comedy They Go On The Air featured ten varied roles in a radio studio setting. The contest piece Waiting, which won first at Jefferson County’s one act contest, drew praise and will advance to district competition next spring.
A community Christmas program directed by the Diller school music instructor and sponsored by four churches will be presented at the Diller Opera House on December 23. The cantata Star Over Bethlehem by Lily Strickland features tableau scenes of the Christmas story. Participating churches include St. Paul's Lutheran Congregational Methodist and Hope Reformed.
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