The Diller Record Staff Christmas Greeting
The Diller Record Staff wishes each of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1934
Page
1
The Diller Record Staff wishes each of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
The Sunday School Times reports that Britain publicly abandons disarmament as a path to world peace. It cites The Globe and Prime Minister McDonald noting fruitless disarmament efforts and asserts that major powers continue arming. The piece warns nations must be ready for war until Christ returns to bring lasting peace.
A vivid note in the Record celebrates Diller’s town business pages where every trade writes a weekly greeting. The writer imagines Publisher's Heaven as a place where each profession is free to express itself in its own column.
John Pulec reported Wednesday night a $68 electric drill was stolen from his garage after a window was pried open. A late Beatrice sheriff report stated the thief was caught attempting to sell the drill and jailed.
It is reported that Gansty Agricultural Agent Andreas is failing health with a brain tumor diagnosed at Liseota clinic. He will enter hospital for treatment, likely altering the county agricultural setup where he has led operations for over a year.
Leonard Frisbie left the Darr farm one and a half miles south to the Grone farm five and a half miles north east of town. Berthel Weaver moved two miles from the Grone farm toward the old Smith place. Johan Fanders, six and a half miles south of Diller, will move onto the Darr farm vacated by Mr and Mrs Milo who relocated to Diller from Scotts Bluff county occupying the Hutchinson building on Main Street.
Mr Will Tinstman and son Arlie visited Mrs Tinstman in Hastings Nebraska last Sunday and found her much improved. Mrs Beckwith and Mrs Scott were passengers in the party. Willems remained at her daughter's home Monday. eye healing well, bandage to come off Christmas Eve.
Wm. Dick and Chas. McCune circulate a petition among Rock Creek precinct voters asking county commissioners to fund an FERA project to widen and improve the PWF highway from the Gage county line to Fairbury. The move aims to match the highway's condition with the Gage county segment amid growing traffic and winter access concerns for Diller residents.
A Diller girl named Mavis helped select a Santa postcard for the local greeting card issue. The Record man visited the family business and noted Mavis asking when the Diller Reck would be printed, and the issue is now out.
The piece urges the Parent Teachers Association to restrict toy firearms and gangster play amid concerns that such play shapes youths into criminals. It cites gangster films and Westerns as harmful influences and notes imitation guns crafted by Roy and a mention of John Dillinger.
Announcements report the upcoming marriage of Misa Jessie Claville Gillis of Grand Forks North Oak to Harold R. Barlow. The ceremony is set for Saturday December 1 1934 at the Presbyterian church as per announcements received this past week.
During a visit with John Clausson in November he found no invoice and thus no check for the Dempster company at Beatrice. This was the first month in sixteen years without payment, blamed on Wallace's balanced budget affecting billing.
William Culmsee of Omaha was found guilty on 33 counts of illegal pheasant possession in county court. He received fines totaling 8 265 and liquid damages of 330, plus 1 155 in penalties. He appealed, posting 1 200 bond via an Omaha surety. The birds were seized after a Bloomfield hunt in October.
Nebraska cut total expenditures for common and high schools by about 0.5 million from the prior year and by nearly 8 million since 1929. Tax votes for 1928 29 stood at 23 121 794 vs 15 329 043 for 1933 34 a 33 percent drop.
Ak-sar-ben plans a bill to bar private profit from horse racing in Nebraska and directs all earnings to agricultural and livestock development, 4-H clubs, and county fairs. A three member governor appointed unpaid commission would regulate and license the pari mutuel system, with county fairs exempt.
A three day old baby boy was found wrapped in a new tie covering in the Brewster hospital ves tibule in Holdrege Nebraska last Monday near noon. The janitor found the suitcase earlier around 5 am but noticed nothing. The infant cried at noon and was discovered in good condition aside from cold feet. Police have no information on who left the child.
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