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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
4
An editor looks back on eight years since the Record took over printing news in Diller during December 1933. The reflection notes joys and sorrows, gratitude for a hopeful home eternal in heaven, and a call to unite for Christmas reverence and a new year to defend home, country, and liberty for others seeking freedom.
A Diller relative told a reporter this week that Beatrice relatives visited Cal Sparks and his brother Jim at their Indiana home. The men, living on Jim Sparke’s farm and renting out tillable land, are aging and Cal enjoyed the rough play, reportedly leaving Jim with two black eyes after a cow kick.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spear of Fairbury were seen driving through Diller last Saturday on a sunny day, while a lighted Christmas tree at the Boys Home drew remarks from observers able to view it to the southwest.
Leonard Richardson pays for two copies of the Record one for himself and one for his brother in law F Frisbie at Red Lake Wisconsin.
Mr and Mrs Will Sterr of Cieco Texas plan to feed the Record for the coming year as brother Fred Starr sends it as a Christmas gift.
E E McCune enjoyed a tidy shave and hair cut early this week and will spend Christmas with his son Roy and family in Lincoln. He still gets his hair cut in a pompadour style.
Dick Close and Erwin Roelfs came home from Omaha to spend the Christmas season. They have not graduated as welders but will return to Omaha to finish the course.
Mrs Robertson and Selah paid for Christmas subscriptions for themselves and Mrs Robertson's boys Ernest and Lynn of Worthington. Mrs Jas Pickard received a letter from her son William Bowers aboard the destroyer Anderson in the Atlantic, saying he is well and getting along.
A large group of Luther League youths led by Rev. L. J. Wolff caroled for shut ins last Sunday evening. Their Cavett home visit was warmly appreciated.
Norman Frisbie handed the editor $1.50 saying he was giving his parents Mr and Mrs F W Frisbie a year’s subscription to the Record. The Frisbies now live in a new home south of Beatrice.
Mrs Wo Glathar called the office last week and subscribed for a copy of the Record as a Christmas gift for her daughter and husband Mr and Mrs E McLean of 3677 Central Avenue San Diego California. The Me Leave left Diller after the big freeze. Mr McLean works in the News service in south wee City.
The Lather League carolers traveled to the countryside last Sunday evening and called at Mire L. Wenz who was very happy to receive them.
The Daily Sun reports C Mills of Beatrice fined $25 for failing to place flares on a stalled truck on Highway 3 near Ellie. The truck had lights off when the driver went for gas, and a sedan crash near the scene killed Max Champ.
The Tecumseh high school musical department presented the oratorio Messish last week. State papers praised the production. Superintendent W. A. Schindler guides the Tecumseh schools. Mrs. Schindler also conducts the choir at Tecumseh Methodist church and assists in music vacancies at Virginia and Crab Orchard schools.
The Neighborly Neighbors Club held two December meetings on the 2nd and 13th. Previous reports show a June 2 meeting and a Christmas party planned for Saturday the 17th, with a party held on November 13. Dates appear jumbled but events occurred as scheduled.
Ross Willard Atchinson, 20, has enlisted in the U S Marines and leaves immediately for San Diego. He studied two years at San Jose State College and since July has worked for the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. He is the son of Dr. Earl W. and Mrs. Atchinson of San Jose, head of the San Jose State College business school.
Orio Geer and family travel to Ainsworth for Christmas with Mrs Geer's parents. Corporal James D. Logan will spend Christmas with his parents in Beatrice and then move to Denver with his wife joining him. Mary Beckwith sends subscriptions and money from Webster City Iowa to Rio Dell California as Christmas gifts.
George Washington urged a national botanic garden in 1796. Congress granted five acres of swamp land in 1820 to the Columbia Institute, but cultivation failed and the project waited until 1842. The Wilkes expedition brought rare plants from Fiji, the Sandwich Islands, Society Islands, New Zealand and South America, moving by frames in 1844 and into the garden’s first buildings after 1850, with current shelter in 1934.
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