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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1930
Page
3
A collage of small ads and notices includes sale offers for a Ford coupe and team of horses, alfalfa buyers, monuments by F.A Moon in Fairbury, hospital news on Mrs Mamie Harder, a purse recovery reward story, ambulance call to Odell, and shoe shop tips. Also includes M W A meeting dates, a 1929 cosmetics note, and real estate offer in Gage county with a March 1 price deadline.
A late model Baldwin factory sample piano is offered for wholesale sale for advertising purposes. Interested buyers are instructed to contact Baldwin Piano Company Wholesale Dept at 1818 Farnam St. in Omaha, Nebraska.
Joseph E. Cook and E. L Jenkins, both Republican candidates for county sheriff and county treasurer respectively, were in Diller on Wednesday promoting their announcements in the Record as the August 12 primary approaches.
Farmers in East Bower propose to gravell five miles north of No 3 starting two miles east of the junction of Nos 3 and 15. They offer to match county trucks and supply labor to connect with the state gravelled roads and the Endicott Fairbury project. Interest also grows near Helvey to connect Helvey with No 15.
Finder asked to notify Mrs. Warman about a lost nurse's pin engraved S. N. in Chicago. Also notes a sick child of Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Belding near Diller and that the Farmers Union Creamery Co received gasoline and kerosene for new storage tanks at their station.
The N C S A club ladies entertained their husbands at the home of Mr and Mrs E L Loock on Wednesday evening February 5. Guests enjoyed social time and rock, followed by a luncheon. Mrs Carrico invited the group to meet February 19 with a Washington roll call.
Fairbury progress on cooperative road graveling grows with a new cemetery road segment planned after farmers pledged 765 dollars. The Fairbury Chamber had set a 25 dollar per mile limit, but community support may boost funding as work starts at the cemetery corner and runs east six miles.
In the February Diller School Spotlight article Norman Sixel outlines three main costs for country students pursuing high school: physical labor and early rising, mental strain from heavy study, and financial burdens of travel and housing. The piece argues for local graveling improvements to ease access and encourage rural families to keep students connected to town schools.
R B Thompson veteran settler, celebrated his 94th birthday at his farm near Steele City last Saturday February 1. The Beatrice to Fairbury immigrant recalls 1878 trek via Cumberland Valley and Marysville to Beatrice, later settling on an 80 acre Steele City farm. He endured early hardships, prospered with farming, loves horses, and notes health remains strong.
Mrs A J Nelson travels Sunday to Morrowville Kansas to spend time with a sick relative after a week there.
The Keystones calendar marks a spring meeting with guests Loock Moser and Witty Cully Thompson Krebs Green. An evening of poetry, games, and a Valentine song fundraiser proceeds to pay the prize to Mrs Findling while funding the annex furnishing.
The verses describe a school or class party with a soloist performing clearly. Guests enjoyed salad coffee and chicken pie with cookies in white and red, but some note the fare was scanty while husbands sigh as they returned home.
Mr and Mrs Herman Sasse returned from Gaylord Kansas after attending the funeral of Frank Sasse who died Saturday at the home of Reinhorse Sasse. He was 86 years 5 months and 27 days old. Pneumonia caused a one day illness. Funeral Monday drew a large crowd. Sasse had visited here several times, most recently about two years ago.
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