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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1949
Page
3
Ditler High School and Diller met in a March of Dimes benefit game with Diller winning 60 to 16. Krebs led Diller with 16 points while Steele Cry volley ball teammates shifted practice to afternoon for festive uses.
The sixth grade held a Valentine party with entertainment by Neal Fasse and Elaine Novotny, and refreshments served by Donve Kisling Eda Mae Mormat Phy lis Krebs and Laura Mae Weers. Harriet Watho and classmates noted a geography lesson on Korea. Jefferson County Boys and Girls County Government Participation day was moved to March 16 at Fairbury due to icy roads.
Local notice lists a bay mare and a gelding 6 years old, a saddle mare 6, two black ponies five and four, a 22 year old palomino and a team or saddle horses, all described as well broke and gentle. Also poultry six dozen and a white horse from Australia mentioned.
An auction listing details household items and farm machinery including vacuum cleaner, refrigerator, sewing machine, oil heater, Maytag washer, firearms, parlor set, clocks, jars, and games. Rural equipment covers tractors from John Deere, International, Allis Chalmers, and others, plus plows, cultivators, combines, wagons, manure spreaders, milking machines, and cows with milk production.
A miscellaneous assortment of farm implements and hardware includes A-shaped hag houses, a Hinery grind stone, an electric motor, a blacksmith forge, a drive belt for feed grinder, hay forks, oil burning and wood burning tank heaters, electric fence chargers, log chains, hedge posts, galvanized stock tanks, hog wire, a wood wagon wheels set, an electric brooder, lumber, house doors, lathe, oil barrels, shovels, pitch forks, neck yokes, double trees, and many other articles.
Trade showing two heavy sets of harness and collars, plus good stock saddle and bridle, small saddle included. Auction or sale note emphasizes complete tack set for riders and draft work.
Four Hereford gilts eligible to register expected to farrow around April 15. Six Hereford fall gilts, about 100 pounds, eligible to register and vaccinated for cholera.
Hay lot of 100 cs offered by Lyle Belding along with a sale of farm equipment. Items include a 1935 A J D tractor with new rubber and reconditioned motor, a McDeering two row horse cultivator, Allis Chalmers pick up for a combine, a two row horse drawn chisel, a light hitch for tractor, a pair of notched row cutters for plow, a 5 ft horse drawn McCormick mower, a fuel oil brooder stove, endgate seeder, and related tools.
A list of dairy cows with ages and milk output: a Roan cow six years giving six gallons fresh three weeks, a Black cow six years four gallons fresh four weeks, a Brindle cow five years four and a fraction gallons three weeks, a Guernsey cow with four gallons fresh three weeks, a White face four years fresh in March, a Jersey cow seven years two and a half gallons fresh in May plus four and a half gallons.
Feeder pigs, described as sixteen in number, weighed around 100 pounds each. The terse note records the livestock count and approximate weight, indicating a local cattle or swine listing. No additional details provided.
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