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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1936
Page
5
An auction notice from Diller lists Wheat at 98, Old Corn 4. lts priceings, 2,435,922.09 wide, and items including 43 harness sets, 2 flo nets, a 35 lb stock saddle, alfalfa and prairie hay, 400 bu Kherson oats, plus miscellaneous articles. The Congregational ladies serve lunch with free coffee. terms cash. Auctioneers H. R. Royle and Diller State Bank acts as clerk.
Classified ad seeks reliable hustler to start earning 25 dollars weekly with rapid increases. Position covers Rawleigh routes serving 800 families in Thayer and nearby Kansas counties and Fairbury. Write Rawleigh Dept NBB-103-S Freeport Illinois today.
Household items and farm stock to be sold Monday February 24 1936 at 10 oclock sharp at Leonard Richardson residence four miles northeast of Diller on PWF highway. Auction includes 18 head of work horses and cattle plus 10 hogs and assorted farm machinery.
Friday February 28 1936 sale starts at one o clock at my residence on Legget farm 14 miles south 34 miles east of Dilner Nebraska. Six head of milk cows two red cows a Guernsey herd two white shoots heavy implements and tools plus miscellaneous items to be sold. Lunch on ground for early arrivals. Royle auctioneer J Smith Diller clerk.
Miss Margaret Logan was reported off duty yesterday at her school in Dist 56 with indication of mumps. Clark can move about the house on crutches and hopes to go to Mose's soon. Harry Thompson ordered WPA men and others on relief to work opening roads. work started Tuesday morning. Mrs Friday has mumps. Sam says he is immune and plans to move to Iowa when the time comes.
J Smith Diler R W Green and Sam Thompson drove to Lincoln and back on Wednesday on business? of interest to the Diller Telephone Company.
Mrs. Chas Barber recalls a frigid period when the door knob at their home froze off as a cold spell gripped the area. She told a reporter last Friday that conditions were so severe the house felt abandoned.
Divreldl Lee Schider seized his father's razor Sunday midmorning causing a small boy to slice a finger. Waggoner Bros. installed a new radio at Fred Clark home as a gift from Fred's sister Hazel Jodell of Tacoma. Mrs S A Miller received a letter from her brother Dick Willems of Warroad Minnesota noting five weeks of temperatures from 20 to 56 below. Rupert Hughes recovers from mumps and his sister Pauline Smith becomes ill, filling in for him in bed.
Mrs Mary Willems marked her 76th birthday on Monday February 17 at her daughter Mrs S Miller home. A party hosted by family and friends included candles and cake while relatives Mr and Mrs Ver Green Mr and Mrs Carl Farenwaldt and others joined. A separate note reports John Clauson and helpers battled a burst water pipe at the Allen Cash Market basement amid deep frost. Cully traveled to Lincoln for the Nebraska Band winter concert at the university Coliseum where weather dampened attendance.
Betty LaRue Eick entertained a listener group with three solos, her mother at the piano accompanying. Mrs Proett’s solo As In Old Gardens was praised. Hostess prizes were awarded to Mrs Proett and Mrs Andrews amid a warm social setting with an attractive lunch.
Rev Charles A Lockhart pastor W A Snyder superintendent. Sunday School at 10 A M Morning Worship at 11 A M The February Missionary meeting will meet at the home of Mrs Cloyd Friday afternoon with Mrs Clarence Steffen leader.
Rev H H Proett pastor and Mrs Ray Lamty superintendent announce Sunday school at 10 o'clock Rev L J Wolff pastor and C L Hullman superintendent SS at 9 30 for the Methodist Episcopal Church services and programs.
Ray Green attended Carr's sale Tuesday and purchased a second hand thrashing machine. The town considers the purchase possibly funded to aid a portable band stand for the municipal organization. Congregational church women credit themselves for delivering lunch despite bad weather and road conditions.
Rev and Mrs H H Proett with Mr and Mrs L M Cavett traveled to Lincoln Friday to hear Dr Toyohiko Kagawa address St Pauls Church. His afternoon talk on cooperative organization highlighted Japan progress and potential US economic solutions. Kagawa, Princeton alumnus, is praised as the world’s greatest Christian and a product of foreign missions debates.
Mrs. S C Moser hosted the NC SA group with guests Mrs. Pruett and Mrs. Hall on February 12. President Mrs. Carico led the business session as Mrs. Francis Clark and Mrs. Bert Bell were admitted. A committee of Wells Andrews, Viers, and Clark was formed to recruit new members. The meeting time was changed from the 1st and 3rd.
Roy Geer boarded the early morning train for Lincoln where the Lumber Dealers Convention began Wednesday and runs through today. Frank Eick is handling business at the lumber yard in his absence.
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