Card of Thanks from the Garton Family
The Gartons express sincere appreciation to those who assisted and offered sympathy during the family illness with scarlet fever. Mr and Mrs Clifford Garton.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1936
Page
5
The Gartons express sincere appreciation to those who assisted and offered sympathy during the family illness with scarlet fever. Mr and Mrs Clifford Garton.
Corrected every Thursday the Diller markets list wheat at 1.02 dollars per bushel. The range noted is from 50 to 60 cents and 50 to 0.60.
Retiring implement dealer offers entire stock of new and used farm tools and equipment for sale to the highest bidder at the business location in Diller Nebraska. Includes many smaller items and a retiring sale atmosphere. Auction highlights the owner's full stock and readiness to transfer ownership of equipment.
Auction set for Saturday March 7 1936 at 1 30 pm features McCormick Deering wagons manure spreaders cultivators walking plows and gas engines plus farm implements from Moline Case John Deere and IHC including wagons trucks binders and harrows readied for bidding amid listing details and miscellaneous gear
Mr and Mrs Varnon and Casper family with two little daughters from Endicott stayed at the home of Mrs Matilda Casper, the former mother, here last Sunday.
Mr. Guy Cooper Sr president of the OA Cooper Company of Humboldt spent a short time in Diller on Wednesday at the local manager Ben Hall’s office.
Harvey Ratzlaff, previously running a Plymouth grocery for about ten years, has acquired the grocery department at Meyer Bros. store in Fairbury, expanding his retail holdings.
Bert Hamersham had a minor scare Friday when his car caught fire at home. The fire department responded and the vehicle suffered very little damage.
Mr Harry Close and his son Dale traveled to Lincoln on Saturday evening then returned by Oxford to Diller on Sunday evening. They were on the road most of the time during the trip.
Eilert Hullman has moved several truck loads of farm implements to a farm near Falls City Nebraska for next season. The family plans to relocate to the farm next week.
Allie Eick and Lee Calkins swapped farms this week to pursue the season’s work. Eick will farm the 240 acre Meyers place and Calkins will farm the 80 acre Darr farm this season.
Mrs. Fred Rodewald is recovering from illness while Mrs. Frank Grabber remains bedbound with pleurisy. Colds and sore throats rise as weather moderates. Orval Richardson deals with an infected injury from the day of sale. Roads were frozen yesterday morning aiding town travel. Russell Madden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Madden, is ill with pneumonia at home.
Carl Grabher, seriously injured weeks earlier in a motorcycle car crash on West Court Street, was discharged from Lutheran hospital Saturday to his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Grabher in Beatrice where he is slowly improving at home.
Mrs. Woblfarth and Miss Gretchen went to Chester on Monday to visit their daughter and sister, Dr. and Mrs. Cecil Ellig, and meet the new baby boy. The child has not yet been given a name, and a playful suggestion is to call him Doc.
Rev and Mrs Proett visited the Cortland Methodist parsonage last Monday. The Cortland preacher, described as a craftsman, built a clothes drying rack for his wife. Impressed, Mrs Proett asked for one and the preacher quickly made another.
Mr and Mrs E L Dougherty traveled from Lincoln to spend the day with Mrs Doughertys parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Grone Mrs Violet Grone Kunecke and son Harold who had been at the Dougherty home since Christmas returned to Diller with them Mr and Mrs Henry Frisbie joined the visit and stayed with Mr and Mrs John Greider
The 5th and 6th grades made booklet projects about cotton with cover letters formed from the word cotton. Third and fourth graders created an Eskimo alphabet book with each page devoted to a letter and a story describing its meaning. Community members visited and celebrated Fred Wy more's birthday with cake and ice cream.
A quoted exchange imagines a woman asking what will become of the younger generation. The reply predicts they will fall in love marry have children and face life’s troubles as they age they will still wonder about the future.
The United States Navy runs two radio stations in Alaska at Dutch Harbor and St. Paul in the Pribilof Islands. It also operates three radio direction finder stations at Cape Hinchinbrook Soapstone Point and St. Paul.
A Michigan man, testing new bathroom fixtures, discovered hot water spurting from the cold pipe and became furious. His anger faded when he learned the home was burning downstairs, prompting an emergency response.
A dated roll lists regular subscribers living far from the base, highlighting California entries and names including Francis Clark Orval Wiemers Henry Arntt Rex Green C. L. Waggoner Frank Garton Eilert Hulsman J. O. Blauser Wesael Schipper Mrs E L Loock Fairbury Hilda Vieths Beatrice Walter Greenwood Brush Colo B Hl Weigel Decatur Ill Thos P Price Tucson Arizona Mrs Clinton Tristman Fairbury California San Bernia Mrs Wm D Spillos Ocean Park John A Zook Fresno Henry Reinholdt Marcus Iowa Golda Miller McKinley Oxnard and others.
John Folkers was struck on the head by a limb from a falling tree, suffering several severe cuts on the top of his head. The incident details are sparse but indicate a dangerous outdoor hazard.
Mr and Mrs Chester Sparks and Pearl enjoyed an oyster supper at the Herbert Barber home Friday evening.
Mrs Margaret Hiatt and Miss Orpha Lee Hiatt along with Mrs Brown of Hebron visited Mrs S M Hughes on Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Chas Gaisford drove from Reynolds to supper with her parents, Mr and Mrs Vester Carmichael, then returned home in the evening as temperatures rose.
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