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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1934
Page
5
Caller seeking hogs for butchering asks to contact Roy Greider. Found two truck endgates on PWF highway and asks to see Wessel Schipper for pickup or identification.
Fairbury Electric Shoe Shop advertises repair of auto curtains and harnesses. Customers are advised to bring their shoes for repairs, located corner north of Binham Theatre.
Coal and lumber ads list prices and vendors in Moffat Colorado Cheroke large nut coal at 700 per ton and 1100 per ton. Sam Horner Music Store offers piano and player piano for balance due with easy payments. Rex Green and his father H E Green travel to Grand Island for a special A U W Grand Lodge session as delegates and visitors.
The 59th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Saylor was marked last Sunday though open house plans were delayed due to Mrs Saylor II with influenza. Many friends called to extend congratulations and Mrs Theo Henrichs gave a large pink and white cake bearing 1874 and 1933.
The Diller public schools reopen Tuesday morning with teachers at posts and the building in fine condition thanks to the Civil Works Administration and Bill Green. Desks walls and floors were repaired and a new ping pong table crafted from on hand lumber will be used in recreation periods. Superintendent Schindler planned the work and expresses satisfaction after an initial setback in Omaha.
Averil Fouts was a Burlington passenger heading to Homer on Monday.
A note from Mr and Mrs Allie Eick reports their Los Angeles based children sent a message by air mail yesterday describing a fierce storm yet assuring they were safe and in the clear.
Holiday guests from Dallas Texas Mr and Mrs Clark E Miller and son Richard visited his brother Scott Miller and family in Kenesaw Nebraska. Mrs Miller had stayed in Kenesaw since Thanksgiving with her Nebraska relatives and returned to Dallas in November. Clark traveled three weeks in the interests of A P W Paper Co of Albany NY before joining his family for Christmas.
A reporter visits Hubert Engelman's north of town and views a dozen dolls on a table plus another upstairs. A crying doll and a non crying doll intrigue a little girl as the narrator notes the dolls and mentions mamas guiding girls in play.
County officials grapple with CWA labor quotas as 571 workers exceed the 500 cap. Projects include a schoolhouse job with 8 or 9 men, and a Diller area road project drawing workers from Steele City Endicott Harbine and Rock Creek. Authorities plan layoffs to restore the per day average and may redirect surplus labor to script work.
Bill Weers shows signs of recovery after a painful battle with a badly infected finger.
J L London was in town Friday afternoon attending to business. Lew carries his jovial disposition wherever he goes.
Francis Clark travelled with his mother and brother to Omaha on Tuesday to attend the funeral of his paternal cousin Frank Clark.
The first American rally for Abe Lincoln for the presidency took place in Mansfield Ohio a town he had never visited and a state in which he had never resided.
The note argues that Xmas loses Christ if the term Christmas is shortened and questions the origin of the abbreviation. It appeals to restore the full form Christmas, suggesting the X does not stand for a cross and implying an unbelieving Jewish origin is disputed.
A letter from Clarence L Eaton of Chicago says he twisted an ankle near his hotel and cannot work for a while. He travels on crutches and remains a strong booster for Chicago inviting people to visit. He notes there is no Big Bad Wolf there and closes with a nod to staying in Diller.
Ray Green of the Diller Telephone Co recalls moving 142:08 from Mr Pearce as the town transitions to new listings. The piece traces local phone history from early 1890s attempts with homemade networks to a modern system, noting Pearce and Cavett’s residence connections and Lester Osborne’s role in forming the company in 1899.
Mrs Gee returns Saturday evening on No 17 from Atchison Kansas where she spent a few days visiting friends.
Herb Beckwith drove to Hardy on New Year s Day and brought back a load of furniture belonging to Mr and Mrs Wayne Richardson who are moving to Lincoln.
State University reports students resuming duties after holidays including Oliver Diehl Dean Barber Lynn Cully Ralph Beckwith Eloise Diller and Gerald Close. Mr Filley drove to Peru with Hubert Filley Rachael Viers Eylene Green Bonnie Green and Lucile Dewey from Peru State College. Roger Drew the sole Wesleyan student returned midweek.
The CWA employs about a dozen men in and around Diller as skilled tradesmen on school projects. H. E. Green led work at Dist No 56 Everett Clark, Dist No 66, Clem Saat hoff No 60, and seven men at Diller High School. Harry Patton of Harbine supervised No 93 north of Harbine.
County leaders Mr. Deffer and Mr. Webelmoe visited Diller to review the High School project and nearby road work. They discussed coal bin safety under the school, noting current dust and fire hazards and proposed a tile walled basement plan with a concrete slab, funded partly by CWA labor and materials.
Mrs. Mattie Clark arrived on No. 16 from Guide Rock Wednesday and is now nursing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roelfs.
Harold McCreight the city school superintendent at Broken Bow was a guest Monday of his aunt Miss Minnie Clauson in a brief social note from the community corner.
The Civil Works Administration with University of Nebraska Extension creates 100 Relief Study Centers across the state. Unemployed individuals may study English math history science or commercial subjects for eight weeks at five hours daily with no cost. A director or supervisor role will be filled by an unemployed teacher earning 50 cents per hour for an eighty hour week. Interested youths should contact Supt. Schindler. work starts early January.
Headaches caused by constipation relieve after one Adlerika dose. The remedy cleanses the bowels of poisons, promises better sleep and reduced nervousness. A. R. Milow, druggist, endorses the product.
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