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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1946
Page
4
Forty years ago Grace Watson, daughter of the Buington station agent, received a surprise party at the depot. Her classmates were invited and the room was tastefully decorated with tissue paper. Each guest received a tissue purse with sugared popcorn and dates.
The village board met to approve bills including Floyd Maw and other entries. Bills for water, tax withholdings, light fund, training, and labor noted plus reports on the library allotments for 1945 and various local services.
The item outlines a newspaper distribution setup with pay rates such as 30 cents per week and 60 cents per year, mentions rural routes and delivery times, and notes printing in Omaha and Denver at night. It references reader editions and subscriptions with various daily and weekly options.
Partial text shows pricing for horses or services with figures like 2700 dollars, 500, 800, and 12 weeks. Mentions orders direct or through an office. No clear event, person, place, or organization identified.
Auction listing details two horses aged 8 and 9 years weighing 2800 pounds with 14 inch harness. Included are two sets of tack, six collars, seven fly nets and some old harness.
A sale notice details various cattle including roan cows aged 6 to 9 years with freshenings from February and March, plus a roan heifer of 14 months and three yearling heifers. It lists two red and one black white face calves, three summer calves comprising two steers and one heifer, and two bucket calves.
An item lists breeding stock and vaccinated hogs including 18 hogs spotted sow bred 1, a Duroc boar vaccinated 5, spotted gilts bred 3, Hereford gilts bred 8, spotted stock pigs 80 lbs.
A local sale offers 50 yearling hens and 50 pullets of New Hampshire Red, consigned by Hester. The catalog lists hayrack rake, mower, trow, hay slings, horse collars, hedge posts, chick brooder stove, boards and tools, oil tank, bookcase, flat irons, rug, dining table and other farm goods.
A consignment from H. A. Bell includes hay racks and wagon gear a John Deere manure spreader Case listers discs plows harrows and wagons plus harness cream separators seed millet clover and cane seed and household items such as a wood heating stove milk can and garden plow Also listed are two rifles and several guns including a 12 gauge double barrel and a Winchester 15 shot BB gun and rifle.
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