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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1929
Page
1
Miss Lucile Packer on the sick list. Complete Insurance service at Diller State Bank. Miss Olive Ashcraft visited Saturday with friends in Beatrice.
Arthur Grone suffers an infected leg linked to a prior injury. Medical treatment is underway to address the infection and prevent complications.
Raleigh Bell cut his ankle on tin a few days ago and now has an infection in the same leg.
Mrs. Edna Patton and her children from Denver Colorado arrived Monday night for a visit with the Diller relatives.
Wiemers Bros. received a new combine machine this week and has begun using it in their wheat fields to boost harvest efficiency. The equipment marks a mid-season upgrade for the family operation as they ramp up harvesting in local grain fields.
The Misses Donna and Della Weddle of Sterling Colorado are visiting here with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Charley Barber.
Miss Gertrude Lambert returned to her home in Guide Rock after visiting her sister, Mrs. D. W. Fanders, Sunday.
Mr and Mrs John W Miller of Lincoln visited Diller to check their rental property and found minimal damage following the recent cyclone.
Mrs. Jane Bodley Miss Ann Bodley Mr and Mrs Arthur Williams and son of Lincoln and Mr Francis Williams of Topeka Kans were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs Hiram Packer and family.
A marriage license was issued Saturday in Lincoln to Clyde L Humberger thirty from Jansen and Nellie M Pierce twenty six from Beatrice. Miss Pierce is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Jesse Pierce former residents of the Diller vicinity.
Mrs. Frank Grabber was quite sick several days last week. The Record is issued a day earlier this week in order that the force may celebrate the 4th. Miss Mattie Clark of Filley visited a day or two last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. U. V. Fanders.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Long, who visited Diller relatives, returned last Friday to their home at McDonald, Kansas.
Horace Zollen of Glen Ellyn Illinois visits the home of his cousin Mrs Willis Clark and family along with other Diller relatives during a family gathering.
Miss Juliet Atwood formerly a teacher in Diller schools visits with her sister Pauline of Chester. She will teach in the Chester schools the coming year.
Warren Koening of Lincoln, grandson of Mr and Mrs Charley Wright, visiting near Diller, was brought to Dr Diehl's office Saturday for a badly blistered heel.
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. McMains of Newton and Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Deck of Marshalltown returned home after a few days with their daughter and sister Mrs. Clarence Hiatt and family in town.
The Burlington railway moves an average of 200 grain cars daily from storage yards at St. Louis Kansas City and St. Joseph through here toward stations in western Nebraska and northwestern Kansas. The line remains in good condition to handle any harvest surge as conditions favor a bumper crop of small grain in most areas.
Miss Carrie Lynn of Lincoln visits sister Mrs. Nancy Robertson. Mrs. Howard Lindville of Odell visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nelson. Mrs. P C Remley, now near Towner Colorado, renews for the Record.
Mr and Mrs John Gottsberg of Plymouth Nebraska and Mr and Mrs Homer Brun motored to Wichita Kansas Sunday returning Monday indicating a domestic leisure trip by car with four travelers from Nebraska and Kansas implied.
Elias Hadley sold his Diller residence to Mrs. Tilda Casper this week for 750 dollars. John Creider organized the deal.
Misses Lillian and Ketchen Wohlfarth began a Sunday car journey to Denver and other Colorado points, planning to be away about a week.
Thursday July 4th holiday led to banks, business houses and post offices closed most of the day with no rural mail delivery.
The Cornbelt Lumber Co of Diller offers free delivery of lumber totaling a ton or more per trip at any distance. Contact C. L. Geer, merchant, phone 153.02, Diller, Nebraska. The note mentions missing names of celebrations this week due to early press day for the 4th.
Prof. E H Hahne of Evanston Indiana visited for the weekend to view damages on his half section farm four miles west of Diller and renewed his subscription to the Record at this office.
Miss Donna Hiatt entertained about a dozen young girls on Thursday afternoon June 27 with games and contests. Varee Lenker and Eleanor Linville won prizes while a pink and white theme framed decorations and lunch. A large colonial bisque doll centerpiece and smaller dolls for nut cups served as favors. Edith Marie Purcell of Lincoln attended as an out of town guest.
Clifford N. Sparks of Diller married Isabelle Steer of Jansen in a June 22 ceremony in Wahoo Nebraska. The couple traveled by Ford to Pittsburgh for a three day visit with relatives before returning home via Chicago and St. Joseph covering about three thousand miles in nine days. Sparks is a World War veteran and rural mail carrier. Steer is the daughter of W. J. Steer of Jansen. The newlyweds will delay housekeeping while the bride assists her parents at the Jansen hotel.
Sunday visitors included Dr. Paul Ludwick with family in Diller and Juliet Atwood from Chester with sister Pauline. Osceola visitor Lloyd Callander and friend Smith visited the Callander home. Wagners relocate to Diller with Wagner named new principal. Ida Mae Greider moved in with Roy Greider family weighing 74 pounds. Arthur Steckmann of Sheboygan visiting family here.
Leonard Richardson and Emil Krebs started the wheat harvest in the Diller vicinity last Saturday. A number of others including Fred Frisbie, Quinter Fry, Bert Bell, Ray Lamb, Frank Grabber, Riley Place, Pearly Place and Frank Groner commenced on Monday.
Mr Charley Barber and wife with granddaughters Donna and Della Weddle visited in Fairbury Sunday evening. He was joined by his sisters Mrs Jesse Bradshaw and Mrs Carrie Edwards who had recently been brought by ambulance from Omaha where she had been in a hospital for some time.
Miss Hazel Clark of Tacoma Washington visited Tuesday at the home of her brother S F Clark and other relatives. She is a daughter of Geo H Clark a former Diller resident and may be remembered by friends as Pinkie Clark.
Mrs Frank Grone hosted N R C members at her home July 2 with six members and four children present. Guests included Sylvia Sible Erma Sible Velma Amos and Minnie Wenz. Emma Wieths won first prize in a guessing contest. A fan was given. Luncheon followed. Next meeting with Mrs Fred Frisbie July 9 includes poem thimble and scissors as roll call.
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