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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1935
Page
1
A petition signed by nearly all Diller businesspeople asked the band to shift Saturday night concerts from the park stand to Main Street. The band agreed to perform on the street if a suitable platform and lighting are provided.
Diller hosts Fairbury with the girls winning 15 0 in one and a half innings as Shanek struck out six. The Diller boys fell to Fairbury 8 4 the same evening. Local readers are invited to watch the whiskered House of David perform Saturday night with games planned for next week on the new field.
The Jefferson County Wheat Allotment Committee and Agricultural Agent report an official Washington notice: total 1935 wheat payments will be at least 33 cents per bushel, with 20 cents initial and at least 13 cents later, after local costs. Previous two years paid 29 cents, minus about 1.2 cents operating costs. This year local admin cost likely under 1 cent. third year payments projected at least 32 cents.
Committees are compiling a history of Diller and area covering over fifty years. The work will be sold by picnic time. Rex Green plans the 50th anniversary program for the first day of Diller’s August picnic and will center the pageant on this history.
Rupert Andrews, manager of the Diller Elevator, received notice his car of wheat shipped from this station on Wednesday arrived at the Kansas City market Thursday morning as the first 1985 Nebraska wheat received at KC. The car sold graded No. 3 hard. The elevator had the first Nebraska new wheat on the Kansas City market two years ago and the first on the Omaha market one year ago.
The 4-H meeting will be held at 2 30 every Wednesday at the city hall. Visitors are welcome. Beginning next week a person to the ee or girls will most be attendance.
Mr Erwin Fanders and Miss Doris Beckwith wed at Lanham Nebraska last Monday evening. Rev F Erhard Eilers officiated at St John Evangelical Lutheran Church with attendants Gilbert Plager and Pauline Patton. Doris Beckwith is from this town and a Diller high school graduate 1933. Erwin Fanders is son of Dick Fanders and has worked in the restaurant business with Wendell Fanders. The couple has bought Wendell Fanders interest in Green Room Cafe and will operate it themselves while residing at the bride’s parents home. The Record sends best wishes.
The Centenary church Junior Choir of Beatrice presented a sacred music concert under director Harold V. Stout to about two hundred attendees. The program included The Day Is Over Just a Song at Twilight and Take My Hand. Rev Drew will preach Religion is a Privilege next Sunday evening.
Beatrice hosts a State league game on the reconditioned fairgrounds diamond. Norfolk Elks face the Beatrice Blues in a 2:30 Sunday contest with nominal prices for a brief afternoon of baseball entertainment.
Shenandoah Iowa seedman Henry Field called at our office to establish an agency for selling his seeds. He took the names of several potential local agents during the visit, dated November 16.
Mr and Mrs Burkhart of Newville Pennsylvania visited Diller on the Fourth of July to view the unfinished Diller genealogy held by Miss Fannie Diller. They also called at the Line North home and planned future visits. The document of greatest interest is an original 1754 passport for Francis Diller from Burns Switzerland, translated into English by J Smith Diller.
Bandmaster Wood misses Diller trip due to grease cap problem after a workman left it off. Rehearsal proceeds as best aspossible. Wood plans to meet Friday evening to adjust Sunday program for Fairbury at 4 o'clock, encouraging junior and senior members to attend.
A promotional ad touts a six month mail subscription combo including World-Herald daily and Sunday editions with True Stories Detective Magazine plus a True Mov ie title for 450 dollars. Order today.
An 1899 Record reprint recounts a child’s essay tying King Solomon to Mason history. The tale describes Solomon judging a disputed baby and earning the title father of all the Masons, noting his temple and his warm, “hot stuff” reputation.
Agricultural Agent notes many Jefferson County wheat fields will not be cut due to rust damage. Blackstem rust harms grain more than orange leaf rust, causing light, shriveled yield and stem lesions. Rust likely originates from southern barberry plants and worsened by moist conditions and late grain maturation.
Bethel Way er of Beatrice visited cousins at Mrs. Adolph Bevan and Mrs. Hubka homes. Wheat cutting in the neighborhood uses binders and mowers with most straw and little grain. Misses Lillian and Dorothy en of Alliance stay with LePoidevin relatives. A London Jubilee picture paper and St Paul’s Thanksgiving service copy arrive for review at the Record office.
We express appreciation to the Fire Department and citizens of Diller for saving our oil truck from fire last Monday morning. Orlo Geer.
Calendar fragment lists towns Plymouth Steele City Odell Diller Hanover with date ranges August 1 2 August 2 3 August 6 7 August 13 14 and August 2021 22. The entry appears as a public notices style snippet with overlapping month references and unclear event titles.
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