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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1941
Page
4
Post office notices mention Freddie Miller’s moving picture outfit and a Diller free show itinerary. Local residents enlistments and trainings are noted, with agricultural and college ties in Lincoln and Beatrice. Heavy rain disrupts Beatrice and surrounding areas, but crops show improvement in some fields.
Sam Hutchinson rebuilt the west town residence he built about 40 years ago with its first reshingling. Ernest Shhulz and Frank Johnson carried out the work.
The play Bolts and Nuts at the Hanover opera house drew a fairly good crowd last Friday evening amid other major community interests.
The Young Peoples League joined by Rev. and Mrs. Clark and Rev. and Mrs Hall gathered at 5 p m Sunday and drove to a canyon in Will Woods pasture seven miles southwest of Diller for a bonfire lunch and a recreational outing. The return home noted heavier rain east of Diller.
Otho Jennings writes Dr. S. B. Viers about leaving Diller to work as an electric welder for a year with a construction firm on naval and air bases at Midway Island. He notes a half mile by one mile white isle, sun requires colored glasses, high pay with overtime and a year-end bonus. Family trip details from Powhatten Kansas to Fairbury and Diller are included.
Alice Speet's Adult Education class prepared and presented thirty six wreaths to the committee for the thirty six graves of Veterans in Prairie Home Cemetery used on Memorial Day.
Wheat quota vote results show 630 yes to 294 no with two thirds of eligible voters abstaining. The quota passed by 0.69 percent in the county and by 80 percent nationally.
Mrs Earl Snyder and daughter Elaine of Alliance visited for Memorial Day exercises and stayed through Tuesday with Mr and Mrs W A Snyder. They were joined by Clinton Sandman who was bound for his Denver home in a trip to Grand Island.
Mr and Mrs Fred Butler and daughter Marilyn of Trenton Mo arrived Friday at 11 a m to visit his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs W A Snyder They were joined by nephew R C Knight and Mrs Sylvia Elliott of Trenton On Saturday they visited Grand Island to see his sister Mrs B B Hurt and returned to Diller Monday departing for home Tuesday.
Miss Bertha Behrends received a variety of gifts at a pre nuptial shower hosted by Mrs Mary and Mrs Anna Wenz on Wednesday May 28 at their home. Guests enjoyed scrap book crafting and games followed by a luncheon.
The June teacher examinations will be held at Fairbury High School on Saturday June 7. The schedule lists 8:00 Arithmetic and bookkeeping, 9:00 American history civics, 10:00 English, 11:00 Physiology and hygiene, 1:00 Theory and art, 2:00 Reading and orthography, 3:00 General geography and geography of Nebraska, 4:00 Penmanship and drawing.
E. J. Mitchell of Deshler Nebraska celebrated his 31st year as publisher of the Deshler Rustler and his 76th birthday. He sold the paper to his son in law Amos E. Stauffer who assumes charge this week and Mitchell will retire from active work while staying in Deshler.
During the three day Memoria holiday, 459 deaths were reported with over 300 due to traffic accidents. California recorded 52 fatalities while Nebraska had three, including a car crash, a drowning, and an accidental gunshot.
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