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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
1
The Diller Band begins its summer weekly concerts this Saturday on the band stand at Main Street. Program includes Our Director March Khaki Bill March Overture Romantic The Perfect Waltz Holst selections from Spring Blossoms Dance of the Imps In A Moonlit Garden Mexicali Rose Martha Polka Imperial March Triumph March conducted by Nelson Ingalabe.
John Behrends and his friend Arthur Milligan arrived in Diller from Baxter Iowa where John has farm work experience. They plan to find local jobs for a while and then travel west to see the country.
Mr and Mrs Carl Ludington attended the 47th annual Dunbar High School alumni banquet last Thursday evening. One hundred twenty nine members were present. The Ludingtons are graduates of Dunbar High School in the town of about three hundred population.
Mr and Mrs Rex Green and Miss Helen Green traveled to Rochester Minnesota where Helen will rest a week at the Mayo Hospital before undergoing an operation for inward goiter. The family received word from relatives stating the plan.
Mr and Mrs John Carico return home from Lincoln where Mr Carico spent weeks at St Elizabeth hospital. Their son Wm Carico brought them to Diller and Mrs Carico’s sister from California is visiting.
Mrs Velma Amos Peters underwent an appendix operation at the Fairbury Clinic Monday. Her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Amos report she is recovering well, a welcome update for her Diller friends.
Ray Green suffered a light stroke last week affecting a lower limb and he now can move only with a cane. Doctors and family hope for a full recovery as he receives ongoing care.
Roger Diller will leave Saturday June 8 for Chicago to spend a week visiting at the home of his brother Neil Diller and family. Roger contemplates this trip with considerable interest.
Will Weers is near completion on a brick veneer residence four miles northwest of town. The house follows an old English design and will sit on his farm as a sturdy, stylish new dwelling.
Donald Maw started using crutches after dislocating bones in his left foot during a Sunday park baseball game on May 19.
Charley Cully slowly recovers from a broken collar bone suffered when he was thrown from a plow in a recent accident.
Henry Arnott traveled to Hastings last Saturday to see his wife in the hospital and returned with Mrs. Arnott in the evening.
Nice new flags were purchased this year to decorate the graves of soldiers at Prairie Home cemetery.
V. A. Raymond has purchased and will operate a drug store at the corner of 14th and B streets in Lincoln, outlining plans to manage the new business location.
The Mercy Ship planned to depart New York this week carrying a million dollar load of American Red Cross relief items for France. It holds clothing drugs soap gauze dried fruit canned goods and hospital trucks. Red Cross disaster workers are in Europe and funds nearing one million have been sent overseas as part of a twenty million war fund.
Henry Blacketer moved his family from the Fanders house to Fairbury for county machine shop work. The Fanders relocate from Henrichs back to their own home. Glenn Long will move from Hutchinson to Henrichs House, and Edward Lawder and family will occupy the Hutchinson residence.
Mr and Mrs Chester Sparks received a weekend letter from their son Roe with the Pacific fleet. He writes from Honolulu as a Fleet class fireman operating a launch between his ship Saratoga and shore. Roe tried chop sticks and invites others to try them. He also met his cousin Robert Thompson at a Honolulu YMCA.
Congress authorizes raising the navy strength from 145000 to 170000. The Navy Department aims to reach the quota quickly. Young men aged 18 to 31 may obtain information by writing to the U S Recruiting Station in Beatrice Nebraska.
Dr and Mr Viera and Robert Drake traveled to Red Cloud last Sunday to visit the parents of the two Drakes and their brother John Drake who is critically ill. They returned to Diller Monday evening stopping at Superior for a brief visit with Dr and Mrs Viers brother and sister Mr and Mrs Frank Viere.
Rev. W. H. Clark of Diller officiated at the wedding of Marjorie Jones of Fairbury and Harlem Knuocke of Litchfield Nebr last Sunday afternoon at the Fairbury Methodist church.
Mr and Mrs C Sparks with daughters Mrs Wm Weers Mrs Norman Frisbie and Willis Clark travelled to Lincoln on Tuesday to attend Joe Blair’s funeral. Mrs Seaman has been in Lincoln for two to three weeks.
Over the last ten days Jefferson County reports rainfall only a trace amount. No significant precipitation has been recorded across the region, leaving soils dry and gardens parched.
The Diller Woman’s Club hosted a Mothers and Daughters tea at the Methodist church on May 28, 1940 at 2:20 PM. The program featured poems and songs led by Camilla Hubka Ruth Ann Hiatt Cleo Green and others, followed by a tea in the basement and a brief club meeting with committee appointments for Book Social Music Membership Publicity and more.
Sylvia Sible and Donald Frisbie united in marriage at the Diller country home of John Sible on June 1, 1940. The ceremony featured a single ring, Lohengrin entrance, and a four tier cake. Attendants included Erma Sible and Archie Raney, with guests from Beatrice, Diller, Campbell, Odell, and beyond.
Wellington Dean and Stanley Diller of The Diller Ropers club travel to the Agricultural College in Lincoln for the state club meet. Stanley won the news reporter trip as one of the twelve highest in the state, and the group demonstrated rope tying at the State fair last fall.
A barn and corncrib housing corn, hay, feed, machinery, and three pigs burned Tuesday night near town. The blaze began about 10 30 P M and burned for several hours. Loss is partially insured.
Mrs. James Pickard reports a letter from her son Will Bowers stating he is in San Diego California. He notes that the Navy’s main occupation currently is battle practice.
Cal Waggoner won his fourth state trap shooting championship, marking his 23rd year at the event. He previously posted scores of 95 of 100 in 1917, 200 straight in 1928, 199 of 200 in 1932, and 197 of 200 in 1940, missing only two pigeons in the latter. C. B. McDowell of Phillipsburg, Kansas, shot 197 of 200 but was ineligible due to residence.
George H. Tonnemaker 79 died after a stroke on April 13 and a long illness. Funeral services held May 22. he was a longtime rancher and Boy Scout leader. Survived by widow Cora, three sons George A, Robin B, Orland H. three daughters Queen E, Laurene. sister Victoria. three brothers. Burial Terrace Heights Memorial Park. Rev. A C Vail presided. Formerly a Diller resident and postmaster under Cleveland.
Joseph S. Blair 66 of 401 So 29th Lincoln, longtime tailor and Blair and Ansu partner, died at 9 pm Saturday after a long illness. He served on the national exec council of United Commercial Travelers and held Masonic and Shriner memberships. Survived by wife Marie, stepson Roe Clark, two brothers Bert and James. Funeral held Tuesday with Masonic and Knight Templar rites at Wyuka.
Decoration Day at Diller featured a program of music singing reading and an address at the opera house. A large audience attended in the afternoon and 35 soldiers graves were strewn with flowers.
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