Flag day nears amid small town notes and updates
Local items report next Thursday as Flag day and various residents coping with illness injuries and travel. Kenneth Findling injured foot Sam Thompson flu Alice Specht measles Mildred Mayborn travels to Lincoln for university summer school. Diller State Bank sells M Mitchell farm to Sam Stefford. Irwin Schwinler undergoes appendicitis surgery in Beatrice hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diller State Bank
M. Mitchell
Sam Stefford
Scouts Picnic Plans Ahead In Finks Park
Rev. R. M. Harris and C. L. Tristman traveled to Wymore on Wednesday forenoon to arrange a boy scouts picnic in Finks park at a later date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Harris
C. L. Tristman
Wymore
Boy Scouts
Finks Park
Lincoln High School grad Miss Lucille Spares 371 in class
Miss Lucille Spares daughter of Mr and Mrs Chester Spares formerly of Diller graduated from Lincoln High School on June first with a class of 371. The Diller chautauqua opened Wednesday evening with a novelty act of magic ventriloquism and cartooning. It drew a good crowd and the program runs two shows daily through Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucille Oreree
Chester Spares
Diller
Lincoln High School
Miss Edna Smith Visits Relative in Fairbury
Miss Edna Smith of Fairbury visits at the home of her uncle Dr. O C Diehl on a Wednesday evening. John P Sailing, grandson of the late John R Sailing, is appointed sheriff of Gage county to fill the unexpired term of his grandfather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Smith
Fairbury
O. C. Diehl
John P. Sailing
John R. Sailing
Gage County
Miss Freda Kuper Heads to Lincoln Summer School
Miss Freda Kuper, who taught one year in Steele City schools and was elected for another year, has traveled to Lincoln to attend summer school at the state university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freda Kuper
Steele
Lincoln
The
State University
Richardson Family and Alma Cissna Visit Lincoln
Mr and Mrs G L Richardson and their two children plus Miss Alma Cissna visited Saturday and Sunday at the home of her sister Mrs E L Dougherty in Lincoln.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L. Richardson
Alma Cissna
E. L. Dougherty
Lincoln
Union services in chautauqua tent Sunday morning
Rev Harris of the M E church will preach at the Sunday morning union service in the chautauqua tent. There will be no services at the churches Sunday evening. Newton Wesley Gaines will deliver an address titled Old Wine in New Bottle in the tent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Chautauqua
Harris
M. E. Church
Newton Wesley Gaines
Tragic accidental shooting ends Fanny Hale life
Fanny Hale 18 of Brush Colorado, a Colorado State Teachers College student, was accidentally shot by classmate Lucille Cooper at a Greely Colorado home after commencement. The tragedy occurred as four girls gathered to say goodbye. Cooper fired a rusty .32 pistol, striking Hale in the heart. Hale’s fiancé John Lake of Brighton had planned their wedding soon. Burial in Brush, with condolences from Diller and area friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Hale
Brush
Colo
Diller
Fanny
Greely
Denver
Fanny Hale
Colorado State
Teachers College
Lucille Cooper
Miss Cooper
Arthur B. Cooper
Pennsylvania
Miss Hale
John Lake
Brighton
Raymond Marcus
Marcus
Estes Park
Kiowa
Florence Bruhn
Bedford Hall
Miss Dahl
Young Lake
Rain Revival Lifts Crops and Spirits Across County
Three days of drizzle from Saturday to Monday dropped about an inch of rain, soaking fields, gardens, and pastures. The soaking rain revived weary crops and livestock areas, lifting spirits as growth returns and conditions improve for farmers.
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Citizens State Bank
Kenneth Findling
H. E. Green
Sam Thompson
Alice Specht
Cornbelt Lumber Co
Elias Hadley
Phillips
Nebr
S. B. Viers
Grand Lodge
Omaha
C. E. Faulder
Beatrice
Emma Line
Mildred Mayborn
Burlington
Nebraska State University
Geo. Henrichs
Cecil Findling
Cornbelt Lbr. Co
Diller, Nebr
D. V. Fanders
Irwin Schwinler
Beatrice Hospital
Cully Grocery
Colorado
Mrs. Hale
Ansbacher
Arsenate
Paris Green
H. K. Shutt
Rexall
Halle Knauer
F. G. Knauer
Steele City
Clarence Raish
Herents
Seward
Nauer
Raish
Grand Island
Ironton. O
Mr. Sailing
First Christian Church
Odell
Odd Fellows and Masonic
Odell, Diller and
Diller Grain Market
White Lake
Men’s Athletic Union
Tinapa
Little Miss
McLaughlin
Farmer’s Union Cash Store
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