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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1931
Page
5
A collage of short items includes a complete threshing rig for sale from Mrs Strockey and Chinchilla rabbits from Elmermeyer, plus farm produce offers, shoe shop hours, and a quip about a midget car. Also notes death rate jest and a steel industry joke.
Community notes report bumper cherry season while local affairs include parsonage painting at the Methodist church and hospital admissions for Faye Clark of Steele City for appendicitis operation. The obituary of Wert Welling at 92 from Lanham is noted along with attendance at Hermann Neumann funeral in Hastings.
A brief advert promises a very fine car with plenty of power and invites demonstrations. The note is signed by Catlin Auto Co in Fairbury Nebr.
Wanted hogs offered at highest market prices by Paul Stark at Diller Farmers Grain Co. Readers asked to list hogs for sale and contact details provided for arranging pickup or delivery.
Fragmentary dialogue recalls a younger woman and the Big Dipper as a drinking cup in shared reminiscence. The brief exchange hints at nostalgia and aging without detailing events or identities.
Albert Zech of the Dilworth high school ordered the girls to go home and put on clothes after five female students arrived wearing sleeveless pajama outfits with flared trousers.
Odd McIntyre narrates a tale from a New York office where a stenographer vanished. A bright office boy asks if anyone has considered checking the boss's neck?
For Safe Investment We have Municipal and Corporation Bonds issued by cities and school districts in Nebraska, a very nice safe investment drawing a good rate of interest. Get that idle money busy, F. L. Catlin, Wachob Bender & Co. 212 South 17th St., Omaha. Co. G. Catlin, Local Representative, Fairbury, Neb.
A Kentuckian father raised seventeen sons who all voted Democratic except one, John. The father reflects on the obvious defection from the family political line and notes John’s stubborn, reading ways as a radical departure.
Herman Frederick Neumann Jr. born February 9 1882 in Beatrice Nebraska died June 9 1931 aged 49 at his mother Mary Neumann's home in Odell Nebraska. He married Clara E. Gerner April 4 1905 and leaves wife Clara and son Lawrence Bert of Lincoln Nebraska. Surviving siblings include Margaret Hamill Katherine Lincoln Marie Spokane Hermina Pierre Christine Spokane Robert Hamill Ralph Odell Louis Imperial. Funeral June 9 1931 1 30 PM from home then Congregational church Diller with Rev Ludwick. burial Prairie Home cemetery Diller.
The Neumann family expresses gratitude for neighbors offerings help and floral tributes and thanks the singers and Rev Ludwick for consoling words. Signed by Mrs. Clara E Neumann Lawrence Neumann and Mrs Mary Neumann and family.
The interior of the Diller post office is being re decorated. Paul Stark shipped a carload of hogs from this station Thursday. Corn appears backward and cut worms are harming it. Mr Outher Carpenter of California visits his parents and relatives in Diller. Rev Draise and family relocate from Endicott for the season and occupy the Eaton property. Mrs John Carpenter of Diller and Mr Outher Carpenter of California visit Sabetha Kansas and plan to return later in the week.
Mrs. Minnie Stutzman and two children with Lydia Fritzer of Fairbury visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Leaper near Diller for the parents' birthday. Mr. Leaper, 82, has been crippled for 25 years. Mrs. Leaper, 69. Several relatives attended, sharing two birthday cakes and a new dress, as the day passed happily.
Report notes alfalfa stands are quite good in portions of the area around Herman Giesbrecht's place as a noon meeting is scheduled for June 14.
Bethel items note Elmer V Ingwer and family visiting Homer Ramsey in Pawnee City. Claire Callan visits uncle Jack Armstrong and family. Herbert Ramsey of Beatrice area calls on Homer Ramsey. Gretz family returns from Humbolt with farming gear. Chas Brandt sister and Fred Englehardt family visit from Palmyra Mo and Will Englehardt of Kewanee. Englehardts plan stay. Weather rains along Missouri River. Bethel patrons plan a Sunday school picnic after.
At the A A Eick country home on June 4 the N C S A club's second division held an evening event with a Japanese garden setting and lanterns. Eight members performed a fan drill, an oriental tea party followed, and guests enjoyed piano solos, games, and a progressive rock luncheon with prizes.
Frank Lang of south of Fairbury turned in a lone coyote scalp for a $2 bounty on Monday after previously collecting four coyotes in April. He kept one coyote as a pet that escaped and killed forty young chickens, County Clerk Nider reported. An Osborne man is noted by the Farmer for a porch sign about a brush seller, referencing a previous fatal porch incident.
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