Forty Years Ago In Diller Community Notes And Visits
Forty years ago Harry Green and Mrs Gillespie traded residences in Diller. Vernon McManes suffered a serious elbow injury from a horse. C W Simon organized a chorus for the Fourth of July. The WRC met at Mrs Keller’s for a quilting bee with listed attendees. Elmo Hadley plastered P W Gerner’s new house southeast of town. John Zook and Edith Mandeville drove to Wymore. Miss Lillie Osborn received a new piano. The music committee hired the Fairbury band for the Fourth. Elwee visited Fairbury. Will Shroyer bought a graphophone for customers. Ollie and Clyde Zook visited Jansen to meet their father arriving in Omaha. Park Koons visited his mother from Lincoln. Joe Greenwood, postal clerk, visited relatives. F G Starkey opened a jewelry and repair shop in Wright’s drug store. Dr Jeffryes reported a birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs G E Mills.
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Elmo Hadley
Gerner
John Zook
Edith Mandeville
Wymore
Lillie Osborn
Lincoln
Fairbury
Cash
Elwee
Will Shroyer
Ollie
Clyde Zook
Jansen
Rock Island
Omaha
Park Koons
Joe Greenwood
F G Starkey
M Wright
Jeffryes
E Mills
Town in Three Counties Ashland Names Three Jurisdictions
Ashland Nebraska has shifted county ties across its history passing through Green Calhoun and Saunders counties reflecting its evolving municipal boundaries and governance.
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Ashland
Neb
Green, Calhown
Saunders
Fifty Years Ago in Nebraska and Nearby Regions
Fifty years ago Mrs Robert Patton visited Chester relatives while Mr W Woods returned from the Py dante General Assembly and visited Johnstown flood sites. Openings granted to settlements covered 500000 acres in South Dakota and 3000000 acres in Sisseton. Nebraska population growth slowed with figures from 1870 to 1939 rising to 1 364 000. A Diller credit association formed to guard against misused credit. Also noted is the June 9 1889 wedding of Sam Green and Lena Wagenaar in Steele City with Colman and Mc Laughlin in attendance and the Diller Cornet Band serenading the couple.
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W. Woods
Py Dante General
Pennsylvania
Mr. Woods
Johnstown
Nebraska
Diller
A H Colman
J D Fanders
J O Blauser
Jos Bixby
T P Price
R V Folkers
P B Miller
J J Adams
E L Loock
Sam Green
Lena Wagenaar
Kev Wm Pierce
Steele City
Nebr
Alice McLaughlin
Diller Cornet
Obituary of Mildred Tucker Harding in Auburn
Mildred Evelyn Tucker Harding died at home in Auburn on May 31 1939 at 32. She was born April 29 1907 in Page Holt county and grew up in Diller. A nurse by training she worked in Chicago then moved to Auburn with Dr. A T Harding in 1934. She leaves husband Dr. A T Harding daughter Nancy Kay and two sisters and a brother. Funeral services were held June 2 at the First Methodist church with tributes from family and friends.
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A. T. Harding
Auburn
Mildred Evelyn Tucker
Riley Tucker
Page
Holt County
Diller
Diller High School
Gage County
University of Nebraska At Lincoln
Alpha Si Delta
College of Agriculture
Chicago
Ravenwood Hospital
Roger Park Hospital
Public Schools of
Ravenwood Methodist Church
Ladies Aid
Belle Robertson
Eustis
Fayetta Cully
Fairbury
R. Frank Tucker
Denver
Cole
First Methodist Church
J. LaVerne Jay
Mrs Howe
Donna Meete
Don Crow
R. Rokenship
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
Fred Timm
Grave services noted in Nemaha County Herald item
A brief note from Nemaha County Herald mentions graveside vices held at the grave site.
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Nemaha County Herald
At The Theatre: Bell Biopic Stars Ameche Fonda and Young
A gallery of notes praises the Alexander Graham Bell biopic with Don Ameche as Bell Henry Fonda as his assistant Loretta Young as his wife and calls the film grand. It mentions a second showing for Saturday Adolphe Menjou in King of the Turf a top horse racing picture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Graham Bell
Don Ameche
Henry Fonda
Loretta Young
Bells
Adolphe Menjon
Sally Elane
Charles Colburn
Polly Young
Freeview
Richard Arlen
Adelphe Menjou
Donald Wood
The Laurentian Mountains Reach Across North America
The Laurentians span over a million acres between the St Lawrence river and Hudson Bay from the Ottawa river to Labrador. Geologists say these ancient peaks rose early, later bore ice that carved and polished their faces, leaving a rich geologic chronicle on countless stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurentian Mountains
St. Lawrence River
Hudson’s Bay
Ottawa River
Labrador
Alps
Europe
Himalays
Asia
Laurentians
Also Mentioned on This Page
Harry Green
Mrs. Gillespie
Rokau
Vernon McManes
Are
C W
Simon
WRC
Binder
The
O. A. Cooper Co
Dr.o.q. Diehl
Robert Patton
Chester
Sa Dakota
Sisseton
Bugs
Blue Valley
Credit Ass’n
Waggoner Brothers
By Jimmy Redmana
Robert Taylor
Myrna P
Bonham Theatre
Fairbury, Nebraska
Myrna Loy
Cartoon
Paramount News
Chester Morris
Ralph Bellamy
Frank A. Houston
Bonded Abstracter
Fairbury, Nebr
J. Monroe Davis
Manchester
Allen
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