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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
1
The picnic committee invites Baen of the community to form a Whisker Club for the Gay 90s celebration on August 5 and 6. Charley Waggoner is named chairman of the board growing group and aims for at least 100 sign ups. Some members report a crop already.
The Diller Farmers Elevator is now controlled by B C Christopher and Company of Kansas City. John Steiner remains manager as two company representatives finalize grain handling plans. Five thousand dollars was placed in the Diller State Bank to start operations, and a fifty thousand dollar bond backs each manager. The flooded elevator pit has been pumped out and cleaned.
A special service will be held at the Metit Church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The Young Peoples League presents Rev. and Mrs. Hall in a program of Indian folklores and music. The Halls speak and sing from experience among Indians.
The Kiwanis banquet to be held Monday night at 7:15 at the Methodist Church basement will proceed after the postponement caused by the storm. Invitations have gone out to more than ten people from Fairbury and Diller.
Beatrice area notes report Leon ard Wiemers and Gordon Fanders nearing graduation from primary flight training at Beatrice airport and set to receive private pilot licenses. Steele City to hold July picnic with Diller Band providing music for both days. Local youths grow whiskers while Diller, Steele City peers face weather impacts as John Greider's watermelon patch east of town floods and prospects fade.
Mr and Mrs Gerd Henricks Jr Stella Wasserman are parents of a daughter born June 6 1941 at the Odell hospital. Mr and Mrs Herman Arntt Mildred Roseman are parents of a son born Sunday June 15 at the Odell hospital.
Carl Ludington and his brother Willis Ludington are in Lincoln for the University of Nebraska summer school. Carl aims to earn a masters degree this term while Willis, recently named Union Center superintendent, attends classes. The eight week program runs 60 minute periods, and the Ludingtons share rooms with Mrs. Elizabeth Tristman while Mrs. Ludington stays in Diller. Hubert Filley, superintendent at Stratton, also attends with family at 1646 E street.
The Golden anniversary of Odell high school alumni was held at the school auditorium with about 300 alumni present. Nearly every class milestone from the fifty years was represented and an excellent program was rendered. From Diller, Clar ence Hiatt and Mrs Hiatt, Mrs Joe Dailey and Mr Dailey, Irene Shanek, Anna Kostel Hubka attended. Hazil Sparks Hayes, Mary Hiatt Cully, and LaFern LePoedivin Hayes did not attend.
Ivan Sullivan age 29 is to be hanged September 12 and Lowell Haenze age 27 given life in prison for the fatal shooting of a guard during an attempted prison breakout after a Diller State Bank robbery last June 22 at the Iowa State Penitentiary.
The Young Peoples League will attempt a second ice cream sociable at City Hall on Saturday night.
Readable lines list event slots with dates and places including Steele City Jansen Diller and Plymouth for July and August. The fragment hints at a sequence of planned activities across multiple towns with occasional two day blocks and varying month labels.
Guy Bernard Cassell longtime Steele City resident died June 1 1941 at age 60. He was a farmer and oil worker who helped church work and served as elder of the Steele City Presbyterian Church. Survived by wife Mary two brothers a sister and many relatives friends attended services at the Presbyterian church with interment in Steele City cemetery.
Mr and Mrs Charles Barber hosted a day with four great grand babies and their mothers two miles northwest of town. The children are Bobby Dale McWhirter, David Mentgen, Mary Lee Jensen, and Carolynn Jean Barber with their respective mothers Della Weddel, Donna Weddel, Eunice Barber Jensen, and Esther Malchow.
The May 23 wedding at the newly built home near Sheldon united Flora Bollom and Arlie Tristman with Rev. McEathron officiating. Attendants were Bernice Herbard and Marshall Bollom, and a supper followed at the bride’s parents’ home. The couple will reside on the W. G. Tristman farm nearby.
Ak-Sar-Ben invites 7500 Omaha goodwill emissaries and midwestern residents to the Den Show at the Coliseum in Omaha from June 9 to July 28, with Diller guests on June 28. Free tickets are available via Ak-Sar-Ben emissary CE Wagjoner. The revue Trouble in the Tropics features a 70 voice chorus and tropical Puerto Rican setting with dancing numbers and a post show buffet.
Brigadier General Guy Henninger state director says every man in Nebraska who turned 21 after October 16, 1940 and before midnight July 1, 1941 must register with his local Selective Service board on July 1. Aliens and U.S. citizens 21 on July 1 must register, including aliens 21 to 36 who arrived after October 16, 1940 and have not yet registered.
Homer S. Yeakle assumed duties as postmaster of Fairbury this week succeeding E A Wunder who had acted since Frank Moon’s death. Wunder is relieved of responsibility while Yeakle also recently resigned as mayor after the last election.
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