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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
3
Leaving Diller I will sell personal property at a public auction at my residence three blocks west of the city hall. The sale starts at 1 o clock in the afternoon.
More than 300 kinds of owls have been identified. The smallest are the elf owls about the size of a sparrow while the largest are two feet or more in length.
Miss Anabelle Hard of Lincoln spends the week with Dr and Mrs Pease. Mr and Mrs Ed Roelfs and family visit in the Herbert Barber home Sunday evening.
Miss Garnet Barber spent Sunday and Monday visiting with Miss June Roskilley near Steele City.
Mrs Bertha Stotts of Lincoln came Tuesday and is staying the week with Mr and Mrs H H Green while tending to work at the cemetery.
Miss Bianca Delano and a companion from Fairbury spent Thursday afternoon at the Methodist Tea in the church basement enjoying ice cream and cake. They also visited friends in town.
Richard McCune stays a month with his grandfather E. E. McCune while convalescing from appendicitis. Roy McCune and family from Lincoln visited the farmer's father Sunday.
Mrs Grace Fasnacht and her sons Harold Virgil and Terril of Dil fer and LaForest Fasnacht and friend Miss Frieda Sherwood of Wayne Kansas visited Sunday in Lincoln with the former's cousins the Misses Lena and Ann Schroeder.
Dr and Mrs B Charlies Pease were in Fairbury Tuesday attending to business matters. Mr and Mrs John Ramish and children and Mr and Mrs Earl Weigel and family visited Sunday in the Lorren Stephens home.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas Gaisford and daughter returned to their LaMoine Iowa home after a short visit at the Vester Car Michael home.
Mr and Mrs Will Ahrends and family and Miss Anna and Miss Mary Wenz enjoyed Sunday dinner with Mr and Mrs Will De Boer and family near Fairbury.
Mr and Mrs Chas E Waggoner and John Steiner attended a Beatrice gathering invited for a Rolla Arthur home family reunion. Mr and Mrs Heary Hemminger were also present.
A miscellaneous shower was held for Miss Maxine Fry at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Roelfs last Saturday afternoon. About thirty persons attended with contests and prizes. The bride received many gifts and practical tips for housekeeping. Decorations were yellow and green with flowers, and refreshments included jello with whipped cream white angel food and chocolate cake.
A June 14 miscellaneous shower at Mrs. Albert Hubka’s home honored Mrs. Lamert Trauernicht formerly Miss Iteve Bures, with 38 guests and 16 children. Assisted by Mrs. Ernest Novotny and Mrs. Ernest Bergmier, activities included a household scramble, favor ite recipe writing, a mock wedding, and a pink and white lunch of Angel Food Cake ice cream and nectar.
Small classified note seeking grain to cut with binder. Contact phone 102.72. Mentions E. K. McClean as reference or contact.
The B B Kensington reunion gathered about 160 people at Fairbury Nebraska City Park including ex and current members and families. Attendees praised the basket dinner and many came from Steele City Endicott Beatrice Lincoln Hollenberg Morrowville and Diller. The group viewed the Flag Day parade as part of the program and received best wishes from distant ex members.
The Dorcas Society held its June Tea on Thursday afternoon June 13 in the Methodist church basement. Mrs. Mattie Clark presided as program director with a pantomime The Wedding of the Painted Dolls starring Dorothy Reedy and Betty Grabber, plus a choir of local ladies. The event featured multiple piano solos, songs including God Bless America and Moonlight and Roses, a parade of wedding gowns from 1895 to 1940, twelve decorated tables for each birth month, and refreshments of ice cream with strawberry topping and ice tea.
In Endicott Nebraska the Women's Federated Club held a post nuptial shower at City Hall for Mrs. Louis Shanek formerly Donna Jean Kyle. Entertainment featured a musical tribute to the bride with songs and piano and guitar pieces and a wedding march. Guests included Mrs. John Kyle Mrs. Lew Shanek and Miss Irene Shanek along with other relatives and out of town visitors.
In Paris on Rue Saint-Antoine the basements under houses are the former Bastille towers once famed as the revolutionary prison.
Lightweight picture hats for women and conventional styles for men use netlike fiber found at the base of south Florida coconut trees. The hats highlight a novel material sourced locally and create unique summer headwear options.
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