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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1934
Page
5
Mrs Wohlfarth, Mavis Holle, Pauline Patton, Mr Delano, Mrs Will Hobine, Dell Wehling, Dean Barber, Miss Edna Hullman, Odell, and Marion Wolters are listed with illnesses or injuries. Marion Wolters sustained a knee cut from a wire fence while playing hide and seek. three silver clips were used to close the wound and it is healing.
Real estate and business listings include a house for rent and a storefront for sale in Diller. Local social items mention visits and weekend stays with families in Humboldt and Beatrice, plus an ice cream social by Methodist ladies and thanks for support.
Mr and Mrs Vester Carmichael and daughter Ruth visited Holmesville to spend the day with their son James Carmichael and family. A group of Diller youths traveled to Endicott Tuesday evening to play Kittenball returning home in a wind and rain storm. Mr R R Ruhoke of Jansen Neb a Democratic candidate for county treasurer called at the office Tuesday evening. The political announcement appears in another column.
Mr and Mrs James Lowell from Lincoln visited Saturday evening and remained overnight and Sunday morning as guests of Mr and Mrs Willie Clark. Mrs Lowell is a niece of Mrs Clark.
Mr George Sparks attended the event with his brother Mr W Nate and has now returned to his home in Pax ton Nebraska. A garbled line mentions Douglas and Guy in Nebraska towns and activities.
Jim Nider of Pawnee City visited the area Saturday and Sunday as guest of his sister Mrs Catlett. Mrs E S Diller returned home to Fairbury after attending her father's death. News notes mention a poor wheat crop and short straw near Hastings Nebraska with a suggestion that the poor be allowed to work the fields for their own subsistence.
Mr and Mrs L D Calkine Leonard Frisbie and his daughter Carrol Lee Mrs Ada Calkins of Blue Springs and Mrs Garry Covers of Marshall Ohio were Sunday dinner guests at the Stange home.
Beatrice Company C defeated Bruce s Dubs 9 to 4 on the local grounds Wednesday in a lively Kitten ball contest. The Co C players were described as a gentle manly lot.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Clark and son George of Parsons Kansas visited Mr. and Mrs. LaVern Pickard Sunday and Monday. Clark and LaVera were stationed with Camp Tarvis in San Antonio Texas and reunite after 13 years.
Nine junior boys and girls and one young lady are enrolled in the dance and acrobatic program led by Miss Velma. The students show enthusiasm and will, upon completion, be ready for varied entertainment acts.
Steele City announces its annual celebration for 1934 featuring U S Congressman A S Shallenberger in the afternoon and Dwight Griswold in the evening. The program includes baseball or softball games, vaudeville acts by Miss Velma Webbling and Miss Agnes Crane Wright, a Steele City Band performance, and a platform dance with ample shade and spring water. The event is sponsored by American Legion Post No.
Mrs Mary Wright and Mrs Susie Brandt received word last week of the death of their sister Mrs Katie Logston of Milwaukee Wisconsin. The body was brought to Shickley Nebraska for burial, her former home. Mrs Wright Mrs Brandt and Mr and Mrs Chas Hilder attended the funeral and returned home on Monday.
Mr and Mrs S C Moser Mr and Mrs Ray Eick and Betty LaRue traveled to Pawnee City Sunday to spend the day with Mrs Moser s brother and family Lynn Etchison, her nephew, joined them and will stay about two weeks at his aunt and uncle s home.
Last Thursday afternoon Fred Clark and Vern Pickard fished the Little Blue near Endicott. Clark claims the championship as they landed a big catch weighing over 10 pounds.
A letter from Ellis Nebraska discusses Clarence Thompson known as Tommy at Arcadia High School. It notes his eleven years in Arcadia schools including ten as principal or superintendent and mentions Milo Smith’s perfect attendance record at Arcadia. The letter cites Thompson’s upcoming 30th birthday on December 24, 1934.
Fifteen YMCA members accompanied by an older supervisor loaded into a Buick touring car with a two wheel trailer full of camping gear in Beatrice. They paused briefly here yesterday on their way to the great canyons southwest of Dilller for a camping expedition.
Mrs Dora Wohlfarth and Gretchen visited Chester last Thursday to see Dr and Mrs Cecil Ellis and returned Sunday afternoon.
Relatives of the F. T. Pearce family are advised of the approaching marriage of Merlyn Egger daughter of Mr and Mrs Ira Egger Lincoln to Claude Pilger son of Mr and Mrs Frank Pilger Lincoln on July 9 1934 Mr Pilger is a former University of Nebraska student They will reside in Lincoln.
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