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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1935
Page
5
Prices listed for wheat corn oats and feed grades with entries for hens and cream. The corrected Thursday market list includes No 2 and mixed corn, white corn, yellow corn, oats, and various livestock and dairy items with numerical quotes.
For Sale 1932 yellow seed corn, phone 104763. Two good milk cows sought for pasture. Blauser. Miss Fayetta Hudson employed at Hastings Cafe on east side at Fairbury. Some corn planted nearby during the week as farmers expanded acreage. Mr and Mrs Charles Gaisford visited Vester Carmichael's home and returned to Reynoss Sunday evening.
Unfurnished light housekeeping rooms or house sought with contact via record office or Mr. Lloyd Sinkey in Merriman Nebraska. Evocative line hints at a feature about a woman whose wishes fulfilled yet died penniless, advertised alongside a Sunday Bee News American Weekly insert.
Mrs. Mary Smith of Wichita stayed overnight with Mrs. Newt on Sparks to attend the funeral of her step-daughter Mrs. Harry Greider this week.
Mrs. H. T. F. Davis was compelled to return to St. Elizabeth hospital in Lincoln last Thursday. It is reported she suffers considerably. Her son in law Mel Nelson and wife accompanied her to Lincoln.
Mr. Leland Goebel the music man at Fairbury visited Dille on Monday evening and sat in with the band during rehearsal at the city hall. He played the trumpet and joined in with the performers during the session.
Mr and Mrs Rolf Beckman lost forty eight little chicks when their brooder caught fire from an oil lamp. They live one block south of the Congregational church. Prompt fire department action prevented larger losses due to nearby outbuildings.
County seat papers report a Tuesday night theft at the Farmers Union Elevator in Diller. A radio and pen were taken along with corn from the storage shed. no suspects named, but locals suspected.
Frost nipped potatoes here Tuesday morning as locals note a chilly start. Dean Barber returned home Wednesday evening for a visit with family and headed back to Beatrice Friday morning. Carbo fingerling potatoes priced at 50 cents per gallon available from Iagen Lumber Co. in Diller.
The Omaha Bee failed to locate Mr and Mrs Emil Krebs two young girls who resemble each other though not identical. The note mentions their near likeness and missed listing in the paper.
Miss Grubb English and music teacher at Dillers schools enjoyed a weekend visit from her father and mother of Council Bluffs Iowa. They arrived Saturday and returned home Sunday evening.
Mr and Mrs Will Egger visited Sunday to see Mrs Frank Grabb who is recovering from a serious attack of measles. Mrs Egger stayed with her sister and Mr Egger went home in the evening.
Philip McCamery 26, freed from Nebraska penitentiary last Sunday, dies Tuesday after a gunfight with Council Bluffs Police Sergeant W B Miller who also dies Wednesday from gunshot wounds. Miller had pursued McCamery after the taxi cab theft.
A large dust storm hit Eastern Nebraska along with parts of Texas Colorado and southwest Nebraska. The noon sun darkened for an hour or two as winds shifted north and the skies cleared. Pneumonia deaths rise in dust infected regions and the Red Cross provides aid to sufferers.
A notice on the door states Meyers Bros Grocery at Fairbury is closed by Sheriff Ackman until a $700 note is settled. The dissolution of the Meyers Bros partnership and reports of partner disputes suggest reopening may be unlikely with Gene Diller seeking other work in Lincoln.
The Hanover Democrat reports Ingalske and Wood direct the Hanover school orchestra and the school band. A one hour radio program on KFBJ Abilene Kansas is set for Monday evening May 13 from 7:15 to 8:15, with both groups performing the entire time. The Hanover organizations formed around the same period as the iller band.
Columbus Ohio is selected as the meeting place for the Methodist church general conference in 1936. The event will bring church leaders and delegates to central Ohio for the multi day gathering.
A movement in Fairbury aims to host a mid summer baseball tournament, an old settlers picnic, and a Fourth of July celebration July 2 through 4. The drive seeks community participation and local organization.
The strike in Omaha escalates with bricks, clubs and guns seen in the streets. Beatings have worsened the meat industry’s losses to date.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ahrends of the Steele City neighborhood visited Diller on Wednesday. They paid back subscriptions and in advance, with Mrs. Ahrends recalling their 1896 wedding via a brass band serenade at her parents’ home near Diller. The couple remembered the serenade cost a ten spot.
Editor Cramb of the Fairbury Journal offers a quip suggesting that anything bearing the name Jefferson invites suspicion. He contrasts Jefferson’s ideal of minimal government with modern calls for layered governance and widespread government benefits. He muses about erasing Jefferson from maps to simplify the landscape.
Mr and Mrs Geo F Teiman and Mr and Mrs Leonard Teiman of Beatrice with Mr and Mrs Inn Wy, and Donald Deen of Odell, plus C T Cully, visited Sunday at the J M Hiatt home. Abe Watson called in the afternoon as the group enjoyed homemade ice cream and cake.
Used goods include three rebuilt cream separators two horse drawn gang plows a hay rake a six shovel cultivator two seven foot McCormick binders a harrow cart a 14 HP gas engine and a truck wagon. Also hand picked seed corn available from S C Hutchinson.
In a school notes item, perfect spelling grades were dated April 26 and credited to Denice Anderson, Stanley Diller, Joyce Johnson, Marilyn Miller, Mary Lou Thompson, Mary Marie Bristol, Betty Grabber, Esther Lamb, Nelda Nicholson, Margery Nippert, Wilma Thompson, Neil Andrews, Leila Broadstone, Dwaine Clark, and Avis Johnson as they shift from Elson Basic Reader to Lincoln Readers.
Island second grades teacher Mrs. George Elliott reported a class visit Tuesday afternoon. Wanna Farrow and Zola Bristow returned to school after several days absent due to illness.
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