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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1937
Page
10
A retrospective feature draws from archival record files decades old to recount events and people remembered from the mid 20th century. The piece highlights forgotten local names places and milestones preserved in public records and clippings.
Record correspondent from Endicott describes a Pleasant Tuesday trip to Diller. The piece notes meetings with Ad Thomas and Wm Diller, visits to Bills Hodges Kinyon bank, Price Bros store, and G W Pierce drugstore, and a bustling dry goods stock worth 10000 dollars. Observations include a rabbit, a barbed wire pasture, and 27 teams at the farmers trading that afternoon.
The molecule of ordinary water has the formula H2O with two hydrogen and one oxygen atom. Most world water has existed as liquid or vapor since Earth's cooling. Natural water, free of impurities, presumably has equal density everywhere.
Miss Lucile Barnett celebrated her eighteenth birthday with a surprise party in Steele City. Friends gathered after a Social Hour, featuring a cake, May baskets, jello, muffins, pickles, and a copper chafing dish. Hosts Velma Wehling Harold Cox Dell Wehling and Mr and Mrs Barnett plus Margaret and Catherine Barnett helped organize the event with music and conversation.
A birthday gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Caldwell honored Mrs. E. Caldwell of Garden City Kansas. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Bert Will Lois and Lloyd Holmenville and several Beatrice and Ellis residents, with a noon dinner two birthday cakes and homemade ice cream.
Mrs. Christie Seaman finds a surprise guest when her niece Josephine Seaman Oakley of Buffalo Minnesota arrives with husband. They visit Davenport and Fairfield relatives, plan trips to Pittsburg Kansas and Davenport for Mother's Day, and visit Quivers park with Fred Clark, a lifelong resident making his first park trip in fifty years.
On Saturday May 1 Patricia Ann Fletcher celebrated her birthday with a small gathering. Three pink candles lit the cake as the group delivered May baskets. Attendees included Terrill Fasnacht June Thompson Robert Stahl and Jonita Fletcher.
Miss Pearl Sparks and Roe entertained the district’s young people Saturday evening. The event featured Rock, Bingo and other games with refreshments served at a late hour. Twenty four persons were present.
Dinner guests at the John Weers home included Jay Slagle and family, Will Herpster of Falls City Nebraska, Pete Wenz of Fairbury, Lou Wenz and family of Steele City, and L Wenz, Bertha, Carl, Anna and Mary of Diller. Mrs Slagle and Mrs Herpster are sisters of Mrs L Wenz.
To his son and three grand children the late Asan Brown of Mountainville, N. Y., bequeath ed "all my lawful debts."
R H Edginton celebrated his eightieth birthday last Saturday April 24 but the occasion grew quieter until relatives gathered Sunday. Attending were Joe LePoidevin and family Odell Miss Mary B Edginton Lincoln and Floyd Van Camp wife and daughter and J E Copeland of Beatrice. Mr Edginton enjoys good health and remains active in civic life.
Beatrice residents Mr. and Mrs. Paul Renz and Mr. and Mrs. Orville Richardson joined Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Richardson and family for Sunday dinner. Lincoln guests Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frisbie visited in the afternoon.
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