Wheat Quotas Pass In Jefferson County and Nation
County voters approve wheat quotas by 74.3 percent with 386 for and 134 against after mail and challenged ballots. Precinct tallies include Pleasant 31 5, Newton 17 11, Jefferson 21 3, Rock Creek 6 0, Endicott 5 7. Nationwide quotas win in 40 wheat states by 75 percent. The Diller Record offers free copies to soldiers with correct addresses.
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Jefferson County
Pleasant
Newton
Jefferson
Rock Creek
Baccalaureate Service for Class of 1942 at Diller High
The baccalaureate service for the class of 1942 at Diller High will be held at the local church next Sunday May 10 at 8 30 p m The program includes processional invocation solo The Lord s Prayer and a duet Come Unto Me with participants Flossie Raymond Avis Johnson Bette Novotny and Catherine Barnett in the sequence
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Diller High
Lopal
Ollowing
Flossie Raymond
Wolff
Avis Jobncco
Bette Novotov
Catherine Barnett
Flossie Raymond Seeeneeeete
Sunday Dinner Guests Include Nippert Kin and Friends
Mr and Mrs Joe Nippert hosted Sunday dinner with Mr and Mrs Earl King of Odell Mr and Mrs Ray Mal chow and two sons of Beatrice and Mr and Mrs Willard Nippert.
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Joe Nippert
Earl King
Odell
Ray Malchow
Beatrice
Willard Nippert
Mrs Corrie Wrigley Receives Treatment at Rice Hospital
Mrs Corrie Wrigley entered Rice hospital in Odell on Tuesday of last week for medical treatment. She is reported to be showing improvement.
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Corrie Wrigley
Rice Hospital
Odell
Dorothy Piagel
Marilyn Miller
Omaha
Dorothy
Marilyn
Sogalshe
Ekwall
War Saving Drive grows pledges across Jefferson county
Reports from Jefferson county minute men show nearly 5 000 pledges for war savings stamps and bonds across about 4 500 homes. Fairbury leads with 2 000 pledges, others total over 2 800 outside Fairbury. County Chairman Leon J. Markham praises town and farm participation, listing signer counts by town and precinct. Diller minute men include Floyd Hughes and Rev Clark among others.
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Jefferson County
Fairbury
Leon . J. Markham
Diller
Endicott
Harbing
Steele City
Farmers Pleasant
Jefferson
Rock Creek
Newton
Treasury Department
Washington
Minute Men
Floyd Hughes
Rev. Clark
Virgil Geer
Scott Miller
Fred Clark
Nebraska Congressmen Observe Arbor Day at Capitol
Congressman Carl T. Curtis notes the Nebraska delegation marked Arbor Day in Washington with a memorial process from the Capitol to the white pine tree on the plaza and to the Agriculture Department grounds honoring J. Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day, praising his public service and frugal leadership.
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Nebraska
Washington
J. Starling Morton
United States Capitol
Carl T. Curtis
Arbor Day
Capitol
Department of Agriculture
Morton
George Heinke
Curtis
Presidenta
Lincoln women host visit amid family health notes
Mrs. Elsie McAtee of Lincoln spent the week end with Mrs. Myrtie Diller. She reports her mother Mrs. Pittenger feeling well, while Mrs Virgerina Price, living with them, has been in poor health all winter.
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Elsie McAtee
Lincoln
Myrtie ‘Diller
Reuben Fanders Contributes to Sifting Sand Spring Issue
Reuben Fanders of Diller contributed to the spring issue of Sifting Sand published by Sigme Fau Delta, the national honorary English fraternity at Peru State Teachers College.
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Reuben Fanders
Diller
Sigme Fau Delta
Peru ‘State Teachers College
Mother-Daughter Banquet Postponed To Tuesday
The Mother-Daughter banquet has been postponed and will now be held on Tuesday. Further details on time and location will be announced by organizers.
Watchman Found Dead at Crystal Springs
Guy Leonard a 36 year old night watchman at Fairbury city pumping station was found dead at 4 10 am Wednesday May 6 in the pump house at Crystal Springs Park southwest of Fairbury Lewis Holloway night chief of police found the body after a phone call and failed contact Leonard had been shot in the back with the bullet entering near the right shoulder blade passing through the heart and lodged in the pericardial sac a .22 caliber hollow point rifle with one bullet discharged lay beside the body The inquest is scheduled before a six man jury at 2 pm Friday May 8 in the district courtroom in Fairbury
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Guy Leonard
Fairbury’s
Crystal Springs Park
Fairbury
Lewis Holloway
Suthwest
Frank M. Rain
Irwin Wheeler Shutt Graduates as First Lieutenant
Irwin Wheeler Shutt, former Diller resident and 1981 Diller High School graduate, earned his first lieutenant rank at Camp Benning on April 26. He later served with infantry units and received advanced training. His father, H. K. Shutt, owned the Diller drug store and later operated one in Lincoln.
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Irwin Wheeler Shutt
Diller
Camp Ben
Treindiehont
GU. S
Diter High School
University of Nebraaska
Cincinnati City University
Irwin
H. K. Shutt
Diller Drug Store
Lincoln
Miss Grace Mathias Elected to Lincoln School Dist
Miss Grace Mathias of Ellis has been elected to teach Lincoln School Dist No. 106 for the coming year. The school lies two miles south of Ellis. Grace will graduate from Beatrice High School this spring.
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Grace Mathias
Ellis
Lincoln School
Grace
Beatrice High School
Diller School Banquet Honors Seniors and Faculty
The Diller high school junior class hosted an elaborate May 2 banquet in the gym for the senior class and faculty with a patriotic Civil War era sea voyage theme. Tables formed a steamship deck with army navy and air force replicas, paper planes, ships, and toy soldiers.
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Diller Schools
Mise Eloise Pool
Army
Navy
Air Force
Signal Corps
Sophmore
Gar
K P
Robert Hiatt
Deloris Bernhardt
Calvary—Verne
Hubka
Betty Grabber
Mr. Ludington
Fred Garrels
Yonder
Dwaine Clark
America
Miss Henrietta Piskach Weds Lieut Shutt in Auburn Ceremony
Miss Henrietta Piskach of Lawrenceburg Indiana daughter of Mr and Mrs Anton Piskach of Omaha married Lieut Irwin Wheeler Shutt of Fort Benning Georgia son of Mr and Mrs H K Shutt at seven eighty in the evening of April 3 at the home of Mr and Mrs I G Wilson in Auburn Alabama The bride wore a beige and blue suit with white orchids The best man was Frank Brantly The couple will reside in Florida after the bride completes the school year teaching in Lawrenceburg She holds a home economics degree from Dubuque College and did graduate study at Northwestern The groom a chemical engineering graduate from the University of Nebraska served since January and had worked in Lawrenceburg and Baltimore before the service
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Henrietta Piskach
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Anton Piskach
Omaha
Irwin Wheeler Shutt
Fort Beoning
H. K. Shutt
Themas MacBride
Fort’ Benning
I. G. Wilson
Auburn
Alabama
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Diller Record
Diller, Nebraska
Crystal Springs
Diller Opera House
Ludington
Lincoln Journal
Clara Allen
H Tad
Honolulu
Chas. Smith
Allen
Diler
Norman Sixel
Ivan Beckman
Art Slabi Sed
Carolyn
Herbert Sanders
Jake Lottaran
Harold
Hollenberg
George Loth
Linda la
Mrs
Ezra
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