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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1931
Page
5
Hedge posts for sale by George Cunningham. Two Holstein bull calves for sale by Ira Anderson. Moon & Son offer monuments in Fairbury Nebraska Est 1886. Tomato plants Early Bell New Stone Ponderosa 15 cents a dozen by Mrs S Fasnacht. Dempster over shot hay stacker and John Deere 2 row Cracker Jack for sale by V T Logan. 2t
Readable snippets mention Tomatoe John Baer Beefsteak and Stone and Sweet potato plants later from Mrs Roy Diller at 214 Jack. A line of dialogue shows Jill telling a kid not to worry about an engine while on the road, suggesting a household or travel scene.
Notice seeks to locate the owner of a red Polled heifer about 500 pounds last seen near Diller. Contact Geo F Boettcher at 1:17 in Diller for reward. Also a shoe shop ad urges rebuilding and repairing shoes at Fairbury Electric Shoe Shop north of Bonham to protect feet.
The quote reflects newspapers dubbing Al Smith a non-candidate and suggests he has not chosen to run. It contrasts interpretations in the Atlanta Constitution and Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Lincoln Journal advertises a promotional price of $1.00 daily or $1.50 with Sunday through October 1. Subscribers paying ahead gain extra weeks, with mail delivery coordinated to train times. The Journal markets itself as the sole daily between Omaha and Denver printing at night and delivering the morning edition for same-day mail. It notes editorial content and contributors including Calvin and Alfred E. Smith.
Local notices report Mahlon Wolken building a poultry house. Lincoln residents Mr. and Mrs. J L Kizer visited, and Rev and Mrs Ludwick attended John Heasty’s funeral in Fairbury. Esther Gretzinger and John Greider are noted with acquaintances in Diller and Odell Hospital update says Greider is improving. Aura Zook and Richard Phipps visited S J Thompson family in Diller. Thos Hand, shoe repairman, suffers erysipelas in both hands and plans a brief stay in Wymore. Diller High School seniors visited Lincoln and appeared in the State Journal. Plymouth News.
Billie and Marie Kunter of Lincoln visited their grandmother Mrs. Mary Willems and aunt Mrs. Scott Miller over the weekend. Billie is a senior at the state university and Marie works in the Peoria Life Insurance Co.
W. W. Hill of the Ellis vicinity shipped two carloads of long yearling cattle to Chicago Monday at 750 dollars per hundred and a carload of Hampshire hogs to the same point at 7.35 dollars per hundred. He figures the stock deal is favorable overall.
The Diller High School baccalaureate service will be at Congregational Church Sunday evening May 10 at 8 o'clock. The program includes processional Miss Flossie Raymond, songs and hymns, scripture by Rev H J Hoff and Rev H J Dickhof, a ladies quartet, address The Broader Horizon by Rev W E Eudwick, vocal solo Consider the Lilies by Miss Lucille Hannon, hymn Higher Ground, benediction by Rev W E Wick, and recessional Miss Flossie Raymond.
Walter Nutter eighty one died of heart failure at his Fairbury home last week aged 81 years 7 months and 17 days. He was once Jefferson county s largest stock raiser on his Endicott farm, living there forty eight years. Retiring in 1918 he moved to reer where he spent his remaining years. Survived by wife five sons and daughters services held at the Pres church and burial in Fairbury cemetery.
A new roof is going on the Carr property in town. There was frost and some ice Wednesday morning. Baccalaureate services were held Sunday night at the Congregational church. Commencement is planned Friday night in the Jones Show tent. Jefferson county received 2213.30 from April's gas tax. Archie Carpenter hauled lumber for a hog house on Mrs. Jennie Line's farm near Diller. Gage County has a girl deputy sheriff Ora Dunn in Sheriff Dunn's office. she shares the name but is not related. Mrs. John Gretzinger and daughter Margaret of Kansas City visited the Adam Gretzinger home near Steele City and spent Friday in Diller. Mr. and Mrs Wesley Cerico and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dietrich of Falls City visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Carico, Sunday.
Beatrice businessmen organize an annual booster journey for May 20 and 21 covering 450 miles. The group includes fifty towns and sixty cars have already signed up for the trip.
Miss Nellie Green and her niece Donna Jane Raymond traveled from Lincoln to visit Diller relatives in a Ford coupe staying from Saturday until Monday morning.
E. R. Henrichs, a Ford dealer in Fairbury, shut his Fairbury business last Friday and relocated his family to Diller temporarily. He has not chosen a new location or line of work but expects to resume business soon.
Mr and Mrs Chase Waggoner with Mrs Nancy Robertson and Lela traveled to Lincoln Sunday to meet Mr and Mrs E F Habicht of Worthington Minnesota. They attended a mother and son banquet hosted by Acacia Fraternity members whose sons Graydon Habicht and Lynn Waggoner are members.
The finance committee report indicates the village has a $53.01 balance on hand as of May 1 and that water bonds are fully paid. The new plant’s performance is praised for providing ample high quality water and benefiting those who aided its installation.
Mrs C L Geer hosted a Kitchen Shower for Mrs Merle Carpenter formerly Miss Hazel Geer at her home on Saturday afternoon. Guests hemmed tea towels and played games The Kitchen and The Shirt Waist rs Gifts were placed in a large tub on the lawn and Bride reclaimed trophies by wading the shower Photos were taken with the bride gifts and refreshments closed the event with thanks from the hostess and helpers Eileen Green and Vivian Waggoner assisted with games and serving.
Mr and Mrs Cal Waggoner and children Vivian and Kieth of Lincoln visit Wednesday. The four year old son of Mr and Mrs Otto Hinton living near Diller on Jennie Line farm was playing Tuesday when a nail penetrated to the bone just below the knee.
The Diller village board met May 1 and reorganized for the year. John Clauson was re-elected chairman with C. E. Waggoner as clerk and H. H. Green as treasurer. Rupert Andrews is a new member. The board of health includes John Clauson and Dr. Jehi, with meeting nights the first Tuesday of each month.
John Heasty, longtime Fairbury attorney and partner in Heasty Barnes and Riin, died April 29 in Los Angeles from a cerebral hemorrhage. Born in Illinois 68 years ago, he lived in Marshalltown Iowa, moved to Fairbury in 1884, and served as state senator and constitutional convention member in 1919. He is survived by his wife and two sons and was buried in Fairbury cemetery.
Bethel residents and families visited relatives in Beatrice and Beatrice shoppers enjoyed a day out. Guests included Mr and Mrs Oake Lottman with family, Mr and Mrs Jake Lottman, Mr and Mrs Henry Saathoff and son, Mr and Mrs Albert Sasse, and many others. A dance hosted by Mr and Mrs Jack Armstrong and a miscellaneous shower for Mr and Mrs Emil DeBoer occurred, with notes of a Sunday visit to the Armstrong home.
Dr Claude Ellis and his wife returned Wednesday from a trip to Kanorado on the Kansas Colorado state line west of Goodland where they own a body of fine farm land.
A Lincoln meeting of a Nebraska county assessors committee set new per mile valuations for pipelines after consulting with pipeline representatives and State Tax Commissioner Scott. The schedule lists per mile rates by diameter from two inches to twenty four inches and notes main lines plus branches to Fairbury Plymouth and the Fairchild plant in the county southeast.
The Keystone Kensington Congregational church class gathered at Mrs. C. Hully's home for a May session. Tulips and spring flowers filled the house as the group enjoyed lunch and games led by Mrs. L. Frisbie and Mrs. H. Albers.
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