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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
1
The baccalaureate service for the class of 1940 will be held Sunday evening at the Methodist Church in Diller at eight o'clock. The program includes processional, scripture reading, invocation, a clarinet duet, a choir sextet, benediction and recessional withFlossie Raymond participating.
May 1 was the deadline for signing farm plans to participate in the 1940 AAA program. In Jefferson county 1333 farmers signed, about 68.5 percent of the county’s farmers, up from 56 percent last year. signed farm plans cover 59 percent of the county crop land, with about 85.5 percent expected to be enrolled under the program.
Preliminary 1940 Census count in Diller shows population 378, down from 408. Max J. Blue at Hastings reports the change and urges any uncounted residents to submit their names to the Hastings census office in Nebraska.
Diller's free movies begin next Wednesday at City Park, funded by local businesspeople for public entertainment. Chain stores do not contribute to the program, but attendees are urged to attend or at least visit the show.
The Diller public school will hold its forty fifth annual commencement exercises Thursday evening May 16 at eight o clock. Ten students comprise the class of 1940 and the program will be entirely of local talent. Full program will be published next week.
Contrary to common belief, tonnage does not measure a ship’s weight. Early traders assessed size by the number of tuns of wine a vessel could carry, from which tonnage as cargo space derives.
A farm near Prarie Home Cemetery five miles west was bid on Monday in Hutchinson at Samuel Sollenberger 160 acres and sold Tuesday at an Executors sale in Fairbury. The high bid reached $7660.
Diller High School track team travels to Lincoln for the State Track Meet on Friday and Saturday to gain points. Robi Fry has been off the feed for over a week, a concern for the squad.
The Works Progress Administration Professional and Service Division hosts a nation wide open week of dinners from May 20 inviting all in participating towns. Tickets cost 15c and 2dc with broadcasts planned by notable speakers Eleanor Roosevelt and others from 9 to 9:30 pm CST. In Jefferson County dinners occur at Plymouth Endicott Diller Jansen and Fairbury with local addresses and church groups handling tickets.
Jefferson County invites youths who reached adulthood in the past year to a first voters program at the city park auditorium Fairbury at 7 PM May 19. District Judge Clayde B. Ellis will be principal speaker with other program acts being arranged.
The final eighth grade examinations occur Friday May 10 at Daykin Helvy West Bower Harbine Plymouth Jans en Reynolds Endicott Fairbury Steele City Gladstone Diller and Powell. Morning subjects include arithmetic grammar spelling reading and penmanship. Afternoon covers history civics geography agriculture physiology and hygiene with seventh graders eligible for physiology and hygiene.
Normal Training class updates show from a fourteen student class twelve achieved passing grades in five or more subjects. The four Seniors passed all seventeen subjects, earning the district eligibility for state apportionment funds. Miss Eloise Pool leads the normal training department.
In a six o'clock Monday outing Eleanor Weige chronicles a senior class trip to Lincoln. Morning rain gave way to a day of factory tours including Nebraska Iowa power and light press rooms, Bonding by glass blowing, fruit storage rooms, a Neon sign shop, and a Smith's bakery. Lunch by the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce followed by campus tours and a Butter and dairy process at Roberts dairy capped the day before an evening show and a relaxed return home.
The Junior Class held its annual banquet for the Seniors on May 4 at the Congregational church. The Japan theme featured lanterns amid a garden lattice, Japanese décor, and a menu unreadable to Seniors. Talks highlighted the letters JAPAN. songs and jokes punctuated a successful evening planned by Miss Pool and junior mothers.
Millard F. Thompson 83 formerly of this area died Saturday evening at the home of his daughter Mrs. Philip Graves 684 West Court street Beatrice where he had lived about five years. He was born in Greene county Tennessee his wife died in 1928 Surviving include two sons Preston Filley and Ray Tecumseh two daughters Mrs Mattie Clark Deshler and Mrs Sue Nickeson Long Beach California Interment was in Diller cemetery Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Harmon Johnson mortuary Beatrice with Rev Edgar of Wymore officiating.
Leland Cleary moved his household and family into town at the start of the week, occupying the Fry house just south of the Congregational church after residing on the Woods homestead.
Charles I Wilcox 29 and Harry Pethoud 23 of Beatrice pleaded guilty in Gage county court to attempted holdup. They were bound over for sentencing and later sentenced by Judge Clayde B. Ellis to five and three years respectively for the attack on Mrs. Grace Watson Logan near 11th and High streets. The men were arrested in Saline County after another hold up at Wilber and have prior records.
In March three men near Diller Nebraska sustained leg fractures. Henry Ellis fractured his tibia when a horse stepped on his leg. Harry Walker broke both bones above the left ankle after stepping into a fence posthole. Robert Drake fractured the large bone below the left knee when a tractor upset. All are using crutches and recovering.
The Congregational church country section men and their wives hosted a Friday evening program at the church annex for fun and fellowship. Attendance was light due to winter road conditions. After games and singing old favorites, the men served lunch with some help from the women, and the pastor offered brief remarks and prayer.
Carrol Jean Casper daughter of Mr and Mrs Ira Casper discovers a small puppy she thinks very nice. She found it in a May basket recently.
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