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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1930
Page
3
Car load of alfalfa moved Wednesday. Markets include stock hogs in demand. For sale items: tomato plants 15c a dozen, a John Deere 2 row cultivator. Paint jobs and wallpaper services advertised. Local updates on visits, illnesses, and travel. lost gold band ring. candidate E L Jenkins tours town. Community notices reference farms, merchants, and family events.
Fairbury Electric Shoe Shop operates Saturdays until 9 p m. Located next to Bonham Theatre, customers are encouraged to bring repairs on weekend nights.
S. F. and Everett Clark attended a six o'clock banquet Saturday evening hosted by the Marysville Paint and Wall Paper Co at the Elms hotel. After dinner guests met in the Commercial club room for a round table discussion. Mr. Nork introduced Mr. Bonner of Kansas City who demonstrated different kinds of paints. Mr. Clark said the trip was worth while despite plenty of mud.
Miss Maxine Colman visited Diller relatives and attended the graduating exercises of the Diller schools before returning to Lincoln Sunday.
The Jones Shows open at Diller May 29. A tent demonstration will be held on Monday starting about 10:30 to drill crews in erecting tents. Anyone may witness the event.
Wen Lambert his daughter Gertrude and two grandchildren from Guide Rock came Thursday of last week to attend the graduation exercises at the Diller Opera House. Wendell Fanders a member of the graduating class was their son and nephew. They visited friends and relatives at Filley and Endicott before returning home.
In this Diller Home Service item from May 23 1930 a voice urges readers to improve their homes cheaply in small steps and to trust hard facts over pet opinions. It mocks high costs for marriage licenses and naive spending while encouraging neighborly help and wiser material choices.
John C. Wilson 67 of Steele City was killed when he fell from a 43 foot windmill tower while repairing it with S. T. Williams near Endicott. A bolt broke causing the engine to collapse and Wilson to be swept from the tower. He had spent four decades in windmill work and ran a threshing rig during harvest season. The Diller region remembers him as well known. Prof. W. A. Wagner stores household goods in Forest Hartzell’s building and travels to Lincoln with his daughter.
Mrs Anna Friday relict of An tone Friday longtime Diller area resident died at her Fairbury home after a long illness. Born in Germany she lived to 83. Funeral was Monday at the Fairbury Catholic church with burial in Fairbury cemetery. She was mother to eleven children including Henry and Lizzie Decca. Surviving children listed include Mrs Mary Hickey Mrs Agnes Mack Arthur John Orchard Neb Joe Hormick Ja William Rush Minn Sophia Tilla Munster Canada Mrs Anna Shea Boulder Cole and Sam Diller. She had 45 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
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