Special Navy Program Planned by Ditler Women’s Club
The Ditler Women’s Club hosts a free Special Navy Program at the Opera House in Diller on Thursday evening June 3 at 8 15. Attendees will see Navy life talks, newsreels, and various entertainments plus information on WAVES SPAR careers and draft related Navy options.
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Ditler Women’s Club
Opera House
Diller
U. S
Beatrice
U S. Navy
Uncle Sam
Navy
Women’s Club
Memorial Day Exercises At Methodist Church
Memorial Day program planned for Sunday May 30 at the Methodist church. Piano prelude, audience singing, scripture and prayer, solo by Robert Hays with Beverly Hays, offering trio Dear Land of Home, address by Robert Pallen, national anthem by audience, benediction. Flowers for soldiers' graves to be at City Hall by 2 15 PM.
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Methodist Church
Max Logan
America
Hall
Robert Hays
Beverly Hays
Land of Home
Eleanor Weigel
Petty Clark
Richard Steffen
Robert Pallen
City Hell
Cavalry Troop to Visit Beatrice for Memorial Day
A 300 strong U S Motorized Cavalry troop will arrive in Beatrice Friday and encamp at Chautauqua Park. It will participate in Memorial Day exercises Monday at 9 30 a m in the city auditorium with District Judge C B Ellis delivering the principal address before the parade.
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Beatrice
U. S
C. B. Ellis
City
Chautauqua Park
Sailor L. O. Arthur Arrives on 15 Day Leave
First Class Petty Officer L O Arthur of the U S Navy arrived in Fairbury Sunday evening after traveling from Bremerton Washington where he serves as a first class cook at the naval hospital. He came to Beatrice to visit his mother Mrs Dora Mason and wife Mrs Grace Arthur and family in Diller. Mrs Arthur and Terrill drove to Fairbury to meet him.
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L. O. Arthur
U. S. Navy
Fairbury
Bremerton
Washington
Naval Hospital
Dora Mason
Beatrice
Grace Arthur
Diller
Arthur
Terril
Pvt Clarence Hullman Tours Los Angeles on Three-Day Pass
In a letter to his sister Edna Pvt Clarence L Hullman recounts a three day pass to Los Angeles. He visited Santa Monica Beach and the Icecapades Beverly Hills radio shows and the Hollywood Canteen. He traveled back via San Diego and Long Beach before returning to camp near Yuma Arizona noting busy trainees heading to overseas battle stations.
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Clarence L. Hullman
Los Angeles
Edna
Clarence Hullman
Santa Monica
Beverly Hills
San Diego
Long Beach
Yuma
Arizona
Diller Dispatch Names Top Graduates with Averages
The Senior edition reports computed overall averages for the top graduates. Eight of the thirty-two had grades in the 90s throughout four years. eight names are listed including Verne Hubka and Betty Grabber. The 1943 graduates are congratulated on their achievement.
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Diller Dispatch
Évelzeger
Verne Hubka
Betty Grabber
Robert Hiatt
Fred Wrigley
Esther Lamb
Orville Krebs
Robert Murray
Arleen Nider
Memorial Day Exercises Set in Fairbury Park Auditorium
Fairbury observance includes a 1:45 parade from the Legion Hall to the city park auditorium with a 2 p.m. memorial program. Bruning Army Air Field soldiers join as guests of the American Legion. Atty. Glenn F. Waugh gives the address. Edw. A. Howe chairs, Glen R. LeRoy handles the program. Memorial Sunday services occur at Fairbury Methodist church in the forenoon.
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Fairbury
City Park
Legion Hall
Bruning Army Air Field
American Legion
Atty
Glenn F. Waugh
Edw. A. Howe
Glen R. LeRoy
Fairbury Methodist Church
Io the
Forendon
First Grandchild for Mr and Mrs Maw
Mr and Mrs Floyd Maw announce the birth of their first grandchild Douglas Eugene Maw born last week to Mr and Mrs Robert Maw in Hershey Nebraska. Robert, the youngest Maw son, serves in the Navy.
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Floyd Maw
Douglas Eugene Maw
Robert Maw
Hershey
Nebraska
Robert
Navy
Edith Rinehart Visitation Ties Diller and Grand Island
Mrs Edith Rinehart formerly of Diller now living in Grand Island spent a week visiting her nephew Fred Hauver and also called on her niece Mrs Maude Harder in Hanover. She visited another nephew Walter and family at Odell and Mr and Mrs Lon Soyder during the trip.
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Edith Rinehart
Diller
Grand Island
Fred Hauver
Maude Harder
Hanover
Walter
Odell
Lon Soyder
Stores Close Monday Noon
Our stores will close at the noon hour Monday. Farmer's Union Co-op Store. Holle's Store.
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Farmer’s Union Co-op
Holle’s
Sugar canning stamps 15 and 16 good for five pounds
Jefferson county war price and rationing board announces stamps 15 and 16 in book No 1 valid May 25 to Oct 31 for five pounds of sugar per person for home canning. Consumers obtain sugar from retailers. applications to board permitted for extra up to 25 pounds per family with proper records.
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C. H. McGee
Jefferson County
Women visit Bruning Air Base for inspection and film
Mrs. Clara Allen led a caravan of fifteen cars to Bruning air base Tuesday morning. Lt. William Ford hosted the group of Red Cross workers from Fairbury, with guides Lt. Le May and Lt. Hutson. They viewed new buildings, watched a war film Why We Fight, and donated cookies to hospital patients.
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Clara Allen
C L Geer
Scott Miller
Bruning Air Base
Allen
Red Cross
Fairbury
William Ford
le May
Hutson
Daisy
Clara Green
Eighth Grade Diplomas at Jefferson County Redistribute Districts
Promotion exercises for Jefferson county rural eighth graders at Fairbury on May 24 awarded diplomas to students from districts 56 57 60 64 66 74 88 and 89 admitting them to high school next fall. Recipients include Ronald Weers Alvin Saathoff Avis Pingel Lucille Fagse Marian Blauser Robert Garrels Ruth Nelson Robert Pingel Darwin Barber Shirley Glathar Harold Roelfs Eldean Banahan Loretta Wiemers.
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Jefferson County
Fairbury
Near Diller
Ronald Weers
Alvin Saathoff
Avis Pingel
Lucille Fagse
Marian Blauser
Robert Garrels
Ruth , Nelson
Robert Pingel
Darwin Barber
Shirley Glathar
Harold Roelfs
Eldean Banahan
Loretta Wiemers
Diller Record Welcomes Bob Green as News Writer
Bob Green of Diller, a University of Nebraska graduate, is connected with The Diller Record as Capacity and special writer and is authorized to accept news and advertising. Some of his excellent articles appear in this week’s paper.
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Bob Green
Diller
University of Nebraska
Diller Record
Albert W. Koepff
Letters From California Women Support Diller Record Service
Mrs E R Wehsel s asks boys in service to keep writing to the Diller Record from North Sacramento Ca. May 18 1943. She notes letters from home ease homesickness for Camp Beale troops Paul Graves Hollenberg Kans Frankie Adams stationed near Beale and Ed promoted to store keeper while hoping for farm life. She urges continued encouragement to write and keep purpose in the grind.
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E. R. Wehsels
Diller
Sacramento
California
Camp Beale
Weather and home letters from Mrs Nannie Packer
Mrs Nannie Packer writes from 404 South E Street Indianola about cold wet weather delaying corn, staying five months at Burton's Rest Home with fifteen others, and greeting Dewey who worked for Western Union in Des Moines. She notes being home since May and feeling less lonely now.
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Nannie Packer
South E. St. Indianola
Jaws
Dewey
Des Moines
Western Union Telegraph Company
Burton’s Rest Home
Rev and Mrs Hall Show Indian Friends Slides
Last Sunday evening Rev and Mrs Hall shared slides of Indian friends they met across the USA with community friends. Mrs Hall played hymns from the Indian Hymnal and sang in the Indian language. A large audience applauded and showed strong interest.
Hospital Return for Joan Casper at Tobias
Joan Casper, previously in Lincoln hospital, returned to Tobias last week. Carol contracted chickenpox then measles and pneumonia and was hospitalized for treatment. she is reported to be getting along fine.
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Joan Casper
Lincoln
Tobias
Carol
Interfraternity Banquet Speaker at Peru Event
Reuben Fanders spoke at the Interfraternity Banquet held Monday evening in the Methodist Church basement in Peru. The event took place on May 24.
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Reuben Fanders
Peru
1943 Diller School marks largest senior class in history
The 1943 Diller School commencement on May 20 in the Diller Opera House drew a full crowd as the largest senior class yet graduated. Valedictorian Verce Hubka quoted General MacArthur and urged action and dedication to American traditions amid global conflict.
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Diller School
Diller Opera House
Diller
Verce Hubka
General McArthur
Valley Forge
Gettysburg
Lou Gehrig
Woodrow Wilson
Au Revoir
Sailor Robert Thompson Stationed Overseas
Mrs. Sam Thompson reports her son Robert Thompson, a sailor and electrician, is now stationed on a strategic southwest Pacific island. He notes duties include ship repair work in an air conditioned building due to the heat.
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Sam Thompson
Robert
Southwest Pacific
Tank driving Pvt Green eyes transfer to advanced post
Pvt. Lloyd Green of a mechanized division expects a transfer from Camp Campbell Kentucky to an advanced post. He has driven one of Uncle Sam’s tanks and says it handles easier than a car.
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Pvt
Lloyd Green
Camp Campbell
Uncle Sam
Grandson of Fred Clark Accepted for Army Service
Dwaine Clark, Fred Clark’s grandson, has been accepted for service with the army and is currently on pre induction furlough.
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Dwaine Clark
Fred Clark
Army
Pvt Henry Loth Visits His Beatrice Mother On Furlough
Pvt Henry Loth of the 90th Motorized Division at Camp Barkeley Texas arrived Friday on furlough to visit his mother Mrs Mary Loth of Beatrice. He plans to leave Sunday or Monday to return to duties at the same camp.
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Henry Loth
90Th Motorized Div
Camp Barkeley
Tex
Mary Loth
Beatrice
Navy Signalman Visits Mother on East Coast
Deas Ellison a signalman third class stationed on the east coast arrived Friday night for a short visit with his mother Mrs Mae Ellison of Diller. Ellison enlisted in the Navy in March 1942.
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Deas Ellison
Mae Ellison
Diller
Ellison
Navy
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Iowa
General MacArthur
Wilmer Doerksen
Treaaurer
Bob Carver
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