Community Club Notes
The next meeting is Thursday evening June 6 at 8 P M State patrolman Anderson will speak with motion pictures illustrating traffic rules and safety All members urged to attend.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
1
The next meeting is Thursday evening June 6 at 8 P M State patrolman Anderson will speak with motion pictures illustrating traffic rules and safety All members urged to attend.
Letters from four young physicians interested in locating in Diller have been received by the publicity chairman in reply to advertisements. The applicants appear to be fine prospects with three married and recently discharged from the services. Some seek a small hospital for Diller and members are invited to discuss the matter at the club.
Week end guests include Lt j g and Mrs Scott A Miller Jr and Miss Marjorie Nelson nurse at Bryan Memorial Hospital Lincoln. Marilyn Miller of Doane College visits Scott Miller home. Scott Jr registers at University of Nebraska for fall term toward a Master’s degree. Jefferson county superintendent McCreight returned from navy duty in New Orleans and may resume duties. Ernest Schulz and Jake Lottman visit Henry Mahiman family in Hollenburg Kansas. The Fairbury municipal band season opens June 4 at the city park auditorium with Harold Chatelain as director. An annual fall band recital is tentatively set for August 25 after wartime cancellation.
Earl Pearce writes from St Petersburg Florida describing health improvements and plans to stay, praising mobile housing for solving housing issues, notes a mild climate with year round blooms, mentions one year since arrival, celebrates 45th wedding anniversary on May 23, reports sons returned from service and working near Chicago while children up north work on newspapers and earn good wages in the region.
George Roelfa 75 died Monday after a long illness at a Fairbury hospital. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 3:30 PM from Waggoner's Funeral Home.
For years several girls in our community have given time to sell poppies made by disabled veterans. Chairman Mamie Holle with Shirley Walker and Ruth Ann Hiatt added 250 poppies. The girls were received kindly by a large majority of citizens. Reports include visits by Minne Novotny D Loris of Diller Charlie Brucker and family of Wymore.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for flowers cards and hospital kindness. Orville Lottman and Ed Gieber plan to settle in Diller. Gieber is a section foreman. Hezeidean Novotny from Seele City vacationed with grandmother Mrs K Janie Novotny. Ted Lietchuck family visited the parsonage. Mrs Norman Scherer and child 800 of Pisjab Iowa visited at Wm Bebrends home. Donald Tincher and family spent Sunday at H H Bell home near Diller then returned to Lincoln with Pearl Tincher.
Miss Eleanor Weigel daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Weigel married Leonard Kenning of Endicott son of Mr Fred Kenning and the late Mrs Kenning in a May 23 ceremony at the Congregational Church Diller. Rev Williams of Steele City officiated. The church featured peonies pink and white roses. The bride wore white brocaded chiffon with a circular train and a pearl coronet. Attendants included Mrs Laurence Weigel of Steele City and bridesmaids Misses Mildred and Wilma Kansing. The reception followed in the church parlor with Miss Ruth Roy Hiatt and Hellen Keaving lighting the candles.
Memorial Day program features include a 2 PM service at the M. E. Church with audience invocation. selections include America The Beautiful, Dear Land of Home, Gettsyburg Address, and a vocal trio performance. The program lists RuthAnn Hiatt Dariene Novotny Gloria Miller Dale Engleman and Garnet Barber with solos, trumpet pieces, and a benediction.
Notice announces a Harbine Farmere Union meeting at the Harbine School House on Saturday June 1 with speaker the fieldman Mr Leaf Field. Program and lunch to follow. Harbine members urged to bring sandwiches. Parking stalls are being painted by Floyd Maw this morning.
Wind and hail storm swept the Diller Fairbury Morrowville region last Thursday. The tornado damaged wheat fields near Diller and leveled buildings on farms west of Fairbury. A cow shed was lifted from its foundation and carried across a road. From 10 to 25 percent of small grain near Diller was damaged. Hail blanketed Fairbury and winds reached 60 mph. Three farms near Morrowville reported complete destruction of buildings. houses and structures were moved or damaged, with several livestock killed. Mrs. Bertham Coder, 73, died when the Encedale tornado struck. Other towns affected included Leavenworth, Grandview, Lincoln, and Falls City.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Keaten of Jansen celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on May 16 with family ressives and friends. Five children presented a platform rocker and other gifts, as a two tier cake baked by daughters centered the table. A late lunch of sandwiches ice cream cake and coffee was served to guests including A W Croisant Wayne Carpenter Carl Elsasser family Frank Elsasser Raymond Spilker and Henry.
A dated excerpt from Lloyd Lamb’s letter recounts a trip to Juarez across the Rio Grande and a bullfight with vivid detail. The piece notes a Matador’s spectacular moves, a brutal bull kill, and the colorful costumes. It also covers military veterans from Fort Bliss and White Sands performing a gunnery show on May 17 with praise for aerial target shooting. It closes with a list of relatives visiting Lynch hospital and other names.
A meeting for those interested in kittenball is set for Friday, May 31 at City Hall at 8 o clock. A separate note asks about lawn condition and suggests sharpening a mower at Pickards.
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