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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1941
Page
4
Terms of subscription listed for readers in Diller Nebraska with prices in advance and delivery. The notice notes post office entry at Diller for transmission through the mails as second class matter.
Beatrice resident Miss Hilda Wieths will continue reading the Record after her subscription check arrived this week. Farmers stayed home Saturday due to mud. Monday arrivals used team and wagon. Robert Upson and Ernest Schulz subscribed, deciding they could not do without the Diller Record any longer. Nebraska areas had a lucky break when a severe 9 inch snowstorm missed us and veered into northeastern Nebraska and western Iowa.
Beatrice and other towns between Wymore and Lincoln announced they will fight the proposed discontinuance of Burlington accommodation trains 88 and 90. Business interests along the route expect to show that their removal would be unjustified.
Mr and Mrs A H Gretzinger of Steele City joined Aunt Martha Cavett and heard Mrs Innis preach at the Homecoming last Sunday. They returned home early to finish chores before dark. John Loth from the Gretzinger farm visited his mother and other relatives during the event.
Usion Center, eight miles east of Blue Springs, hosts a rural consolidated high school with Willis Ludington as Superintendent. Nearby a farmer and his son killed ten bullsnakes and two blue racers after finding a hole they dug out.
The piece notes a sequence of unusual weather events from June to October including floods in June and September, a July heat event, ten inches of snow on October 31, and hints at what November and December may bring. It mentions the adage tying first snow date to total storms, predicting about thirty more snowstorms if the pattern holds.
Mrs. John A. Friesen of Jansen sold her deceased husband's half interest in the Jansen Lumber Company to his former partner A. John Thiessen.
The Fairbury News notes Melford Brown purchased a young blood hound to train in tracking lost persons. The hound is described as following a scent to locate individuals, including fugitives, leveraging its strength in trailing criminals.
The service Schools of the U. S. Navy divides training into three classifications. Class A schools provide elementary instruction in certain specialties to recruits. Class B supplements afloat training with advanced instructions for selected experienced enlisted men. Class C schools offer advanced instruction in subjects not normally taught aboard ships.
The Fairbury papers report a fire at Mrs. Letha McLean's grocery store last week. The blaze began in a small radio in the rear office and was found by night watchman Henry Arnold. About $700 in stock, fixtures, and building were damaged.
Orville Richardson of Beatrice and Mrs. Hastings of Fairbury reached an out of court settlement in district court at Beatrice Tuesday. The suit stemmed from a May 1 crash involving a state truck carrying Richardson and a Fairbury car driven by Hastings during the Fairbury senior class sneak day trip to Lincoln. Richardson suffered head and body injuries while Hastings sustained a broken leg.
Two Beatrice girls and an Ohio youth stole a car at Wymore on September 1st and drove it to Texas where authorities captured them and returned them to Nebraska. The boy received 18 months in the penitentiary while the girls were sentenced to the industrial school at Geneva by Judge Noble. Naughty girls who try to be good get along nicely at this school.
A letter from Claude Cavett of Grand Prairie Alberta reports this fall the wettest in thirty years per the oldest inhabitants. A Fern Cavett Hurst from San Diego notes the Hursts have moved to a new federal residence at Linda Vista with all new furniture.
Mrs. Herbert Fanders of Harbine won 3500 from James Davison in Beatrice district court for injuries from an April 12 1940 automobile crash near the Fanders Garage at Herbine. Davison faced charges of excessive speed and failing to look for traffic. Mrs Fanders alleged she drove onto the highway and stopped abruptly without heed.
A heavy wet snowstorm blanketed the area last Friday with about 0.08 inches of moisture, equating to ten inches of dry snow. Crops suffered as leaning corn toppled, sorghum bent and tangled, and cut or shock feed spoiled. Trees, especially ornamental varieties, suffered heavy breakage.
Mr and Mrs Fred Freitag of Rapid City South Dakota traveled the longest distance to attend the Sunday Homecoming at the Methodist church. They left 18 years ago from the town and came 350 miles round trip to meet old friends. They stayed with Dr and Mrs Ellis overnight and then returned to Minneapolis. Their businesses operate three stores in Rapid City Pierre and Miller South Dakota and they recently sold a Sidney Nebraska store. Their daughters Bernadette and Magdaline live in Rapid City and Idaho respectively.
Mr and Mrs Claude Nider arrived Sunday evening after a two weeks vacation spent with friends and relatives in Nebraska and Colorado.
Scientists at the United States Forest Products Laboratory in Madison identify a spruce tree fragment from New London Wisconsin as dating to the last glacial period. The wood was preserved in clay keeping out air and moisture, suggesting ancient origin.
Washington D C behind the front lines of U S defenses more than 1 200 000 Red Cross volunteers are on the job making surgical dressings knitting sweaters and giving comfort articles learning the rudiments of emergency mass feedings and scores of other duties in 4m all out effort for national defense. The largest defense task is the production of 40 000 000 surgical dressings for the Army and Navy. Home Service volunteers and Gray Ladies expand their programs. Thousands learn mass feeding and nutrition as Red Cross canteen corps. Thousands more train in the Motor Corps to serve as emergency drivers.
Mr and Mrs Lester Ellison hosted a Halloween and pinochle party at their country home east of Steele City Saturday evening. Despite bad roads, the young people from the local Pinochle Club attended.
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