Postal Record From Diller Nebraska Entry
Entry shows 1.60 postage paid for mail service at Diller Nebraska. Document notes second class matter transmission through the mail.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1940
Page
4
Entry shows 1.60 postage paid for mail service at Diller Nebraska. Document notes second class matter transmission through the mail.
A speculative look asks how Nebraska might have shifted if Seistor Norris did not pull for President Roosevelt. It weighs local political alignments, party strength, and potential impact on 1932 electoral results in the state.
The piece notes a road dust problem on state highway 103 through Diller and suggests spreading a bituminous mat. It mentions George Fisher voting on Tuesday as he has for decades and hints his motive was to affect his son Charley’s ballot.
Mr and Mrs Robert Upson plan to relocate from the Jorotry place six miles east of Diller to the Hilder farm two miles east of town in April. Wendell Willkie reportedly garnered the most votes of any defeated presidential candidate, yet did not achieve a majority of the popular vote as William Jennings Bryan once did.
The record notes Harbine article forgot to mention the Diller Telephone Company which runs an exchange there established in 1900. The omission is noted as notable in the write up.
Mrs. Rev Clark prepared sixty nice rolls to bless visiting preachers at the church basement lunch. A slip served the hot rolls to ordinary members at other tables, leaving the preachers without a bite at Sunday noon.
Reporter notes a calm Halloween in Diller with a few soap marks on windows and no arrests locally. He adds that more than fifty youths in Lincoln were reported to have gone to jail on charges of property destruction.
Harvey Garrels and two coon dogs hunted on Eick'sa Indian Creek with Dr S B Viera and Wilbur Green. They bagged two coons a fighting opossum and a striped skunk. The group returned home around eleven with plenty of tired smiles and Doc enjoying his first real coon hunt.
Tuberculosis shows a troubling pattern by striking more often at ages mid twenties to forties, causing premature deaths and raising concerns among health officials about transmission and prevention strategies.
The death rate from automobile accidents in 1 as compared with 1929 was 3 per cent on the basis of people, 1 per cent on the basis of makers of cars in use, and 30 per cent on the basis of motor vehicle mileage.
The Nebraska legislative council estimated last week that motor vehicle owners in Nebraska paid sixteen and a half million dollars in gasoline tax, registration fees, drivers' licenses, property tax, and other state fees during the past year. Federal taxes and municipal charges add about two million dollars more. Out-of-state payments are not included.
State game commission records show about 65 thousand hunters killed 300000 pheasants in Nebraska from October 20 to last Saturday night. Estimated preseason pheasant population was two to three million. A second open season is planned from November 10 to 16 in six counties Scottbluff Morrill Garden Keith Lincoln and Logan.
A state daily story of rats in Diller sparked curiosity in Beatrice with two strangers asking if the town is overrun. Officials say the tale is misleading though rats exist in small numbers as in any area. Some harbors report activity but no invasion or marching rats.
In a cluster around Diller, former bank buildings now serve varied uses. The Ellis bank, built 1911 and closed 1936, was last in the state with 5000 capital. Harbine’s bank stands vacant. Odell’s Hinds bank houses a liquor store. Steele City’s banks host residences and offices. Endicott’s bank is a grocery store. Lanham’s bank serves as a post office. Hollenberg’s is empty. Rice bank in Steele City is a residence and print shop. Diller’s Citizens State Bank building houses the Diller Tel. Co. and local offices. All towns except Odell and Diller lack active banks.
Owes Name traces its founder to a monastery in Munich Germany and credits the religious institution for the town's origin and its name. The fragment indicates a strong historical link between the place and monastic influence shaping its identity.
The report indicates WPA recreational activities at Diller are nearing discontinuation. Tuberculosis skin testing clinics operate in numerous Nebraska communities and Christmas Seal funds aid related public health work.
A father hills to discipline for faith as his son confesses Jesus. The son cites seek ye first the kingdom of God. A daughter’s conversion prompts the family to remove hindrances and join the church. A king’s cook’s son defends teaching scripture despite criticism.
The Diller high school kitten ball club closed a strong season on Friday September 18 with an 8 to 5 victory over Endientz. They lost only one of six games, as the season table indicates.
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