Diller area recalls political, social life from four decades past
The Diller column recalls forty and fifty years ago events including rallies for multiple parties, a local census of votes with 225 ballots, county officials races, and town happenings. It notes residents traveling to Arkansas for a liver abscess, a new residence trade, a birth on Sunday November 6 1898, and local business and saloon life with pool tables and Milwaukee beer.
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Diller
Hod Diller
Omaha
F H Emerson
Grotts Pity
J O Brauser’s
Christ Miller
Milwaukee
Nine carrot roots from single plant fascinate Blue Springs Be
Will Bolender of Blue Springs showed a remarkable carrot plant with nine roots growing from a single crown. Six roots are average size and three are smaller, all attached only at the top yet each root remains individual. One observer claimed a carrot with five roots, but this plant nearly doubles that count.
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Will Bolender
Blue Springs
Will
Diller Womans Club Book Review Benefit
The Diller Womans Club hosts a library benefit on November 16 1988 at 2 00 pm in the annex of the Congregational church A book review by Mrs A E Ellsworth head librarian of Fairbury Public Library reviews The Horse and Buggy Doctor by E Hertzler with special music The public is invited to attend to support the library growth.
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O. Mayborn
A. A. Eick
Paul Ain Reuben Gretzinger
L. Sinkey
A. E. Ellsworth
Fairbury
Nebraska
School Notes Dist 64 Halloween Party and Absentees
Dorothy Barta reports October lists of students neither absent nor tardy including Donia Wolken Eldon Fanders Lucille Verneal Farsse Dale Darrel Stahl Harold Jones and Ralph Jr Evelyn Hudson notes. District 74 visited for Halloween with a ball ducking for apples fortunes and refreshments of jello and cake. Visitors Mary Jones Harriet Milton Thomas Garnet Barber Ival Carpenter. Evelyn Hudson Reporter.
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Donia Wolken Eldon Fanders
Lucille
Verneal Farsse
Dale
Darrel Stahl
Harold Jones
Ralph Jr
Evelyn Hudson
District 74
Mary Jones
Harriet
Milton Thomas
Garnet Barber
Ival Carpenter
Halloween Party At Methodist Church Basement
The Willing Workers' class held a Halloween party in the church basement on October 31. Families mingled with a real witch and spooky decorations while fortunes were told and games entertained attendees. A luncheon closed the evening.
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Methodist Church
Qct
Sunday Dinner Guests at Wag Gover Home
Mr and Mrs Chas e Wag gover hosted a noon meal last Sunday with guests Mr and Mrs Henry Greith and daughter Shirley Mrs J J Conniff of Lincoln and Joke Steiner.
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Chas.e Waggover
Henry Greith
Shirley
J. J. Conniff
Lincoln
Joke Steiner
Dorcas Society to Hold Kensington Meeting Next Thursday
The Dorcas society of the M. E. Church will hold its monthly Kensington meeting next Thursday afternoon, November 19. Mrs. Clark invites a good attendance and notes the event.
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Dorcas Society of the M. E. Church
Kensington
Clark
New Adult and Juvenile Titles at Diller Library
List of new acquisitions at Diller Library features adult titles such as The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie and The Folkse Ruth Sucken, plus Green Gravel by Dvora Aydelotte. Juvenile picks include Goose Boy by M Bar Ring and When the Wind Blew by M Brown, among others.
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Ruth Sucken
ABC
Pices Pass
Tom Gill
Rose
Hueston
Nebraska
Winther Free Land
Saiis
Honore Morrow
Thoro
Margery Sharp
M Brown
Bob Burns Stars in Arkansas Traveler at Theatres
A reader reviews Bob Burns in The Arkansas Traveler at Theatres screening room describing Burns as a devil-may-care wandering printer who unexpectedly seizes control of a county newspaper to thwart political ruin, recalling Will Rogers.
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Bob Burns
Bob Burne
Burns
Will Rogers
Arkansas Traveler
O Fey Baint
Mayor’s Con and Casino Plot Echoes in Nighttime Radio Build
Review notes a con involving the mayor’s helper John Beal and eager politicians seizing presses. Burns launches a rapid campaign to build a radio station overnight with his band of hoboes. Paragraph also praises Paramount’s late month showing, and previews Stablemated with Mickey Rooney and Wallace Berry. Listen Darling stars Judy Garland and Freddie Bartholomew in a family friendly comedy at Bonham theater.
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Con
John Beal
Burns
Paramount
Judy Garland
Freddie Bartholomew
Paul Kelly
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Martin Hood
Ike Steiner
Teagarden
Elm Township
If Townemaker
Lanham
Ashington
Bert Frisbie
F. Hartzell
Thos Nelson
Nelson
George
Hartzell
Mesdames E . Kendall and
Jennie Osborn
Arkansas
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John Specht
Repubicans
Democrate
August Engleman
Frank Leaper
Thos. Copeland
Steele City
Daykin
Odell
Harbine
Uithan
Colorado
PUR Gael Pa Eee
Actare
The
O. A. Cooper CO
Allien’s Store
Diller Womans Club
Dorothy Barta
Diller Library
Jimmy Redmond
Jefferson County
Russell W. McCreight
Alpha Wiemers
Bonham Theater
Bonham Theatre
Fairbury, Nebraska
Mickey Rooney
Wallace Kerry
Cartoon and News
Anne Shirley
James Ellison
Mother Carey
Peter Lorre
Mr. Mote
Plus News
Green Room Cafe
E. Sandman
Waggoner Brothers
Tre Lee
Geer Brothers
Diiler, Nebraska
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