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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1938
Page
4
Congressmen Binderup remarks on memory fade after the big top. In the latest election thirty counties in the state voted on tax support for agricultural extension. half rejected the proposal. The Burlington motor service between Beatrice and Nebraska City ends December 1 due to insufficient patronage.
The Omaha diocese bishop dispensed Catholics from the meat Friday rule on Armistice Day November 11 to honor the day without offense. In Jefferson county residents did not follow the dispensation. Charles G Harris and W P Martin competed for Richardson county road overseer. Martin won 52 to 33 with Harris the other candidate.
Bankers cheer repeal of the Double liability law and urge extending Thursday afternoon closing to 3 30 pm to please all.
The paper mourns Geo C Arn a longtime Harbine editor and trusted contractor and builder. The piece notes his unwavering integrity and long business friendship. Edward Patton on the Fairbury High School football squad is clarified as son of the late Myron Patton and Edna Fox. he lived with Otto Fox north of town after his father’s death.
The Nobel Prize in Literature went to Pearl Buck for novels about China including The Good Earth. The prize amount is 37975 dollars. Buck spent much of her life in China. her parents were missionaries. The Good Earth was shown at Bonham theatre recently. The October Popular Mechanics notes a new cotton picker that can replace 75 workers.
In California a proposed constitution amendment was defeated by a large vote while Nebraska voters re elected Governor Cochran and rejected a $30 per month old age pension plan. The text argues pensions should target need rather than universal coverage.
Gage county voters rejected the proposal to fund the county agricultural agent by taxation at the recent election, denying public financial support for the position.
Dr. O Diehl John Steiner Gretchen Wohlfarth and Fern Raymond attended the Pittsburg Cornhuskers game in Lincoln Saturday afternoon. The group enjoyed a delicious dinner before returning to Diller at the home of Mr and Mrs Wm Steffensmeyer.
The Fairbury High School Band projects a showy image with baton twirlers and many instruments. Patrons paid little attention to the pep organization until the last few years.
State Senator R C Regan of Columbus, a key figure in the first unicameral legislature, was defeated. Regan blames auto mobile legislation for the loss, as do other candidates seeking re election, while Mr Wells faced criticism for backing the controversial auto law.
There was an omission in the published tax sale list affecting items 1 and 2. Item 1 refers to Bristol lots with a 2096 value and item 2 to old Hudson property. the notice places the property south of the Dymacek residence and states the sale goes to the highest bidder with no figures affecting the sale.
About six hundred guests gathered last Thursday at the Burlington round house in Wymore for a banquet with the Yessir tribe from Omaha. Diller locals S. C Moser Chas Wargoner Ray Green John Steiner Claude Ellis Dede Fanders Everett Clark Wm Beckman and Clinton Sandman attended, while Bud Fanders and Serenus Viers went to Wymore the same evening but did not attend the banquet.
Family and friends gathered at George Specht's home in his 67th year for a belated birthday dinner after a long day of illness. Relatives and friends from Fairbury Falls City Lincoln Shubert Steele City Endicott and other nearby towns called to check on his condition. George expressed that he could not enjoy his birthday meal but noted slight improvement by evening.
NEB Cc and Mrs. Eulida Ahrends entertained Ene Bes with eleven members present. They spent the time sewing quilt blocks and enjoyed a dandy lunch. An all day meeting will be held at Mrs Grace Brumfolk on Friday November 25.
Guatemala is among the northern Central American republics, about 3,000 square miles larger than Pennsylvania. Its population is roughly 2.5 million, with about 65 percent identified as pure-blooded Indians.
Nebraska lists two remaining games, at Iowa State on November 19 in Ames and at Lincoln against Kansas State on Thanksgiving Day. Earlier results include Minnesota 14 Neb 7 on Oct 1, Nebraska 0 Indiana at home, Oklahoma State 0, Missouri 10, Kansas 7, Pittsburgh 0, with Nebraska scoring 16 against Kansas on November 56.
At 25 mph a moving car can roll once. At 50 mph it may roll four times. At 75 mph it could spin nine times or more, though a collision with a solid object would likely occur well before the ninth revolution.
Two Seattle girls opened a filling station and report customers pleased to see women running the once male dominated business. The only complaint is customers trying to mix business and pleasure with five of ten motorists asking for gas and a date in the same breath.
A controversial piece notes head hunting in the Amazon shifting from tribal ritual to a commercial trade. Skull trophies are polished into ornaments for society women in Europe and North America, with a demand price of about fifty dollars per head driving killings even in peacetime.
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that tending bar is a skilled trade rather than common labor. The decision affects a compensation award for a man who was injured while in common labor and later employed as a bartender.
A six week course at Drexel Park Presbyterian Church Chicago offers a nine point program for young people on marriage. Topics include meeting prospects flirtation engagements limits and liberties wedding service and handling elopements.
The Czarevitch Alexis inherited the hemophilic tendency from his mother line. The disease causes excessive bleeding from even minor wounds.
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