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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1932
Page
5
A jumble of small ads and notices from Fairbury Nebraska items include sale offerings for Vobes Wagon, custom shelling by Jake Lottman, Dr. John Deere corn sheller, and price quotes. Local names mentioned: Orval Wie, Mrs. Roy Roelfs, Wilbur Bain, Fred Carrico, John Rico, H Z Diller, Rev W E Ludwick. Aged notes cover sick lists trips and travel fare changes on the Burlington line.
We are ready to buy your car corn at market price. Duler Farmers Grain Co. Fortunate the hired man with a steady job. No tax payments when funds are scarce. Labrador reference from a returning missionary. Fish plentiful after thirty years. Leather sewing and jackets offered. Mens soles cheap at 50 cents a pair. Shoe repairing at Lairbury Electric Shoe Shop. Troubles come in pairs amid elections and Christmas fears.
In the market at all times the firm offers top prices for fat hogs and buys them any day. They urge sellers to get the bid first and sell at home. I. R. Andrews is the manager.
Miriam Jo Williams, extension nutritionist, notes that thrifty households favor whole wheat cereals. Re cooked cereals like cornmeal mush or oatmeal offer very low costs per serving, potentially under a quarter of a cent compared with 1 to 3 cents for prepared servings.
The warden announces open musk rat trapping in Nebraska with the eastern half season December 1 to March 1 and the western half January 1 to April 1.
Mrs Clarence Hiatt entertained the J N C at her home on Wednesday afternoon. Guests included Mrs Susie Brandt Mrs Orval Richardson Miss Gladys Hays and Mrs Ethel Hiatt. The meeting led by Mrs Bowen featured roll call of Thanksgiving poems and quotations followed by a luncheon.
The Diller schools take a two day break for Thanksgiving. Farmers store closes at 10 PM on Thanksgiving day. The Record staff delayed by fire siren at noon yesterday. Roy Casper and Earl Robinson return from husking in Iowa, crossing snow near Louis City. Emil Ackman, Jefferson county’s new sheriff, visited Diller Wednesday evening and posted an ad thanking supporters.
Mr and Mrs Roy Mathias and children and Mrs Sophia Mathias and Pearl were Sunday dinner guests at the home of their sister and daughter Mrs Grace Fasnacht and family.
A call to share a yearlong Record of blessings and generosity. The message invites readers to measure their thanksgiving by helping friends and expressing goodwill through continued acts of kindness.
Mrs Jennie Line and Mr and Mrs Clarence Steffer attended the funeral Tuesday for Mrs E C Pefferman 54 long time resident of the Ellis vicinity who died Saturday after a lingering illness. Services were at the First Christian church in Beatrice. She is survived by her husband and one son Robert.
Mrs Isaac Saylor entertained Friday at one o clock with a three course dinner in honor of Carrie Wrigley Harriet Barton Christie Seaman Helen Lpock Anna Long Maggie Remiely S M Hughes and Mary Wright. The afternoon was spent visiting and knitting. Reported a fine dinner and enjoyable time.
Mesdames Loock and Thompson hosted the Woman's Club gathering on Wednesday. Mrs. J. Carico Presided as roll call covered favorite authors. Members recited poems, discussed The three services books render in the home and reviewed Magnificent Obsessions. A Armistice poem and Peace to the World piano piece followed with a memory game on books. Visitors included Mrs Ben Milow and Mrs I Saylor. Lunch was served and the next meeting set for November 22 at Mrs I R Andrews.
Ruth Petsch is on enforced leave from her Clark's store clerical position to treat an infected foot. Bernard Patton returns home from Odell after appendicitis surgery with adhesions and is reported to be recovering well.
In a city with shrinking jobs a wave of unemployed workers depart for rural farms. The text notes scarce money and dire options as many flee urban areas seeking work, framing the departure as a risky retreat toward uncertain livelihoods.
An Ohio editor cites a newspaper from a century earlier showing 1832 prices. Butter four cents a pound, sugar ten cents, pepper fifty cents, coffee six to seven cents, tea three dollars? and other staples: bacon one cent, wheat forty cents a bushel, corn twenty five cents, salt twenty cents a pound, whisky twenty five cents a gallon.
Ted Wells 30 formerly of Ellis area now Beatrice is jailed in Lincoln for safekeeping connected to the Saturday shooting four miles southeast of Beatrice that killed Mason and wounded Byron Kennedy who was hospitalized in Beatrice. Kennedy aided federal raids. Wells claims amnesia. Mason’s body taken to Omaha. Wells arrested after driving to his brother’s home. Prohibition evidence and liquor charges loom. cars and alcohol tied to case. Mason’s widow to receive federal pension for life plus children's shares.
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