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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1929
Page
1
The article reflects on the first Thanksgiving noting that gratitude stemmed from the Pilgrims' grit and self reliance. It urges readers to cultivate perseverance and industriousness as the path to prosperity rather than relying on nature alone.
J H Nippert joined as a new Record subscriber this week and George Rahman also renewed. Mrs Nutée Carpenter ordered the Record sent to her home near Shea. A 7 lb daughter Phyllis Jo was born to Mr and Mrs L V Raymond at a Lincoln hospital on Friday Nov 15. Charley Barber shopped on the Omaha market after cattle feeding. John A Zook renewed for the Record. Mr and Mrs W A Green and daughter Cleo drove to Lincoln for the Nebraska Oklahoma game. Russell A Davis of Fairbury spent in Beatrice in Nebraska Title Association duties after election as president.
Mr and Mrs S C Hutchinson returned Monday from Omaha where they visited their son Harold and wife over the weekend.
Cornbelt Lumber Co of Diller Nebraska offers new storm windows and doors. Contact by phone at 153 02 for arrangements and pricing.
The Farmers Union Creamery Co of Fairbury installs two large storage tanks at Diller for the convenience of their gas wagon operated out of Diller by Earl Stefford. C L Waggoner and W H Wehling left Sunday on a duck hunting trip and were later pulled from a mudhole north of Diller.
Miss Margaret Bracken stopped to visit her sister Erma Franzen in Casper Wyoming on her return home on Thursday and left again Friday. She had previously visited two other sisters in Kansas City for three weeks.
George Champ a farmer from the Diller area was summoned for jury duty but excused due to farm duties. He has forty acres of corn to husk and mud hindering hauling to cribs. Champ notes corn yields range from 18 to 40 bushels per acre.
Cornbelt Lumber Co in Diller Nebraska urges customers to use Glass Cloth to warm and improve a back porch this winter. Call 153:02 for details.
Marilyn Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Miller, celebrated her third birthday on November 18, 1929. Fifty years earlier, on November 18, 1879, the marriage of her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Miller occurred.
The Women’s Club plans a social and music focused Thanksgiving verse event on Tuesday November 26 at 8 PM. Hostess is Mrs O J Mayborn with assistant hostess Mrs W Woods roll call features a verse sharing session and music.
The B. B. Kensington Club will meet with Mrs. R. B. Thompson on Tuesday afternoon November 26 to vote on continuing meetings for another year and, if approved, elect officers. Members were also asked to send cards to acknowledge each other and inform the pall. All members are urged to attend.
Andy Less Hill was another Record subscriber to cash up during November. An 11 lb girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Walters. Eugene Powell and family near Washington Kansas. Mr and Mrs Willis Clark and Carolyn Rose were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Leo Dressen.
Snow began falling early in the morning in Nebraska and persisted for much of the day, affecting plans and daily routines as commuters and residents coping with wintry weather.
Congressman Charles H. Sloan asks that his copy of the Diller Record be sent to his Washington address in the House Office Building. He expects to return to Washington in a few days.
County Treasurer Kroil says it will be about three weeks before issuing more personal tax receipts as the tax list is returned to the county clerk for revision per a supreme court ruling on cattle assessments.
George Riddle received a large Meridian Idaho photograph featuring eight or ten men including his nephew Chap Riddle formerly of Diller who had just returned from a day’s big game hunt. George notes a state law bans shipping game from Idaho and he might have sampled a chunk if not for the restriction.
Mrs Ida Steelar of Salem Oregon visited her brother A O Richardson and attended the Tecumseh Christian Church Home Coming with the Richardsons. She plans to return to Diller then Pennsylvania for longer visits before returning to Oregon.
Dr and Eleanor Diehl spent a week in Chicago visiting the doctor’s brother and wife. They traveled 729 miles to Chicago and 564 miles home via the Lincoln Highway in a Buick, reporting fine crop conditions in Iowa and Illinois and noting a muddy road near Diller that requires improvement by local authorities.
Word reaches the Record as planks are laid over mud north of town. If any vehicle slips off the plank, it will be a bad mishap.
Yesterday prices show wheat at 1.05 old, corn 0.85, new corn 0.75, oats 0.45, cream 0.37, eggs 0.38, heavy hens 0.15, springs 0.13, roosters 0.11.
Wiemer Bros print eight thousand page five eight page circulars at their office for free distribution. The circular advertises Chester White hogs hog powders pig meal and their rabbit business. They invite requests for copies.
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