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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1939
Page
4
Twenty five years ago this week residents of Smith County and nearby areas appear in notices and reminiscences. Names include Mr and Mrs G o Specht visiting Smith County Kansas, Mrs Viers with relatives in Red Cloud, Ray and Hod Green of Beatrice, JO Blauser in Lincoln for Everett entering business college, and other local events.
In 1899 Rev A E Chadwick became the new Methodist pastor at Diller. Local business men recall a forty year effort to operate without slot machines. Earnest Habicht started his merchant career forty years ago in Bel and Loock's store and later graduated from Odell High School.
Fifty years ago H E Fairchild bought E L Loock’s old store for a meat market. Lutherans built a parsonage instead of rear church rooms. Charley Pearce urged early work for an evening program. Mary Johansoon, eighty, burned to death in Fairbury using a lamp without a chimney. Fred Loock’s boy started a yard fire burning hay until neighbors aided. Campaigns featured cigar gifts, costumes, and pockets full of cigars for candidates.
Mr and Mrs Vernon Carpenter and Mr and Mrs Obid Carpenter attended a Shenandoah jubilee in Iowa last Sunday. C A Ewers spent Monday and Tuesday night with his sister Mrs Raymond after farm repairs. Mr and Mrs Hubert Filley of Stamford visited their parents at Diller and Wymore over the weekend, returning home Sunday. Mr and Mrs Chas Gaisford left for Wethamy Missouri where Chas has work with Busbroom Bros building a new schoolhouse.
Mrs Cora Thrapp and her son, the Jansen school superintendent, traveled from Steel City to spend Saturday evening with old friends Mr and Mrs Drexler and family.
P A Hayward chief forest products division argues the United States will always have enough forest to meet reasonable needs. He says the real issue is expanding markets for forest products not timber scarcity. Timber should be treated as a crop since it is renewable, and without demand the resource becomes waste.
The excerpt notes Indians and Orientals as having sparse beards with minimal side whiskers. It cites Francis Parkman on dressing a face, and references Father Ghruier showing Hurons a picture that triggered laughter at beards, reflecting colonial views of Indian appearance.
About 3.9 million dollars in damaged currency was sent to the U S treasury for redemption. Treasury experts say most notes were hidden in waste papers or stoves during summer and found when cooler evenings arrive.
The Geographical Survey places the geographical center of North America in Pierce County a few miles west of Devils Lake North Dakota marking a notable geographic landmark for the region.
A definition clarifies orthopedic as relating to orthopedics and its role in correcting or preventing deformities in people of any age, with emphasis on pediatric and general applications within medical practice.
The work titled More First Pacts credits 1728 steel production to Samuel Higtey of Simsbury and Joseph Dewey of Hebron, Connecticut. It asserts they converted small quantities of bar iron into steel, marking an early claim in American metallurgy.
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