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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1938
Page
4
Over the past week several long passenger trains passed through Diller on the Burlington, some eastbound and some westbound, all loaded with CCC boys. The unusual traffic suggests a new activity or game.
Farmers speed repairs on aging corn cribs to store the new harvest in a region where corn crops are notable this year. The scene captures a rural effort to safeguard grain amid ongoing farming.
Last Thursday at Diller High School freshmen were issued uniforms swapping genders as part of an underclass initiation program. Both girls wore boys’ clothes and boys wore girls’ outfits to enact the rite within the school fellowship activity.
The publisher asks readers to contribute wood or cash for subscriptions to guard against freezing and hunger. He notes progress in living without groceries, stressing the need for support to survive the coming winter.
The Record office hosted a Habicht gathering with former Diller students. Only two of the seven graduates survive: Mrs Blauser and Rosa Bishop Arnott. The others were Nellie Madden Silas Diller Stephen Shea Marshall London and Ida Weaver.
In a Chinese city a missionary Miss Monson and refugees hid as bandits attacked. Despite malaria and fear she prayed for deliverance and kept watch with four unseen guardians on the roof, prompting neighbors to insist they had seen angels protecting the children through the night.
A collage of items notes a Boys Town film with minimal female roles, Norris declining reelection in McCook Nebraska, crop updates including Roy Greider and Eick crops, flowering gardens and abundant hay, a 6.8 million Kansas City municipal auditorium with 14 000 seats, a Methodist conference set for April 26 in the same building, and Rolf Beckman building a porch for Mrs Fouts.
County level slate presented includes C G Catlin for County Treasurer Homer Brunk for County Clerk Frank M Rain for County Attorney Lillie Spence for Reg of Deeds Louis L Meyer for Clerk of Dist. Court Emil Ackman for Sheriff S C Hutchinson Co Commissioner First District R M McCord County Commissioner Third District J R Mendenhall for County Assessor F D Harlin for County Surveyor.
A Brewers Association statement claims only five and six tenths percent of auto accidents with property damage over 50 dollars in early 1938 were alcohol related. Supporters mock skeptics by urging hands raised.
Fairbury News editor Don Shearon criticizes local businessmen who doubt ad value while daily life is full of advertised goods from mattresses to coffee. He argues that advertising pays when used across multiple purchases and habits.
County Superintendent Genevieve C Clark visited rural schools and reported on District 89. Miss Anna Wenz teaches a clean attractive room with excellent material and a new Pictured Knowledge set. Four pupils attend. Guilford Wiemers broke his right arm twice.
The met. The tet fag earned in a neat District south is taught by areida Krebs. The school board is commended for furnishing new single seats and attractive furniture. Miss Krebs is complimented upon being an excellent housekeeper. Marvin Saathoff and Gilbert DeBoer are new pupils in grade one. District 88 has an even dozen children enrolled. Miss Margaret Bugbee is the teacher with three years experience. The children were complimented for getting along well and salute their flag each morning. District 60 is the Bell school taught by Miss Ruth Hans mire with four pupils across four grades. Donald Pingel is the new pupil in grade one. District 56 Keith Hudson's first school, praised for an immaculate room. District 64 Blauser school well managed under Miss Dorothy Barta in her third year. District 66 has Miss Sylvia Sible for teacher with 19 pupils and four beginners. District 101 four miles east of Reynolds has Lloyd London teaching his first year with 16 students and a Professor Quiz program exciting the superintendent.
Those with perfect attendance for September include Wilmer Doerksen Harold Jones Evelyn Hudson Doris Wolken Ralph Hudson Jr Lucille Fasse and Verneal Fasse. Third and fourth graders studied the picture Philby from the September Grade Teacher. Junior Hudson and Dale Stahl wrote Philby in Massachusetts and received letters from Philby s mother. She says Philby is now in the tenth grade and sailed around the world aboard the Hoover when it was bombed.
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