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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1931
Page
2
Nebraska report cites unusually poor conditions for most crops in October with corn and oats yields down from last year and the five year average. Corn forecast 171.6 million bushels with about 17 bushels per acre, oats 54.16 million bushels, and apple gains noted amid general quality issues due to heat winds and dry weather.
Nebraska State Teachers associations schedule October 28 to 31 meetings in Lincoln Omaha Norfolk Hastings Holdrege and Sidney. About thirty eminent educators including William Cooper George Strayer Griffith Taylor Laura Zirbes and E W Butterfield attend. State leaders praise conventions for informing teachers and boosting efficiency amid tight budgets.
Lincoln Nebraska ranking shows the state tenth among all states in wheat ground into flour and flour production for August per the department of commerce data.
State News Items of Interest From Washington reports the contract for the $80,600 recreation building and staff officers quarters at the Lincoln Veterans Hospital has been awarded. Cattle shipping remains brisk from the Alliance range country with over 370 carloads from Hyannis and more than 700 carloads from Grant County this season.
J M Beard of Aurora believed to be Nebraska's oldest native has died at age 72. Born on the present site of Brownville he retired from the railroad in 1916 after 30 years of service.
Edwin Sahl of four and a half miles south of Cortland reports three cherry trees blooming like spring in October. He cites recent moisture and warmer conditions as the cause, noting he has never seen such a display before.
The state department of health announced a 296 birth decrease in the first six months of 1931 versus the same period in 1930. Public health director Dr. H P Bartholomew attributed the drop to factors other than a general mood.
City council authorizes a room in city hall as a public barber shop where local barbers dedicate part of one day each week to cut and shave unemployed residents to improve job prospects. The initiative aims to reduce barriers to employment by providing grooming services alongside job readiness efforts.
Nebraska counties containing federal forests will share 2 948.57 dollars in lumber and grazing fees collected by the federal government in the last fiscal year. The funds, paid in lieu of taxes on forest lands, will support schools and roads, per reports from Washington.
A farmer near Trenton found a yellow glinted ore while digging a well. Analysis valued it at $20 a ton in gold. The find came twenty feet down in a canyon leading to the Republican river valley. Two more farmers reported gold strikes, inspiring others to search their land.
The third annual all Nebraska air tour will depart Omaha on October 21 headed to Burwell with J Porter Allan as tour secretary. Stops include Ainsworth Valentine Hay Springs Alliance Chadron McCook North Platte Broken Bow Beatrice from October 21 to 30, each a full day event.
Nebraska's health authorities report the state is free from serious contagion. For the first nine months, scarlet fever shows 1161 cases versus 1951 last year. Meningitis totals 33 cases versus 81, and diphtheria appears in 270 cases this year compared with 427 previously.
Bloomfield will distribute 34 000 pounds of whole wheat flour to needy residents in the drought and grasshopper districts. The flour arrived by truck from Columbus where it was milled from wheat donated at a Central City charity event. Rev. M Schroeder of Bloomfield oversees the effort. Lindy Nebraska will receive four of five truckloads. Central City residents have previously sent two truckloads to Bloomfield.
A. E. Anderson, state and federal statistician, notes Nebraska farm land prices approach the prewar level. The 1930 federal census valued land at 55.81 dollars per acre on April 1, with current estimates near 50 dollars. The index stands 5.6 percent above 1912 to 1914 averages. Historic values show 46.95 in 1910 and 78.87 in 1920.
Chicago reports USDA estimated corn at 2.703 billion bushels, down 12 million from last month, with a 71.4 percent condition, 25.6 bushel yield. Durum and spring wheat yields are very low, oats up to 1.174 billion, and barley at 216 million. Washington notes farm board losses on stabilizing prices exceeding 200 million through wheat and cotton.
Ohio plans 350 bridges this winter at a cost of 3 500 000 to fight unemployment. O W Merrell director of highways says Governor White's emergency relief bridge building will employ thousands of residents and speed needed improvements at moderate cost due to current material prices. The program runs with the state relief committee and employs local labor almost exclusively.
Effingham Illinois reports a milk war as Southern Winds ships milk from the St. Louis market to pig pens amid threats against farmers bootlegging milk to boycott distributors. The dispute centers on recognizing the Sanitary Milk Producers' Association by St. Louis retailers. Capt Newton Jenkins, attorney, has been invited to aid in the bottle.
Italian foreign minister Dino Grandi will visit Washington for ten days beginning around November 17, per an official State Department notice. The visit foreshadows possible talks with British and German leaders and aims to advance Hoover's economic revival plan, including banking reforms and a fund within the Federal Reserve to support defunct panics and broaden discount eligibility.
Denver report on Charles Mays once mistaken as a scarecrow in a Beardsley Kansas background. He recovered from schizophrenia at Colorado Psychiatric Hospital showing improved eating and sleeping. He could speak but gave no coherent account yet. He was found in a cornfield by a sheriff who lifted him to a car.
Northwestern farmers crippled by drought fail to repay government seed loans. About 4,000,000 in loans were due September 30, but by October 2 only 147,000 had been paid. Senator Robinson discussed collections with Secretary Hyde and President Hoover and sought leniency.
About 500 farmers march on the New London jail to free Roland Hart as veterinarians move to inoculate Henry county cattle under state tuberculin testing. The crowd overpowers guards, frees a jailed rail worker’s son, and prompts militia action to scatter demonstrators.
In Racine Wisconsin police clashed with a crowd at a Monument square rally without a permit. Police dispersed rioters with night sticks, arresting seven men and a girl as about 300 joined 1,000 spectators watching the confrontation near the Civil War memorial during a Socialist election rally.
Jefferson City Mo The United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Roy Toombs former president of the defunct International Life Insurance company of St Louis must serve time at Leavenworth penitentiary while his appeal on a two year sentence by District Judge Charles B Davis of St Louis is pending He pleaded nolo contendere to using the mails in a defrauding scheme.
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