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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1940
Page
4
Hugo Schuette and family had re shingled a section of their residence northwest of town and expected rain this week. The notice notes the weather impact on their roofing work and region location.
Daniel Dick, longtime Rock Creek resident, marked his 91st birthday while visiting relatives in Indiana.
The analysis indicates men with draft numbers above 650 are unlikely to be called in the first 800,000 draft pool, which will begin training by July set next.
Mrs Violet Grone Ulm a former compositor visited the Record office on press day before the election. Richardson County is now an oil center with the county reporting its twentieth active oil well last Saturday. Nearby counties fearfully begin boring holes as well. George Hudson of the northwest town reported steady health though he suffered a 1937 stroke affecting his right side.
County Judge E. R. Bee and County Attorney Frank M. Raio visited town Tuesday promoting their preferred candidate for the United States Senate from Nebraska Hugh Butler.
A vivid rainbow appeared in the eastern sky after a shower Monday afternoon around 4 30. Residents noted its beauty and recalled the biblical promise that humanity would not be destroyed by a flood.
Duane Beckwith of Boone Iowa drove to Lincoln last Saturday for the Missouri Nebraska football game to find the stadium packed and gates closed. He then went to Diller to visit his grandmother Mrs Line and his uncle and aunt Guy Cassels at Steele City.
Forrest Estes, accomplice of Ivan Sullivan and Lowell Haenze who robbed Diller State Bank July 19, was arrested in Peoria Arizona. Sullivan received a death sentence for killing a guard. Haenze got life with clemency for incompetency. Estes to face Iowa trial for jail breaking auto theft and robbing the Wilbur bank in June.
The Daily Nebraskan notes Willkie leads Roosevelt among UNL students with five percent of Lincoln campus voters ballots each week. Nebraska election includes a constitutional amendment to add the State Superintendent to the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds, currently comprised of the Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and State Treasurer. Endowments in 1940 totaled 11.3 million dollars and 1.64 million acres of school land with school earnings shared in 1940 reaching about 985 thousand dollars, including 11,525 to Jefferson County schools.
The passage criticizes social reform through church work without spiritual change. General Booth questions carnal efforts to save the drunkard by outward improvements alone. It contrasts his view with Jesus teaching that seeking the kingdom of God comes before earthly blessings.
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