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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
1
School children with clean hands and neat attire gathered at Diller on opening day. The building is clean and ready for nine months of study as Supt Sinkey and the faculty prepared after a teachers meeting. A fuller program will be reported next week.
Rolf Beck painted the cafe front including metal woodwork with aluminium and brickwork columns with bright red paint. The front now looks flashy like a dime store as Clifford Sparks, the new investor, pays for the improvements making neighbors stand out for their need of paint.
The state highway department announces bids for the Diller to No. 35 road project 46 miles south including grading culverts sand gravel surfacing and guard rails south of the bridge. Bids will be opened in September.
Fairbury voters defeated a 100000 bond issue in a special election Tuesday with 1695 ballots cast 751 in favor and 944 against Only one precinct supported the proposal which WPA would partly fund by about 85000 toward the building cost in the total plan.
Mr and Mrs Joe Nippert announce the marriage of their daughter Fern Isabelle to Max L Hall on Saturday August 20 in Washington Kansas. The couple will reside at Fairfield Nebraska and be at home to friends.
Oscar Olsen left Tuesday morning by bus via Washington D C to resume studies at the Boston Theological Seminary. He spent a month in Nebraska with his sister Mrs Sinkey and other relatives and friends.
Mrs Eleanor Filley Andrews underwent an appendectomy at the hospital this morning. Condition described as satisfactory.
Lawrence Schmidt and Fred Zednik are appointed wheat inspectors for farm stored wheat in Jefferson County under the federal wheat loan program. Inspectors determine suitable bins, quantify stored wheat, obtain samples, seal granaries after loan approval, and send four pound samples to the Lincoln Nebraska ACP lab for test weight moisture grade and dockage to set loan rates. Farmers can contact the Fairbury Agricultural office for details.
The 13 month old son of Mr and Mrs J F Quiring of one mile east of Jansen was killed Monday forenoon after being struck by an automobile driven by W B Reimers a farmer near Jansen. The accident occurred as the child wandered onto the highway from home with two cars approaching from opposite directions. Sheriff Ackman said Reimers car was moving slowly at the time of impact.
A bolt struck the giant bronze statue The Sower atop the Nebraska state capitol tower during a severe storm near Lincoln. No damage was reported. The storm brought over two inches of rainfall to the region.
In 1889 the Nebraska legislature enacted that the first Monday in September be named Labor Day and treated as a public holiday effective June 1 1889. September 2 1889 marked the first Nebraska observance with parades and celebrations led by several cities. The largest event occurred in Omaha.
The record shows total August rainfall of 3.58 inches with a single downpour less than 0.50 inches on August 15 to 31, stating August 15 0.05 inches August 16 0.03 inches August 27 0.35 inches August 31 0.05 inches.
Mr and Mrs Louis Wehling and daughters returned Sunday from a Seventh Day Adventists camp meeting at College View Lincoln. More than fifteen hundred people attended the gathering. Governor Cochrane spoke last Friday at the College View church praising missionary work in the fields.
Supervisors of the Farm Security Administration in Jefferson and Saline counties report crop failures and low grain prices drive a surge of loan applications. The Fairbury office will operate only afternoons, except Saturdays when it closes all day.
Beatrice Power Company of Beatrice Nebraska advertises a limited time sale offering discounted floor samples including refrigerators SES lamps toasters and waffle irons. The note emphasizes a temporary offer from the Nebraska firm.
Jefferson County Farm Bureau reports no safe seeding date required for Hessian fly this fall, indicating farmers need not delay seeding due to Hessian fly concerns. The note emphasizes current guidance for local growers and agribusiness.
George Buck long known in the area as a traveling salesman for the Iten Biscuit Company died at his Cheyenne Wyoming home. He was sixty five years old and formerly resided in Beatrice.
Farmers Store Allens Cash Market Long's Store Diller Market will close at noon Monday for Labor Day. W. S. Slocum had a severe heart attack Saturday causing anxiety but he rallied and is now much better.
In Dewitt Nebraska voters turned down a 55 thousand dollar school bond issue despite WPA backing of twenty five thousand dollars toward the project.
For sale brome grass seed. mowers and horse gangs offered at bargains. Dempster s er 60 dollars. Power Ealer 11826 IHC Tractor and Plow listed by H. E. Foster in Ellis Nebraska. Note on child vision urges eye checks with Dr. Neil C. Morrison in Fairbury Nebraska. Office air conditioned for comfort.
Mr and Mrs John Carico came home Tuesday from Falls City after spending a few days with their son and family.
George Renz has recovered from a severely cut thumb and is reported to be about as good as new with the thumb healing okay.
Keith Baker, ten, arrives with four other boys to live at a new brick Orphans residence south of Diller. The home provides a fresh shelter for children adopted into the local facility.
Hanover routed Diller 41 to 1 Sunday afternoon at the local park. The lopsided score highlighted Hanover’s strong offense and stiff defense in a dominant display.
Mary Ellen James daughter of John and Levina James was born June 10 1868 in Crawford county Kansas. She died August 25 1938 at 8 30 PM aged 70 years 2 months 15 days. She lived in Genessee Illinois and Steele City Nebraska before moving to Diller Nebraska. She married Ellsworth Bugbee March 22 1889 and had three children Perry W Bugbee Grace Steinkamp Esther Bond. Funeral held at Waggoner funeral home and Methodist church with relatives present from distant places.
Retired Presbyterian minister Rev D B McLaughlin who once led the Diller church died Tuesday afternoon August 23 after years of illness. Born Florence South Carolina June 21 1863 he built 20 churches and served Nebraska Washington Colorado and North Carolina. Surviving are his wife of Fairbury a daughter Mrs M Crocker of Diller four half brothers and two sisters. Funeral at Fairbury Presbyterian Church Thursday at 2 30 with Masonic burial in Fairbury cemetery.
Olive Wade and Mrs. Daisy Cole of Fairbury are listed, along with Ward Welch and wife Edna James of Talmage, Harry Weddel and family in Carleton, Mrs. DeWitt and Hazel James of Hastings, Dale Saakee of Peru, Elton Bugbee of Havelock, and Lewis Bugbee with C. A. Bugbee family of Steele City.
We express our deep appreciation for every act of kindness in words or deeds during the death of our wife and mother E. S. bee Bayee.
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