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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
2
The Record lists new enrollees for the start of term at Peru State Teachers College on Monday September 9 including Reuben Fanders Robert Fry Jean Bond and Freddie Drexler.
Farmers in the southeast corner sought hot dry weather to help corn ripen but Monday morning brought renewed heavy rain totaling 3.60 to 6 inches in the Table Rock vicinity, ending the drought hope.
St Pauls Lutheran church paid Dr C E Rice and wife $165 for the Loock corner property onto which they moved the church per Davis and Son weekly real estate transfers report. It looks like a good deal for all involved.
Neil Fouts son of County Agent Kenneth Fouts of Seward, featured with his champion market lamb and reserve champion lamb alongside Miss Arden Aegertie, highlighting 4-H Club work this fall.
Pounding with hammers filled Diller as new storage bins for government loan grain rise. Workers at the Lutheran church, Fred Schutt with Elias Hadley, and Frank Johnson repairing basement windows at the Record office mark preparations to keep cold out next winter.
Hiram Chase of near Pender became the first Omaha Indian to join Nebraska's bar after passing exams on November 12 1891. He pursued education in Indian schools before studying law in the East and earned a Penn Law degree in 1890.
The largest baby ever born at Fairbury hospital, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lillibridge of Morrowville Kansas, was delivered Thursday morning August 29 by Dr J H Lynch via Caesarian section. The infant weighed 15 pounds and one ounce.
Albert W Koepff of Daykin Herald recalls Wendell Willkie at a Rushville Ind press conference. Ickes labels him a barefoot Wall Street lawyer but the editor finds Willkie tall and strong, a six foot man with broad shoulders.
A 63 member cross party bloc from midwestern states forms to study repeated defense spending disparities. They argue 22 western states west of the Mississippi with river excluded cities have received under one percent of defense funds, urging the defense council to reallocate to interior regions.
The Lincoln newspapers hint the State Fair is not what it was before 1929 but report 13 000 grandstand admissions on Labor Day with estimates of at least 13 000 more outside. The writer recalls 104 000 admissions on a previous Labor Day and notes crowds were sardine packed yet the smaller turnout may ease planning while hinting at a possible rise this year.
Albert W. Koepff editor of the Daykin Herald returns from an eastern trip and visits Wendell Willkie at the Hollis Hotel in Rushville Indiana. Willkie discusses possible New York flight and a planned public debate while Koepff delivers a card and pledges Nebraska newspaper support.
Roy Casper is awarded the county truck driver prize after the position was vacated when Harry Lawder disappeared overnight amid competition from about seventeen applicants seeking the job.
Edgar A Guest recalls a tale of a wealthy, quarrelsome man who, in old age, realizes his lonely life. A bitter foe points out he spent years earning money while the other built friendships. The lesson: we carry into old age only what we have chosen to bring.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Henry A. Wallace will address the Fairbury audience next Monday at 2 30 o clock ensuring a high profile political event in the town.
An article reports that 19 300 of 1939 motor vehicle fatalities occurred in rural districts where drivers travel at fifty to sixty mph with minimal control. It notes the lack of traffic enforcement and the ease of speed as a major danger.
The 1930 to 1940 Nebraska census shows a net 47 percent population loss, with 77 of 93 counties down since 1930 and Scottsbluffs the sole city gaining due to irrigation. The Tolan Committee investigates migration of destitute citizens. hearings in Lincoln on September 16 and 17 aim to inform Congress on improving drought affected areas and rural livelihoods.
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