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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
3
Grain market notes show corn, wheat and eggs with scattered prices. Mixed garbled lines indicate hogs and leghorn hens with per pound figures, but the full details are unreadable in this OCR fragment.
Miss Rachel Viers has traveled to Beatrice to start work in the grade schools as classes opened on Tuesday of this week.
Electric Shoe Shop advertises dyeing light shoes for fall and winter wear. Emil DeBoer Sr. visited his son Emil Jr. south of town after coming from Fairbury. Mrs. Mattie Miller Mansfield runs Pickard's Cafe as chief cook since Miss Gladys Lottman left to teach in Steele City.
A road project crew working for the WPA, stationed about seven miles southwest of Diller, were off duty Wednesday due to a breakdown in the machinery. The incident paused progress on the local road construction.
Mrs M C Hiatt of Hebron and her daughter Orphalee were luncheon guests at the C W Hiatt home on Wednesday. Mrs Hiatt, district chairman of the American Home Department of the Womans Club, spoke at the opening meeting of the Diller Club hosted by Mrs Kieth Hays.
Several small ads list farm seeds including Brome and Rye seed with contacts Arthur Fasse and Henry Webheels. An Emerson Drill with tractor hitch is offered by E F Borden of Washington Kansas. A lost hydraulic jack is reported for a reward by Skelly Oil Co Fairbury. CUCUMBERS offered at 75 cents per bushel with smaller sizes at 100 per bushel delivered by Mrs. R E Hubka from Diller.
For sale a 14 inch Glow-Boy oil burning heater with gray porcelain finish, barrels standpipe and valves. Used only three months last winter, selling due to using an oil stoker furnace. Call 66 me ret.
Mrs Rudolph Hubka says she is doing nicely with her cucumbers picking and selling raw bushels of pickled produce each day, reflecting a thriving small farm market activity.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Caldwell and Mr and Mrs Dean Barber and wives traveled to Lincoln last Sunday to view the Veterans Day program at the state fair.
Mr and Mrs Chas Waggoner report a visit to Mt Vernon and its museum on Monday September 2 and plan to travel to Carlisle Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
Arthur Rhoden, who arrived from California about a week ago, remains with his brother Dec Rhoden and has not decided whether to return to the western coast.
Mr and Mrs Alpha Wiemers attended the Lincoln School of Commerce graduating class event at the University Club in Lincoln last Friday night. Their daughter Delpha Wiemers completed the Secretarial Course. Mr and Mrs Charles Osborn and their daughter and granddaughter, of Lincoln, with the former's brother Jake Kendall of Chicago, were Diller visitors last Sunday and were dinner guests of Miss Monnie Clausson.
An Oklahoma mined coal ad promotes economy and washing and oil treatment with a Nebraska dealer contact. Local visitors, the Harrison Line family, visit Mrs. Jennie Line in Loup City, then depart for Lincoln for hospital care of a ill daughter. John Greider visits Lincoln and attends horse racing where a racing incident leads to a horse being killed.
Mrs. Antonia Bednar of Wilber marked her 100th birthday last Sunday September 1. A former tomboy in youth she favored athletics. Born in Czechoslovakia she married at 24 and came to America 73 years ago settling in Wilber in 1871. She has six living children and remains in good health enjoying gardening and reading without glasses.
A discussion compares a car traveling at 60 mph with a 150 pound person to the momentum of a machine gun bullet. It explains the car’s momentum around 13 200 pound feet per second and notes the impact briefly resembles a head-on crash where momentum is about ten times that of an average bullet.
Mrs. Virgil Geer hosted a birthday party Sunday September 1 for her daughter Carole Jean marking her fourth birthday. Guests included Don ald Dee Weaver Joan Casper Janet Walker Vatrica and Jonita Fletcher with games and ice cream and cake served.
The quiet Kelley Miller Brothers circus arrived in Diller on Labor Day Monday. Attendance was light afternoon due to local events but strong for the evening show. The act moved next to Odell as it travels south to avoid cold weather.
Pastor Howard H. Pyche and Superintendent Mrs Karl Weigel note a good Sunday School record and an encouraging 11 o'clock service. Next Sunday services at the regular time. National day of prayer for world peace proclaimed by the President. Sermon series begins Men Ought Always To Pray And Not To Faint. Missionary meeting Friday September 13 with Mrs Earl Weizel as hostess.
Vitamin B-1 acts as a hormone stimulating root growth in plants while supporting health in humans and animals.
Rev L J Woltz pastor C L Hullman superintendent S S Sunday School 930 English Services 1030 Luther League 730 Congregation meeting Sunday after services Youth Rally to United Lutheran at Lanham Sunday evening September 22 Women's Missionary Society meets Wednesday afternoon at the church WMS convention at Creston September 25 26
W H Clark pastor and Mrs Ray Lamb lead Sunday services with communion. Sermon titled If I Be Lifted Up. Sunday School at 10 30 A M and preaching at 11 A M. Young people meet at 8 P M. Last Sunday evening about thirty attended. Expect readiness to carry out planned program next Sunday.
The article notes Cartagena in Colombia as the oldest Spanish settlement in the New World highlighting its historic status and age.
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