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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
1
A kitchen clockelectric switch short caused sparks and wall flame at the Viers home early Thursday. The safety fuse failed but the switch was opened, stopping the fire. Insurance covers the damage. Mrs Viers contemplates removing a clock from the range.
Miss Ruth Pyche departs Thursday to Boulder Colorado to finish the requirements for her master’s degree at the state university. She has obtained a leave of absence from Lincoln Public Schools for the first semester and will resume teaching duties after the Christmas holidays.
The Jefferson County Fair starts tomorrow in Fairbury with county schools as guests. A forenoon parade and an afternoon program feature the Diller band and many Diller residents, about 15 of whom ride in the Nebraska Cavalcade pageant.
Frank Grone sustained a broken collar bone in a fall at his farm last Friday while helping a child down from a hay load. He grabbed the hay rack with one hand and the child with the other when the board broke and he toppled.
Mr. John Sedlacek and his daughter Leona returned to Lincoln on Wednesday with Mrs. Sedlacek after she had been at St Elizabeth's hospital for two weeks following a major operation. She is recovering nicely.
Lawrence Caldwell reports his father, who recently fractured his hip, is gaining strength and resting easier at Garden City Kansas.
The corner stone for St Pauls Lutheran church will be laid next Sunday. Full particulars appear in the church notes this week.
Old timer Tom Boggs once of Diller now lives with his niece Mrs. Harry Friday in Beatrice and is reported quite ill at her home.
The Diller cinema closed last night after a final showing attracted a good attendance. Local patrons gathered for the last screening and the venue ends its run after years of service.
A Saturday fundraiser at Hughes stores sponsored by the Girl Reserves invites shoppers to buy items for a community food drive. Proceeds support local hunger relief initiatives and girl-led service projects.
Sybil Fasnacht spent this week applying ivory paint to the interior of the post office, noting a fresh look. The project focused on walls and fixtures to brighten the space.
Sixteen delegates from each precinct met in Fairbury for the annual County AAA convention and elected the Jefferson County treble A program committees for 1941. Committee members include Arnold J. Ruhnke Paul P. Regnier and Claude C. Nider with Merle J. Reney and Willard W. Gumner as alternates.
Call to the Marines announces an opening for one hundred young men in the Des Moines district. Enlistments must occur in September. applicants 18 to 30 with good character and 8th grade education, height 5 ft 4 in to 6 ft 2 in, are eligible. Describes pay raises, study and training opportunities, assignments to bases or fleet units. apply to Room 226, Post Office Building, Omaha.
Mrs. Margaret Albers will spend the coming winter in southern California with her son Pete Albers and wife. Her two sons Pete and Richard and her daughter Mrs. Robert Yeargan live in Hollywood and Long Beach. An announcement lists the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Robert Yeargan Minnie Albers in Long Beach California.
Brethren from miles around witnessed the first degree work at the new Masonic temple in Wymore last Friday night. Visitors from Diller included H Green Wilbur Green James Hays Carl Ludington and guest L F Sinkey W I Filley. temple not yet dedicated.
A watermelon feed will be held this evening after school at the rear of the high school gym on Main Street. Dr Viers provides the melons for the students. John Greider oversees that melons are not carried inside the building.
Miss Marjorie Woods daughter of Claude Woods is a student at the University of Nebraska this year studying at the campus.
Mr. Noah Handley aged 80 died Monday night after years of ill health. His widow is hospitalized in Steele City and cannot attend. Funeral services were held Thursday at 2 PM at Waggoner Funeral Home with Rev. Willems delivering the sermon. Interment followed at Fairbury Cemetery. Handley was an early Jefferson county resident from Diller and lived on a farm between Steele City and Endicott.
The Nebraska annual Methodist conference meets in Omaha this week with Rev W H Clark and Dr Paul Hillman among attendees. About 6500 pastors and 500 lay delegates plus families travel to the event. The gathering ends Monday with pastor appointments announced.
Hugh Butler of Omaha Republican candidate for the United States Senate visits Diller on Tuesday at 4 45 PM to meet farmers business and agricultural leaders. He urges support for a proposed corn loan plan to aid drought hit Nebraska farmers and criticizes the Secretary of Agriculture for not backing the relief.
A bronze equestrian statue for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was unveiled in Virginia with thousands attending including four Civil War veterans. The 106 year old attendee and Dr. Douglas S. Freeman spoke, honoring Jackson while warning against federal dependence.
Mr and Mrs Wm Woods and granddaughter Marjorie Lou recently returned from an extended eastern tour with Mr and Mrs Jerden Sanmann of Lincoln. They visited Sanmanns relatives Theressa in New Jersey and Dr Lanmann in New York as well as Woods brothers in Cochranton and Beaver Pennsylvania. The group also toured Carlisle Pa the old Woods home, saw the New York World’s Fair and Washington DC.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Waggoner and John Steiner return to Diller from a three week East trip covering over four thousand miles. They visited many places of interest and saw most everything worth seeing. a fuller story may follow next week. They began with an early drive into Kentucky on the first day.
New WPA Project Commissioner S C Hutchinson announced that the long sought draining and grading project for the mile of road past Mrs Wrights place has been granted. Indian creek has undercut the highway at a sharp curve and will be redirected with a new channel while the roadbed is straightened. Work is expected to start about November first.
Mr. Kenneth A. Young leaves Friday for Cambridge Massachusetts to teach and pursue graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His wife and daughter remain in Diller at the home of her father J Smith Diller for the next few months.
A Nebraska State Fair exhibit on snakes, sponsored by the Nebraska Game Commission and University of Nebraska, lists 26 Nebraska snake species with 5 venomous types. Edward Fichter coordinated the exhibit, noting the five venomous kinds Kennicott's black headed copperhead Massasauga prairie rattler timber rattler and the rest are harmless.
Diller High School held its annual newcomer initiation on Thursday September 12 with upperclassmen hosting activities and a later talent show. No school Friday September 20 due to Jefferson County Fair when the district will participate with a parade float band and a school parade depicting educational history followed by a band and ball game.
Two sorghum meetings set for Tuesday at the sorghum variety test plots. The Daykin site near Henry Jarchow farm opens at 1 30 p m and the Fairbury area Jim Rooney farm hosts at 3 p m. J P Srb from the state college agronomy department will discuss variety value harvesting methods and related topics.
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