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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
3
A good Holstein cow is for sale due to calving. The seller is 11 Ben Behrends, located half a mile south and one east of town. Potential buyers can contact the listed owner for details.
Large assorted potatoes Irish Cobbler 1.25 per 100. Yellow blossom sweet clover seed cleaned 250 per bushel. Harold Henrichs. One all steel wheelbarrow for moving concrete 350 or another 250. Enquire at Record office. Would like to sell before Halloween.
East bound No 14 night service now at 1 51 a m with 16 day set to 1 10 p m. West bound No 18 daylight service 1 19 a m and No 17 4 day 2 02 2 5 10 p m
Harold Bowers relocated his drug stock from Sutherland to Paxton Nebraska a roughly twelve mile move to consolidate operations and serve customers in the new location.
Mrs. Callander came home after spending several days in Lincoln with cousins Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Kiser.
Clarence Findling completed moving his household and effects to Ellis where the family will establish residence once more.
Mr and Mrs H H Green Charley Cully and Joe Hiatt attended the funeral of Harry Boggs last Monday, according to a local notice.
An advertisement notes light colored or white shoes are suitable for winter when properly dyed and invites readers to call at the electric shop north of the Bonham Theatre in Fairbury.
The DHS Pep Organization invites the public to a chili supper next Wednesday night with a price of 10 cents. Proceeds support school activities and student programs.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Gretzinger traveled from Steele City to visit downtown friends while Mrs. Gretzinger visited her aunt Mrs. Cavett on a Wednesday evening.
Mrs. John Sedlacek thanks her many friends for flowers cards and letters received while in the hospital and for visits since returning home in a brief note of gratitude.
George Rahman and his sister Mrs Casper visited their sister in Deshler last week and returned Friday. They witnessed the Deshler Broom Factory 50th year celebration during the stay.
Al Hutchinson told the Record that while wandering in Beatrice he met two old Dillerites, Art Estep the barber and Dan Kausser the tailor, who were both living there at that time.
Jefferson County held a well attended fair with the Coronado pageant by Diller and a large parade. Roy Schultis led with a riding stock horse award, Harold Logan dominated Angus and Berkshire classes, Wrigley and Dean earned multiple placings across Hereford Jersey and Duroc classes, Wellington Dean won first on a weed mount.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas E Waggoner and John Steiner travel from August 28 visiting Vincennes Louisville Frankfort Lexington Washington Gettysburg Carlisle New York Albany Niagara Falls Lake Michigan and Wisconsin. They tour landmarks capital buildings battlefields zoos and the World’s Fair and face lake roughness and a pistol scare in Canada.
The column recalls trips of Frank Frisbie, Will Tristman, and Will Henriche near Sheldon, plus a Wisconsin to Minnesota tour to Worthington to see Lynn Waggoner and Habichts. They returned home to Diller proclaiming a pleasant vacation and that home looks good. Rev W H Clark's family travels from Fairbury to Fairmont to visit relatives amid a hot conference with high temperatures.
Louis Untermeyer compares present American age to England's Elizabethan era noting rich backgrounds vast energies fertility invention and exploration characterize both periods. He frames the current era as vibrant and ambitious with creative and civic momentum.
In northeastern Washington white hunters who bagged deer this season donated their hides to local Indians. The article notes the Indians have lacked sufficient skiffs and clothing, and the hides are intended to help clothe them in recent years.
Betsy Ross secured a contract to manufacture all American flags and after her death her daughter Mrs Clarissa Wilson continued the business preserving the flagmaking lineage.
Rockefeller Center, a major New York showplace covering 12 acres, is leased for a long period from Columbia University, linking the landmark to the university's broader real estate holdings.
Local legend credits women with building the first Mississippi levees in south Louisiana. The tale preserves a historic memory of female labor shaping early river containment efforts.
Rev L J Wolff leads re dedication services on October 6 with speakers Rev Adolph Lentz and others. Potluck dinner noon at the church basement. Tabitha Home Truck will collect fruit and vegetables October 2. Brotherhood convention October 6 7 8 in Omaha with the pastor as delegate to the United Lutheran Church Convention.
Howard H. Pyche pastor announces gradual return to Sunday School with about thirty more to join and 25 expected by Rally Day. The men's class grew to eighteen last Sunday. Next Sunday marks the last sermon in the series God in a Blackout World with the junior choir to sing and an open welcome.
Pastor W. H. Clark leads Sunday School at 10 with a sermon at 11 on Fitting into God’s Plan and a 7 30 evening session for young people in the basement The article notes a hot conference but praise for lectures and sermons as the year resumes with renewed work and energy.
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