And the play makes a profit!

April 28, 1932 - Tired and crabby as the dickens today.  Evie, Mote and Mrs. Walker went to the pavilion this p.m. and finished fixing up things.  Practiced in the evening and things went much better than last nite.  Evie finger-waved my hair after school tonite.  Louise and Raymond aren't coming to school anymore.
April 29, 1932 - Well we gave our play tonite.  We took in $21.25 and had $12 in expenses.  The play went along pretty good I guess, but it seemed to me there were a lot of pauses.  Dora Brogren Staben's birthday.
April 30, 1932 - Evie, Willard, Gilbert and I cleaned up at the pavilion this a.m.  Washed some hose and slept this p.m.  This eve, Clayton and Jessie, Millie and Luke, and Dudley and I went to the show at Norfolk.  Willard cut his head this noon and had to go the the M.D.  So we went to the midnight show.  Chester Morris in "The Miracle Man.'  Of all the candy we didn't eat.  Had ice cream at Trano's.  We got home at 1:45.  The slate in my bed looked so funny and the girls and I found tacks in our beds.  So queer where they came from!  I had to sleep with the girls.  My bed was too unsafe.

Well, I'm confused about the slate and the tacks to be sure.  Also, confused by Grandma's incomplete sentence about eating candy -- it hasn't been like her at all to do such a thing in her diary.

According to the Winside history book, there was no pavilion in Winside in 1932 and entertainments were staged in the pavilion at Hoskins or Carroll until the new auditorium was completed.

I found the plot to "The Miracle Man" but it is very long.  I'll just say that it involves a gang of pickpockets in Chinatown.  There are some fights, at least one romance, and at least one natural death.  Good enough.

Speaking of the Winside history book, here is 1890:

     February 10, We, the undersigned women of Winside and vicinity, do hereby petition you (Wayne County Commissioners) to refuse to anyone who may ask for it, a license to sell malt liquors in or near the village of Winside.  We make this petition on behalf of our homes.  Signed:  Belle Willy Gue, Agnes V. Coons, Mrs. J. F. Ireland, Opal R. St. John, Mrs. Mary Morin, Mrs. Mary Tillson, Alice M. Dodge, Mrs. Laura Grothe, Miss Mamie E. Hollenbreck, Mrs. Lydia Hayes, Mrs. Jennie Cogley.  On the reverse side of this petition was L. McDerby's liquor license.  This was not granted according to the Commissioners proceedings.
     April 30, Winside is making very rapid strides, the census shows 130.
     May 19, Wayne County, State of Nebraska -- Personally appeared before me, M. H. Dodge, a Justice of Peace, in and for said county -- parties whose names are hereto signed, who being duly sworn, state that they personally know John Dedla, that he was honest and capable of conducting the election held on the 16th of May 1890 -- Signed A. H. Carter, F. Weible.
     September 6, L. S. Needham, J. R. Mundy and other petitioned the County Commissioners to incorporate the town of Winside as a town of 200.  John T. Bressler and W. M. Wright offered objections -- it was laid over until the next regular meeting on October 7th.
     September 30, Bressler and Wright filed an amended petition to incorporate.
     October 7, Winside was incorporated as a town of 200.  The story is told by A. H. Carter that in order to have 200 in the town it was necessary to draft the railroad crew, then working out of Winside, to vote in order to have enough votes to carry.
     October 11, Board of Trustees appointed by the county for the village of Winside met at the office of McClusky and Needham.  W. M. Gue, a notary, having been sworn in by A. L. Hansen, notary -- the balance of the board was duly sworn.
     October 20, an Ordinance fixing the time and place of holding the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Winside, Nebraska:  Sec. 1 -- That the stated meetings of said Board of Trustees shall be held at McClusky and Needham's Hall in said Village of Winside on the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m., Sec. 2 -- This Ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after its approval and publication as provided by Statutes.  Signed W. H. McClusky, chairman of Board of Trustees, George H. Lyon, Village Clerk.
     December 2, A. B. Clark having refused to serve as Village Treasurer, Dr. A. B. Cherry was appointed.  A calaboose committee was appointed and directed to build same, not to exceed $100.00.

I will admit, I had heard the word 'calaboose' but completely forgot what it meant.  I looked it up and reminded myself that it is a jail.  I wonder how secure a calaboose could be built for less than $100 in 1890.