April 25, 1932 - Cloudy all day today. Ray came up to the schoolhouse and took me up to Mayme's. I got 3 of her dresses, one for Hazel, Bud and myself. We practiced at the schoolhouse tonite. Went in the Ford. Mike, Evie and I sat in the truckbox.
April 26, 1932 - Trying to clear up today. Got a ride with Bob N. to school this a.m. Straightened the library. Raymond and Louise are tracing patterns for me. Last time to practice at the schoolhouse tonite. Practiced quite late tonite. Laurence Jochens and Willie Stahl birthdays.
April 27, 1932 - Grandpa Kahler died. Nice today. Got the grades today. Raymond passed with an average of 90 1/2 and Louise 90 13/14. Dismissed school at 2:30. Evie, Mote and I went down to the pavilion to get things fixed up. We had a terrible time. Washed my hair. Practiced at the pavilion this evening. And it was terrible!!! Harold Jensen's birthday.
Sounds like a fun play already if you have a boy in a dress. Can't go wrong with that. I remember one of Dale and Lynn's friends (nicknamed Tree as I recall, or could have been at least) dressed up as a woman for Halloween one year. Not original, but very, very funny.
Oh, teaser alert - my next post will have Grandma's review of how the play performance went.
Here's 1889 in the history book:
March 1, Winside is decidedly on the up grade. Everyone is happy and doing well.
April 27, fire destroyed the McDerby store, Miller and Cherry's drug store and the unfinished building of Frank Matthews, designed as a paint and furniture shop.
May 9, McDerby has nearly completed his new store building and Dr. Cherry will have his drug store finished soon. (Dr. Craig's office).
May 23, Carl Bronzynski's mother, sister-in-law and two sisters arrived from Germany. The chances are Winside will not have a ball team as all of the equipment burned in the fire on April 27th. (This is the first hint found pertaining to Winside baseball.)
May 24, the town park north of the depot recently donated by J. T. Bressler and the town site representatives is taking shape, through the efforts and energy of the enterprising citizens. Jimmy Hall, our agent, left for Bancroft. Jimmy will certainly be missed at Carter's store as well as at the depot.
June 14, Winside won the baseball game from Hoskins by the narrow margin of 56 to 16. It was a fair game.
July 4, Winside put on its first celebration this year in grand style. The day started out with a salute of 100 guns and plenty of fire crackers at 4 a.m. Frank Fuller was the speaker of the day, followed by foot races, horse races, ball game with Hoskins and in the evening a good display of fireworks.
July 14, the first death in Winside occurred this morning when Harry Morgan, small son of a Mr. Morgan died. The Morgan family was traveling by wagon back to Illinois and stopped on the way to visit A. H. Carter and a relative near Wayne. The little boy had been very sick while they were traveling form Grand Island so Dr. Cherry was consulted while here and he pronounced it Cholera Infantum. The little lad was too far gone to do him any good.
July 30, F. H. Peavy is building a $20,000 elevator, yards for stock and corn cribs. J. E. Barnett of Norfolk has opened up a barber shop and a pool hall the first door west of Dr. Cherry's drug store.
August 1, McClusky and Needham are paying 10 cents for butter and eggs. Winside bought the school site from J. T. Bressler for $500.
Seems they got a baseball team together after all, perhaps fueled by the idea that Winside could handily defeat Hoskins some day in the near future. And Mr. McDerby sure didn't sit around once his store burned down as his new store was almost done less than two weeks later.
The photo is of a Winside baseball team taken "in the 90's". The only players identified by name were "the tough looking" player in the front row on the extreme left (Wylie McClusky) and the player on the extreme right (Vere Carter). Also playing on the team, but not noted in the photo were Tom Johnson and C. E. Needham.
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