Sarcasm?

April 16, 1932 - Raining this morning.  Mr. Walker took me into the train.  Ray met me at Winside.  Washed and fixed my clothes.  Tonite Ray and I went to the dance at Hoskins.  I was up to Bernice's before the dance.  Didn't have a very good time, not much of a crowd there.
April 17, 1932 - Went to church this a.m.  After dinner Ray took me back to Walker's.  We stopped in at Ola's for a few minutes.  We practiced the 1st act of the play at the schoolhouse this p.m.  The girls and Bud didn't go.  Raymond and Gilbert were up there a few minutes.  I had League this evening.
April 18, 1932 - Got a ride to school with Mr. Walker this a.m.  Louise and Raymond are making things for the Fair.  We practiced this evening.  We're going to give the play April 29.  Willard asked me to go to the Hoskins class play with him this Friday.  I don't want to, but suppose I'll have to!

I wonder if Grandma really had to go to the play; her exclamation point instead of her usual "grrr" makes me think she doth protest too much.  (But, eh . . . what do I know?)

We are to 1886 with the Winside history:

     January 1, an estimate of the building done in Hancock precinct near Northside may roughly be placed as follows:  R. R. James house, $1200; H. N. Moore cattle sheds, $500; John Lenzier barn, $300; M. H. Dodge addition to house, $500; E. L. Jones house, $500; Warner Starr house, $500; R. G. Sines corn cribs, $100; Martin Redmer house, $1200; E. Nairn barn, $150; A. Krueger barn, $150; Tom Lound addition to barn, $150; John Elliott sheds, $75; J. W. Tillson, house, $400; No. 39 or Long school house, $500; Jay Phillips blacksmith shop, $250; J. O. Milligan & Co. warehouse, $500.
     January 29, it is a settled fact that the U.P. railroad will build their road northward from Schuyler in the spring, coming form Pilger up the Humbug as far as the farm of Mr. Hoffman, there taking a northwest direction crossing the M. & O. road near the Wm. Frazier place, there going north through the Wm. House ranch.  Where they intersect the M. & O. road, they will lay out a town.  (This road never was built.)
     February 5, a trainload of 22 cars of stock was shipped from Winside the past week.  The stock was owned by A. T. Chapin, A. B. Slater, P. W. Oman, Ran and Will Frazier, the six cars contributed by the latter being pronounced the finest lot of steers ever shipped from this station.  Among the "punchers" who accompanied the owners were, B. Feather, Link Neely, Ed. Smith and P. English.  The boys returned home from Omaha where they disposed of the stock at prices ranging from $4.25 to $4.75.
     February 26, Aden Arnel who sold his farm recently to Peter Ulrich moved on his new farm in Cedar county.  J. W. Tillson sold his lumber yard to the J. O. Milligan Co. and will devote his time to his farm near Northside.  Tom Lound has commenced an action contesting Charles Thiedies right to a homestead three miles south of H. B. Miller's place.
     March 16, Mr. Hornby has moved from the Moore farm to a farm north of -- shall we call it This Side.  Warner Starr won't look at This Side anymore.  His mind is fixed on the Other Side.  H. B. Miller killed a wolf Sunday and two Monday.  If everyone would kill off the wolves at that rate, the people could raise chicks without taking them into the kitchen every night.
     April 30, Jack Cherry has just unloaded the fifth car of lumber at his yard this spring.  Edward Neilan is teaching the Long school.  Jay C. Phillips has invented a sod cutter that is really a good thing.  Farmers are expecting to plant corn this coming week.
     June 14, the plat of the town has been filed and recorded in the county seat.
     September 24, Art Chapin's herd of thoroughbred Polled Angus cattle attracted universal attention at the County Fair and in passing the pen, several red and blue ribbons were in evidence.  Sunday Law, Sec. 241 -- If any person of the age of fourteen years or upwards, shall be found on the first day of the week commonly called Sunday, sporting, rioting, quarreling, hunting, fishing or shooting, he or she shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $20.00 or confined in jail more than 20 days.
     October 1, Jack Cherry's mansion is nearly ready for the painters.

A few notes --
1.  I wonder what kind of mansions the James and Redmer houses were to be valued so high compared to the rest.
2.  I guess settled facts aren't always settled.
3.  From last year's (last post's) information, the "new Star" discovered one morning was Warner Starr's baby.  That wasn't abundantly clear to me reading the other entry but makes perfect sense now.  Maybe I was not quite awake yet.
4.  The gentleman having trouble keeping lumber in stock is the same one that sold the lumberyard to spend more time on his farm.  Perhaps he was a better farmer than businessman.
5.  I wonder if the Sunday Law is still on the books.
6.  Lastly, I wonder what my husband would think if I brought my poultry in to the kitchen every night. Hmmmm.