If you haven't attended one of the plays at the Brownville Theater, then you are missing some pleasing entertainment.
The only suggestion I can make is to wear a coat. The air conditioning really works in the old church.
In the company of Don and Deane Mason, we've attended a couple of the plays this season and we've enjoyed them.
The melodrama was a favorite. It's entitled, "Dirty Work at the Crossroads." (I have a hard time remembering that long title and usually call it, "Dirty Old Man").
The plays are wholesome family entertainment. They star Nebraska Wesleyan students. You may want to take the children — they'll get a kick out of the melodrama.
There's also a fine restaurant within walking distance from the theater where good meals are served in a very pleasant atmosphere. There's also a special menu for theater-goers. That means they give special rush service to those customers.
Congratulations to the membership of the Otoe County Wildlife club for their successful fund raiser (at $300 a head) to get 61 people to buy an acre of ground for a new club site.
The property is being acquired from Mr. and Mrs. Ted Ryder and will be used as a public recreation area to include archery, trap shoot, rifle, pistol range and just about anything the sportsmen believe they can put on the site.
The new superintendent of schools has a pleasant administrative air about him — he's not particularly fond of lengthy school board meetings.
Welcome to the fold, Jim Withee.
The News-Press reporter covering these meetings will be most willing to move for adjournment by 9 p.m.
I recall a number of long school board meetings when my friend, the late Edgar Lightbody, was superintendent of schools here and the coffee consumption after the meeting.
Edgar drove (or herded) his old black Chrysler from the west side of the high school where Safeway is now located, to Tenth Street.
(In those days Clemmy never gave a new Mercury or Ford to the superintendents).
It was always quite a thrill to be a passenger in Edgar's Chrysler when, after midnight or 1 a.m., adjournment, he would back that black beast.
You can verify this with his former secretary Mary (Ritterbusch) Freeman:
Edgar seemingly never looked back when he backed that car to the street. I still don't know how he did it without hitting the building, garbage cans or Leo O'Flaherty's pickup.
But made it we did and then the old Chrysler would wheel us to the TeePeeInn, better known as the Transport Inn.
I have a lot of fond memories of Edgar.
Verne Pickering, Larry Parker and myself were given a tour at Gigstad Animal Clinic the other day. Actually I was trying to talk Larry into buying his wife, Marge, a Basenji dog, instead of a Sealyham terrier, a favorite of the Parkers.
Pick has a peppy Dalmatian and I don't think I interested him much in the Basenjis.
Doc has a half dozen of his prize animals in the kennel and this fall will be pup time, hopefully many.
The Basenji is an African breed dog, about the height of a Cocker Spaniel. It has short hair, a strange curled tail and is characterized by licking its paws and its inability to bark.
A book was written on the animal and Walter Brennan starred in the movie "Lady."