Editor,s Notebook

Sept 8, 2022

Earlier this week, a subscriber to our e-edition reported he had purchased at an auction a small box that had Long & Son Hardware, Superior, Nebraska, stenciled on it.

I envisioned the box to be smaller but much like the one I have in my garage which holds the leaves to the dining room set my mother purchased in 1941. Only that box has the name of C. R. Phillipi Furniture, Superior, Neb. Mr. Phillipi was married to Grandfather Blauvelt’s sister, In 1918, he and my grandfather opened a furniture and undertaking business in the building at Fourth and Central which in more recent yea...