in Misc. Diary Entry

March 22, 1941: Cross and Crown

~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota

Was cloudy and cold. I got part of meals. Will helped me a lot for we roasted beef and canned 6 qts. I finished Cross and Crown blocks, 56 of them, about 9 1/2 square. Seth got 2 loads hay at hay land and gave cattle 2, for had 1 on rack. He and Will took the tires for tractor that were in the basement in the dump-cart to Seth’s Garage and put them on tractor. 

Will fell off the dump-cart into the creek as they went, got wet. This was last evening, and Will has a cold in his head, so this didn’t help. He sneezed for 3 days and it is quitting now. Ben Clausen got a beaver, so Will got it in the car, and he and Ben went to the store before dinner. 

Robert Du Bray came in his nice Chevrolet Car, was waiting for the mail, so went back after dinner. He watched Ben skin the beaver. Ben got $1.00 for an $8.00 Mink hide that he was offered at Winner. This $1.00 came from Shubert Hide Co., Chicago, Ill.


LISA’S NOTES: According to Beth Donaldson, “Cross and Crown” is what this designed was called by the Ladies’ Art Company #151 and the Kansas City Star in 1930. She writes, “It also had two other names: Nancy Page called it Bouquet’s Quilt, and the Pennsylvania Farmer and Carrie Hall named it Tulip Wreath.”