~ Boyd County, Nebraska
September 7, 1920: Was a nice day and wind blew some. I washed clothes and mopped kitchen. Will and Brad hauled Howard’s alfalfa in and Will had dinner over there and I went for water and came home with him in the evening. Papa and Mamma and E. Woolhiser went to Omaha and Mamma wanted Louise’s coat measured. They left on early train. Mrs. C. Brownfield and Mrs. D. McDuffee called here on way home from Spencer. The line south is fixed so alright.
~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
September 7, 1930, Sunday: Nice and warm until in p.m. cooler and clouded in evening. An east wind all day and quite strong, that is, real drafty in the house, for Harry and Louise came with Harley Edward, 3 weeks, and he had a time to keep out of the draft.
Ed, Rena, Leo, Edward, Charlotte, Clarence and Yvonne Margaret, who is 7 months old, came in a buggy, but Yvonne wasn’t old enough to sit any place. We had pork-bone, roasting ears, tomatoes and watermelon. In p.m. we had a choke-cherry drink and plain cake. I finished cooking the meat this a.m., but did not get everything cleaned up, but had no headache today. Wm, Ben, Ed, Harry and Will had a visit, as did Louise, Rena and I.
September 7, 1931: This is Labor Day, but we all worked. I fried meat and got the meals. Will started to cut cane and did the chores, for Wm was at the hay field. Mr. and Mrs. Lattimore and Glen Raymond came for some time at noon.
September 7, 1933, Thursday: Bright, hot day. I went to sewing machine and sewed a dress for myself and finished Will’s night-shirt, and in p.m. Maggie helped me wash my hair, first time since my misfortune last May, and it dried in a hurry.
Maggie canned plums and did all the other every-day jobs. In late p.m., I started to cut string-beans that Mrs. John Boyd brought this a.m., and they were here yesterday also and to-day she and Mr. got a load of cow chips in the pasture. She also brought us some everlasting-flowers.
Narvin went to the pasture, and he and Will worked at hay, bunching it for Curt never got tractor repairs that he and Will ordered early morning at Roy Carr’s on mail from Valentine. He and Luifred Martin came in the evening in a truck, and wanted to go to Witten tomorrow to get tractor repairs, for those from Valentine that came on the mail are too high. Curtie Elshire came on horseback, and he and Wm looked for hogs, got 2 pheasants, and we had a nice dinner, for we were real hungry for fresh game.
In p.m. they went to Ross’s Store and Wm got some shells and some gum for us. Ben Clausen came late p.m. in a wagon for some water, his well is bum.
September 7, 1934, Friday: Cold night, bright, nice until 10:30 a.m., S.W. breeze quite strong and continued all day and quit for awhile in the evening. I made or rather finished the orders, and Maggie mailed them and got the mail. She had to catch Tennessee, and in order to, had to drive the herd to the barn-yard. She got the meals, baked bread, that is mixed it. I kneaded it once, put it in pans and baked it, also mended gloves and stockings, played solitaire and tried to sleep in p.m., but hens cackled so much at the back porch that I couldn’t. Maggie ironed some clothes, also, and did the other necessary work.
Elmer, Fritz and Will stacked thistles, came by Ben’s, got tube for Fritz and freight at the store on the way home in the evening.
September 7, 1936, Monday: Bright, nice day. Thomas and Lemoyne got in before bedtime last evening, so after breakfast they left in Tom’s car with Bud and Stanley Whiting for Labor Day, Winner, S.D. Will and I cleaned house, at a lunch, went to Rosebud late p.m. Will saw Dr. Jones, got me in Rosebud Hospital after we had supper at Bailey’s Restaurant.
It was 8 o’clock when I entered Hospital and Will went back home. There are 5 other patients in this ward.
September 7, 1952, Sunday: Bright, cool morning, hot day, no clouds. Furreys were at church at O’Kreek at 9 a.m. and here for dinner. We had apple and gooseberry pies, sliced tomatoes and cream that Furreys brought, also potatoes and gravy, pork chops, chicken, dressing and salad of bananas and apples, mayonnaise and cream, bread, butter, coffee and cream, ice water, mustard.
The men went up My Creek to see if any pheasants or chickens were there, but none shot. Louise and Dorothy washed dishes this noon and I took a nap. Wm Abbott came in his Buick to ask about moving hay across the river. Furreys went home early, as Dorothy is to go to Mission to a motel, as Helen stayed there. Billie goes to school tomorrow at Mission, also Mary to Nelson School. Louise takes her as Harry goes early with Billie to High School.
September 7, 1954, Tuesday: We visited with Athel, Doris and David. Jimmie has a sling shot given him for his fifth birthday this day from Eileen, Stanley’s daughter, and we hope he gets more gifts.