~Hidden Timber, South Dakota
August 22, 1928, Wednesday: Another bright day until towards evening clouds, but only a sprinkle here. Dave, Harriet and I went to St. Francis, got there at 8:30 our time, and the funeral was after 10 o’clock, and we all came home, and Dave went to Valentine to get Louise and Nellie, as a telegram at St. Francis said that they will be there after midnight.
Helen had a nice funeral, but not a large one, only friends and relatives, and she was laid to rest at St. Francis cemetery on the right side as you go in.
August 22, 1933, Tuesday: A real rain last night and a very strong south wind. Today cloudy, cold a.m., bright towards evening. I went to the table for breakfast, and Will also helped me to the wash-room n the morning and evening. I stayed in the front room until after dinner, came in my room and slept among so many flies, and to the table for supper. Maggie waited on me and got the meals and canned corn, made plum-butter, canned plum juice, and made water-melon pickles.
August 22, 1934, Wednesday: Rained in the night and early morning, then clear and cool rest of day. Maggie got meals, and she and Billie Chauncey and Fritz picked plums down the river in p.m. Maggie washed Elmer’s and Will’s and her own Sunday clothes, and ironed them and Elmer’s suit.
August 22, 1939, Tuesday: After a cool night, bright, except a few scattering clouds and north breeze quite strong in the day, changed to west and a calm evening. I got meals, lay down in afternoon, played solitaire, read some papers, listened to war threatening in Poland, Europe, between Germany and Poland news.
August 22, 1945: Another cool night, bright nice day. Will mowed, came for dinner, and this evening finished the low land in Wisenberger Pasture and started on land on hill north of windbreak. Van Epps, Hand and Sonny stacked last of hay on Quigley, finished at 5 p.m., got the mail and brought it here, and Billie Van Epps was along and wanted to see the hay measurement book and to know the size of their stacks, for now have finished 64 of them, and Hank said that he and Sonny were going to Elmer Chauncey’s to paint the house and barn and outbuildlings, and Van Epps is to take them over this evening.
I got 3 meals, put waste fat in cans, washed some clothes by hand, and Tom Colombe came this forenoon at about 10:30 a.m. and said that Aunt Blanche Herman died at Mother of Grace Hospital, Gregory, at 1:15 p.m. after dinner yesterday, from an operation for obstruction of bowels. Funeral will be at Colome Friday at 2 p.m. Tom Colombe and Louise came out home at 1 .m. this morning, and will go back to Aunt Blanche’s at once, and already told Ed and Tom Whiting, and he will call Jake and William at St. Francis, also Uncle Crist at Bristow, Nebraska.