~ Boyd County, Nebraska
August 23, 1920: Was a nice day, until evening clouded and got windy but never rained. We went to Chas. Ward’s in morning. They finished at 10 a.m., and Mrs. Ward and I, also Della, Laura and Francis came with Will in the wagon down here. We brought Mrs. Ward’s dinner, consisting of roast Beef, Beans, Corn, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Apricot sauce, Butter and cream. Then I made peach pie, fixed cucumber and onions, and we put on Bread and Jelly and coffee, so got a dinner in a hurry as Mrs. O. Ernest came with more cream and Milk, and Mrs. Merle Gallantine came to help with dinner also.
After dinner, Rudolph Andersen brought Mrs. Tom Ernest and Lorin, Mrs. Emanuel Woolhiser and Havalin and Mrs. Orvil Ernest, so we had plenty of help. Mr. B. Elsworth and Papa came. Those helping Will were Mr. A. Ward. Guy Pierce, Messrs. J. Ableidinger, M. Gallentine, Floyd Sherlock, Emanuel Woolhiser, Tom Ernest, Chas. Ward and Mr. W. Gallentine came in p.m.
The Machine crew were Orvil Ernest and Chas. Hines, Ernest, Separator man and Hines, Engineer. They finished 1275 Bu. Oats and barley and started on the Rye, but had 2 hrs. trouble, so didn’t finish and folks went home at 10 p.m., except Chas. Hines came back for night after taking Ernests home.
~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
August 23, 1931, Sunday: Bright, warm and wind blew. Will and I got ready, packed car, and left for Rapid City via Elshires, O’Kreek, White River, where we ate along the river near the Catholic Church, on to Kadoka, west to Rapid City, passed through Cedar Pass, all the towns in route.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Elshire, Mrs. John Jansen, Carl Anderson, Tom Sazama and a man named Joe from Osmond, Nebraska, Evelyn and Anne Lambert, Will and I made the trip to American Legion Convention, and got to Baken Tourist Park at dark and had a 3 room cabin reserved, and got 2 cots, and Tom Sazama and Carl and Joe went to another park as Baken was filled. We got supper, and the men went up town, and the Legionnaires are celebrating all kinds of ways, and after midnight there was a dance at Baken Park and all kinds of entertainment.
August 23, 1932, Tuesday: Bright, but cool indoors and very few flies, as I had fresh pork that Otto and Will cut up to fry and lard to render, and flies never bothered, and I got along fine and got 2 meals for Will. Otto, Wm and Narvin took lunch to the hills and mowed and raked hay.
August 23, 1936: We went to Wooster vs. Hidden Timber ball-game at H.T., then on to Tom Wright’s west of O’Kreek, and he was not home, back to Furreys where Louise, Dorothy and 9 day old son William Harrison Furrey were asleep.
August 23, 1943, Monday: Hot forepart last night and cool towards morning, bright, got to 94 above, but clouded in a hurry just towards the sun from 2 to 5 p.m., but a few drops of rain here, and the sun was bright towards evening. I wrote in diary, played solitaire, and washed my hair, and had to fight ants even before breakfast, for they were all over the table in the kitchen, but I got most of them this day.
August 23, 1946, Friday: I fried some meat, but it is on ice and cool, so I left it there. Got 2 meals and fed partridges corn on east porch. It was a lot of pastime for me to see them. Will had to walk back 1 ½ miles to get car North of Strids.