~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
August 24, 1929, Saturday: A bright day. The girls cleaned and we all got the meals and did the ordinary work. Roy went around stock. Dave got mail at store, and Will worked around the place, and in p.m. he got Madeline Wagner while the girls took a bath at the river, and Will took them all to O’Kreek where they went to practice for Legion Doings tonight. Will came back, and Roy, Louise, Dave and Will and I went over to O’Kreek to spend the evening.
August 24, 1932, Wednesday: Bright and warmer and a south west breeze, and flies so thick in the house, but I managed to finish the meat and had to make sausage and fry it all and make 2 meals and lunch.
August 24, 1938, Wednesday: Cool in the night, strong N.E. wind, so everything dusty this morning, so I had to clean the table completely before we ate breakfast. I baked cookies, sour cream, and frosted them with caramel frosting, also got the meals and played solitaire, slept in p.m. and got clothes soaked, for Will got in water. Then Mr. Chauncey and Dick (Roy) came, and they measured or estimated the hay-land that Chaunceys cut and raked, Mr. Neil, Dick and Elmer did the work, 2 at a time, and it is 800 acres. Will then washed clothes and we rinsed them in p.m., but it sprinkled rain, so Will started to hang them out, and brought them right back in.
August 24, 1941, Sunday: We got 6 prairie chickens and 1 pheasant so had a real feed in the evening.
August 24, 1945, Friday: We got to Hermans in plenty of time for the funeral, and those there were Frank Ruble, Bassett, Nebr., Aunt Blanche’s brother and her niece Bernice and Husband. Bernice was born when Aunt Blanche’s sister Beulah died, so Mrs. Ruble raised her, that is Aunt Blanche’s Mother, and she is dead now. Also Edna Ruble died 2 months ago, and Frank and Charlie are the only ones left. I never asked where Charlie was. Saw Sophie Herman Peoples and her Husband. Jim and Rosie are at St. Charles, and her brother Tom is in defense at Hastings, Nebraska. All that are left are Uncle Frank and Aunt Mary Herman’s Family. I also saw Mrs. Ida Langan and daughter Nora, and she was so glad to see me, I felt bad.
We took them to church and the graveyard, and when we got in the car to west of Aunt Blanche’s grave, Mrs. Langan said, “Good-Bye, Blanche. I won’t get any more flowers nor cards from you at Mother’s Day, and I am the last of the old timers left,” for John Langan was witness to our mother and father’s marriage.
August 24, 1949, Wednesday: Billie Abbott came with A. A. Harrison, Produce Man, Winner, and they loaded 10 roosters and 72 hens in his truck.