~ Boyd County, Nebraska
September 23, 1922: A bright day but cold in the morning and warm rest of day. Will and I hauled stock hogs from Brad’s to new fence, also I baked bread with Mamma’s help and she churned butter, we also finished stapling south and west side of fence.
September 23, 1923: A bright, warm day. Will went to Mattie Hynes in Holt Co. with Chas. Mitchell and Gene Bradstreet to get Mitchell cattle and there was an orphan calf so Will kept it home. They left 8:30 a.m. and were not back until 8:30 p.m. I had an awful lonely day, went for water and got dinner and waited. Mr. O. Clohson and son, Mr. A. Ward and Leo Kristine came to see Will.
~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
September 23, 1927, Friday: Bright, warm day after a cold night. Will raked the rest of the hay and Ben mowed millet and in the p.m. Ben drove hogs to the corn. Lawrence and Henry came home late at night, and Henry was on the job today, around cattle and in p.m. fixed fence east of here. Will and I went to the store, and then he took Lawrence home, and on return he and Ben cleaned jars of spoiled stuff at the creek. Louise went to school and was home late evening. I cooked apples for butter and cleaned jars and got the meals.
September 23, 1930, Tuesday: A terrific south wind in the night but no rain, wind blew the tops off of hay stacks and continued today, but not so strong, and the sun shone bright. The men chored and Will, Ben and Wm went to sand-bucket well on Moore Creek and got down 50 feet, so quit at 4 p.m., and Wm went to look for gravel along river, and Will and I went to the store and got coal-oil, gas and groceries. Wm Wagner came for Ben’s wagon and he and his family hauled a load of cow chips, and he brought it back in the evening. I got plum butter ready to cook and got a chicken dinner.
September 23, 1937, Thursday: Nice forenoon, clouded in p.m., a dust-storm from the west in the evening, then a rain until bedtime. This is Lee’s birthday. He is 23 years old, and Nellie Larmer’s birthday was yesterday.