The eats were so plentiful, Roast Chicken, Goose and Deer Meat, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Gravy, Dressing (several kinds), Cranberries (each family brought a dish of cranberries), Apple Salad, Several kinds of Pickles, butter, Poppy Seed Rolls, Cake, Pumpkin, Carrot and Cherry Pies. A Silver Trim White Cake, 3 tiers, for Anniversary. Julia baked this in memory of their anniversary. We had dinner and supper, was it good. Wm Joseph and Harry played Will and I Pitch, five games. Will and I won, and the Ladies washed dishes, visited, looked at nice embroidery and crochet work that Donna made. The young men and Dorothy played cards in Bedroom, and Billie, Mary and Dick were outside with B.B. guns. We came home after dark, and Lolleys were still at Thomas’s having a good a time as we.
in Food, Thanksgiving
November 25: The Eats Were so Plentiful
~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
November 25, 1926, Thursday: Cloudy, cold Thanksgiving Day and snowed in p.m. and was quite a storm, but bright before bed-time. Henry and Will worked at fence, and Will got rack at Lattimores, and after William came in with load of corn he husked, he and Henry got hay, and Will did the chores. I washed the clothes and didn’t hang them out on account of N.W. wind strong and snowy.
November 25, 1937, Thursday: Will dressed a turkey. I put it in the oven and we had a dinner with the other trimmings, for Harry and Family, Louise, Harley, Dorothy and Billie brought pumpkin pies. The children had colds, but they enjoyed the day anyway. Furreys went home before sunset, so on this Thanksgiving Day we had plenty to eat. This day is a Birthday Party for 1 year old Rita Marie Gehlsen, so Elsie had a nice angel-food cake for her, and she and Wm V. E. went to Carl Gehlsen’s last evening.
November 25, 1945, Sunday: Will fed calves, then he and Hank got ready to go to Abbotts to a dinner of roast turkey, duck and chicken, potatoes, gravy, corn, apple salad, beets, relish, dressing, apple, pumpkin and plum pies with whipped cream, bread, butter, cream and coffee. This is 20th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Wm Abbott.
November 25, 1948, Thursday (Thanksgiving Day): Rained last evening, but not too muddy, for sun shone most of this day to go to Wm Fronek’s to their Silver Wedding Anniversary Surprise, but Will and I got there. Bess Adrian, sons Bob, Dean, Wm and Dick and their teacher Miss Dittner, Harry, Louise, Harley, Dorothy, Billy and Mary were there. Wm J. and Julia, Bob and Ronnie were at home, and Donna was at Aberdeen, S.D., for Teachers’ State Meeting.
November 25, 1954, Thursday: Bright, nice but chilly Thanksgiving Day. Harry, Harley, Billie, Dorothy and Mary came, brought 2 pumpkin pies, 1 qt. cream, 2 qts. pickles, a glass of jell (plum), pan rolls, and we had roast turkey, dressing and potatoes and gravy, bread and oyster dressing, 2 kinds, cranberries, Jello, salad of bananas, grapes and apples, coffee, butter, milk. Eight of us ate at the long table in front room. Men played cards and visited and read magazines. Mary and Louise put dishes in washer and cleaned water out of basement caused from toilet flush, and mopped bathroom. Dorothy ironed shirts and handkerchiefs, the men visited in front room with Bus McKee, and Patsy and Mary visited in Blue room and played records and called square dances.