June 22, 1956, Friday

Bright, real hot, got to 111 above in p.m. but Men worked at alfalfa on Standing Cloud. I got eats and played solitaire, read some and Will had to rest but went to haying.

June 23, 1956, Saturday

Bright warm day but getting cooler. Athel & Doris put 2 large pieces of pork in our Deep Freeze and brought a jar of milk then went home to get dinner for Thomas and David helping Old Tom move their cattle to South Pasture by Carmen Harp’s and Tom Sr. took Bobbie, Jimmie, Patsy and Danny in his car to help move cattle from north and west of Thomas’s to pasture across river. Mr. Harp, Leslie and Will finished alfalfa on Standing Cloud. Mr. Harp went home to Ainsworth, Nebr. and he took milk, cream, ice-cream and meat from Thomas’s. Johnson went to Valentine via Brinda’s to a Show this eve and Will and I to Abbotts. Billie home as W. L. and Inez in Winner. We went around Highway to west and looked at cows.

June 24, 1956, Sunday

Bright day and strong south wind and a cloud came up in eve. Very dark and dusty but rain not much. There was 12 noon, we did not go as heifer had to have dead calf pulled but she is alive. Leslie helped Will. They went to Brinda’s for dinner. Louise & Mary to church at St. Therese and here in p.m. We went up My Creek to fish (none). Will & I parted ways, Louise & I parted then to Schuppen Corner. Mary & Louise went home, we to Haukaas School, met Harley, Billy and Harry. They went to Mission vs. Parmalee ball game, Mission won. They will get 5 gals. oil for Fly Rubs in pasture and a cream separator at their new home (Herman Larson Place) and we can use it. We went to Barthelson’s, no one home, then chored, to cows, O.K., to Stanley’s. Stanley, Gary, Curley and Pearl were to go to Winner vs. Valentine game but did not go on account of storm. Men will come tomorrow to help vaccinate calves for Blackleg, also Thomas, David and Athel to help. Mr. Harp there and here before 10 p.m. He came back from Ainsworth at 3 p.m.

June 25, 1956, Monday

Bright Day and not much rain last eve. Billie Abbott, Lyle Bartleson, Stanley, Gary, Curley, Thomas and David, Will and Mr. Harp, also Leslie on horseback vaccinated 196 calves, branded and ear marked 25. Jerry and Billie came up and Athel. We roasted beef, cooked hamburger, gravy, potatoes, oyster dressing, salad of orange, lettuce and cherries, another of peas, boiled eggs, mayonnaise and cheese, coffee and ice-tea, Koolaid. We baked apple, raisin and black cherry with boysenberry pie. Doris stayed home with Danny, Jimmie, Bobbie & Patsy and we sent leftovers from dinner to them by David & Athel. Everything I do isn’t the right way so it makes it hard to get a meal. Too many bosses. I have my way of cooking and it is hard to have to change. We will have to fix our place so others can give meals to Big Crowd to work cattle and I can stay at home. Will won’t go to other meals as he wants to eat at home. Athel has rheumatic arthritis of crippling kind in wrists and hay fever so should not do too much work. All came in to eat pie and ice-tea but Billie Abbott and Lyle Bartleson. Will gave Thomas’s children a poor calf to raise. One has broken leg but I hear no more of it. Women washed dishes, had to clean out sink drain as it was clogging. I laid down in p.m. and slept. Billie Johnson cried and cried this day. Men took 13 bulls to Big Pasture.

June 26, 1956, Tuesday

Boyd Larmer’s Birthday. Bright hot day. Leslie started to mow on Strids and he had welded trail mower hitch twice but finally got it to work and finished 1/3 of alfalfa on Strids and Mr. Harp raked it. Will looked at cows in Big Pasture. Mr. Harp raked it. Will looked at cows in Big Pasture and all O.K., also cows here, had 1 calf, this is the heifer bunch. Men have to get heifer up that lost a calf Sunday and water her 2 times a day. Jerry and kids did not come up. I got eats and was warming leftovers all this day after breakfast. Will and I looked at cows and no bulls to count as are out with cows.

June 22, 1946, Saturday

Bright, got very hot in the day. Will and Hank chored and got house ready to move and I laid down in p.m. and Will came up to tell me to come down to see them roll the house onto foundation but they had trouble so got it only on foundation about 4 ft. or 6 ft. so 20 or 18 more to go. Will and I went to Wm Abbotts to get beef they brought from Winner last night. They went to Brownie Anderson’s last night to a birthday party and home at 2 a.m. so no one up but W.L., so he gave us the meat. I washed a few pieces and went with Will to get meat and he was peeved.

June 23, 1946, Sunday

Boyd Larmer’s birthday. Hot south wind, bright, wind was strong. Will took Hank and I to 10:30 church, also Athel, Doris and David. Will and I rested on return from church until 3 p.m. then ate lunch, put sweep battery in car, took salt to cattle. No water in south well, all but 2 tanks full on Moore Creek. Went to Lew McKee’s and they will come Tuesday to help vaccinate the calves for Blackleg. We stopped at Furreys, had a lunch of bread, butter, milk, cake and peach sauce, came to Wm Pierce’s to get well tools, then home for night at 10:30 p.m. Hank left on horseback after church to go to Elmer Chauncey’s to see Sonny Arcoren and he went with Elmer and Sonny to Kriz diamond ball-game where they played Wood.

June 24, 1946, Monday

Bright, hot day until clouds passed in p.m. Strong dusty in places Northwest wind and a few large hail at Winner and dark clouds passed to North. I got meals, that is breakfast and dinner, for Hank had supper at Abbotts where he helped brand and castrate calves, 41 head, also Chas. McCormick, Keith, Gene and Chas. Jr. helped there as Abbotts helped McC.’s in a.m. Will and I to Winner in p.m., stopped at Abbotts going and return but no ice-cream in town to bring to Abbotts. Hank, W.L. and Billie got our cattle from Big Pasture to River Pasture in eve. Hank and Will got house to about 6 ft. of finished and ran house to west to about half of foundation. Mrs. Abbott, Delores and Cora Ann came in Abbott’s car. Delores is driving but could not go east of here so Will pushed. Stanley, Gary and Curly came this eve for awhile.

June 25, 1946, Tuesday

Bright, warm day. I got meals. Will helped me get dinner on table and Athel Whiting walked down to get our camera and she helped me get all dishes washed and fix a lunch for me at 4 p.m. Will and Hank chored. Hank went out to River Pasture to get in cattle and Bus and Jesse Lewis came on their Buckskin Colored Horses and helped Hank to get cattle in. Lew McKee came in Pick Up. They all vaccinated 123 of our calves for Blackleg and 1 sick one was hemorrhagic vaccinated. After dinner they put Wagner House on Foundation and straightened it. They ate lunch and went home. Will and I took Athel home, then Doris went along to get the mail. Will and I went out to fix fence east of wheat grass for put 49 of our heifers and 1 of Van Epps there, also a calf we got from Henry Arcoren to wean. Sonny came horse-back to see Hank and went back to Elmer’s.

June 26, 1946, Wednesday

Bright, warm until toward eve clouded, real rain and some hail, then South wind blew hard but wind changed every direction this eve. I got meals but no dinner as Will & Hank vaccinated at McKee’s, came home to put wethers back in cow who lost a calf. Hank got her in horseback. Will got Abbotts in car, they took him home after supper, fixed cow O.K. Fried chicken and washed clothes by hand.

June 22, 1936, Monday

A strong hot south wind. I got breakfast and put things so boys could get their dinner for Will took me to Rosebud to see Dr. Jones at Hospital about my neck and shoulder, for I have an enlargement on same. We had dinner at Cafe, got Mabel and Beverly and Wayne and went to St. Francis. Mabel left children there at Jake’s. We came back to Dr., then home to get supper but first looked at Quigley land to see if any hay. LeMoyne went to see the stock, he got dinner for Red Cates who came to fix Mike’s tooth. Thomas took Ben’s harrow home, got rake at Chauncey’s Pasture Corner then the mower at Tom’s and was fixing it in eve. LeMoyne got Ben’s mule Jack in River Pasture and took it home in eve.

June 23, 1936, Tuesday

Bright, nice day but quite warm in p.m. I got meals. Will got in water and went to Valentine and back in eve so as to get in the clothes, for I washed them and baked bread and churned butter. LeMoyne went to pasture and got some of Papke’s cattle out of Christensen’s Pasture and 1 of Schulte steers out of Pierce’s. Thomas got the mower fixed and started to mow alfalfa and also fixed rake so he could rake it. Mr. Lattimore brought us fish late p.m.

June 24, 1936, Wednesday

A strong south wind, hot and dusty. I got breakfast and Ben came on foot while Will was washing dishes, for I got my clothes packed, then Ben, Will and I got Mr. Mannhurst, then Ed and went to Mission, left Ben at Dr. Smith’s. We had dinner at Jones Cafe, Rosebud. They took me to hospital where I stayed, was put in west ward down-stairs, and so hot. The men went to school-house meeting and Will and Jim Dowd got in touch with Hot Springs National Sanitarium, then a Cassidy boy to do Ben’s work, then home. LeMoyne rode on stock and got the meals. Thomas mowed alfalfa.

June 25, 1936, Thursday

A very hot south wind and was 112 at some places, and a few clouds in evening, but no rain. I got my three meals, sewed on Durham tobacco sacks to cover lard, played solitaire, read the mail or papers and magazines given to patients in the ward. Nellie Larmer visited me quite a bit, and I got my sacks at her room after breakfast, after Dr. Jones examined me and gave me Rays treatment. The men out home, I suppose, are busy with the work.

June 26, 1936, Friday

North breeze cooler until p.m., then got warm again. I took the Durham sacks to Nell’s room before she got up, ate breakfast and read some, then Will came for me at 10 a.m., also took Johnnie Flood to O’Kreek. We left Flood at O’Kreek, had dinner in Winner, got chicks at Colson Hatchery, groceries and my dresses at Outlaw, gas, back to Hawkin’s Hatchery where we got turkeys and only a couple dozen of each chicks and turkeys, back to O’Kreek where we mailed letters, stopped at picnic given for delegates to Washington and I told Mrs. Lambert that Evelyn was operated on. LeMoyne and Thomas caring for stock and mowing alfalfa.

June 22, 1926, Tuesday

Bright cool a.m., a shower in places in p.m. but beautiful at times. Will went to Lewis cattle and home for dinner and in p.m. William, who had dinner with Frank Ruble at Dick Schmidt’s, went through our cattle and drove out Lewis’s cattle. George elied corn all day. In the eve or late p.m. Rena, Helen, Charlotte & Edward came and Louise and I went along to Store and got the mail, then they went home via Cousens. We did ordinary work and sewed a little. Mr. & Mrs. Swan Nelson stopped as they lost their horses and were looking for them.

June 23, 1926, Wednesday

Quite a nice day. Louise washed the clothes and I helped a little as the other work of caring for chickens and meals takes most of my time. She mopped the kitchen after washing a very large load and was real tired in the evening. William, Will & Frank Ruble got our cattle out of Lewis’s and had dinner here and in p.m. worked our cattle and drove them out north. George elied all day. Wm. Smith came for eggs from Wisenbergers in p.m.

June 24, 1926, Thursday

A nice day. William went to Carter to see Dr. Malster about the lumps on his neck and was home late eve and has to take treatments. Will went around cattle and north to Haukaas’s and Snyder’s where he had dinner and was home late p.m. George elied and finished in p.m. about 4 o’clock then cleaned the barn some. Louise ironed all the clothes and mended in p.m. and washed some windows upstairs. I did the work of meals and made lemon-pie and wrote letters and fixed orders as Will ordered a pair of made to order Boots. Jake Wisenberger brought crate to be filled and rode to store with Will & George to mail letters after supper.

June 25, 1926, Friday

Rained a little in night, a very nice day after a few clouds in morn passed away. Will & George went over north to put in another 1/2 mile of fence and Mr. H. L. Hepburn helped some, came with them in eve for the night. William started to eli corn on Moore’s. Ed, LeMoyne Kenneth, Seth, Rena and Charlotte came for the car to go to Valentine and Louise went along. The boys took team home. I did ordinary work and finished a dress. Mr. Elshire and Bill came selling groceries. Mr. Menz, Ada & Gale came for corn.

June 26, 1926, Saturday

A nice day. Paul Meyers, Helen, LeMoyne, Seth & Kenneth brought Louise home in a.m. Wm Smith came late last night so he and Will cut out cows & calves to take to Rodeo. William elied and George & Hepburn finished fence. Mr. Hugh Smith came in and he and Will went to the store. I made bread, apple & cream butters and cake. Louise cleaned the up-stairs and front-room and kitchen. Jake Wisenberger got eggs last eve. George, William, Louise and W. Smith went to Dance.

June 17, 1956, Sunday

Bright Day so Will went up My Creek to look for Cows and Bulls. He went in Pick Up as Johnsons are home today. I cleaned dishes and last eve Will did a lot so not many to wash. I mopped kitchen, bath & pantry with a small mop rag as I cannot rinse much. Just finished and Dave, Jeanne, Jack and Cherrie Parker came in their Light Green with a white top Buick Car they got at Oshkosh, Nebr., S.W. of Arthur. Arthur is 17 miles to south of Ranch where they are now. They came to Mission then with Thomas’s to their place for the night and we had eats & melons. Will had Dave and Leslie put up hay so Parkers to Thomas’s for ice-cream and back to Nebr.

June 18, 1956, Monday

Bright hot day after cool a.m. Mr. Harp came, so he, Leslie and Will put up rest of alfalfa on Wagner, making 6 stacks now and it was very damp in morning but as Leslie was moving mowing outfit to Standing Cloud he broke something on mower so Will and I went to Valentine in p.m., got it in a hurry, saw Wm Pierce and he was getting repairs also. The goose here is his. Will got a few groceries and a Frosty Freeze and me a hamburger. We got milk at Thomas’s, had potato soup for supper. I have sneezes and cough on account of hot weather but sleep good at night. Parkers will come back July 1st to contract haying. I ate melon today but Will had none.

June 19, 1956, Tuesday

Bright day, in fact just too hot in p.m. but I never looked as I pulled shade on Kitchen window down but was too hot to rest. I slept this a.m. on Bed and a little in chair this p.m. I got eats and played some solitaire and fixed Diary & Accounts. Will and Mr. Harp moved rake and sweep as Leslie took Mowing Outfit but a tire had to be fixed on sweep, it was valve, so they got it repaired then Leslie lost key to something on Mowing Outfit, spent nearly all p.m. looking for it. Mr. Harp raked but no mowing. Will rested not knowing there was no mowing. Jerry and Billie got mail and mailed some for us. Jerry is washing clothes.

June 20, 1956, Wednesday

Bright hot day. I washed clothes and Will put them on line and brought them in. Doris put some on Porch, and Athel put out my rug. They, Jimmie, David, Bobbie and Danny came with some milk and took eggs home. Will looked at cows. In p.m. he went where men worked at Standing Cloud and put up 1 stack late p.m. We ate watermelon.

June 21, 1956, Thursday

Another day as usual for was hot. Men worked at alfalfa on Standing Cloud and up My Creek and mowing at last half. I got eats and played solitaire and not much else. Johnsons took Billie to Dr. Johnson, Valentine, this eve and Mr. Harp went up to Thomas’s for a while this eve. Billie has sore left ear.

June 17, 1946, Monday

Cool, bright, clouded in eve and some rain. I got meals, laid down in forenoon and p.m. after getting in at 20 to 12 last night. Will and Hank chored and went to fix mill near Sundquists, had to put cylinder from well at windbreak north of here and well is pumping O.K. now. Will is all in also but he keeps going and things are getting fixed.

June 18, 1946, Tuesday

Rained last night, continued this day so had to have fire in heater and go to bed to keep warm when fire got low. Hank and Will chored and rested. I got meals and felt better.

June 19, 1946, Wednesday

Still it rains but quit toward evening and sun shone a few minutes, was cool so fire in heater and Will cleaned and fixed oil-stove so I fried chicken, also I fried on last eve. Hank and Will chored and Will cut bull thistles in yard. Hank went to Big Pasture and no bull, found him north of bull-pen, came in soaked with rain. Got the meals, played solitaire and read some and slept in a.m. and p.m. Will did not sleep today.

June 20, 1946, Thursday

Bright, North breeze cool so when [there was] no fire in heater, was chilly indoors. I got meals, lay down in p.m., played solitaire and read some. The Men chored and went to fix Well on Moore Creek and took off one joint, was pumping well and a little sand, so we went back after supper and looked at it and took tools back to Wm Pierce’s and I talked to Mrs. as Mr. is at Gregory Sale Pavilion as he is Brand Inspector. Marrs, Leah, Bobby, Carol at home and Bill Jr. newly married is fixing a foundation to move Chauncey house south of Kleins that Wm Jr. bought. Wm Jr. married Phyllis Vasser a few weeks ago and she is with her parents near Colome.

We stopped at Abbotts to see if they [could] bring us some meat tomorrow from locker at Winner. Delores, Billie and Cora Ann came horseback on Star, Jimmie and Trixy and got a tube tire. We used the tire on the way to White Horse Ranch and return. They also took one tire pump. They had dinner here and I fried biscuit dough as there isn’t any bread but Will and I got some in late p.m. Will cleaned carburetor and we went to Whiting Store. I stayed at church for Elsie and Mary [were] cleaning church. Bill, Billie, Dean and Marjorie came for Elsie. Church is nice now.

June 21, 1946, Friday

Bright, warm day. I got meals, laid down in p.m. Hank and Will chored and mowed at Wagner House to Foundation, they put 2X6 planks under house sill and the planks on piles of posts, blocks, jacks, anything to hold up planks, rollers were between the 2X6 planks, and house is very heavy so it is a job. I played solitaire.

June 17, 1936, Wednesday

North and N.E. breeze, cool indoors, bright, warm outside. I got meals, slept in p.m. and mopped kitchen, our room floors and finished the woodwork, that is, wiped kalsomine from it. The men put some calves in round corral to wean, then counted the rest out into big pasture and LeMoyne rode in p.m. and Will and Thomas fixed the pipe that drained the overflow from the first windmill to lake-bed. They had to go to Chauncey’s to get pipe cut but got it fixed. The Seed-Feed Loan Collector of White River was here to see what Will could do about his loan. A heifer to have calf was gone so LeMoyne looked until late for her and Will and Thomas went in car after supper to Ben’s and Lattimores but did not find her.

June 18, 1936, Thursday

Bright, hot, dusty South wind until towards evening clouds from the north but no rain, and wind changed to N.W. before bed-time. I got meals but Will did most of supper, for I washed and hung out clothes. Will got in water and carried clothes to line and hauled out waste water, for he finished the painting in our room on the wood-work and went to the store to mail letters and get groceries and took eggs, then he got in the clothes and washed dinner dishes and fixed supper. I put potatoes on to fry, folded the clothes and made the beds upstairs, for I washed the bedding, and the boys managed to sleep by caring for the beds other times.

June 19, 1936, Friday

A south-east wind, bright, cool. I got meals and Will varnished the Chiffonnier, and I gilted the handles to the same. Will in forenoon had to go to the pasture to help Lemoyne get a calf, then he came for the car and brought the calf home, and Lemoyne got the cow in the evening. Will fed the calf some milk and ginger. Frank Van Epps got the lard press and later the hay-sweep, he also helped Will, Thomas and Lemoyne get a cow out of the river. Lemoyned looked for hogs at Ben’s, found them at Wisenbergers, then he went to the pasture and Thomas took lunch. They fixed fence, but Lemoyne was not at the ranch for he had to ride on the stock. Andrew Night-Pipe and Leslie Wade were here this early afternoon.

June 20, 1936, Saturday

A terrible south-east wind and warm. I got meals, baked bread, ironed clothes and mopped floors. Will chored, and he and Thomas and Lemoyne pulled out the cow from Rock Creek again, and after dinner the same cow was near the creek, so Frank Van Epps and Glen Lattimore, who brought home the sweep, pulled her out with their team as Will went down with the car.

He put root-beer on ice, then varnished center table and painted our toilet. Thomas and Lemoyne took lunch, rode on cattle, and finished the Big Pasture fence. Lattimores butchered a hog and they got it all cared for, so Frank brought the lard press back. Will went to the store and mailed letters and came right back after telling Ora Daywitts they had chickens at the post office.

June 21, 1936, Sunday

Cool S.E. wind changed to the south and back to S.E. and remained cool. I got breakfast and for dinner we ate ice-cream that Will froze after he and the boys chored. The boys went to dance at Hidden Timber Bowery and came home in Tom’s car, for Stanley got them last eve, they went to store, got Mose (Hinley) Boyd, then to Ed’s for dinner and on to Mission to Mission vs. Hidden Timber ball-game. Mission won 16-10. They weren’t home at bed-time. Ben Clausen came on his way to have Bonus Papers fixed as a mistake last time he was at Sazama’s, so went back to-day. After we ate ice-cream Will and I gave the cow that had been getting in creek some water and on out via Ben Clausen’s and on to Ed’s. Met them west of Couser Place, Ed, Rena, Edward, Charlotte, Clarence and Yvonne so they came down here, we ate ice-cream, then supper. Mr. Manhurst came horseback to see about not moving the Whiting School.

June 17, 1926, Thursday

Bright but real cold. N.W. wind and a little cloudy at midday but bright and nice p.m. except cool. Will & George fixed fence in a.m. and Will drove out cattle from cow-pasture and in p.m. William went for cattle east of here and George & Will fixed fence. Ben Clausen came from Naper in the p.m. and brought us some silver poplar. Louise mended and sewed and Bess crocheted, also they do so much of the work that I am lazy and sewed a little and tinkered around and got the meals. William went to Blacksmith shop and mailed some letters in the eve.

June 18, 1926, Friday

Bright beautiful morn but clouded and rained before noon and cold, cloudy until towards eve bright. Will & I went to the store in Ben’s car and waited for shovels for eli and on return at noon George went out to eli but too wet so he and William fixed fence in p.m. William drove out cattle and hoed potatoes in the forenoon. Ben started to fix garden-fence and Will helped him in p.m. and they finished. After we came from store, Will cleaned coop. Bess and Louise cleaned upstairs and did most of the other work and I cared for setting hens and little chicks.

June 19, 1926, Saturday

Strong south wind cold and a little cloudy at times. Louise and Bess cleaned the downstairs and did most of the work. I cared for chickens and put dip in the coop and in p.m. started to sew a dress for self. Will, George and William went to N.E. Wisenbergers and fixed fence, home at 4:30 p.m. for dinner then George & Will worked on Ed’s car and William went to Menz’s to get hair-cut late p.m. Ben Clausen went to Tom’s to work this morning, Jake Wisenberger came for eggs this morn to set hens.

June 20, 1926, Sunday

Sun shone all day except clouds in eve and wind then blew fiercely from the west and continued at bed-time, was cold wind in a.m. for Will, Bess, Louise and I went to O’Kreek early morn to church and no Mass so after getting oil & gas, came home via Hidden Timber and after dinner William took Louise and Bess to Tripp Co. where Bess went to Clearfield and on home tomorrow. She and Louise may get schools near Clearfield. George went home early morn with boys who came from Tripp Co. to Tom’s dance. William, Louise, George & Bess went from here. Will and I rested, then Ed, Rena, LeMoyne, Helen, Kenneth, Seth, Leo, Edward and Charlotte, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Cordier & baby, Mr. & Mrs. George Menz, Evelyn, Gale, Ethel, Delilia and Ada and Opie Bordeaux here this p.m., also John Wisebergers. Hidden Timber went to Keya Paha to play ball and passed here and in eve one car stopped to fill radiator and H.T. got beat. Dorian played Clearfield and William & George played with them so they had supper at Cihak and home late p.m. We made ice-cream and the men seined this p.m.

June 21, 1926, Monday

A terrible wind from N.W. in night, quite cold and cold this morn but bright, fair rest of day. Will plowed garden and he and William put it in. Will went with William Pierce in p.m. to get cattle out of sheep pasture and William finished garden and in eve he and Will fixed fence down on creek. George elied corn all day. Louise and I did up the work and in p.m. wrote letters and Louise made out an order. Wm Pierce, Rena and Kenneth were here for dinner. Bob Jones looking for cattle stopped here.

1926 June 16th Wednesday

Sun shone some but cold and cloudy at times. Will fixed fence here at home and George and William finished the north east pasture. Louise and Bess did up work and Louise started a dress and Bess did fancy work. I made bread but rested and girls took care of it, also made pie and ice-cream with Bess’s & Will’s help and Louis made a cake. Wright got hay for Mr. Drake from Diamond Springs, got the sledge-hammer in the eve. Bess and Louise walked to N.W. butte in eve.

1936 June 16th Tuesday

Some clouds after dinner, just dust and a sprinkle of rain from N.W. and west, rest of day bright and warm. I got meals, slept in p.m. and laid down in a.m. for an hour for we got in at 11:40 from show at O’Kreek and I got up at 6 a.m., kneaded down bread but it wouldn’t rise so I never baked it until eve, then I burnt it but the biscuits tasted good. Will, Allie Walton, LeMoyne and Thomas finished working at calves late p.m. then put them down in river pasture. Allie went home to Pierce’s for the men cut some out to wean and put in round corral before taking the herd to pasture. Tom Whiting came in his V8 car to see if the men knew where their gray colt was and he is with horses. Richard was with him.

1946 June 16th Sunday

Will and I got ready and we left for Abbotts at 7 a.m., got Mrs. and Mr., Billie and Cora Ann and their lunch, left for McCormicks, got Abbott’s tire, and left for White Horse Ranch. Saw Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McCormick, for boys were still in bed. Had coffee and sandwiches and milk at Gregory, passed through Carter, Jordan, Wagner, Colome, Gregory, Burke, Herrick to St. Charles, then left 18 and went south 14 miles to Naper, Nebr., then on to White Horse Ranch, South and South East, to a very large crowd, also a carnival company with Ferris Wheel, merry-go-round, and souvenirs.

White Horse Ranch has a large arena, corrals and chutes, a stage to put on entertainments, a large barn used to put on shows. They have white horses, cattle, dogs, ducks, peacocks, pigs, chickens, coyote, rabbits, turkeys, mice and sheep. They have about 20 young men 14 to 18 years, and girls that perform on these white horses. They ride Roman, 2, 3 and 4 horses, 1 boy on these horses, a parade with flags, jump and dance, also a bull and cow and calf perform on teeter totters. Some Indians and a large flag came to center of arena, also. These Indians live north of Naper, Nebraska, and are in Gregory, Co., South Dakota. Hundreds of folks were there, but the only ones we talked to were Elmer and Mary Chauncey and Sonny (Collins) Arcoren from out here.

1956 June 16th Saturday

Some clouds and rained at noon so men got up 2 and part of a stack alfalfa on Wagner Land and Johnson to Mission to trade and Mr. Harp home for weekend to Ainsworth, Nebr. Was a nice rain in 2 showers, one at noon and one when we looked at cows up My Creek towards eve and was real watery so ground wet. Just at dark, Johnson came in and brought our mail so we were glad so read a lot.