1925 July 16th Thursday
A very cold night and day, bright and cool until p.m. quite warm. Will shocked barley and Geo. Smith finished cutting barley early p.m. Jake and Lawrence painted at house. Mr. G. Menz came in evening and brought back eli. Lawrence came in evening for Eagle brand. I fixed chicken & pie for dinner and in p.m. went out to where Will was shocking and sowed turnips & beets, then helped him shock barley.
1935 July 16th Tuesday
South wind strong, dusty in roads and bright, hot. I got breakfast and washed dishes. Will got potatoes peeled and then went to Daywitts, got Syringe, then got Otto and Delia, they left Mary Ellen at Tates, then I went along to Valentine. Otto and I took treatments and Delia had her teeth cleaned. We went to Zachery’s on Minnechaduza Creek 3 miles west [of] Valentine but no rhubarb, back to town where we got groceries and home via Old Fort and Kewanee. Will was sick to-day so Ed, Leo, Edward, Henry, Elmer and Bud Whiting did most of vaccinating and branding but Will got dinner and something to eat for the Pettitt boys who took some of their cattle from Guy Bailey’s to their home west of here. Fritz and Zike elied corn using 2 2-rows and throwing it in. I got supper. Mr. Chauncey, Billie and Neil came last eve and brought us Peas and Radish and men watched Moon Eclipse from 9:30 until toward 11 o’clock, then went to bed for Chauncey’s west home. I to bed at 9:15 but Elmer called me to see Eclipse.
AP Wirephoto. [Photograph 2012.201.B0405.0011], Photograph, July 16, 1935; (http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc427788/ : accessed July 15, 2015), Oklahoma Historical Society, The Gateway to Oklahoma History, http://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1945 July 16th Monday
Clouds in forenoon also damp but p.m. began to clear and sun set beautifully, was breeze from South west to dry the clothes. Wm Van Epps came to say that Hank Arcorne and Sonny were coming in a day or two but he wanted to mail a check to him which he did after he got in water to wash, for Will’s arms hurt him this day, so Will got washer ready, took the grass off of the yard he had bunched Friday and put it along fence near trees with a pitch fork and I washed the clothes. Will took first water and Van Epps second watering brought in rinse water. I finished clothes, put on line and brought them in, for Will and W.D. got yearlings in from River Pasture and separated 30 to put in Horse-pasture, took 30 to Big Pasture and 4 of Van Epps to be bred and Van Epps went home to go to Abbotts to get a cross-beam of our wrecked car body that is at Abbotts and we never got home. Will went out to mow after he sharpened sickle and came in to supper quite late. I got him eats but was sick at stomach so couldn’t eat much but never told Will as I sewed or mended dress I had on that was torn while he ate, then I ate only a little. Abbotts brought Van Epps 2-row home this p.m. but I don’t know who it was.
1955 July 16th Saturday
Cool morning but a beautiful a.m., p.m. was warmer. I wrote in diary and got sleepy so had to lay down and get rested. Jeanne & Ellen and children came a lot. Cherrie out bare-foot and feet pain so came here to cry awhile but a bite to eat and went home for Dinner when Will, Dave, Bill, Jack, Chester and Darrell came home at noon [from] mowing Wheat Grass by Chester, and Dave same. Chester raked in a.m. and p.m. mowed North wheat grass. Dave stacked, Bill driver of Cat to put hay on stacks, Dave and Will bunched. Put up 5 stacks wheat grass west of house but Will came in at 4 p.m. to rest. Chester stacked and Dave sweeped and Bill raked and they finished late, came in with 3 teeth broken out of sweep and had supper but Parkers no go to Mission this eve. Men took baths, also Chester and Darrell Janis or Walker, was 10 p.m. when they quit for night. I got our eats but I can’t remember what there was.