~ Boyd County, Nebraska
August 30, 1923: A bright forenoon but toward evening clouded and quite warm. Will went to Spencer in p.m., and with Lawrence Marx, Everett Ward, John Ableidinger, Charles Crabtree’s help, they put up stack of hay. I picked apples a.m. then raked and took time to get supper and so nervous.
~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
August 30, 1929, Friday: A bright day. Roy helped Lattimore thresh, Will mowed and Raked hay on Moore Creek and visited with Wm Pierce and family and Charles Moore. Dave came back to Wheelers and Mrs. and Lycenia came down and got the girls, and they went to Rosebud Fair, and Dave and Nellie to St. Francis, and Louise and Harry were up there, so Dave stayed at St. Francis and others went to Valentine and not home at bed time. I just did the necessary work. Mrs. Ben Fitch and Ben’s Niece came to circulate petition for the Whiting School.
August 30, 1939, Wednesday: Bright and north-east breeze cool. I got meals, lay down in p.m. and played solitaire, also baked bread and a cake in the evening. Will and Narvin chored, went horseback to Winter pasture, where they brought in 143 cows and over a hundred calves and 5 bulls. There was one bull here and 8 cows, and they branded 10 calves, this makes 135 head of calves, 3 being mine H-W brand, also 4 of the cows and 1 yearling heifer in Big Pasture. There are 30 head of steers and heifers in Big Pasture, so men left them there, these were late calves last year.
August 30, 1940, Friday: Another bright, hot day, and was dusty in evening at Rosebud where we stayed for the Movie of Pictures taken last year of the Fair, and others of various gardens and scenes of Pine Ridge Fair and Projects of Rosebud Reservation.
Seth and Will fixed the well east of Strids this forenoon, also chored, and we all went to Rosebud Fair, got there at noon. Saw an enormous crowd and a nice program. Chas. Haight, Pierre, S.Dak., American Legion Athletic Director, who brought the Pierre Junior American Legion Ball team to Rosebud to play O’Kreek Juniors, O’Kreek won 7 to 4, also Chas. Worchester, Yankton Agricultural Overseer, were taken in as Honorary Chiefs of Rosebud Tribes. Haight is Chief Little Bear and Worchester is Chief Swift Eagle. There was a lot of fun to their invitation, and they had a race in mule carts, but tied. Yesterday Supt. Whitlock and Fr. Fallon, St. Francis, had the race and tied also. Mr. Peteler, Forest Ranger, and Carl Aamodt, Fair Supt., had a race before dinner. These mules are hitched to a 4 wheel, small wagon with shafts. The farm products, rodeo, White River band, trapeze performers were fine.
August 30, 1947, Saturday: Angie had hysteria last night and said she saw a man’s face in the window, and in the afternoon I saw an object down at southeast corner of fence in lot east of Leightons, appeared to be a person leaning on fence braces, but Will just laughs at me, but I am jittery just the same, so this night I hooked all the screen doors, but never told Will. Leightons are gone, made it seem much more spooky, but I am nervous as can be, was a beautiful moonlit night, so too bad I had to be nervous. Next time we must look into queer objects.
August 30, 1949, Tuesday: Abbott was at Tom Colombe’s last p.m., and they told him that Joe Herman died at Hospital, Brent, Oregon, August 26, 1949, so I hope we can go tomorrow.