~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
August 31, 1929, Saturday: Bright, warm day but got cool in eve. Roy went to Lattimores to thresh. Will mowed hay on Moore Creek and home late eve. The girls and Dave came in from Rosebud this morning, but Dave got up near noon, so he and I went to Ed’s and got potatoes and went to the store for mail. Louise cleaned all the house, and the girls cleaned and pressed their dresses and Nellie packed trunks. They took one to Valentine yesterday and sent it to O’Neill.
August 31, 1934, Friday: Fair night to sleep for was too hot Wednesday night, but bright, hot day. Maggie’s W. O. Roberts Fan-tail fish died yesterday morning, so we miss it very much. Maggie got meals, went to Hidden Timber and mailed letters and had mailman bring freight tomorrow, and rested in p.m., then mended some of her clothes. She went horseback on Tennessee to P.O. for the men are at Noble’s Place in the morning, stacking and raking thistles, and Chaunceys finished mowing them, and Will went to Mission and got consent of Relief Board to turn his mowed thistles over to Govt, and Relief workers on East road will stack them, and Will gets half, and he and Elmer stacked about 25 tons already, so men brought home sweep and stacker in evening.
Harley Brown took the mowers and tractor to mow Guy Bailey’s alfalfa, for Guy is in the hospital at Winner, very ill. I read, looked at catalogs and made out 2 orders for Maggie and self, slept in p.m., cooked pickle juice and put over same as this is several days making kind of pickles, first brine, 3 or less days, according to strength of brine. After 3 days in brine, then three days in spiced, sweetened vinegar and cooked each day and poured over same. I also mended socks, fixed over an everyday dress and wiped dishes in evening.
August 31, 1939, Thursday: Will and Narvin went around the north side of Big Pasture Fence and fixed it. They went in the car, so were home at noon, and in the afternoon went horseback, took cows and calves from south end of Big Pasture to windmill on Moore Creek, then took Scotty, 10 mares, 1 yr. old mare colt and 5 colts to the winter pasture from Big pasture, and brought 1 sorrel gelding of Wm Pierce’s, 2 young mares, Blacks, and 1 White Mare, 1 spotted Light Mane and Tail Gelding, also Brown Gelding. These Horses are from 4 yrs. down to 1 yr. old, and the old mares are old, but there are 4 young mares in the herd.
August 31, 1941, Sunday: Was a beautiful day. I got meals, lay down in p.m., went with Ben and Will up the valley to trees on the Lunderman Valley where we saw pheasants, came home for dinner, and we all slept in p.m., then visited awhile before Ben went home in his Model T. homemade pick-up.
August 31, 1947, Sunday: Bright, warm, in fact, hot p.m. I got eats and Will took me to 9 o’clock Mass, but there was none, so we came back just as Billie, Cora Ann and Mrs. Wm Abbott came to see if we have a drop leaf table they could use at Winner. They are to live on street going west on Highway 18 in the Wm Anderson home, Mrs. Abbott’s father. They have 2 front rooms and an enclosed porch. Mrs. Delores, Billie, Cora Ann, Tommy Colombe and Gene McCormick will stay here for the school year. Wm, Leo and Ed will take care of Abbott place.
Harley Furrey will stay at Shoemakers where he has been last 3 yrs. Dorothy at Lee Andersons, west of Kehlers, where she and Delores stayed last year.
August 31, 1949, Wednesday: Joe Herman was buried by Aunt Blanche, east end of cemetery, N.W. of Colome. We came right back to Winner, got a spray of red carnations to take to the funeral.
August 31, 1952, Sunday: Northwest wind and was hot in p.m. but sun shone, and Will and I went to Rosebud Fair in p.m., not so good. Louise and I sat in the car, visited. Mary, Dorothy and Helen O’Brien of Norris, Mellette, Co., took in sights until Harold Emery in his Studebaker Car took Dorothy and Helen to Furreys, then I guess to the show. Harry, Will and Billie sat in the Grand Stand, also Hank Haukaas family.