~ Boyd County, Nebraska
September 1, 1923: A bright day, cool morning but warm day. Will and Everett hauled all hogs over, took sweep to Ableidingers, west to Spencer in p.m. Alex Ward to get rake and brought buggy, so we leave for Todd Co., S. Dak. in morning.
~Hidden Timber, South Dakota
September 1, 1928, Saturday: Bright, nice except mid-day, real warm. Abe Elshire came and Louise took our car and Dave, Nellie, Mary, Jeannette and Harriet left for Spencer and O’Neill, Nebr. The Girls to stay and attend St. Mary’s Academy at O’Neill. Abe took in a load of Rye for Dave and the Girls’ trunks and brought back last of the folks’ furniture from the old Home at Spencer.
Ben Clausen left for Naper, Nebr. Will went to Moore’s and raked hay. Roy Hutchins went on Horseback to Plummers and brought 2 of his horses in late evening.
I stayed alone and was nervous, couldn’t even sleep, first time alone in months, so I mopped all the down-stairs and washed up all the dishes and fixed a fried-chicken supper.
September 1, 1929, Sunday: Harry Furrey was here so we ate a hurry up meal for the crowd to come, also Father Goll came to instruct Harry and stayed all night. He went to church, also Harry and Louise.
Those here in p.m. to the surprise shower and Mock Wedding were Mr. and Mrs. C. Corey, Gladys and Maxine, Mr. and Mrs. A. Elshire and Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Beckstil and children, Vern, Vera and 2 small girls, Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and Garnet, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Daywitt, Madeline and Dan Wagner and Mrs. Wm Wagner’s sister, Mrs. Wheeler and Lysenia, Mrs. Snyder and Gwendolyn, Mrs. Lattimore, Tina, Nettie, Mary, Ivan and Melvin, Ed, Rena, Lemoyne, Kenneth, Seth, Leo, Edward, Charlotte and Clarence., Mrs. Curt Elshire, Edith, Marjorie and Nora, Viola, and Dick Schmidt. None of Tom’s boys brought back things she was to wear as Bride, as she did not come. Roy and Mary went for Madeline and Mrs. Wm Wagner’s sister, and Dan took them home.
Nellie finished packing the trunks. Dave went to O’Kreek and on to Winner to a ball-game between O’Kreek and Winner and was not home at bed-time. Wes Hornbach went to Waltons for dinner from the store.
September 1, 1931, Tuesday: Clouds at times and sprinkled rain and in p.m. a shower. Wm stayed indoors on account of his eye, and we got him blue glasses at Valentine.
September 1, 1934, Saturday: Cold North breeze in the night. Bright, cool and p.m. warmer and clouds towards evening brought some hail and a real rain so that creek east of barn was roaring full just at dark, but Antelope and Rock Creeks never came up.
I wrote in diaries, cooked vinegar over on pickles, and slept in p.m., played solitaire and read mail and wiped dishes in evening and at noon. Maggie got meals, baked pies and cakes, cleaned the down-stairs. Will mowed alfalfa in a.m., and Noble Moore and Orville Hepburn came and said that Relief Men won’t stack Will’s thistles and the Government’s on Moore place, so they went to Mission to see about it, but nothing definite yet.
September 1, 1935, Saturday: Will and I went to O’Kreek to Noah Wright and his father Jim Wright’s funeral. They died Friday night and Saturday morning.
September 1, 1937, Wednesday: The Gold Fish we got from Mr. and Mrs. Brown, O’Kreek farmer, died last night. We had it four years last June, so now all I have left as a luxury are a few plants.
September 1, 1938, Thursday: Bright, warm day. I got meals and in p.m. Will, LeMoyne and I went to Carter where I had Dr. Malster look at my right eye, it has 2 abscesses in it, so got dope for it. Then to Winner where LeMoyne had his right knee fixed, for it was swollen by dislocated cartilage. Dr. Jansen did the work. We got flowers for Jerry Boyd, for Narvin, Mose and Lloyd came at 5 a.m. and said that Jerry died at 2 a.m. at Rosebud Hospital, so Will took Narvin and Lloyd to Wood to get George Nelson, undertaker, to go to Rosebud, and also to get some one to dig Grave at St. Mary’s Cemetery near Wood, S.D.
September 1, 1939, Friday: I got meals and washed all the dishes, for Will washed the clothes and I rinsed them, and he put them on the line and brought them in after we ate dinner. Narvin rode around cattle and he got back at noon and said that Mr. Wm Anderson, father of Mrs. Wm Abbott, died suddenly in the night at his home in Winner last Tuesday, and is to be buried today at Winner, so we got ready, went to Winner, got there just as the services started at Lutheran Church along the street going into Winner. Will and Narvin went to the church, and I sat in the car, and Will got to coughing so he came to the car. Narvin went with Harry and Harley in their pick-up, and Will and I took Louise, Dorothy and Billie in our car. We went to the cemetery. After the funeral we stopped at Outlaw for awhile so Louise and I could visit.
September 1, 1941, Monday: was nice in the morning but a south wind strong and dusty at times, and a cloud in the evening, only a sprinkle on us as we came from Winner and stopped at Furreys to eat watermelon, and I fried pork chops on return for supper. Seth had the chores finished, so Will just read the mail we got at the Whiting Store, for we came around the highway. Seth and Will started to cut cane, but broke the binder, so came, got tools to take it apart, and Will and I went to Winner to attend Labor Day Celebration and get groceries and repairs for binder.
Dinner at the park with Furreys, then to Bleachers on Fair Grounds to see The Suicide Club, Dare-devil acts with cars, motor-cycles, and White River Band and Mitchell American Legion Junior Drum and Bugle Corps.
September 1, 1950, Friday: Bus, Lew, Will and Kenneth stacked on Hornstra Land and did a lot, such as put up 1 stack in 8 minutes.
September, 1, 1951, Saturday: Cloudy, damp until towards noon, brighter, so Will and I went to Big Pasture, took salt to 3 boxes, looked cattle over, came home via Wm Abbotts, where Mrs. was washing clothes and Cora Ann getting dinner. Combine men were in the house. Wm, Leo and Billie Francis visiting in the yard.
Mrs. Abbott talked to me while the men visited. Mr. Harry Antis of Winner and an Indian man came with a truck to get their share of oats. Abbotts have Bushels and Bushels of Oats and 2 days to combine. Billie and these 2 men had a wreck with the combiners’ pick-up, when the lights went out, and they went into the ditch, but the men not badly hurt, just hurt. Someone took them back to Winner and they got back to Abbotts Thursday night.
I was thinking today that I would really like to see some photographs of the people and places in Hattie’s diary. Do you think you will add some eventually?
Kristin, that’s a great idea. I’ve been planning to do a blog redesign that has a more personalized background (I LOVE what you do on yours!). There are some photos scattered in a few posts, but they would be hard to find.
Thanks for the good suggestion!