~ Boyd County, South Dakota
September 9, 1920: Was damp in morning but nice day. Big Bobby had 7 little pigs last night. Howard and Will mowed hay on our South 40. I didn’t do much, but just the work.
~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
September 9, 1926, Thursday: A real cold night and a.m., bright all day and warmer p.m. and a beautiful evening. Will, George and Mr. Lattimore mowed L’s hay, and in p.m., Mr. and Will worked at hay as Mr. C. Elshire came, and William and George went to thresh for him. William went around cattle in a.m. I did ordinary work and made butter. Louise washed and ironed and packed her clothes, and left for Clearfield towards evening.
September 9, 1930: Will and I went via Elshires and our car and Elshires. We took the Bechstel Family, New Officers of Auxillary elected and I depend on Minutes of Meetings for all business, but I shall write who we elected, Pres. Laura Elshire, Sec. and Treas. Violet Karnes, 1st Vice Pres. Eva Tate, Historian Agnes Sazama, Chaplain Mary Jansen, Parliamentarian Harriet Whitcher, Sergeant-At-Arms Anna Lambert, for Year 1931.
September 9, 1934, Sunday: I looked over our gross income, played solitaire, and played with Ben, Will, Elmer and Maggie.
September 9, 1945, Sunday [Sioux City, Iowa] Bright, nice and warm until in p.m. a few clouds and wind came up and was real chilly, and before bed-time we had to put on a coat to keep warm in the room at Hotel Milner. Last night was one of annoyance to me, for at the corner across the street west of our room was a taxi station for cabs, and the street would collect on Main 4th St., and men and women, so many soldiers all night kept laughing, talking loud, calling taxis, and so many cars blowing horns, street cars going and stopping. I never slept until 2:20 a.m., until break of day when I woke to still more noise.
We went out to a café west a couple of blocks on the south side of Main Street and had breakfast, then walked on to our car where it was parked for the night. We went to Stock Yards, and Tom Whiting had not showed up yet with cattle, so we then went on to Morning Side East and a little south of Stockyards. We went on until we got in a cemetery, saw a beautiful Memorial Park, came back to Morning Side, had a malted milk, got 2 pints of ice-cream, came back to Main Sioux City, went on to toll bridge over Missouri River to South Sioux City, Nebraska, and got some hamburgers. Went wet of this place off of Highway 20 on a country road to eat this, stopped in the shade of trees, then back to the city.
Went north this time up a valley and beautiful homes to another cemetery, so quit and went back to park our car 1 ½ blocks from Milner Hotel, west and north, went to our room at 3 p.m., had a nap. Got up at 5:30 p.m. to eat at Harry’s Bar B.Q. Café, and went to a show, “Eve Knew Her Apples,” a block west of the hotel. Tried to get into a café up west aways, but all filled, so went back to our room, and the Salvation Army was at the corner of our Hotel, so I listened to them while Will went to the room, and he later got a bowl of chili at Harry’s Bar B. Q. Café and brought me a sandwich. It was cold, so we went to bed for the night.
September 9, 1947, Tuesday: Seth, Martha, Helen, Eddie and Ronnie came on their way to Mission, and Helen stayed with Angie, so they came up before noon. Duane wears dark shirts and overalls now and creeps all over the floor.
September 9, 1954, Thursday: Damp, but sun shone, so Will, Dave and I went to Valentine after breakfast to get repairs for Parkers’ Stove, but we could not get them, so Dave got a heater for oil. We brought it home in the back trunk of the car. We got a punching bag for Jack’s birthday and 2 small footballs, cup and plate for Cherrie and Jack, 2 pans for Jeanne, groceries and some candy and 2 bottles of wine and 2 bottles Welch grape juice.