~ Boyd County, Nebraska
September 10, 1921: Was damp and cold all day but bright. Will cut cockle burrs in morning. I went to Spencer and in p.m. we both cut cockle burrs and so tired in evening.
~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota
September 10, 1923: A bright, cold forenoon, but midday warmer and late p.m. cold as was a North Wind. We dined on prairie, got Ed’s family, they are making hay, and Jake to Okreek. Agnes Fallis gone to Mission.
September 10, 1924, Wednesday: Another coldm not very bright day. Will fixed mowers and sharpened sickles and I canned peaches and plums. Lawrence and Bennie came for oil for Jake.
September 10, 1929: Will and I went to Oscar Jackson’s Home to Legion and Auxilliary Meetings, but we just visited, had a nice lunch, cocoa to drink and all the watermelons we could eat. Those there were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sully, Dorthy Mae and Marjorie, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Karnes and Dorthy Marie, Jay Tate, Curt Elshire, Oscar Jackson, Joseph, Joan and Alice, Grandma W.W. Wilcutts, Jackson’s Mother, Will and I. Adjourned to Meet at O’Kreek in Oct. at Ray Loggerwell House.
We got home at 2:30 a.m. Harry and Louise were married Sept. 1st and the girls are at St. Mary’s Academy, O’Neill, Nebr., so I am only cook now.
September 10,1931, Thursday: I got meals and the cows in corral, and fed hogs and helped move the things out of the south room, for Otto Rothley brought Miss Barbara Cohovey of Dallas and all her things, they were here in a.m., to see about staying, and she moved in in p.m., to stay for the school year and keep house upstairs.
September 10, 1936, Thursday [in Rosebud Hospital, waiting to have a goiter operation]: The weather is fair. Not much to write, but Mrs. Clement (Alice) Valandra is our night assistant nurse now, for a Lillian was until now, for Mrs. V. was sick. They brought Mrs. Virginia Black Owl from upstairs as she is to be operated on in the morning for gall stones. Mrs. Fallis better. I am realizing I am a patient.
September 10, 1941, Wednesday: Bright, nice day. Will and I went to Henry Sells to Legion Meeting last evening, got in after midnight, so got up late this morning, but Will chored and shocked cane until noon and again in the evening, for he went to the Big Pasture in the afternoon, and took Mr. Pailing to the Valentine, Nebraska Depot Agent to see our calves, and they came back, sat in the front room a long time talking calf sale, finally Will sold 55 head of heifers or about that, more or less, to be delivered October 15th to his place west of Henry Sells at $42.25 per head, and received a down payment of $5.00 per head.
He then went home, and Will went to shock more cane this afternoon, then to get some repairs of the old binders here as he is cutting cane that is 8 ft. tall, so hard on the binder. I got the meals, lay down in p.m., played solitaire, read some, but was all in.
Those at the Legion Meeting were the Henry Sells Family, he and wife Therese, Delores, Gerald, Howard, Donald Ray and Gerry Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Art Estes, Tom Sazama, Whitcher, Carl Anderson, Wm Grimmus, and Mrs. Carl Brom, Gus Littau, Rank Schneiderment, Jay Tate, Albert Harvey and Hattie Schmalz, our Co. Nurse. We had a business of interest to both Men and Ladies, and a delicious lunch, cakes, sandwiches, pies, coffee, watermelon.
September 10, 1945, Monday: Bright but cool. Northwest wind blew quite strong and a few clouds, but no rain and dusty. As we came west, it got nicer, not much wind, and warmer and bright, for we left stock yards at about 12:30 p.m., got our things from Hotel, and rode around town, no place to park, so crossed Missouri River to South Sioux City, Nebraska, to Waterbury, Allen, Laurel, Belden Warehouse, Randolph, where we got water for the car, ate rolls, sandwiches and coffee at a bakery can café, got rolls, doughnuts and bread, also went to store, couldn’t get hair pins. Will got me a few small ones at drug store and only a pair of mesh hose for me. We saw a man at Standard Service that used to be at Gregory. He is the manager here.
Came to Osmond, Plainview, Brunswick, Orchard, and just before we got the Inman, Nebraska, crossed Elkhorn River and had a flat tire, blew out the tube, changed to spare, got gas at Irman, to O’Neill, new tube, to Emmet, Atkinson, Stuart, Newport, Bassett, Long Pine, Ainsworth, Johnstown, Wood Lake, Arabia, Valentine, end of trip on Highway No. 20. Came on out home to Hidden Timber, got here at 12:25 a.m., Tuesday morning, to bed, which was good again, real chilly night, so glad to have plenty of covers.