Misc. Diary Entry

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March 15th

1926 March 15th Monday

Bright but N.W. wind cool and quite strong at times and real dark night. Will went to Snyder and on to O’Kreek and to Rosebud to see what land was leased north-east and late eve as he came horse-back, on to Rosebud from O’Kreek. William helped the Bailey Brothers, Guy & Ray, get in a small mule and take same home after dinner. Mr. Menz came and also went home in p.m., 2 young men from Winner came to look at Haisch horse and went right back. Louise to school and washed her hair in eve. Mr. Coyner & son Pete and Abe Elshire here to-day. I did ordinary work and my shoulder pained so I laid down in p.m. and fixed some els to set in eve.

1936 March 15th Sunday

A beautiful morning but clouds, colder, a N.W. wind toward noon and continued about same all day. I got meals, played solitaire and in eve LeMoyne and I played rummy. After choring, Frank went to Lattimores for the day, and LeMoyne and Will went to store, took Thomas along to 20 miles towards Valentine, got 2 roosters for Ben and left them there and 5 for us. Home for dinner at 2 p.m.

1946 March 15th Friday

Cloudy, misty, but Will got in water and we washed clothes. Will took out water and we left clothes indoors & I hung dark ones to dry by heater. I got meals, laid down in p.m., played solitaire, read some. Van Epps went home before dinner and he hauled out some manure first. Abbott came for his horse and he and Will took our eggs to Whiting Store, got groceries and mail, a lot of it.

1956 March 15th Thursday

Bright Day. Men gave cattle hay. Vere stayed here and Harry, Billie & Harley, so Harley & Vere went for mail, a letter from Will. Louise washed Big Wash. Athel & Patty brought Big Wash, took home today. Billie Abbott came to see cattle on Horseback. Janis’s except Darryl went to Winner to get groceries for them and us.

March 14th

1926 March 14th Saturday

Cold N.W. wind, cloudy and snow a little at times all day. We all got up late, in fact was nearly noon when the work was finished so Louise & I made cake and fudge and the men, Will and William, ate it but we had our share. William cut Louise’s hair in p.m. and we all then played cards as it was too cold for Louise to go to Tom’s to teach catechism.

1936 March 14th Saturday

N.W. wind blew quite strong, some clouds colder and a flurry of snow in p.m. so Frank and LeMoyne put 4 loads of hay in Stack on Hampl land and brought a jag home on account of wind, they took lunch. I got meals, played solitaire and sewed together 28 Durham sacks for 2 covers for 3 gallons of lard and 2 gallons of tallow. Will made a lot of progress on shed. We listened to Oglala vs. Bridgewater play for finals at Huron and it finished at 10 p.m. so Mr. Chauncey went home. The score of game 22 to 24 in favor of Oglala. I heard game in afternoon between Oglala vs. Harrisburg, Oglala won.

1946 March 14th Thursday

Partly cloudy. Will chored and Van Epps and Will and Abbott cut out 7 mares, 3 geldings and Van Epps team, but Webster did not come to buy. Roy and Babe Drey and Mrs. Abbott came to buy a sorrel mare. Abbott worked at training his saddle horse got from us.

1956 March 14th Wednesday

A little cloudy but no moisture and sun shone again. Elaine came up to play with Mary and Ellen in p.m. and helped Louise finish cleaning our room and dusted mattress and springs on Will’s bed. I wrote Will. Chester mailed letter at Klein Corner when he took David, Jimmie and Darryl to school and he got them and the mail at 4 p.m., a letter from Will.

March 13th

1926 March 13th Saturday

Cloudy and snow from the S.W. and quite cold and sun shone only at times in p.m. Henry Arcoren & Will fixed the mangers in barn and in p.m. Will, Henry & William started to fix the ice-house and after supper William took Ernest to Richard Elshire home as they came this p.m. on a visit and folks not sure they were here. Will & I retired early and William spent eve at Abe Elshire’s and Henry Arcoren went to play for Tom’s Dance in the new store and E. A. Elshire came for Louise to dance also. Louise cleaned rooms and ironed clothes and did ordinary work as my shoulder still pains. John Wisenberger came in p.m.

1936 March 13th Friday

Strong North wind, quite chilly, a few clouds. I washed clothes, for the boys got water in. Will went to the store and mailed a letter to Joe H. May, Valentine, for he and another man were out here yesterday to insure the buildings. I also hung out part of the clothes and mopped the floors. Will hung part of them and brought all in. It was too windy so Frank, LeMoyne and Will worked at the Shed and Will went to Browns but Mr. was sick so he talked to Chaunceys on their way to Valentine and Mr. will come tomorrow so Ben walked over and they all worked in p.m. LeMoyne and Frank just before noon gave the cattle some cane.

1946 March 13th Wednesday

Bright warm day. Will and Van Epps gave cattle hay after Will chored and Van Epps went home. Will and I to Rosebud, had dinner at Old Hollenback Cafe. I to clinic. Will went to Board Meeting of Selective Service, also he, Chester Lambert, wife and Jennie Colombe went to a fire by fair grounds. Mrs. Lambert and Jennie Colombe are secretaries at Draft Office. I saw Mrs. Wm Colombe at Clinic. We picked up an Indian Girl at Hill leaving Rosebud and she wanted a smoke. Will said he had only tobacco. I told her to eat an Orange, which she did and when she got out at Mission, she put sack under her arm and later was carrying it down the street. We had malted milk at Hoffine’s, got ice-cream and groceries and came home to chore and supper. Van Epps and Abbott put horses from Big Pasture to River Pasture.

1956 March 13th Tuesday

Bright, cold. Vere and Chester gave cattle hay and Louise washed some things, put them on porch line and got them in, in eve. Started to snow from N.W. but quit so no snow on clothes. Ellen washed and put her clothes on line at home. Chester took David, Jimmie & Darryl to school and got them at 4 p.m. Louise and Mary took looked at things out of closet under steps to go upstairs and these are out in den. Usual eats for us. Billie Abbott brought mail from Will written on Sunday by himself and lines over each other, and one written by Grey Lady and said that Will had a beautiful room, Pink Walls and Venetian Blinds to Match. Will’s eye is better and his hearing is being treated also. Ellen came up in p.m. Mary & Elaine played sleeping in bath-tub.

March 12

1926 March 12th Friday

Was cloudy, for snowed a little in night and flurries this morning, real cold forenoon, a little warmer but not pleasant in p.m. although bright and snappy. Will, Glen, Henry and William separated the horses. Glen took them in p.m. to Mission and Will helped him and came home and put broncos in barn and chored. William & Henry went to Hidden Timber Store in the p.m. Louise to school and finished her monthly report this eve. I made bread and did the ordinary work as my shoulder still pains. Several pupils have had colds. Some cars went and one had frozen radiator.

1936 March 12th Thursday

Bright, nice day and warm. I got meals and hemmed some dish-towels, played solitaire. Frank got 2 loads hay on Hampl Land, gave cattle cane. Will and LeMoyne went to Royal Union Sale on Antelope Creek South of Mission. Thomas Whiting, Harold Wheeler and Wm Abbott went along from the Store, they got stuck at Grans coming home.

1946 March 12th Tuesday

Bright, hot day. Will chored and he and Van Epps gave cattle hay. Van Epps went home to have Bud Whiting get corn at Pailing. Will and I to Bartleson’s Sale to Carter. Harry at Sedlaceks Sale. Home for eve, went back to Abbots first to tell him to get in horses from Big Pasture tomorrow.

1956 March 12th Monday

Bright day. Vere and Chester fed cattle and swept a road to hay lot and North barn to up hill to Klein Pasture, on to Thomas’s and cleaned a little there, to store and back. I mailed letters by him. No school. Louise cleaned cupboard in pantry. I started to clean our room by picking up things. Mary does jobs also. Janis’s not here to stay, just up to get meat.

March 11

1926 March 11th Thursday

Bright forenoon and N.W. wind quite strong and dusty, clouded middle p.m. and cold wind in eve. Louise to school and in eve gathered several sacks of cobs. William, Will & Glen went for horses and Henry after he and Roland came from Knoskeys dance, went to help them, and Roland went to Jacksons at East Camp. I hung out the clothes but was real windy and dusty so brought them in just before a sprinkle. I made a cake and fussed at cooking. Curt Elshire came for his horse. Tom came early morn on way to Menz’s to catch him before Winner trip.

1936 March 11th Wednesday

Ground was white with snow but sun shone, a N.W. wind and clouds, so snow melted. I got meals and not much else but play solitaire. After choring, Will and Frank went to Lattimore’s, got Curtis Wood and Mr. Lattimore, then on to Ed’s got Rena and Yvonne, left them at Mission and others went to Rosebud where Frank made application to lease Curtis Wood’s farm. They came to O’Kreek, got our battery and left Curtis Wood there to hitch-hike home to North of Witten. LeMoyne got a load of hay on Hampl Land and in p.m. after cleaning barn they all worked at Shed.

1946 March 11th Monday

Bright, nice day. Will chored and Van Epps came so they fed and caked cattle, drank coffee and Van Epps went home. I got meals, laid down in p.m. and am still having pains in stomach, played solitaire, read, so did Will in p.m.

1956 March 11th Sunday

Sun shone. Men gave cattle hay and Janis’s were up in p.m. Chester and Louise played Mary and I, and Ellen kept score. They beat us, 3 to 1. Will is at Omaha Clarkson Hospital Room 529, did not hear from him on account of storm, snow at Omaha. Louise & Mary baked pies and they ate some for lunch and put some in freezer.

March 10

1926 March 10th Wednesday

Was a nice day after cloudy morn and cold N. Wind, last night about 10 p.m. there was some sleet fell so Will got up to get in cows & calves, waded River for one calf, got feet wet and broke lantern on old cow. The men finished corral and separated horses. Tom and Joe Story, Roland Wilcutts, Henry Arcoren, Glen McEachran, Will and William did the work. Mr. & Mrs. Menz, Ada & Delilia came for eve. Mr. to the store. Louise to school and she and Delilia worked in eve. I washed clothes. 2 men from Valentine here to see Tom.

1936 March 10th Tuesday

Sun shone in a.m. but wind from N.W. blew so hard that dust moved and clouds also until late p.m. began to snow and was wet and colder at bed-time and still it snowed. I got meals, baked bread, finished Will’s pants and made a belt for my black velvet dress and slept 2 hours in p.m. and played solitaire. LeMoyne chored and got a load of hay on Hampl Land, put it in round-corral chute for wind brake and some on big-stack, moved the lumber from gate to shed and put some corn in barn from cribbing in yard. Fritz went to N.E. Witten and got Curtis Wood, took him to Lattimore’s and he came here for the night. Henry came but he couldn’t do anything alone so went home and brought our mail in p.m. Will went to Valentine, back at 5 p.m., he then got some water by priming the well as LeMoyne couldn’t get any at noon.

1946 March 10th Saturday

Bright but cool. I got breakfast for Will and he chored, took me to 8:30 a.m. Mass. I went to communion. I went to J. H. Tate’s with Grans. Will came home to feed calves and get ready to come to Tates with Mr. and Mrs. We went to O’Kreek to Wilbur Miller home to Legion Meeting in basement of schoolhouse which is the dining room for Indian Day School pupils. It is a nice place with tables, benches, hot and cold water, sewage drain out of the building but toilets are outside. Eats were baked beans with lots of bacon, roast beef, macaroni with meat, potato salad, cottage cheese, vegetable stew, several dishes of vegetables and meats, pickles, sandwiches, cream and coffee, cakes of nearly a dozen varieties, cookies, Jell-O, fruit salad, pie. Men went upstairs in classroom and women in basement. We came home via Roundy’s at Walcutts place to tell Dolly Furrey to go to Elmer Chancey’s for Billy Furrey has the mumps, but she was gone to Harry Furrey’s. We left Tates at home, on to here to chore, eat a lunch and rest.

1956 March 10th Saturday

Cloudy, snowy, sun shone towards eve. Billie Abbott came horse-back and said that snow was up to belly on horse in places but again not too deep so horse could plow through. Chester and Vere gave cattle hay and put a cow in barn to calf and let the Big herd in yard. Janis’s were up and Ellen went home to get dinner and told Elaine to come for dinner but she wouldn’t and cried and cried so we scolded her and she went to yard gate and cried so Mary took her to their gate. We fixed the Plastic Curtains I got yesterday for front-room and bath. No mail so Men didn’t get out, only to look at cattle.

March 9

1926 March 9th Tuesday

Bright and not cold but East breeze quite strong and in eve clouded. Will went to Lew Haukaas’s and returned mid-afternoon and started to work on corral, and William, Glen McEachran and Henry Arcoren helped him after they came in with horses which took nearly all day to round in, so we had early supper, for they had dinner. Mr. Menz came this morning and went back when Will went to Haukaas’s. Louise to school and glad for early supper as her lunch slim. I finished the lard and made bread & a real tart plum pie.

1936 March 9th Monday

Bright nice day and night are real warm for winter bedding. I got meals, started to hem Will’s everyday pants, and Rena, Clarence and Robert Roubideaux came so we went up-stairs and cleaned boys room and picked up junk and she took a box full home to make a rug of rags. I talked a lot to-day and found out a lot, too. LeMoyne scraped the new cattle shed ground level and did the chores, they also went to Bill Smith’s on Strids and got him and a post hole digger and Frank got a fresno at dam at Hidden Timber and then he took Bill Smith back home to get his Sunday clothes and they went to White River to get a resettlement loan and Frank stopped after he took Smith home in eve, then went back to Lattimores for the night. Henry Arcoren sat at home until near noon waiting for Bill Smith to take him to Mission, as he went with Frank and never told Henry. Henry came at noon to work on the shed and he got his frozen potatoes out of basement and only a small paper sack full left as they were all spoiled.

1946 March 9th Saturday

Sun shone and we got up late and Will was all in from his trip yesterday but chored and helped Van Epps feed cattle hay and cake. I got meals and laid down for my stomach hurts but played solitaire, listened to radio, read in eve for Will got mail at Van Epps in eve as he went home before dinner to go to Kleins to trade and got mail.

1956 March 9th Friday

Snowed last night but it went in a hurry, sun shone at times but then cloudy and midday sun shining so we had a nice shopping at Valentine via Mission and got real cloudy and started to snow in eve but we got home, picked up Doris at Mission where she boards to go to High School. When we got here Athel & Doris went home at once as she came this morning in her car and Ellen put it in Garage as no Prestone in Radiator. She said if a letter is at P.O. she would bring it down as Will is fair and I am anxious to hear but she did not come as snow got bad. Chester went to look at cattle after dinner and did not com back so Ellen got Darryl at Thomas’s for Thomas is at Winner with calves to sell. Ellen, Louise and Mary cleaned Pantry, Hall to Basement and North Porch. Elaine just played. I am all in from trip to Valentine. Chester got Vere at O’Kreek and they started back through Hills, got stuck, went back to Paulsen, on to 18. Ellen & children met them, on to O’Kreek. Snowed awful, so to see Pick Up and their car come back in snow was a blessing. Pearl Whiting visited this a.m. with girls.

March 8

1926 March 8th Monday

A bright day and nice out of S.W. breeze. Will went horseback to O’Kreek to see about leasing land N.E. of here and stopped at Snyder’s & Lew Haukaas. William went down the River to hunt coyotes and home late p.m. for a bite to eat. Glen McEachran came and after a lunch went to the pasture South of Dick Schmidt to look for horses and back in the eve. Henry Arcoren came and stayed for the night. Louise to school and in eve was here when I got back from the store where I went towards eve. William has a cold.

1936 March 8th Sunday

Morning was so nice but got warm in day, a N.W. breeze cool late p.m. but bright. I got breakfast, then Will helped with dishes after he shaved. LeMoyne shaved after they all finished the chores. Frank went to Lattimores for the day, back to chore in eve and went right back to take them to church at DayWitts. Will, LeMoyne and I went to Furreys and Lee went to Rosebud and got Nell, his mother, so she, Louise and I did talk. We stopped at Pierce’s and paid Mrs. $7.00 on a lease in hills. Mr. was at Hidden Timber for mail so brought our mail and left it at the door.

1946 March 8th Friday

Bright, nice overhead but some mud as snow is melting. I got breakfast, lunched rest of day, for Will chored and went to Abbotts, they went to Winner, got oil changed in car, then to Bonesteel for dinner, on to Lake Andes, then straight north 6 miles to Oscar and Knute Strids but no one home, went to a neighbor’s, got stuck. They said that Strids to Lake Andes so back to town, saw Oscar, he went with them to Wagner where they found Knute with some hogs he bought at the Sale Ring. He was in their truck. Oscar rented his place to Abbott and Knute his place to Whitcher, they had supper at Gregory about 9 o’clock for left Wagner when sun was getting low in west, they got to Winner about 10 p.m. and home at Midnight, brought ice-cream so I got up to eat with Will. Roy & Babe Drey took Mrs. Abbott to Winner Doctor and they came home 10:10 p.m., for light flashed on our bedroom wall from east. Van Epps fed cattle and came in eve to put horses and milk cow in barn, brought us liver and pork sausage. I played solitaire, listened to Radio and read some, went to bed at 9 p.m.

1956 March 8th Thursday

Bright day. We ate plenty and Janis’s, Elaine, Ellen and Chester ate here at noon as Ellen helped clean kitchen ceiling, first vacuumed by Athel. Then Louise, Mary, Ellen and Athel washed ceiling and walls, also the bathroom and had a lunch in p.m. Abbott came horseback and looked through cows and went home. Chester ground a wagon box of corn in a.m. after giving cattle hay and put in bin in p.m. W. L. A. talked to him about cows. Wm Joseph and Julia Fronek came from Valentine to see about Will being at Omaha for eye and ears treatment. Letter says Will will stay a while longer to have ears treated and operation for cataracts O.K. We are getting along O.K. I have to rest but feet are not so swollen. Athel and Patsy went home to say that she would come tomorrow to take me to Valentine to get things to finish cleaning house.

March 7

1926 March 7th Sunday

A very cold night and water froze in our room and cold morning as N.W. breeze snappy but began to thaw at mid-day as was real bright but breeze from N.W. cool all day. Louise washed some handkerchiefs & hose and went to Tom’s to teach the children catechism and home late eve. The men hauled hay and then William went to hunt coyotes and John Wisenberger came so Will visited with him. I just sat around and got something to eat but not much as shoulder pains. Several cars and a mover wagon passed to-day. Helen came to sell chance on candy and went on to Tom’s as Reva, LeMoyne and Charlotte there to trade at store.

1936 March 7th Saturday

Bright and colder. Quite a strong N.W. wind. LeMoyne and Fritz took lunch and wind came up so they went out towards hills a mile and came back but Will sent them back to get a load even if it is windy so they put 4 in stack on Hampl Land and brought 1 load home and put in big stack. I got meals and mopped floors and baked apple and cherry pies. After supper Frank went to Henry Acorn’s and had his hair cut and back after we went to bed. Henry came and he and Will worked at the shed, set posts and leveled them. Will made a place for the puppy by the porch. Mr. Wheeler, Harold and Perry and Stanley Whiting brought in 1 ton Salt and rest of the shed lumber after supper last evening.

1946 March 7th Thursday

Very much snow, strong northwest and north wind, about 30 above. Will ate breakfast and got in cattle from 1/2 mile north in a pocket on Wagner or State Land, then chored. Van Epps came after dinner so he and Will gave cattle hay. Van Epps got sausage, bones and lard from his butchered hog at Klein, came from Winner last night, he brought our mail. I wrote in diary. Will looked at mail in p.m. then chored. I got meals and read mail.

1956 March 7th Wednesday

Bright and sunny and not too cold but 22 above. Chester gave cattle hay and Chester in p.m. vacuumed front-room ceiling. Ellen helped a little at cleaning walls and Manley, Pauline, Tony 3 yrs. and Jackie 2 yr. old girl came to Janis’s to deliver dresses bought from the same dress company. They stayed for supper. Athel and Patsy Whiting (Bud’s girl) and Annette or Sissy came so Athel worked at dusting front room, also Louise. Mary played with Elaine, Patsy and Annette Wise until her father and mother (Keith & Caroline Wise of Mission Hotel) came for her. She cried and begged to stay but finally went home. Chester got Darryl and Jimmie & David so Athel went home after lunch.

March 6

1926 March 6th Saturday

Was snowing at bed-time last night so ground white this a.m. and cloudy, sun shone only at times and wind blew so hard from N.W., was a regular blizzard at times all day. Louise went to school but scholars not there so she came home at p.m. and cleaned her dresses and the front room and lamps. Will got some hay and the men put the cows and calves in the barn for the night and chored early on account of the wind and snow. I rendered some lard and mixed the sausage that Will ground up this a.m., also fried some and put in pails, sealed it. I set yeast and tried to make buns but they were only a fake, my first experience.

1936 March 6th Friday

Bright, nice, warm all day. I got meals and visited with Ed, Rena and Yvonne who brought us some beef, they came with a team of mules, one black and one white, belonging to Arnold Schott or his man Mr. Justis, and had a small buggy. Robert Roubideaux, Rena’s nephew, came horse-back. Will chored, went to store and mailed letters, then he and Henry Arcoren who was at store horse-back went to A. E. Brown’s and got the saws that Mr. Brown sharpened. Will came for dinner and Henry after dinner and Ed helped and they started the shed Northeast of barn and east of the trees. Frank and LeMoyne took put 6 loads hay in stack and brought a 4 horse-load home. Isaac Afraid Of Bear and Elsie Badwhirlwind, his wife, and little niece came for lease money.

1946 March 6th Wednesday

Bright towards eve, clouded and southwest wind to N.E. I got meals but was sick at noon so Will helped me after he and Van Epps fed cattle hay and then they ate dinner. I laid down. Will spaded at S.W. corner of yard, we then went to Wm Abbotts. He will go with Will to Lake Andes tomorrow if no snow. I talked to Mrs. as she and Mr. finished work at Dam. We got 3 bu. ear corn at their place to feed chickens and beef. Home to chore and supper.

1956 March 6th Tuesday

Cloudy all day but no rain and N.W. wind, was 22 above zero. Chester took Darryl to School and took address so Stanley so he could write Will, then he gave cattle hay. They went away last night, said to get hair cut at Thomas’s. Ellen washed clothes and took home to dry on her lines. We got dinner and Harry, Harley and Billie came to eat with us, they stayed awhile then went home. Louise and Mary baked pies. Mary did most of the baking. Chester got mail and nothing from Will, to be operated 8 a.m. yesterday. Elaine here to help Mary a lot. We get eats and I take it easy.