July 2, 1946, Tuesday

Sun when shining was real hot but cool south wind when clouds and it was real cloudy at times but no rain. I got breakfast and Will chored. We took salt to Big Pasture and salt box from River Pasture to Mill on Moore Creek, for put salt in it, came to where Abbott was harrowing corn on Frank Abbotts and he may vaccinate for blackleg soon. We got ready and went to Rosebud, had  dinner at Cafe. Will took me to Hospital and I had Clerk in Office take me down to clinic in basement. When my turn came, I went to Dr. Frazer to see what the painful lumps on my back were. He had nurse give me a disinfectant and a sulphrated salve to put on sore spot and called it an affliction of muscles and nerves and if not controlled, may pass around body. Will at Board Meeting of Selective Service and he brought a soldier of a group getting volunteers for Army to find out condition of a young man wanting to join.

July 3, 1946, Wednesday

Very warm but some clouds and when in breeze was cool, breeze changed every direction this p.m. Will changed, got in water and we washed. He put clothes on line and they dried except heavy ones but Will brought all of them in, in late p.m. as it began to cloud, some hail, wind from Northwest and real rain and sky was red before quit raining. I laid down in p.m. and then folded clothes.

July 4, 1946, Thursday

Very hot, sultry after rain but sun shone until in p.m. or late p.m. clouded in west and looked like rain but none here. Will chored and I got breakfast. We went to look at cattle in Big Pasture and Will looked at corn and it got hailed but some last eve but the wheat and rye and alfalfa on Strids O.K. The roads may be muddy so we came home to eat a dinner of fried chicken, gravy, bread and lemonade and did not go to Gregory Celebration but went at 3 p.m. to Lydon Picnic and ball-game between Sazama and Kriz teams and Sazama won. Bess Adrian, 4 boys Bob, Dean, Billie and Dick were there also. Wm, Julia Fronek, Bob and Ronnie, Rose Furhur and Kenneth. Us women had a dandy visit, also saw Maggie Gehlsen Simmons and Bonnie Jean and Georgia Ann of Platte, S.D. Will and I came to Van Epps in eve and Elsie, Billie, Mr. Louis Armbruster went with us to Fireworks at Lyndons in eve and Wm. Van Epps took Dean and Marjorie in their car. We left them at Carl Gehlsens on way home. Crowd was large at Fireworks and they were nice.

July 5, 1946, Friday

Sun shone and was warm. Will chored and went to Whiting Store to see if Bud would take the Tractor to Valentine and he will tomorrow. Delores, Billie and Cora Ann brought their cattle from River Pasture to Round Corral and Mr. and Mrs. Wm Abbott came in car, they vaccinated Abbott calves for blackleg. Mrs. and I got a lunch of lemonade, scalloped salmon, pork and beans, prepared meat, bread and butter. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, Will and I stayed indoors, looked at pictures, they went home via Kleins Store late p.m. and Will and I took salt to cattle in Big Pasture and fixed a salt box.

July 6, 1946, Saturday

Cloudy in early forenoon then got real hot in sun and clouds passed about 3 p.m. and a real storm between here and Valentine and just light rain at Valentine but it got cool after rain. Will and I were at Valentine, got there at 5 to 12 noon so ate at Bob’s Cafe, saw Clara Anderson and Raymond just from Navy. Chris Nelson was buried at Spencer, he died at Center, Knox Co., Nebr. Sunday, June 30th and was a pioneer of Boyd Co., Nebr. and our near neighbor and father of Mrs. Anderson. We got our groceries. Will got mower and rake repairs, that is as many as he could and may get more later after Manager Mullins goes on a buying trip. We got ice-cream but ate when we got home and it made us a little sick at stomach but I fried pork steak. Will ate a sandwich and he got better and I went to bed sick. We had a new Battery put in V8, was using Model A Battery from hay sweep. Will put 3 young roosters in coop from the porch. Harold (Bud) Whiting got our tractor and a crate of chickens (16 hens and 5 roosters) and took to Whiting Store and tractor to Valentine. We saw him there and paid trucking to date.

July 2, 1936, Thursday

Beginning to get warm again after the rain and hail of Tuesday. I got meals and Will came in at 1 a.m. from Council Meeting at O’Kreek and was on way home from Winner and we talked some then so I am not a bit rested to-day. Will and Thomas raked, mowed alfalfa and bunched some. LeMoyne went to the pasture to look about the cattle and horses, that is, horses in a.m., back for dinner and to cattle in big pasture in p.m. Schulte cow lost newborn calf.

July 3, 1936, Friday

Bright, hot day. The men chored and Thomas and Will stacked alfalfa, put up 2 stacks. LeMoyne to the horses in a.m. and cattle p.m., was late getting in, for he and Thomas took a swim after Thomas had supper and LeMoyne came in from big pasture. I got meals and ironed the boys’ clothes but not Will’s. Charles Lunderman and Will Tackett here to collect Richard Lunderman grazing pay in full.

July 4, 1936, Saturday

Another bright, hot day, a south wind and a few clouds. I baked bread, got breakfast and dinner, for Will and Noel Lunderman, Herrick, made ice-cream and we ate it and I baked a cake also. I moped kitchen floor and ironed Will’s clothes. Will and Noel went to look at his land, also the Philemonia Dorian land and Noel will take this hay instead of his but must get a hay permit. Wm Pierce came after midnight from Herrick where he got a signature for hay permit and brought Noel along and he will stay here until to-morrow. Oscar Jackson came this mid-day and he went along with us to Hidden Timber sports for the 4th of July. Alice Jackson came back in eve with us and we had supper and went back to dance, met Nellie Larmer, Lee, Boyd, Fred, and Pat Newberry was along but I never saw him. Lee and Fred went back to Furreys after dance, rest stayed here. Mose and Sam Boyd got Thomas & LeMoyne. Stanley brought them in eve to change their clothes for the dance.

July 5, 1936, Sunday

For more on July 5-6, 1936, see “The Hot, Dry, Dusty Summer of 1936.”

Another bright, hot day, a few clouds west of Martin and a sprinkle of rain on us but otherwise was too hot to travel for our car balked on us at Vetal in Bennett Co. and nearly every time we stopped Jake and Will had to fuss with it and prime it. Will got a bottle that had acid in it and had some gas put in it and it burnt his shirt-sleeve & one glove. This happened at Vetal.

We had dinner at Martin, went to Brennan (Wounded Knee) Store, got water, stopped at observation tower wind-mill at Porcupine Buttes, got gas down the Creek, got water at a spring towards Rocky-Ford, stopped at Rocky Ford. Saw George and Florence Clifford also George Clifford of the Rocky Ford Store, [could not] fix car here, so went on to a store at White River Bridge, got a lunch there, went on through the Sandhills after leaving Charles Cliffords, where we got water to drink and put in the car.

The car balked on us after leaving Charles Cliffords and Will was sick from too much heat but he and Jake got the car up a sand-hill and Cora and I. Raymond and she carried George up the hill and we were short on water, but got to John Cliffords just at Sun-down, they ate outside and gave us some supper, they have a cool spring so the water was wonderful and they had cold milk for us to drink. Lawrence Whiting was there for he went from St. Francis with Bill Smith Friday p.m. to get ready to marry Martha Clifford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Clifford, where we are.

July 6, 1936, Monday

The temperature is 110 and 114 and yesterday got to 116. Bright, hot a South wind blew the dust out off the White River Bed towards John Clifford’s, for there is no water in it up there.

Everybody slept out-side, for the beds were there and moon shone all night, it was hot until towards morning. Will and I slept on a cot north of the house near some trees and Jake & Cora and children slept in [a] bed near [the] house. Some slept in wagon and Hay-rack and another bed outside and George, Florence, Laverne, Collins and Tommy slept on the ground.

Most of the folks went to early Mass and we all went to 10 o’clock Mass for Lawrence & Martha [were] married then. A big dinner. Those standing for couple were Lavern Clifford, a Clifford son-in-law, Pearl & Edith Clifford, 2 flower girls. We got at first table, started home 4 p.m. to St. Francis at 9:30 and home at 11:30 p.m.

July 2, 1926, Friday

Rained in night, clouds not thick but oh my! a real rain in a.m., and p.m. bright. The creek east of barn ran full of water in p.m. George went out to eli but rain brought him in, also William to drag corn and back for dinner. In p.m. Will & George went to take up well in large pasture and late eve. Will started around cattle in a.m. and got wet. William fixed hog-fence and got mail in eve. Pete & Charlie Coyner, Fred & Bill Elshire & gale were here in p.m. I made bread and did the ordinary work.

July 3, 1926, Saturday

Bright day and real hot and clouded late eve but no rain. George and Will fixed hog-fence on account of high water and in p.m. George went home and to Carter. Will and Jake Wisenberger and William visited in p.m. William went around cattle in a.m. and to Store in eve. I made cake and did the work to-day.

July 4, 1926, Sunday

Bright, hot day when clouds didn’t pass over. Mr. Lattimore stopped and said picnic at sheep pasture so Menz’s came and Ben Clausen and Will, William and I went along. The Abe and Curt Elshire, Mr. H. L. Elshire and Ellsworth Elshire & C. M. Wheeler and Lew Lattimore families consisting of 40 people were there, and after ball-game at Hidden Timber we all had supper at the bowery and ball-players also ate so about 60 persons in all. Frank Ruble came home with us and William took him home. Louise came home from Winner and went to store with Phillips and sister and home in eve. George came from home late eve. We are all tired and al in but an enjoyable time this 4th.

July 5, 1926, Monday

Bright, real hot but clouded a little at times and before bed-time some lightning with no rain. Will went around cattle and fussed with them all day. William harrowed corn on Moore’s and George elied our corn. Louise and I did the necessary work and was so tired. Rena, Helen, Leo, Edward, Seth and Charlotte came to spend the day. Several folks stopped to-day to inquire about roads and land. Will Smith came for eggs.

July 6, 1926, Tuesday

Bright and not so hot as yesterday as east breeze cooler. Will went around cattle, also mailed letters at Hidden Timber and in p.m. got wire north of Dick Schmidt’s that he put there last year. William harrowed corn on Moore’s. George elied here. Louise cleaned the cupboards and stove and helped with the ordinary work. I fussed with chickens, also made bread & cake. Mr. Lew Lattimore and relatives came to tell Will that no fix fence to-day. Frank Ruble stopped in late p.m. It is quiet these days and we are tired and I have a headache so just go.

June 27, 1956, Wednesday

Bright day. Men got 3 stacks on Strids and Will was sick last night but helped sweep this day and tonight is very sick. Harp and Johnson looked at cows and calves. This p.m. Dave Parker brought Mr. Howard Fairchild’s truck and last of their things as he came Monday eve and he and Thomas unloaded in barn and left Stranger & Cookie at Thomas’s, also their rabbits. We never knew he came Monday. Jeanne, Jack and Cherrie came in their New Car and no one was home at Thomas’s. Jeanne & Jack went to Stanley’s, they were there but Jimmie and Doris came with them, also Thomas in his Pick Up to help Dave get things in north tenant house where will be home for them. They went back to stay at Thomas’s until Dave takes Fairchild’s truck home to Broadwater and get his pick up. This is Cherrie’s 4th Birthday so she will have a fried chicken supper at Thomas’s and no doubt ice-cream and cake. I think it is too much for Jeanne to move in her pregnancy in Oct. but hope we can get the house fixed O.K. Jerry was doing their Big Washing today and had to have powder to finish the wash. I guess it is Tide. I laid down and got eats, played solitaire.

June 28, 1956, Thursday

Bright, hot day and a cloud came up this late p.m. but no rain, south wind changed to northwest but no rain here, only wind. Wm Pierce came in his bronze body with blue top car to get chain to his box that he uses to stack hay, also asked about goose that belongs to Billie Pierce and it was at Johnsons now with our chickens. Pierce never took it home. Will was very sick last night and all this day in bed, had to go out in our car at times and pick up to help bring in heifer, they pulled calf south of hill south of house, had to get others with Tex, saddle horse, and Leslie, then calf in Pick Up and mother & calf in round corral so she would claim it and quit at 8:30 p.m. for the night. Harp and Leslie mowed & raked another 1/3 of Strid alfalfa but wind very strong this p.m. The radio is noisy to cannot hear any news now. Never saw Jerry, Billie and Annita this day. I got eats, played solitaire and visited with Will and Pierce.

June 29, 1956, Friday

Bright, cool morning. Sprinkled some rain last night and got hot in p.m. to 104 above then began to cool off. I washed clothes and Will hung them on line. I got eats and laid down early a.m. and in p.m. and wrote in diary in p.m. and played solitaire. Will helped put up 2 stacks on Strids and men looked at cows and watered heifers down on State Land. A bull Pierce saw at spray pen has foot rot. Will slept this p.m. We have not seen Thomas’s and Parkers since Wednesday eve. Hope Jeanne is O.K. Will cleaned the night light, put clean distilled snow water in glass and this is Furreys’ 1 gallon jar so must give it to them to use for drinks to be filled. Jerry & Billie got meat this a.m. Men took junk out to hole this a.m. and we have ants in Kitchen, hope to get some chaser for them soon. Hope it rains again. Will and I out to look over cows and came home, did not get mail.

June 30, 1956, Saturday

I got up at about 5 a.m. and Will got up and looked at heifers to calf. One cow S.W. corner of wheat grass has a calf and is lame. Leslie and Mr. Harp are sweeping and raking last of alfalfa on Strids. Finished mowing last eve, raking at noon, and Will and I went to Winner to get groceries and some diabetic eats for me. We ate hamburgers and on return at noon Will took Post Toasties and some other eats, went with Mr. Harp and Leslie to stack 4 stacks alfalfa and finished this eve at Strids. After supper Mr. Harp went home. Parkers are at Thomas’s and Dave and Bill came back from Broadwater, Nebr. and they dug a trench to tenant house about midday, have some to finish. I gave them lunch this p.m. and they went back to Thomas’s for night. Jeanne, Jack and Cherrie did not come down, nor Thomas’s.

July 1, 1956, Sunday

Bright day and quite warm. Bill and Dave Parker finished trench to tenant house about 10 a.m. and went away in a hurry in pick up. Will and I are alone so we went out to look at cows and to Jim Hawk’s in p.m. Jim and Will figured wiring for tenant house north of garage and Leona and I sat in car in shade of trees. We came home via Abbotts and we talked to them S.W. of Ben’s. Got home and Mr. & Mrs. Jay Hudson Tate here and we visited and had a lunch. They went home to Winner at 10:30 p.m. Johnsons are home but went to Drive-In in eve.

June 27, 1946, Thursday

Rained last night. Bright, warm but cool indoors in morning, got warmer in day. Will and Hank chored and got things ready to fix mill east of Strids and came back to get a joint of pipe but did not come in the house. I got work finished in forenoon so wrote in diary, played solitaire and went down to Wagner House, for Will and Hank finished Mill with Abbott’s help and he had his house at Strid fence so went home at noon, then he and Billie came with tractor to get our sled that is on runners to move Sundquist house that they brought to their home, so they helped put Wagner House on foundation, that is it is in place. They went home to get Sundquist House and Will and Hank went there after we got to Abbotts in eve for fried chicken, potatoes, baked beans, gravy, Jello, angel food cake, which was Abbott’s 44th Birthday cake. Enjoyed the meal and came home at 11:30 p.m., got here 15 minutes to 12. Will and Hank went to Chas. McCormick’s to get a long crow-bar to move house and saw Cora Ann going on Jimmy to Roy Drey’s to invite them to supper at Abbotts this eve, but they did not come, just Hank, Will and I.

June 28, 1946, Friday

Bright but clouds passed at times so got cool, so cool had to close south door on account Northeast breeze was chilly indoors. At times got cloudy enough to rain but no do, then would be sunny again. I got meals, that is breakfast and supper, for Will took tractor and helped Abbotts get the Sundquist house home. Hank took cattle from River Pasture to Big Pasture and in eve he and Abbotts brought Abbott cattle to our River Pasture, for Hank also went to Abbotts horseback. On return Will started to Whiting Store and approaches to Bridge west of here were out and he walked up and got mail and stopped at Thomas Whiting’s, got 1 doz. eggs as our hens are setting. Will and Hank tried to move Wagner house a little east.

June 29, 1946, Saturday

Cool last night, a few clouds then sun shone nicely, a south wind. I got breakfast and Dinner. Will and Hank fixed fence from S.E. corner of Strids to 2 miles north and came home to eat dinner. Bud Whiting came this eve to get Hank and our horse-mower, for Hank got it ready to take home this p.m. Will and I went to Winner to get meat, some chicken feed, a tire pump, for Abbott left it at his place this eve. Home to eat ice-cream but no chores.

June 30, 1946, Sunday

Bright but cool. Will chored and I got breakfast and we left for Earl Adrian’s northeast of Parmelee and southwest about 25 miles. We went via Parmelee and North then East a few miles to their place. Earl, Bess, Bobby, Helen Marie, Dean, Billie and Dickie Adrian were at home. Rose Furhur and son Kenneth of Port Angelus, Washington, sister of Bess were there, also, Julia Fronek and another sister of O’Kreek. It was a birthday party for Rose. She and Roy, twins, were born south of Spencer, Nebr. near our old home over 40 years ago and Roy got killed by tractor upsetting on him east of Spencer a few years ago. We had a dinner of mashed potatoes, roast chicken, salad, pickles, jell, butter, bread, a birthday cake, lemon pie, milk, coffee and lunch of several kinds of cake, pear sauce, bread, butter, milk, coffee. Wm Fronek and Bob came for Julia and she went home, for Bob and Ronnie wanted to go to Show at Boarding School. They are twins of Julia and Bill Fronek living at O’Kreek. Will and I stopped at Boarding School and to show “God Is My Co-Pilot,” an air show or bravery on part of an American flyer against the Japanese. Bess, Rose and Helen Marie came behind us to show but we did not see them as a Big Crowd and we came out towards the last of crowd. Home to bed near mid-night.

July 1, 1946, Monday

Will harrowed the corn on Wagners for it was bright and no rain but warm in p.m. I got meals, laid down in a.m. and p.m. for I am all in from show last night but we got the work finished.

June 27, 1936, Saturday

Was another terrible hot day and south wind quite strong. The boys had to get dinner for men who came from north of Faith, S.D. looking for feed for their cattle, that was yesterday, and Will took Ben to Mission Thursday a.m. to go to Hot Springs with Dr. and Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. James Dowd so he could enter Natl. Battle Mountain Sanitarium Hospital for operation, then in p.m. he and Thomas put up a stack of alfalfa. This day they only chored and cleaned boys’ room, took bed out and wood-work off, cleaned and painted behind it, filled cracks and started to Kalsomine and got bed back in eve. Will took Thomas and LeMoyne to Hidden Timber bowery dance. I got meals, cleaned at furniture to move in our room, painted shades and mopped floors. Thomas took eggs to store, got gasoline to clean the beds of bed-bugs.

June 28, 1936, Sunday

Another dusty, hot south wind, changed to N.E. in eve. I got meals, went to church with Thomas, LeMoyne and Mose Boyd who came from dance in Tom’s car. Will got me after church, he slept, we ate a lunch, went to Mission vs. Hidden Timber ball game. H.T. won 8-9. We talked to Hugh Barton about Employment Bureau, then to store, then to Ben’s where the Cassidy boy was doing work and getting along fine but he needed chicken feed. Will chored, we ate a bite and went to bed.

June 29, 1936, Monday

Another bright, hot day. I got meals, baked bread in p.m. from Fleischmann’s yeast. Between Will and I we got the clothes washed and dried and he brought them in, in evening and churned butter and I washed it. Will also washed dishes at noon and in the eve and after supper for I only washed separator in a.m. Henry Sell brought our bull home and had dinner. LeMoyne went around stock. Thomas got Ben’s mower and took chick-feed over and he and Will worked at mowers and he mowed in p.m. and LeMoyne tried to rake but rake was broken and Will worked at mower but did not fix it. Lewis Lattimore brought us fish last Friday.

June 30, 1936, Tuesday

A sprinkle of rain this morning so men chored. LeMoyne to pasture of cattle and to horses in Lundermann Pasture in p.m. and fences on Creek and low places washed out. Will and I left for Rosebud at 9 a.m. and had to drive in shelter of Jim Horton house for the rain, then we went to North of Brewer place and were stalled on hill in the rain and hail. Will would wipe coils but they would only get wet again so we waited until it quit, went to Hugh Barton’s, on north, let fence down then to Highway, at times through water and hail. Saw J. Dowd, Mission. Ben to be operated on today. Ate dinner and Jones Restaurant, Rosebud. Dr. Jones Violet Rays me at Hospital, saw Mrs. Everett Haukaas, to Jake’s where we arranged to go to Lawrence’s Wedding, to Kilgore, Valentine, saw Mrs. F. Krause and Charboreaus. Will got repairs for mower and rake. LeMoyne got dinner and supper. Thomas started to fix hog-fence west of house but it rained too much so he had to look after things. No rain south of Wheelers about 2 miles, for Will and I came home that road from Valentine. Evelyn Bergin was leaving hospital but I saw Mrs. DuBray, Mrs. Bice, and Mrs. Bordeaux and three more patients in hospital ward where I was.

July 1, 1936, Wednesday

Cool north breeze indoors, bright, warm outside. I got meals except dinner, for Thomas and LeMoyne took lunch and went to the Lundermann pasture and fixed the washed-out fence and LeMoyne went horseback through Jake Wisenberger’s in case any of the horses were there. Will helped me cap 2 cases of root-beer, then he went to Winner to get the car fixed at knee-action and wasn’t home at bed-time. I slept in p.m. Frank Van Epps was here looking for one of his hogs and one of Lattimore’s. Lattimores are visiting at Naper, Nebr.

June 27, 1926, Sunday

Bright, real hot day. George went home with Wm Cihak this morning after dance at 4 a.m. Wm Smith left for home with cows & calves to leave at Winner for Rodeo at 4 a.m. after the dance. Ben Clausen came and in p.m. he took Will to ball-game at Dorians. William Whiting took Wolfe, and he and George came home late eve. Clausen brought Will and I and Louise home with Fred  & Bill Elshire, and Thomas rode home with his folks. Mr. Hugh Smith took Louise and Thomas and I to the game (Hidden Timber vs. Dorian) and went home to Dallas.

June 28, 1926, Monday

Another real hot day, in fact very hot, the hottest day and before bedtime a little cloudy. William elied on Moore’s. George got harrow at Wisenbergers and started corn. Will helped him get started, visited with John Wisenberger & Curt Elshire and late p.m. he and I went to fix fence north of Moores. Mr. & Mrs. W. Brown came in eve to see about bringing cattle and horses to pasture. Ed and family came early morn to church but Fr. Buechel, never came.

June 29, 1926, Tuesday

Rained in night, nice a.m. but hot p.m. William elied corn on Moore’s. Will went around the cattle and had dinner at Bailey’s and home via Menz’s late p.m. then put on screen door and fixed gate, also helped Water Brown and son brand horses, which they brought to pasture. George finished harrowing corn in the eve and after supper went for the mail at Hidden Timber. Louise washed clothes and I helped with fire outside in the old stove and got the meals. Rena, Helen, Leo, Edward, Seth & Charlotte came to spend the day and home via Store.

June 30, 1926, Wednesday

Bright, hot day and clouded in eve. Louise washed all dishes while Will and I were at the store, she ironed the wash, washed dresses in gasoline and pressed them and in eve sewed underwear. I got early dinner and sewed some pillow slips, towels and sheets. Will finished eliing on Moore’s late eve, also George & Will went after dinner to fix fence north of Moore’s on Nelson’s and home late eve. W. Brown and son brought some cattle late p.m. and branded some for waited for men in eve.

July 1, 1926, Thursday

Bright, hot day and east wind all day and to N.E. towards eve, quite strong and real cloudy towards eve and all indications of rain at bed-time. Will went to Nelson fence and fixed some, that is, still putting on another wire and in p.m. got in a horse. George got eli at Moore’s and started our corn. William took Louise to O’Kreek in George’s car and in p.m. took harrow to Moore’s to drag that corn. Louise will take the mail to Winner and celebrate the Rodeo as Bess to come from Spencer. Jake Wisenberger came for eggs, got hoe and paid for eggs. I washed new sheets etc. and did the ordinary work so kept busy.

June 22, 1956, Friday

Bright, real hot, got to 111 above in p.m. but Men worked at alfalfa on Standing Cloud. I got eats and played solitaire, read some and Will had to rest but went to haying.

June 23, 1956, Saturday

Bright warm day but getting cooler. Athel & Doris put 2 large pieces of pork in our Deep Freeze and brought a jar of milk then went home to get dinner for Thomas and David helping Old Tom move their cattle to South Pasture by Carmen Harp’s and Tom Sr. took Bobbie, Jimmie, Patsy and Danny in his car to help move cattle from north and west of Thomas’s to pasture across river. Mr. Harp, Leslie and Will finished alfalfa on Standing Cloud. Mr. Harp went home to Ainsworth, Nebr. and he took milk, cream, ice-cream and meat from Thomas’s. Johnson went to Valentine via Brinda’s to a Show this eve and Will and I to Abbotts. Billie home as W. L. and Inez in Winner. We went around Highway to west and looked at cows.

June 24, 1956, Sunday

Bright day and strong south wind and a cloud came up in eve. Very dark and dusty but rain not much. There was 12 noon, we did not go as heifer had to have dead calf pulled but she is alive. Leslie helped Will. They went to Brinda’s for dinner. Louise & Mary to church at St. Therese and here in p.m. We went up My Creek to fish (none). Will & I parted ways, Louise & I parted then to Schuppen Corner. Mary & Louise went home, we to Haukaas School, met Harley, Billy and Harry. They went to Mission vs. Parmalee ball game, Mission won. They will get 5 gals. oil for Fly Rubs in pasture and a cream separator at their new home (Herman Larson Place) and we can use it. We went to Barthelson’s, no one home, then chored, to cows, O.K., to Stanley’s. Stanley, Gary, Curley and Pearl were to go to Winner vs. Valentine game but did not go on account of storm. Men will come tomorrow to help vaccinate calves for Blackleg, also Thomas, David and Athel to help. Mr. Harp there and here before 10 p.m. He came back from Ainsworth at 3 p.m.

June 25, 1956, Monday

Bright Day and not much rain last eve. Billie Abbott, Lyle Bartleson, Stanley, Gary, Curley, Thomas and David, Will and Mr. Harp, also Leslie on horseback vaccinated 196 calves, branded and ear marked 25. Jerry and Billie came up and Athel. We roasted beef, cooked hamburger, gravy, potatoes, oyster dressing, salad of orange, lettuce and cherries, another of peas, boiled eggs, mayonnaise and cheese, coffee and ice-tea, Koolaid. We baked apple, raisin and black cherry with boysenberry pie. Doris stayed home with Danny, Jimmie, Bobbie & Patsy and we sent leftovers from dinner to them by David & Athel. Everything I do isn’t the right way so it makes it hard to get a meal. Too many bosses. I have my way of cooking and it is hard to have to change. We will have to fix our place so others can give meals to Big Crowd to work cattle and I can stay at home. Will won’t go to other meals as he wants to eat at home. Athel has rheumatic arthritis of crippling kind in wrists and hay fever so should not do too much work. All came in to eat pie and ice-tea but Billie Abbott and Lyle Bartleson. Will gave Thomas’s children a poor calf to raise. One has broken leg but I hear no more of it. Women washed dishes, had to clean out sink drain as it was clogging. I laid down in p.m. and slept. Billie Johnson cried and cried this day. Men took 13 bulls to Big Pasture.

June 26, 1956, Tuesday

Boyd Larmer’s Birthday. Bright hot day. Leslie started to mow on Strids and he had welded trail mower hitch twice but finally got it to work and finished 1/3 of alfalfa on Strids and Mr. Harp raked it. Will looked at cows in Big Pasture. Mr. Harp raked it. Will looked at cows in Big Pasture and all O.K., also cows here, had 1 calf, this is the heifer bunch. Men have to get heifer up that lost a calf Sunday and water her 2 times a day. Jerry and kids did not come up. I got eats and was warming leftovers all this day after breakfast. Will and I looked at cows and no bulls to count as are out with cows.

June 22, 1946, Saturday

Bright, got very hot in the day. Will and Hank chored and got house ready to move and I laid down in p.m. and Will came up to tell me to come down to see them roll the house onto foundation but they had trouble so got it only on foundation about 4 ft. or 6 ft. so 20 or 18 more to go. Will and I went to Wm Abbotts to get beef they brought from Winner last night. They went to Brownie Anderson’s last night to a birthday party and home at 2 a.m. so no one up but W.L., so he gave us the meat. I washed a few pieces and went with Will to get meat and he was peeved.

June 23, 1946, Sunday

Boyd Larmer’s birthday. Hot south wind, bright, wind was strong. Will took Hank and I to 10:30 church, also Athel, Doris and David. Will and I rested on return from church until 3 p.m. then ate lunch, put sweep battery in car, took salt to cattle. No water in south well, all but 2 tanks full on Moore Creek. Went to Lew McKee’s and they will come Tuesday to help vaccinate the calves for Blackleg. We stopped at Furreys, had a lunch of bread, butter, milk, cake and peach sauce, came to Wm Pierce’s to get well tools, then home for night at 10:30 p.m. Hank left on horseback after church to go to Elmer Chauncey’s to see Sonny Arcoren and he went with Elmer and Sonny to Kriz diamond ball-game where they played Wood.

June 24, 1946, Monday

Bright, hot day until clouds passed in p.m. Strong dusty in places Northwest wind and a few large hail at Winner and dark clouds passed to North. I got meals, that is breakfast and dinner, for Hank had supper at Abbotts where he helped brand and castrate calves, 41 head, also Chas. McCormick, Keith, Gene and Chas. Jr. helped there as Abbotts helped McC.’s in a.m. Will and I to Winner in p.m., stopped at Abbotts going and return but no ice-cream in town to bring to Abbotts. Hank, W.L. and Billie got our cattle from Big Pasture to River Pasture in eve. Hank and Will got house to about 6 ft. of finished and ran house to west to about half of foundation. Mrs. Abbott, Delores and Cora Ann came in Abbott’s car. Delores is driving but could not go east of here so Will pushed. Stanley, Gary and Curly came this eve for awhile.

June 25, 1946, Tuesday

Bright, warm day. I got meals. Will helped me get dinner on table and Athel Whiting walked down to get our camera and she helped me get all dishes washed and fix a lunch for me at 4 p.m. Will and Hank chored. Hank went out to River Pasture to get in cattle and Bus and Jesse Lewis came on their Buckskin Colored Horses and helped Hank to get cattle in. Lew McKee came in Pick Up. They all vaccinated 123 of our calves for Blackleg and 1 sick one was hemorrhagic vaccinated. After dinner they put Wagner House on Foundation and straightened it. They ate lunch and went home. Will and I took Athel home, then Doris went along to get the mail. Will and I went out to fix fence east of wheat grass for put 49 of our heifers and 1 of Van Epps there, also a calf we got from Henry Arcoren to wean. Sonny came horse-back to see Hank and went back to Elmer’s.

June 26, 1946, Wednesday

Bright, warm until toward eve clouded, real rain and some hail, then South wind blew hard but wind changed every direction this eve. I got meals but no dinner as Will & Hank vaccinated at McKee’s, came home to put wethers back in cow who lost a calf. Hank got her in horseback. Will got Abbotts in car, they took him home after supper, fixed cow O.K. Fried chicken and washed clothes by hand.