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October 14, 1941: Will thought he had no dinner

1941 Oct. 14th, Tuesday

Was a nice day. I got meals, fried chicken, baked Pumpkin and Blackberry Pies, laid down in p.m., played solitaire. Will chored, helped Forgey take his cattle to Jackson School, for Mrs. and child and hired girl brought Mr. Forgey here this morning in Pick Up, and Saddle horse they unloaded east My Creek and left at once for home east [of] here in Tripp Co. about 20 miles, but had to go around road to north [of] Kriz’s to near Bartleson’s in Tripp Co., then south to Willow Creek, their home, on account [of] this Girl [is] a poor driver, but he took cattle direct east. Mike and Clarence loaded oats and pulled off in forenoon in 2 rack bunches and Hank Haukaas came at noon with combine tractor and trailer wagon, so Will and Hank fed combine and cut twine holding bundles and Clarence put bundles to combine. Mike hauled in oats and kept straw away from combine. Jack Underwood who rides for Bokeman at Pierce Place came and went out to help men cut bundles and Will thought he had no dinner, so sent Mike in for a blackberry-pie when he came in with a load of oats. Will went to Whiting store to get groceries right after he got Mike and Clarence started on hauling oats.

October 14, 1941

October 14, 1941

April 12: Our President Is Gone

~ Boyd County, Nebraska

1921: Was cloudy and windy most of day. Will sowed oats on Will Bradstreet’s and put 100 bu. corn in granary. I washed clothes and sewed Papa’s night shirt and also sewed my finger and it made me so sick. 

~ Hidden Timber, South Dakota

  
1935: Bright, lovely day except snow in drifts and it melted, so water in evening. The men chored and Elmer took cattle to N. E. hills, and Fritz a 4 horse team and rack. They started home with hay but got stuck in Wisenberger field, so unloaded part and got home at 5 p.m.

1943: Will and I went to Rosebud, had dinner at Dam’s Café, picked up a woman and girl walking to Rosebud. We went to the Office, and Will went in to get an itemized list of what we are to pay for rent of submarginal land, and he brought it to the car so I could sign. Nellie Brandon, who is a telephone operator, came to the car, so she witnessed my signature. We took her to Dam’s Café where she rooms in the back, and she got Patty Joe, her little girl, and Will took us to the hospital to see Harriet Whiting Hudson and 2 day old son, Michael Francis, and Vera Whiting Compton, who was very will Saturday night after the birth of a girl Adreene Le-ann, sometime after midnight, so Harriet’s baby’s birthday is April 10th and Vera’s April 11th. Jake Whiting’s birthday is today.

1945: Bright, nice day, not as cold as it has been. I got meals, lay down in p.m., and was playing solitaire between 5:30 and six o’clock when I turned Pierre on, and she was telling about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Death at Warm Springs, Georgia at 3:35 Central time. He finished his Official business at noon and was sitting for an Artist to paint his picture by the fireplace at his cottage on the hill, when at 1:15 p.m., he said that he had a terrible headache and fainted, so his colored Valet and Filipino Bell-boy lifted him to his bed, got Doctors, but he never gained consciousness, died at above time, so our President is gone. News to Washington, and at 7:09 Central time, Harry S. Truman, Vice Pres., had taken Oath of President and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt flew to Warm Springs. She was at Tea for some organization and was called home a few blocks from the White House. A shocked world this night is sending messages.

1946: This is Jake’s and Leo Whiting’s birthday, also 1 yr. ago today Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, so this day his old House at Hyde Park was turned over to the Government as a Memorial to him, and will be a Museum.