July 7, 1936, Tuesday

A South wind hot and no sign of rain so we are so dry. Will had to get breakfast for I couldn’t make the grade, so stayed in bed all day but got up to take caster-oil and ate some bread and milk late p.m. Will went to store, for I managed to wash separator early a.m. but could do no more, he finished, then he got sick and boys had to get their own supper, wash dishes and do all the work. Thomas mowed and raked the last of alfalfa Monday and started at the oats to-day. LeMoyne went around the stock.

July 8, 1936, Wednesday

Another Hot dry day and dusty at times. I got meals. Will is sick but he managed to go to Jake Wisenberger’s to see about the fire but he was only burning thistles. After dinner he and I went to school meeting at the Hidden Timber hall and no school-houses will be moved this year. We got groceries, home to get supper and wash dinner dishes. Thomas was mowing and raking oats so we left him what water was in thermo bottle. Lemoyne went around stock and 2 more Schulte cows lost new-born calfs.

July 9, 1936, Thursday

This is Wm Whiting’s Birthday and Will and I were at St. Francis but I never thought of it. Will took me to see Dr. Jones at hospital in p.m. We were at St. Francis in a.m. to find Boss Farmer so Will went to Indian Council and I to Jake’s, had dinner there, back to Rosebud. Saw Hinley Boyd (Mose) and we had ice-cream and popcorn, had to wait until 4 p.m. before we saw the Farmer, got Dorian Hay-land for Noel Lunderman, back to Mission where we left Mose with his folks at a large building west side of town where Mrs. and Ella stay with Lloyd & family. We waited at trees down the hill from Rosebud for Farmer in p.m. Dr. Jones wants me back at Hospital July 21st to stay for 2 weeks. Thomas, Lemoyne and Billie Pierce brought the herd of cattle from Big Pasture to River Pasture and Lemoyne got dinner late afternoon and he and Thomas chored in eve, and Will and I got supper, we had beefsteak, potatoes, gravy, lemonade, peanut butter, butter and bread and it was good. Will and I stopped at Sazama’s on return from Rosebud and we talked about the things that were given Pat Karnes, for his house burnt to the ground last Monday morning, so Will and I went over there after supper to Lattimores to Mrs. Karnes to find out their needs.

[The following information on boss farmers is from The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century, by Peter Iverson: “Boss farmers were involved in arranging leases, distributing rations, assisting the tribal courts, and hearing complaints. Once the white homesteaders arrived, a new duty was added to this list: keeping settlers off tribal land and away from Indian cattle. Disputes arose almost as soon as the reservation was opened. The boss farmer was in a unique position. He was a white man, but he was a federal official.”]

July 10, 1936, Friday

A hot South wind, bright and no rain. I got meals. Will got in water and I washed clothes. Will look them to line and brought a few in, otherwise I finished and wrote in this diary. Ed, Seth, Leo, Melvin, Ivan, Mrs. & Mr. F. Van Epps came for ice and to Ed’s for well tools to fix Nepper well. Will and Thomas cut and raked oats and fixed mower. Lemoyne went around cattle, took Lattimore bull home. We fixed root-beer in evening.

July 11, 1936, Saturday

A hot dusty wind from the south but bright. I got meals, laid down after dinner for awhile, baked bread and mopped floors. Will and Thomas mowed and raked alfalfa until noon, then Lemoyne and Thomas fixed fence between us and Ben Clausen’s. Lemoyne rode on stock in forenoon. Mr. Wm. Schulte, son and a truck driver brought 3 Big bulls and a small one in p.m. and went back after they looked at their cattle. Will took them out in our car and on to a high center and a flat tire east of here, so had to walk in. Will went back with them and got the car when they went home about 4 p.m.

July 7, 1926, Wednesday

Bright but south wind in p.m. dusty and strong. Louise had a sore throat but washed the clothes and dried dusty but will pass. George elied and finished in p.m. so cleaned barn. Will went around cattle and William finished harrowing on Moore’s at noon and in p.m. they helped Mr. Lattimore fix his division-fence and William got the mail in eve. Louise felt bad in eve. Just did my share of ordinary work this day.

July 8, 1926, Thursday

Bright until middle p.m. clouded and real dust and wind and towards eve rained around here within radius of a few miles. Will & George went to fix wind-mill and George to drive out cattle from Clausen’s place and Will went to Wisenbergers in George’s car. William elied at Moore’s but after threatening rain in p.m., he went to Menz’s. Louise ironed the clothes and cut out herself a dress, which is nice. I just did ordinary work and locked up setting hens in eve. Jake Wisenberger, Ed, Rena, Charlotte, Jay Tate and Kearns here to-day.

July 9, 1926, Friday

A real nice rain early morn and cloudy most of the day and misty. Will & Jake Wisenberger went to Valentine to get a load of corn for us which he borrowed and Will drove truck. William and George went around the cattle and drove in Haisch horses as Chas. McLaughlin came to buy some and had dinner. In p.m. the boys picked potatoes and rode again in eve and William went to the store, also after George took Jake home, Will and I went to the store in George’s car. Louise cleaned upstairs and I made cake, bread and butter. William’s birthday is today.

July 10, 1926, Saturday

I baked bread and in fact was cool enough to use cook-stove all day yesterday and bright and cool today, for I canned cherries on cook-stove, which Will brought from Shelbournes. Louise cleaned the rooms and helped me stem cherries, also Helen, Rena, LeMoyne, Edward and Charlotte came late p.m. and helped me. Will & George went to windmill and fixed it all day. William went to eli on Moore’s. Mr. & Mrs. A. L. Elshire, Dick, Ernie and Howard came to spend eve and boys slept.

July 11, 1926, Sunday

Bright, hot day and S.W. breeze. Elshires went home at 2 a.m. slow time and Helen, who stayed. Louise, William & George came at 2 a.m. from Tom’s dance also, and George went on home. Will rested this a.m. and the rest of us dumpy but a dinner of chicken and cherry pie, I fixed chicken and Louise the pie, and Helen helped with the work. I left one chicken on stove and fire going was burnt up, for we all went to ball-game at Tom’s as George came home between Keya-Paha and Hidden Timber. Lots of folks there and Helen went home with her folks. Mr. & Mrs. Lattimore, Ivan & Melvin brought tomato plants this a.m. and we went to ball-game in wagon so rode out with them.

July 2, 1956, Monday

Bright day and cool a.m. Leslie and Will went to McKee’s where Lyle Bartelson was on Hampl and men vaccinated calves. Will to Winner and got wiring for tenant house and home about 3 p.m. Dave and Bill Parker painted this house inside out of all of our leavings of old paint. They were at Norden, Nebr. yesterday and all of Thomas’s to Betsy Harp Family for dinner. Last eve some one was at Johnsons with a flashlight about 11:30 p.m. but Will didn’t go down. Jeanne, Athel and Cherrie came. Cherrie stayed here and we had a lunch. Dave, Bill, her and I, Athel and Jeanne went to Mission to get a rug for west room and back about 4 p.m. I never saw Jerry, Billie and Annita this day.

July 3, 1956, Tuesday

Bright, nice day. Leslie looked at cows to calf here and got one that was down up. She walked 300 yds. and fell dead, she is in N.W. corner of State Land. Will rested at little and went out to where Dave and Bill Parker were, then Jim Hawk and a Nephew, a Carson boy about 10 yrs. old, came to wire the house at end of lane where Parkers are to live when fixed to make hay. Will and I gave Jim, Carson boy, Dave and Bill dinner of potatoes, gravy, kidney beans, pickles, hamburger and steak, bread, butter, coffee & cream, apple pie. At lunch time Leslie joined them and had sandwiches of salmon, ice tea, raisin pie with ice-cream. Jim fixed light in north room at Johnsons and lights at Parkers complete. Men say they are nice. I will see them when they get located. Leona Karow, Judy and a Carson girl are at Thomas’s this day while Jim is here, also boy. Hawks went home in eve and Parkers back to Thomas’s in a hurry so all went away for eve. Johnsons are home as Jerry got a tooth pulled at Winner yesterday.

July 4, 1956, Wednesday

Independence Day. Bright, nice day. Jerry washed clothes and Leslie looked at cows to calf and planted garden. Will and I are alone which I thought we’d be so I planned to fry chicken for us and cooked macaroni and beef but Lee Larmer, wife Elsie, daughter Virginia Lee, and Nellie Larmer came in Lee’s ranch wagon, a Ford. Virginia stayed at Furreys last night as they were out from Winner last p.m., their home is in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, and they were at Kansas City, Mo. to see Fred, RoseMary, Lundie and Pete. Harry, Louise, Harley, Billie, Mary & Virginia came through our pasture. Louise fried 4 chickens, we boiled potatoes, corn, gravy, salad of fresh peaches, apples and cherries and mayonnaise, mulberry pie, coffee & ice tea, bread, butter. At noon a lunch of salmon sandwiches, rolls, ice-cream and ice-tea. Will, Lee, Harry, Harley, Billie and Elsie went to look at alfalfa and some cattle. They took pictures of us. Furreys went home to chore. Larmers and Nell went to Ed’s in eve then to Winner and Denver. Parkers and Thomas’s came 2 times to house but did not see Larmers. Dave, Bill, Thomas, David, Jimmie, Jack and Cherrie came to house to put furniture in place and told Mary and Ginnie they were to fish somewhere, and in p.m. Athel and Jeanne came in car to work at house. Doris must be home or somewhere and none of them came here but Nell, Louise and I were alone when others went to pasture, and Mary and Ginnie getting water lilies for Ginnie to take home and put in lily pond. Johnsons are home this day and night for have broken spring on car. Will and I went out to bridge west of here to go to Abbotts to to see about rake and wheel, and Thomas’s gate was shut so came back as it was cloudy. I helped get meals and am all in. Diabetic feet are bad so have to keep off them.

July 5, 1956, Thursday

Sun shone but a shower last night so some water, terrific lightning and some clouds in south late p.m. but no rain until before bed-time. Will didn’t feel well but Leslie looked at cows, we have another calf, 4 now and 1 dead again cow gets up. Will went to Abbotts to get a rake and wheel as Leslie is fixing machinery. Dave and Bill Parker fixed things at their place, put in some upstairs furniture, they went away in car so Athel and Jeanne helping. Jeanne got water to drink, hope we can get a well there soon. Jerry washed clothes yesterday and got mail this p.m. I am not alone as men work at shop. Guess Dave and Bill went someplace in their car.

July 6, 1956, Friday

Cloudy and cool early a.m. then sun shone. No rain last night but got too hot. Will looked at cow and a dead calf so cow had to have help to get up. Leslie out with Will so got up in soft place then men got her out and she is down again. Will got gas tank at Strid’s alfalfa field. Leslie and Will are working at machinery. I wrote in diary and accounts to date. Leslie and Will at repairs for machinery. Dave fixing cupboards in house. Bill brought cow that lost calf to barn on sled and put in slings to stand up. Got to 98 above in p.m., south wind. Jerry & Billie came up this a.m. for meat and first time in over a week. Jack and Cherrie stay at Thomas’s all these days. Jeanne & Athel are getting house livable and Bill & Dave do jobs that require heavy lifting and carpentry work.

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.