Diary March 1912

March 1 :  Papa took us over to the Japs place.   School was out.  Went to Literary at Starry Point.  To bed at 12 o’clock.
March 2:  Was at Japs.  Minnie and the kids were sick.   Snowed all day.  To bed at 9 o’clock.
March 3:   Sunday   Perry, Eva and Floyd Cowan came over.  Emma and Harry in the afternoon.  Jim came in the eve, went home. To bed at 12 o’clock.
March 4 :  Emma is over to Japs, we washed this morning.  Harry came in the evening.  To bed at 8-30.
March 5:  Did not do much of anything.  Harris came over in the afternoon.   To bed at 9-30.
March 6:  Sewed nearly all day.  Wanted to go to Logan but did not get to.  Fred and Harry went.  To bed at 8-30.
March 7:  helped Mama sew.  Intended to go to church over at Liberty in the eve but did not get to.  Had some fun.   To bed at ----
March 8:   Didn’t do very much.  Ted and Harry were here in  the afternoon.  To bed at 8-30.
March 9:  Papa and Lydia went to town.  I went up to Maudes in the afternoon.  Anna came home in the eve. To bed at 10-30.
March 10:  Sunday  Went to Sunday School in the morning.  Harry was here. Arthur Daugherty came in the afternoon.  Jim came too.  Was going to church but it snowed.  To bed at 12.
March 11: Snowed all day.  Harry was here. Fred came home in the storm.  To bed at 7-30.
March 12:  Washed in the morn.  Emma went up to Maudes.  To bed at 930 o’clock.
March 13:  Ironed all morning.  All of us kids intended to go to the bowling alley but it stormed so we did not go.  Harry came up.  Him and Anna went to the Japs. To bed at 915.
March 14:  Had an old time blizzard.   Sewed in the afternoon.  To bed at 9-30.
March 15:  Stayed at home and sewed.  To bed at 8-30.
March 16:  The kids all went to town.  I stayed at home.  Went up to Maudes for supper.  Came home alone.  To bed at 9-30.
March 17: Sunday.  Went to Sunday School.  The folks went up to Franks.  Harris, Anna, Harry, Bessie, Hazel, Ruth, Jermayne, Jim and Franks were here in the afternoon.  Went to church over at Liberty in the eve.  To bed at 11-30.
March 18:  Emma and I sewed in the afternoon.  Emma and Ruth went to church rode with the preachers.  To bed at 9 o’clock.
March 19:  Harry Harris and Fred Hendrickson sawed wood for us.   Ted,  Effie, Harry and all of Als were here. To bed at 8 o’clock.
March 20:  Stormed all day.  Sewed carpet rags.  Fred helped us.  To bed at ---.
March 21:  Washed in the morn sewed carpet rags in the afternoon. To bed at 9-30.
March 22:  Sewed all day.  Jim,  Emma, Fred and I went to the Lyceum.  Stella came home with us.  To bed at 12-30.
March 23:  Papa, Francis, Fred and I went to town had lots of fun.  To bed at 9 o’clock.
March 24:  Sunday.  Emma and I went to Sunday School then Fred went with us up to Franks.  Jim came in the afternoon and took us kids home.  Papa went to town after Uncle Will.  Nothing doing Sunday eve.  To bed at 9-30.
March 25:  Stayed home.  Uncle Will is still here.  Ruth came over in the afternoon.  Franks and Als were here in the eve.  To bed at 9-30.
March 26: Washed in the morn.  Uncle Will is still here.  Ruth was here again.  To bed at 9-30.
March 27:  Papa, Uncle Will and I went to town.  Uncle went home.  I stayed in town at Alecks.  Hazel and I went up to Terrys in the eve.  To bed at 12-45.
March 28:  Went to work down at the store.  Esta came down in the afternoon.  Us three girls went up to Terrys in the eve stayed until 10.  To bed at 10-30.
March 29:  Went to work all day, saw Jim.  Got home at 6.  To bed at 9 o’clock.
March 30: Worked in the forenoon.  Downtown in the PM.  Jim and Fred up for supper.  Esta, Anna, Hazel, Jim, Fred, Harry and I went to the picture show.  Anna went to Co.  Bluffs.  To bed at 12 o’clock.
March 31:  Sunday stayed at home in the morn.  Went to the depot with Esta she went to Woodbine.  Jim and Fred came up went for a walk down by the river, came home played cards. To bed 10-15.

***  American Lyceum was a movement of the mid nineteenth and early twentieth century,  an early form of adult education.  Lectures, dramatic performances, classes and debates were held in countless small towns providing a platform for the dissemination of culture and ideas.