Farm Diary: March 1918

March

1  Friday  Born to us Ronald, changed and covered spuds, Mrs. Stuve here

2   Saturday  Worked with spuds

3 Sunday Hauled manure, on dam in AM to Osage and had company in PM

4  Monday  Made hog she?? , had sore throat and breaking out had measles

5  Tuesday  Helped wash and cut posts

6 Wednesday Cut posts, took Mrs. Stuve to Osage, cut and hauled posts

7  Thursday  Cut posts, took Mrs. Stuve to Osage

8  Friday Cut posts, took Emma to Osage, split wood

9  Saturday Helped in the house, give Maurice lesson, got Sexton’s spuds, Ora Eston here, Lydia, Cora E and Estons family here for supper

10 Sunday Home, Vernon Prat, Mike and Mrs. Sanderson here.

11 Monday Cut and hauled posts and logs

12 Tuesday Cut posts, butchered, to election

13 Wednesday To sale at Schroders

14 Thursday Helped wash, new calf Dot, cut and hauled posts

15 Friday Thresa sick all day waited on her

16 Saturday Cut wood and posts and hauled them

17 Sunday Clif, Francis, Mike and Dick here

18 Monday Cut Leo wood hauled it up with Nancy and drove Dinah

19 Tuesday Helped wash, crated?  seperator, sold spuds, sacked spuds to ship, Mike here in eve

20 Wednesday To PR Market Day

21 Thursday  Sawed wood for self and Sextons

22 Friday Split wood, drove colts, hauled wood to Estons

23 Saturday Trouble with seperator, washed colts, hauled wood

24 Sunday  Home in AM, fixed fence, gave Maurice lesson, took ride in PM

25 Monday Plowed and disced

26 Tuesday  Harrowed, took wood to Estons

27 Wednesday   helped wash, went to Mrs. Spencers sale

28 Thursday Split wood and sowed wheat

29  Friday Finished Estons wood, Thresa went home, harrowed wheat in,  Sold Bess and Daise

30 Saturday  Rolled up wire, scraped and hauled up stack bottoms, hauled a load of manure, plowed

31 Sunday With Eston’s over home

Farm Diary: February 1918

February

1  Friday Cut Jack pines by Sexton’s in AM sawed wood in PM

2  Saturday Butchered, went in cellar, P.D.Osage (Grandpa’s shorthand for Played Dance)

3  Sunday  Home all day

4  Monday Delivered meat, got spuds, split wood for Sexton

5  Tuesday  Got hay at Siegfords looked out saw spot

6 Wednesday Got hay at Siegfords, fixed calf stalls

7  Thursday  Helped wash, doctored shier??

8  Friday  Took cream, helped A Stevensons saw

9 Saturday Went in cellar put floor in bin, water in cellar, helped Stevensons saw , began to change spuds

10 Sunday  Worked with spuds, Lydia and Mike here for dinner

11 Monday Worked with the spuds, sacked some, Gave K Lesson. P.D. Osage  ( K is most likely Kenneth)

12 Tuesday  To Osage, Uncle John here, cut wood

13 Wednesday Cut and hauled wood

14 Thursday Cut and hauled wood

15 Friday Helped wash, took cream and spuds and beggies to Osage, brought back ice, split wood, to Farmers Club

16 Saturday  Cut brush, gave Maurice lesson

17 Sunday Took a sleigh ride to Johnsons

18 Monday  Cut brush, helped preacher move, ladies here shower duties

19 Tuesday  Cut brush all day

20 Wednesday Cut brush and posts

21 Thursday Cut posts

22 Friday Went in cellar, took spuds and beggies up to Osage

23 Saturday Split wood, cut wood,give Maurice a lesson, up to Osage in eve

24 Sunday Home all day we all went where I was chopping

25 Monday Helped wash, cut wood, give Kenneth a lesson in eve

26 Tuesday Cut wood in AM.  Aunt Bunt and Uncle Fred Aleck here for dinner, Ben and Harold here for lessons in eve

27 Wednesday Cut wood in AM, went in cellar and up to Osage

28 Thursday  Hauled up posts and wood

Farm Diary : January 1918

January  (Tracie in Red)

1  Tuesday New Year Unloaded hay

2  Wednesday   Hauled clover straw all day

3  Thursday  Finished straw hauling, hunted mink set traps

4  Friday Got in a load of wood, took cream, sorted spuds

5  Saturday  B. Ronie, gave Maurice lesson, made spud grader, to Osage in eve gave Kenneth lesson ( B. Ronie- he is keeping track of when cows were bred)

6  Sunday  Home, wrote letter home *  (Most likely to his Mother in Iowa)

7  Monday To Osage in morn, in cellar in PM

8  Tuesday Sorted spuds, caught weasel

9  Wednesday  Sorted spuds

10  Thursday Thresa sick helped with her work

11 Friday Took cream, helped wash, chored, shave and haircut, bad day

12  Saturday  Sorted spuds all day, Ray helped, to Osage in the eve give two lessons

13  Sunday  Home all day, wrote another letter

14 Monday  Sorted spuds, Thresa helped in PM

15 Tuesday Sorted spuds

16 Wednesday Sorted spuds, Lydia came in eve

17 Thursday Sorted spuds

18 Friday Took cream, sorted spuds

19 Saturday  Finished sorting spuds, to box supper in Osage

20 Sunday  To home all day

21 Monday To PR Lydia went home

22 Tuesday Started cutting wood, Harold and Ben here

23 Wednesday Hauled wood in AM, to Osage in PM

24 Thursday Chopped and hauled wood

25 Friday Helped wash, cut wood and hauled wood

26 Saturday Cut and hauled wood, give M.& K. lesson

27 Sunday  Home, Will Overmans and Mrs Lake and Ora Eston here

28 Monday Cut and hauled wood

29 Tuesday Cut and hauled wood, B. & H. Lessons

30 Wednesday Cut and hauled wood

31 Thursday Cut and hauled wood

Farm Diary: December 1917

December

1  Saturday  To PR with clover seed

2  Sunday Dad and Ma and Harrys here, Frances home

3  Monday Thrashed beans

4  Tuesday  To PR to Dr. about my throat

5  Wednesday  sick didn’t do much

6 Thursday sick just chored

7  Friday Sick, just chored, Thresa took cream

8  Saturday Sick, bad day, chored

9 Sunday Home, H. Sartin, B Nelson, B Green M Rhodes here in PM

10 Monday Got load of wood, helped wash, fixed calf manger to put calves in hen house, got a load of clover straw

11 Tuesday  To Smythe place after hay

12 Wednesday Unloaded hay, cleaned barn, corked barn, helped Oston Sawall in PM

13 Thursday  To Smythe place after hay

14 Friday Unloaded hay, done chores and cleaned barn, took cream, got stove fixed and sow to Greens, got  ? of clover straw, to play for a dance which was a fizel

15 Saturday To Smythe place to get hay

16 Sunday Unloaded hay, chored, home

17 Monday Went after a load of hay

18 Tuesday Unloaded hay went in cellar got a load of clover straw, loaded up a load of wood

19 Wednesday  Went to PR with wood

20 Thursday Nelson here got his beans ready, to timber  to get sticks to make bunks and wood rack

21 Friday  To Mrs.  Frenches after hay

22 Saturday  Filled out questionary, weighed wagon, done trading, got in load of clover straw.  P.D. at Ponsford (Played Dance)

23 Sunday  To Greens

24 Monday Made bunks got in a load of wood

25 Tuesday  To PR at Dads P.D. at Osage

26 Wednesday  Chored, worked on sled racks

27 Thursday Helped wash, helped Sexton saw wood, done chores, caught mink

28 Friday Took cream and mink hide, worked on rack, give Maurice lesson

29 Saturday Went in cellar sorted spuds, finished rack, got in  lag? of clover straw

30 Sunday  To Ostons

31 Monday To Mrs. Frenches after last load of hay, P.D. in Osage

Farm Diary: November 1917

November

1 Thursday Unloaded  hay, fixed the well, Glen D’s here. got in fodder

2 Friday Went after a load of hay

3 Saturday  Unloaded hay, made 8 gal of Sauer Hraut, gave Maurice a lesson, play for dance in Osage in the eve

4 Sunday Fixed floor in barn, layed around

5 Monday Went after a load of hay

6 Tuesday Unloaded hay, helped wash, went over to Glens after load of rye straw for cellar

7 Wednesday Started to plow

8 Thursday Plowed all day to Osage in eve

9 Friday  Plowed all day, Mrs. Dow here to stay all night

10 Saturday  Plowed all day , to Osage in eve give lesson

11 Sunday Home all day.  Mrs Sanderson, Vivian and Mable W. here in PM

12 Monday Plowed all day, Leo E. helped

13 Tuesday Plowed all day

14 Wednesday Plowed up to Osage in eve

15 Thursday Plowed, up to Osage at noon to fix plow, went to PR to practice in eve

16 Friday Plowed, Glen here, Doctored Prince.  Played for the show in PR.  Tracie stayed.

17 Saturday Plowed, gave Maurice a lesson at noon, Kenneth in eve, played for a dance in Osage

18 Sunday  Did up chores and housework

19 Monday Plowed all day, to Osage in eve

20 Tuesday Plowed. took cabbage to Osage in eve 120 Ib.

21 Wednesday Plowed, Played to Ponsford dance

22 Thursday  Plowed cabbage and corn patch

23 Friday Hauled in beans, plowed bean patch

24 Saturday To PR got oats ground, took Chickens P.D. Lakes

25 Sunday To home, Lydia here, give Maurice lesson

26 Monday  Fixed wood to thrash done with, hullers here about 3 o’clock

27 Tuesday  Hauled clover, hauled up a load of wood, scraped up around the clover stacks

28 Wednesday  To Smythe place after hay

29 Thursday Burned brush all day, Frances here, P.D. at eve (Played dance?)

30 Friday  To Smythe place after hay

Farm Diary: October 1917

October

1 Monday Started to dig spuds at Mc Cues

2 Tuesday Helped dig spuds at Mc Cues raked my patch

3 Wednesday To Osage and helped wash.  Helped weigh spuds in PM

4 Thursday To Osage in AM.  Dug spuds in PM

5 Friday Dug spuds in AM, thrashed in PM

6 Saturday Fenced around straw stack, took wagon back, helped dig spuds finished. Played for a dance in evening, Thresa to PR

7 Sunday Made fence.  To Mc Cues, Thresa came home

8 Monday  Helped Glen Dow dig spuds

9 Tuesday Helped Glen Dow dig spuds

10 Wednesday  Helped Glen Dow dig spuds

11 Thursday To Osage, put spuds in cellar

12 Friday  Plastered barn, got load of wood, put spuds in cellar

13 Saturday Pulled beans, hauled straw  Kenneth S. helped

14 Sunday To Mc Cues

15 Monday Hauled straw in the AM, manure in the PM  Elmar started to work

16 Tuesday  Hauled Straw and manure.  B. Reddie

17 Wednesday Hauled manure, plowed around the cellar

18 Thursday snowed, two inches stayed on, fixed fence by barnyard, fixed around barn, to get stock in the eve.

19 Friday Chored, to Osage, some oats ground, took cream, put apples down cellar, got in cabbage.  Give Kenneth and Morris lessons.

20 Saturday Chored, got in a load of wood, to PR in PM snowed more, played for dance

21 Sunday To home in AM, snowed, Easton’s here for supper.

22 Monday Banked around the house, Glen Dow here, chored

23 Tuesday Put cabbage in cellar, scraped dirt on cellar

24 Wednesday Went to look for hay bought some down in Green Valley

25 Thursday  Went to PR with oats to grind, rained

26 Friday Up to Osage, started to make hay rack

27 Saturday Snowed, up to Osage worked on rack, give Maurice a lesson in eve

28 Sunday Finished rack, put shoes on the horses

29 Monday Went after a load of hay

30 Tuesday Chored, over to Glen D. sale

31 Wednesday Went after a load of hay