Farm Diary : July 1923

July
1  Sunday To PR sort of a carnival
2  Monday  Plowed corn and spuds took cream
3 Tuesday Plowed corn and spuds
4  Wednesday Fixed fence down to Twinletts PD  (Two Inlets)
5  Thursday Done odd jobs AM took nap in PM PD at Ponsford in eve
6  Friday  Thresa and Frances took cream in car I plowed corn to Ponsford celebration in PM PD at Ponsford in eve  ( First mention of a car)
7  Saturday Plowed corn
8  Sunday Thresa went berrying I sprayed spuds and plowed corn in PM
9  Monday Tool Bull and 2 calves to ship Marvin went along
10 Tuesday Sprayed spuds Uncle Harms here in eve Aunt Amelias and Ruth was here also (Harm Harmson was married to Theresa Marie a sister of his Mother Martha Jane, Aunt Amelia was also a sister to Martha Jane and Theresa Marie, Amelias husband Ezra Calvin Wilson died in 1916 of TB Amelia and Cal had eight children, one was Ruth who was a teacher)
11 Wednesday Sprayed Spuds in AM plowed corn in PM
12 Thursday Sprayed til about 3 o’clock finish corn plowing
13 Friday Plowed spuds
14 Saturday Plowed spuds and fauder corn
15 Sunday To PR Rubert and Emma home
16 Monday To Town Meeting special election
17 Tuesday Cut hay took sickle to Osage to get fixed
18 Wednesday Finished cutting hay Sextons helped stack some
19 Thursday Raked and bunched in AM hauled in in PM Sexton helped rained in night
20 Friday Mr Green killed by bull took cream Thresa went to Greens awhile I fixed hay shed and turned hay in PM to Greens in eve
21  Saturday Cut some hay with sythe and shocked some hay hauled in some in PM Thresa and Frances went to Bungoes in eve I to school meeting and to Greens in eve
22 Sunday To PR To Wm Greens funeral
23 Monday Took 7 dozen roasting ears to PR
24 Tuesday To see Plummer about grain cutting AM helped Sexton stack hay in PM
25 Wednesday  Hauled in a few shocks of hay to Becks in PM to see him about grain cutting cut thistles
26 Thursday Cut thistles AM to PR with corn
27 Friday Towns here to see colt Thresa to party Gilpens I butchered a hog
28 Saturday  To PR with hog and cream and corn Marvin and Ronald went along Rained
29 Sunday Dads here to see about car deal got binder in eve Beck came home with me
30 Monday Beck started cutting grain Bryant here and bought colts
31 Tuesday Cut grain I shocked Orvil Beck helped in PM
The Greens were good friends.  Here is more about William Green
TRAGIC DEATH
July 20 1923 Wm. Green, an old gentleman living near Osage was gored and trampled to death by an infuriated bull last Friday when he went into the pasture after the cows. The bull was known to be ugly and Mr. Green had taken a pitchfork with him but it seems was not strong enough to drive the animal off. The wife becoming worried at his long absence took the shotgun and entered the pasture where she found Mr. Green's body but being unable to remove it she went to the road and stopped a passing car. The occupants thinking the woman deranged took the gun away from her and drove to Osage. In the meantime Mrs. Green got in touch with friends at Osage and the matter explained which resulted in the parties who had taken the gun returning and assisting in the removal of the body.