Farm Diary: October 1924

October
1  Wednesday  Dug spuds Dads and Lydia helped
2  Thursday Dug spuds Dads and Lydia helped
3  Friday Dug spuds ourselves
4  Saturday Finished spuds Lydia helped rained
5  Sunday Cleaned out barns to church in eve
6  Monday Done odd jobs to PR in PM to fix loan papers
7  Tuesday Bought trailer worked on it all day
8  Wednesday Dad bought my pigs and I took them to his farm in trailer Rained in PM we husked some corn rained hard in PM
9  Thursday Husked corn AM to PR in PM to get that we wanted on our trip
10  Friday Started to Iowa drove all day dinner at Sauk Center camped at Redwood Falls
11 Saturday Drove all day dinner near Spence Ia to Logan about 7:30 Mother down to Vidas
12 Sunday  Home to Mothers both wills there
13 Monday Mother came home about noon
14 Tuesday To Council Bluffs stayed all night at Grovers
15 Wednesday Rainy To George Rogers for dinner out to Aunt Annies for supper stayed all night at Geos Harold and family came in eve
16 Thursday  To Grovers after Mother then to Chester Graybills for dinner to Chester’s folks for supper there saw Vida Home to Mothers about 11 o’clock
17 Friday Up to Bill Podendorff To Cal Woldermire  Cal came to Bill in eve
18 Saturday To Mothers for dinner stayed around Logan in PM To Chas Stuves overnight
19 Sunday Had picnic in Tourist Park  home with Frank Rogers
20 Monday  Worked on car To Ervins in eve saw Father Uncle Franks there home to Mothers about 12 o’clock
21 Tuesday To Uncle Earls for dinner Uncle Chas in PM out to Will Wettendorf in eve
22 Wednesday Chas Norris to see us at Mothers in eve Uncle Earls Chas Stuve both Wills and Bernard there in eve played cards
23 Thursday To Mothers all day Cora came in
24 Friday Started for Battle Creek Ia to Lauras about 10 o’clock helped her move
25 Saturday Started for Minn dinner near Spirit Lake supper meal Redwood Falls camped at Spicer
26 Sunday Breakfast near Browerville to PR about one thirty dinner at Grandmas home in PM
27 Monday  Plowed in AM to PR in PM
28 Tuesday Plowed Ronie fresh Thresa helped Mrs Dow cook for thrashers I raked vines and burned them
29 Wednesday  Helped S.G. thrash Uncle Jeff went along plowed in PM
30 Thursday Plowed Uncle Jeff thrashed
31 Friday Plowed Uncle Jeff went to Dows

Farm Diary: September 1924

September
1  Monday Shipped old sows Thresa went to PR in car
2  Tuesday Met school marm haulded in alfalfa clipings cut sweet corn fauder
3  Wednesday Cut sweet corn fauder snapped off the ears
4  Thursday Looked after corn binder got Robinsons in PM worked on it Lizzie here
5  Friday To Witters after load of oats cut corn in PM Dads and Eva here in eve
6  Saturday Worked on corn binder in AM  To PR in PM took Eva Rained
7  Sunday Home fished in AM went to church at Osage
8  Monday Cut corn
9  Tuesday  Cut corn
10 Wednesday Picked seed corn in AM shocked some PM
11 Thursday Shocked in AM cut some in PM wet
12 Friday Shocked in morn to town meeting shocked in eve rainy
13 Saturday Shocked corn in AM to PR Rain in PM Mayer went along
14 Sunday To Jim and Hazel Walls
15 Monday Shocked in AM cut corn in PM
16 Tuesday Shocked corn Road drag man here in PM
17 Wednesday Took corn binder home cut some sweet corn fauder in PM
18 Thursday Moved corn crib
19 Friday Picked up corn
20 Saturday Dug early spuds picked up corn in PM Horace brought home spreader
21 Sunday Home worked on car rained all day
22 Monday Cut clover riged plow
23 Tuesday Plowed AM Raked clover seed in PM Lizzie here
24 Wednesday Plowed in AM Picked up corn in PM
25 Thursday To see Levines plowed rest of day
26 Friday Took chickens to PR cleaned cellar rainy
27 Saturday Plowed
28 Sunday Dads here got digger out made sauerkraut
29 Monday Started digging spuds
30 Tuesday Dug spuds in AM  Helped Becks thrash in PM