Good Information

I found this in a newspaper dated August 1984
Les Enfield recalled the days of the band.

Enfield was a saxophone player and formed a five piece band in the mid 1920's which played at the town hall, as well as at Hubbard and Ponsford.  The other members of the group were Jim Henderson on trombone or violin, Fred Zeller on drums, Charlie Bungo on trumpet and Mrs. Jim Henderson on Piano. Such favorites as "Let me call you sweetheart" and "When you wore a tulip " were popular, and dancing began at 9 PM and  went until 3 or 4 AM.
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From James A Henderson (Uncle Jimmy)
He copied these off their stones when we were down there to reunion May 30, 1986

The cemetery is on the old Henderson Farm near Logan Iowa

J.H. Henderson
Died May 14. 1893
Age 76 years 3 mo 4 days

A lowly follower of the Lord above
While here on earth his soul on heaven was bent
His words was kindness his deeds were love
His spirit humble and life well spent
These, These and not this stone shall be his monument


T. J. Henderson 1865 - 1935
A son of J.H Henderson and Elizabeth


Elizabeth Henderson
Wife of J. H. Henderson
Died June 16, 1894
Age 74 years 3 mo 15 days

She is gone to worlds above
where saints and angels meet
To serve our Saviors love
and worship at his feet

Henderson Cemetery near Logan Iowa

Farm Diary: September 1929

September 1 Sunday Went to Dads and Frances a little while, Franks, Tillies, Dad, Albert, Earnests, Chets, Minnie here in afternoon
September 2 Franks went home Tillie here she went on home Sept 6th
September 8 Sunday Lauras + Minnie here went up to the lake
September 9 Marvin started to school in PR Lauras went home, rainy

Farm Diary : August 1929

August 12 Frances came + got Mama + took her to Emma's Jim working on the cesspool

Then there are some entries out of order.
Sunday 4th went up to the lake sold some sweet corn this week.

Then there are these entries I think Grandma Tracie means August not July

July 11 Sunday had Ice Cream went to church
July 12 Monday  Took Mother to the bus she went home got a telephone  that Mable Stuve died. Awful dry sold almost $50. of sweet corn. 
August 25 Sunday Went to see Mama she is awful sick
August 29 Emmas phoned that Mama died.   Jim and I went up there, came home after supper
August 30 Friday worked here at home, Harley here Laura and her children came in the eve
August 31 Saturday Jim helped dig the grave, Mama funeral in the afternoon Franks + Tillies,  here overnight.

Farm Diary : July 1929

July 4 went to PR Dads + Ruberts there, went back to the fire works in PM
July 5 haying awful dry
July 6 Saturday Born to us Archie Blair at 9-30 Mrs Trankner here to work Margaret Chilton here over night
July 7 Sunday had lots of company to see new boy had a rain
July 8 Monday awful dry haying helped wash
July 9 Tuesday  same work
July 10 Tracie in bed Mrs Trankner went home Mother came
July 11 -July 13 no entry
July 14 Sunday Ruberts + Dads came down  Mama not well Baby awful cross
July 18 Thursday  awful hot  + dry  Mother + Dad came out Mother sick
July 19-20 no entry
July 21 Sunday went for a ride awful dry Mother Henderson here + Mother Stuve here sick
July 22 - 27 no entry
July 28 Sunday went to the Park Frances stayed with the folks

Farm Diary: June 1929

June 9th Sunday Lutheran SS picnic awful dry Marvin went with Klines

Farm Diary : May 1929

May 1 Wednesday white with snow cold to PR with cream Mr Leviness did not come to work set out trees and bushes
May 2 Thursday Finished cupboards helped wash cultivated ground and set out strawberries and raspberries Scovels here after drill hoses
May 3 Friday Leviness finished screen doors cold I went to PR with cream Leviness went home with me Froze out took Dads some wood made hot bed grubed some trees out of new road around garden hauled some saw dust out of yard cold
May 4 Saturday  cleaned around old house filled in ends of bridge and hauled manure to Osage in eve
May 5 Sunday Home Ronald sick we set out some spruce trees Thresa Jimmie and myself went to church in eve
May 6 Monday hauled manure Ronald home some better heard Eddie Bateman had died
May 7 Tuesday hauled manure
May 8 Wednesday hauled manure in AM to Funeral of Eddie Bateman in PM
May 9 Thursday hauled manure
May 10 Friday Rained all day took and went afater kids at school
May 11 Saturday took Oats up to get it ground hauled manure to Osage in eve
May 12 Sunday Mother's Day home Erwin Crafts here in PM
May 13 Monday burned post butts grubed some trees in old front yard
May 14 Tuesday finished grubing trees in old front yard
May 15 Wednesday plowed old yard disced some
May 16 Thursday  disced and harrowed
May 17 Friday planted early sweet corn hauled some manure
May 18 Saturday  Marvin disced I made up garden
May 19 Sunday to Dads in PR out to cemetery to Ball Game in PM Crosby I met PR
May 20 Monday  I disced
May 21 Tuesday Harrowed helped wash took some oats to grind in AM Harrowed some party on Thresa in PM to play Cyclone Sally in eve at Osage
May 22 Wednesday Planted my field corn
May 23 Thursday worked on spud planter started planting spuds in PM
May 24 Friday Finished planting spuds
May 25 Saturday planted garden yo PR in PM Dad and Ma came out with us
May 26 Sunday Emma + Rubert here also Chets
May 27-May 30 no entries
May 31 School picnic end of Frances 2 years in Osage Marvin took 9th grade
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( I bet the Party on Thresa on the 21st was a baby shower )

Farm Diary: April 1929

April 1 Monday shiped two veals helped Dads move back to Park Rapids snowed some
April 2 Tuesday helped Chet load up a load of pulp worked on car in PM
April 3 Wednesday helped wash put in disc toung in PM Thresa went to Lizzies got stuck in mud Lester Vivian and Fred Zeller here to practice in eve
April 4 Thursday started to discing in ?  real warm
April 5 Friday  windy and cold rainy
April 6 Saturday split wood    unreadable?????
April 7 Sunday home chored
April 8 Monday split wood to Osage in Pm to see Leviness about work
April 9 Tuesday worked at wood
April 10 Wednesday Leviness here to do inside work I worked at wood
April 11 Thursday split wood
April 12 Friday worked on wood
April 13 Saturday put logs to saw sawed my lumber aprox 3,000 feet piled some
April 14 Sunday finished piling my lumber
April 15 Monday hauled slabs rainy
April 16 Tuesday took Hub Chilton some hay also brought some Oats to get ground
April 17 Wednesday went to discing again
April 18 Thursday  Discrd
April 19 Friday Disc3ed
April 20 Saturday Marvin disced I cleaned oats to PR in PM Marvin finished discing for oats cleaned oats after we came back and treated it for smut
April 21 Sunday Home put new parts in seperator church in eve Marvin and Ronald went to Crafts fishing
April 22 Monday harrowed
April 23 Tuesday I harrowed in AM Marvin finished harrowing I got drill out of shed and oiled it sowed some oats in eve Kids went fishing with Billy Chilton went with them got all they could carry
April 24 Wednesday sowed oats Marvin and Ronald had vacation on account of State exams Planted early spuds
April 25 Thursday sowed oats Marvin burned trash around old house
April 26 Friday Ann Trankner here varnishing Finished sowing oats 17 1/2 acres cleaned out hen house
April 27 Saturday hauled manure in AM worked on car in PM put in celoids
April 28 Sunday To Ruberts Annies and Chet and Frances and Dads there
April 29 Monday Hauled some manure and disced garden and around house Harrowed the garden
April 30 Tuesday made some garden put in horseradish and Rhubarb Rained in PM took oats to get them ground got kids at school snowed

Farm Diary : March 1929

March 1 Friday hauled wood to Osage in PM Dad and Ma came home with us Ronalds birthday
March 2 Saturday cut and hauled wood
March 3 Sunday home fixed auto tires took car to Osage in eve
March 4 Monday  cut wood all day Hover took seat
March 5 Tuesday Town meeting took oats to grind 15 sacks put a load of stove wood in Basement
March 6 Wednesday cut wood went and got kids from school Bad blizzard hauled in a load of wood
March 7 Thursday hauled wood
March 8 Friday Earl craft came and sawed one pile of wood and broke down hurt my eye on limb to Osage in eve got John Gilchrist to come and saw rest of wood next day
March 9 Saturday sawed wood Ann Trankner and Chas Robinson girls here in PM
March 10 Sunday worked on car fixed tires
March 11 Monday To PR in PM Roice Burlingame here in eve to start doing chores so I could go on Jury next day
March 12 Tuesday to Detroit to serve on jury back home in PM Marshall here and bought two sows $25.00 each rainy
March 13 Wednesday to Detroit
March 14 Thursday in Detroit
March 15 Fr4iday in Detroit
March 16 Saturday home in eve water was deep up by Sigfords
March 17 Sunday Dads here
March 18 Monday on jury
March 19 Tuesday on jury
March 20 Wednesday on jury
March 21 Thursday on jury
March 22 Friday came home in PM
March 23 Saturday hauled in last of my logs just a little snow
March 24 Sunday To Dads for dinner To church in PM
March 25 Monday done odd jobs
March 26 Tuesday done odd jobs split some wood
March 27 Wednesday went to Evensons Sale
March 28 Thursday took oats to grind split wood to aid at Thresas mothers
March 29 Friday  ??? cut and stacked wood
March 30 Saturday split wood in AM to Osage in PM Emma and Dads came home with us and stayed all night
March 31 Sunday Easter took Emma home in PM to church

Farm Diary : February 1919

February 1 Friday cut and hauled wood
February 2 Saturday cut and hauled wood to Burlingames card party in eve
February 3 Sunday home Erwin Craft  and some other kids here
February 4 Monday cut and hauled wood
February 5 Tuesday took oats to get ground 15 sacks to Dads in eve their wedding anniversary to Ladies Aid at Wiles in PM
February 6 Wednesday cut and hauled wood
February 7 Thursday cut and hauled wood
February 8 Friday cut and hauled wood
February 9 Saturday cut wood to Osage in eve
February 10 Sunday Home to church in PM
February 11 Monday took dressed hog to Ira Burlingame worked at wood helped wash in AM
February 12 Tuesday cut and hauled wood
February 13 Wednesday cut and hauled wood
February 14 Thursday cut and hauled wood
February 15 Friday cut and hauled wood
February 16 Saturday cut and hauled wood
February 17 Sunday Marvin and Ronald went to Crafts rest went to Burlingames camp in PM
February 18 Monday cold cut wood
February 19 Tuesday took 15 sacks of Oats to grind to Dads for dinner engine balked didn't get oats at all
February 20 Wednesday cut wood put wood in basement
February 21 Thursday  got oats Butchered calf took half of it to Sartain in eve
February 22 Friday cut and hauled wood
February 23 Saturday cut and hauled wood to Osage in eve
February 24 Sunday Home in AM Orvile beck here to church in PM
February 25 Monday helped wash scraped snow off fauder and cut some pole wood Mrs Sexton here in PM
February 26 Tuesday cut wood took Thresa to Klines to Ladies Aid hauled logs in PM
February 27 Wednesday helped Robinson saw wood
February 28 Thursday helped Robinson saw wood in AM hauled logs in PM Thresa went to Robinsons in PM

Farm Diary: January 1929

January 1 Tuesday New Years day 1929  Thresa sick chored
January 2 Wednesday worked on old boards
January 3 Thursday worked on old boards and shed
January 4 Friday started to cut wind falls around grove for wood
January 5 Saturday worked on wind falls in grove to PR in PM
January 6 Sunday went to coroner duties Mr L Larson was found dead to Dads for dinner very cold froze batery
January 7 Monday School started took kids cut wood around grove
January 8 Tuesday cut wood and chored Floyd and Mr Leviness here in PM
January 9 Wednesday snowing Mr Scovelhere then came Orvile and H beck cut some wood
January 10 Thursday hauled wood for Leviness also took Thresa to Aide at Brewers snowed
January 11 Friday cut wood
January 12 Saturday cut wood
January 13 Sunday home
January 14 Monday cut wood
January 15 Tuesday helped wash sacked oats to telephone meeting got 12 sacks of oats ground
January 16 Wednesday cut wood
January 17 Thursday cut wood
January 18 Friday cut wood
January 19 Saturday cut wood
January 20 Sunday Ira Burlingame here in PM
January 21 Monday cut and hauled wood
January 22 Tuesday cut and hauled wood
January 23 Wednesday cut and hauled wood
January 24 Thursday cut and hauled wood
January 25 Friday cut and hauled wood took 15 sacks of Oats to grind
January 26 cut and hauled wood
January 27 Home to church in PM
January 28 Monday cut and hauled wood
January 29 Tuesday helped wash cut wood
January 30 Wednesday cut and hauled wood
January 31 Thursday cut wood took cream and got sled fixed

Farm Diary : December 1928

December 1 Saturday piled lumber
December 2 Sunday had our first snow. John worked on furnace
December 3 Monday worked on furnace in morn to PR in afternoon Dads went along 
December 4 Tuesday finished furnace sawed some wood Tracie went to Lehrkes Ladies Aid
December 5 Wednesday chored Frances and Chet here for supper fixed furnace draft
December 6 Thursday got sled runner fixed hauled in wood
December 7 Friday worked on wood shed
December 8 Saturday hauled in fauder
December 9 Sunday nice day Dads here
December 10 Monday helped wash and helped Leviness with windows
December 11 Tuesday went to Seigfords in the morn bought Roy helped on windows
December 12 Wednesday worked on old house also on windows
December 13 Thursday worked on old house all day Leviness did not come
December 14 Friday worked on old house
December 15 Saturday finished tearing down old house and toilet to PR in PM done Xmas shopping
December 16 Sunday Lester and Vivian Enfield here in PM to Osage to practice in eve
December 17 Monday helped Leviness on cupboard and sink
December 18 Tuesday helped Leviness saw wood
December 19 Wednesday helped on sink and cupboard
December 20 Thursday worked around home and unloaded and piled some lumber Edw Beckers here to practice
December 21 Friday cold 25 below hauled in load of stove wood and went out and cut Xmas tree for Osage and a Radio pole to Osage took Mr Leviness and got Thresa and kids
December 22 Saturday Butchered fine day to Osage in PM to trim Xmas tree and buy treats and get them prepared
December 23 Sunday To Roy Seigfords after mail Hog to McKinleys in AM with cow to Xmas tree in eve
December 24 Monday hauled wood from around old house to Xmas tree in eve
December 25 Tuesday Xmas put up Radio in PM didn't get anything to 9 PM then herd program over WLW Cinn
December 26 Wednesday hauled wood and finished piling old lumber from around old house took Leviness home in eve he also took his tools
December 27 Thursday hauled fauder all day took Male pig home in eve
December 28 Friday hauled fauder in AM to PR in PM caught ride
December 29 Saturday finished fauder got in a load of stove wood to Osage in eve took cream and got mail
December 30 Sunday home snowed
December 31 Monday worked on wood shed worked on old boards and put them in wood shed

Farm Diary: November 1928

November 1 Thursday got in some fauder
November 2 Friday started painting house Walter Tailor came and I let him do the painting
November 3 Saturday I and kids hauled fauder
November 4 Sunday to church in PM Shultz preached
November 5 Monday worked on front porch
November 6 Tuesday Served on Election board counted votes all night Elected Hoover 
November 7 Wednesday got Mr Leviness to hang inside doors. Plowed some in PM
November 8 Thursday got in one load of fauder and scraped and leveled off new driveway
November 9 Friday hauled fauder and cleaned and sprayed hen house
November 10 Saturday worked on toilet Marvin plowed in PM  Tailor finished painting
November 11 Sunday to Dads Ruberts came broke down over at Samuel Carpenters I went and got him
November 12 Monday plowed Thresa washed
November 13 Tuesday plowed Thresa to Ladies Aide at Edna Beckers
November 14 Wednesday took barels to John Gilchrist to get made into a furnace Leviness here to work on doors I plowed and dug quack
November 15 Thursday Plowed  finished sod
November 16 Friday Finished plowing gardens Thresa went to Mrs Sandersons birthday party
November 17 Saturday scraped in around barn and driveway got a load of rocks for steps to PR in PM Dad and Frances went along got furnace sups
November 18 Sunday Home done odd jobs in PM Uncle John here for dinner and AM
November 19 Monday put in cement on steps and started on the west one cold
November 20 Tuesday finished steps
November 21 Wednesday worked on toilet and chored rest of week
No entries November 22-24
November 25 Sunday done a few odd jobs went to Scovels a while in afternoon to church in eve
November 26 Monday butchered Tracie went to Mays shower
November 27 Tuesday moved wood shed
November 28 Wednesday piled up new lumber 
November 29 Thursday Thanksgiving piled old lumber Dads here for dinner
November 30 Friday John came and we started to work on furnace

Farm Diary : October 1928

October 1 Monday started digging spuds
October 2 Tuesday finished with spuds
October 3 Wednesday Leviness here to work on windows helped Scovels dig spuds
October 4 Thursday rain Leviness here had town meeting
October 5 Friday to PR in AM Ponsford in PM  Leviness here after locks and Hwd
October 6 Saturday finished Scovels spuds and dug some of our early ones by house
October 7 Sunday finished digging my early ones with fork in garden Chet here AM to church in PM to Dads a fue minutes after church
October 8 Monday made out order for paint and Thresa washed Leviness here hanging doors
October 9 Tuesday worked on basement window Leviness quit at noon Thresa went to Ade at Herb Paulsons
October 10 Wednesday I finished basement windows put in first flight of stair treds
October 11 Thursday moved in our new house Dad and Ma helped Chet and Frances here for dinner picked up corn for pigs
October 12 Friday picked up corn raked clover seed in PM shocked some
October 13 Saturday Marvin raked I shocked and bunched in AM I went to Salos Sale in PM Leviness and Geo Mayer went with me
October 14 Sunday home in AM Jack McGRanes here in PM to Robinsons after paint hard rain in eve
October 15 Monday worked on stair steps second flight Joe Robinsons here to take calvs to ship worked on Front Poarch rest of day
October 16 Tuesday Thresa painted floors
October 17 Wednesday piled lumber in shed so we could drive in with wagon spred clover moved beds in new house to Bob Blanchards to see thrashers in eve
October 18 Thursday helped Sanderson thrash in AM helped Thresa unpack rainy
October 19 Friday plowed
October 20 Saturday Marvin plowed we turned clover to Osage at noon to get letter off to G W Life Assurance Co
October 21 Sunday Rainy to church in PM
October 22 Monday to Ponsford to Hurs to get settlement out of Salo thrashed in PM 700 bus of oats off of 16 acres
October 23 Tuesday worked with clover
October 24 Wednesday stacked clover
October 25 Thursday finished clover
October 26 Friday plowed
October 27 Saturday Marvin plowed
October 28 Sunday to church in eve Mr Gluck and Miss Gage here for supper
October 29 Monday
October 30 Tuesday to Park Rapids in AM hauled a load of manure got in wood for engine to thrash clover thrashed it in eve
October 31 Wednesday took clover seed sold it in Manoga 21.35 per wt 78.08 total ( Menahga most likely)

Farm Diary: September 1928

September 1 Saturday stacked oats all day Ray Enfields here
September 2 Sunday home rained helped put roof on Dads garage in PR to Chets for dinner in Osage Rubert came after Dad and Ma they went home with him
September 3 Monday School started Picked corn for hogs east of house Leviness here Stacked oats finished in PM Thresa washed
September 4 Tuesday Mattie Rogers Oscar and Miss Scofield arrived here in time to get us up a little early I cut sweet corn started on my field corn Thresa and company went to Ladies ade picnic
September 5 Wednesday cut corn picked some shocked some company went to Ruberts Henry Hendrickson quit work wife sick
September 6 Thursday Finished one piece of corn shocked in PM Thresa helped lath
September 7 Friday shocked some to Blanchards to cut corn
September 8 Saturday finished Blanchards corn kids picked corn south of barn and lathed some to Osage in eve
September 9 Sunday rainy home Mattie and Oscar and friend here to Chets for dinner
September 10 Monday Thresa and company went to Ponsford I worked on house
September 11 Tuesday company went home rainy I worked on house Albert and Earnests wife here
September 12 Wednesday worked on house lathed some
September 13 Thursday cut corn for Robinson
September 14 Friday worked on house rainy
September 15 Saturday worked on house cut corn for Robinsons in PM Thresa and kids went to PR
September 16 Sunday Alberts here I cut corn for Robinsons
September 17 Monday cut corn for self
September 18 Tuesday cut corn finished for my self shocked some
September 19 Wednesday shocked some finished
September 20 Thursday to PR after mason to plaster and build flue
September 21 Friday helped on house Scovel helped part day
September 22 Saturday cpld ground sickels and put on buncher Marvin mowed some Bill Wagner finished lathing we picked tomatos and melons covered them
September 23 Sunday froze ice killing frost Mr Lathrup came and we built two feet of flue
September 24 Monday I worked on house getting ready for plasters cold
September 25 Tuesday I raked hay pasture some plastered some in eve we hauled in a load of hay
September 26 Wednesday took a load of water mellons to Slantzes 65 in all done some trading Mortie  Sephens brought some plaster
September 27 Thursday I cut some clover
September 28 Friday I went to fight fire Sandersons house burned I hauled some sand for plaster finish I hauled a load of grain for Fisher to get Stephens to thrash Schmidt here to Insure my property
September 29 Saturday Hauled some sand Marvin mowed rest of seed clover
September 30 Sunday home Bill Wagner helped get ready to dig spuds Thresa and kids went to church

Farm Diary : August 1928

August 1 Wednesday Raked and put up this hay this week Leviness worked some
August 4 Saturday Thresa went to Margaretta Chiltons B Party we put goats in hog pasture
August 5 to PR after Dad and Ma Hank Hendricksons Chets and H and Pet Johnson here in eve to call. had first mess of corn
August 6 Hank Hendrickson started to work Leviness worked
August 7 Leviness sick I helped Henry rest of week Ben Clayson started cuting oats 8th Hot finished 10th
Took in lots of sweet corn Played for Roy Salo wedding dance at Ponsford Sat eve August 11th
August 12 Sunday home Hot
August 13 Leviness here got sick took him home I helped Henry all week finished putting on old sheeting Sat eve
August 15 herd Mrs Scholtz drowned
August 19 Dietslers and Rubert came after goats
August 20 Put wind boards on house
August 21 Tuesday started shingling
August 22 Shingled Erwin Shober helped rained in eve
August 23 Thursday Finished roof started flooring upstairs I put in chimney bars
August 24 Friday rainy in AM I got ready to stack Henry went home at noon
August 25 Saturday Stacked in PM rainy in AM I floored in eve
August 26 Sunday home wrote diary
August 27 Rained hard in night Leviness and Henry here in morning to work Hot
August 28 Tuesday My self and Leviness and Henry worked in house put in upstairs partitios rainy all day

Farm Diary : July 1928

July 1 Cultivated
July 2 Reconstruction day after taking trees off fence the worst tornado I ever was in
July 4 cultivated corn played for a dance in Ponsford in eve worked on house some
July 9 Leviness came at noon started laying the floor
July 11 went to PR after Herman Leviness was here flooring on the house
July 12 hayed Herman helped rained in PM Herman went to PR in eve with Rev Scholtz hayed rest of week
July 15 Herman here went fishing to Osage
July 16 Marvin cut clover I helped Leviness Herman helped
July 17 finished clover helped Leviness
July 18 Thresa and Marvin and Herman went to Detroit to graduation exercises I and Ronald and Jimmie stayed home I shocked and Ronald raked and Jimmie didn't feel good
July 19 cultivated I shocked some in eve Herman left for PR took him to White City to dance he took train
July 20 Friday I helped Leviness
July 21 Saturday hayed helped Leviness in PM hay to wet
July 22 Sunday Mr Axtell came to work on house
July 23 Monday hayed got in clover
July 24 Tuesday Moved poarch and moved our stuff this week started living in garage
July 28 Let Axtell go this eve
July 29 Sunday Emmas Dietselers Dads and Chet here for dinner
July 30 Leviness worked on house I cut hog pasture
July 31 Tuesday finished cutting hog pasture Axtell got his tool chest Leviness sick

Farm Diary : June 1928

June 1st To School Picnic Frances and Ruby Crosbys terms Marvin passed the 8th G
between 5th cultivated early sweet corn around house made fence several days
Blanchard came with plained
Shipped Cow Bull and Sows on June 9th
June 10 Sunday school picnic planed lumber this week and Thresa had birthday party June 13th
To Town Meeting June 18 primary Election cultivated corn and spuds this week
June 24 to Mission Festival in Park Rapids cultivated corn
June 25 Qualification Day viewed roads

Farm Diary : May 1928

May 1 Tuesday Sowed Oats feeling tough  Dads here for supper Frances BD
May 2 Wednesday finished oats laid around in PM
May 3 Thursday started hauling manure feeling tough Hensel and Miss Miller here in eve
May 4 Friday  hauled manure
May 5 Saturday hauled manure in AM to PR in PM
May 6 Sunday home Scovel kids here fishing
May 7 Monday hauled manure
May 8 Tuesday Hauling manure Ronald had flu I fished some in eve
May 9 Wednesday Hauled manure loaded 150 bu spudsto Daget of Frazee .80 per weight
May 10 Thursday  hauled manure
May 11 Friday Disced around house
May 12 Saturday Disced took eggs and cream to Osage
May 13 Sunday Mother's Day to PR Ruberts there went to cemetery in PM got eggs
May 14 Monday Thresa had flu. Plowed and harrowed the sweet corn ground
May 15 Tuesday planted sweet corn Disced some
May 16 Wednesday disced all day
May 17 Thursday Harrowed and hauled manure
May 18 Friday hauled manure
May 19 Saturday Marvin disced in AM and harrowed in PM to Osage in eve
May 20 Sunday Scovels after spuds 111/2 bus went to Osage in PM went down to mill pond see about fishing
May 21 Monday Harrowed in AM Dad came out with Chester took calves to PR in PM
May 22 Tuesday Planted corn
May 23 Wednesday finished planting corn
May 24 Thursday finished 6 acres of spuds
May 25 Friday hauled manure in AM started to blind plow quack patches rained a very little very dry
May 26 Saturday Finished blind plowing and harrowed to Osage in eve with cream
May 27 Sunday home cooked spuds cold and dry
May 28 Monday Real dry cold harrow crops up till June 1st

Far m Diary: April 1928

April 1 Sunday home in AM to church in PM at Osage Thresa went to Ponsford with Rev Scholtz and family to hold their first meeting there
April 2 Monday sorted spuds
April 3 Tuesday started to plow drug road Thresa went to Ladies Aid at Polsons
April 4 Wednesday finished plowing
April 5 Thursday froze in morn split wood dug quack grass with cultivator
April 6 Friday split wood in AM dug Quack in PM  cold
April 7 Saturday split wood in AM to PR in PM
April 8 Sunday home Frances Chet and Ruberts kids here for dinner to church in eve very cold
April 9 Monday Cold split wood in AM to Osage in PM got car fixed and saw about spud prices Thresa went too
April 10 Tuesday Town meeting looked over roads
April 11 Wednesday snowed sorted spuds and took Sexton to look at new bridge at Crafts which need repairing cement wing fell in
April 12 Thursday sorted spuds cold
April 13 Friday sorted spuds
April 14 Saturday  sorted spuds to PR in PM
April 15 Sunday sorted spuds home
April 16 Monday sorted spuds
April 17 Tuesday sorted spuds first pigs snowed hard Pery Brill bought and took sow
April 18 Wednesday cold and snowed chored
April 19 Thursday cold
April 20 Friday cold 2nd sow with pigs
April 21 Saturday to PR in PM
April 22 Sunday Dads here with big truck after wood
April 23 Monday helped wash more pigs sorted spuds
April 24 Tuesday started discing
April 25 Wednesday Disced Marvin done some
April 26 Thursday Marvin disced exam week I corded up wood
April 27 Friday Disced
April 28 Saturday harrowed Thresa and Mrs Sexton went to PR
April 29 Sunday down to Edw Beckers rained in AM
April 30 Monday Sowed oats took down with flu

Farm Diary: March 1928

March 1 Thursday worked at logs
March 2 Friday cut logs
March 3 Saturday hauled logs in AM to Dog Derby in PR in PM
March 4 Sunday home to church in PM
March 5 Monday cut wood and posts
March 6 Tuesday to Town meeting
March 7 Wednesday helped tie two quilts
March 8 Thursday to Osage twice after Oats
March 9 Friday chored cut wood and posts auto agent came in eve
March 10 Saturday cut + hauled wood took cream + eggs to Osage
March 11 Sunday made kids goat shares, went to church 
March 12 Monday done chores, veal to PR snowed
March 13 Tuesday Town Election also Ladies Aid. Snowed
March 14 Wednesday hauled two loads of lumber from Geo B saw mill
March 15 Thursday piled lumber
March 16 Friday corded wood chored
March 17 Saturday cut + hauled up wood went to PR in afternoon, dance at Osage
March 18 Sunday went over home in afternoon Ruberts there also
March 19 Monday to PR took wood and went with Dad and Ma to fix up some of their financial affairs
March 20 Tuesday to Lymburners after oats got 64 bu at 50 cents per bu took it to Osage for grinding
March 21 Wednesday to Osage after oats hauled some rye straw from Hanson place
March 22 Thursday got another load of straw cleaned hen house hauled in a small load of pole wood Thresa went to PR to see her Mother who was ill
March 23 Friday Town Meeting Qualifications Marvin corded wood no school in his room
March 24 Saturday cut wood in front of Sextons snow gone very warm
March 25 Sunday home to church in PM
March 26 Monday cut wood by Sextons kids home there vacation week
March 27 Tuesday cut wood by Sextons
March 28 Wednesday hauled in wood on wagon
March 29 Thursday finished wood cut and piled posts in PM Ronald went to Shofers to a birthday party
March 30 Friday put wood in woodshed in AM Fred Bateman here to saw broke engine quit for rest of the day I split some wood
March 31 Saturday sawed in AM to PR in PM

Farm Diary : February 1928

February 1 Wednesday worked at wood
February 2 Thursday worked at wood
February 3 Friday worked at wood
February 4 Saturday John Gilchrist sawed wood for me all day about 65 cords
February 5 Sunday To PR Ruberts there
February 6 Monday hauled some school house wood
February 7 to PR to help Dad with his business
February 8 Wednesday to PR on buss helped Dad and notices
February 9 Thursday hauled school house wood
February 10 Friday hauled school house wood
February 11 Saturday hauled school house wood
February 12 Sunday to church in eve at Osage
February 13 Monday hauled school house wood
February 14 Tuesday hauled school house wood
February 15 Wednesday hauled school house wood
February 16 Thursday hauled school house wood
February 17 Friday finished school wood 40 cords $1.88 per
February 18 Saturday to PR cold and windy
February 19 Sunday to PR very windy and cold
February 20 Monday split wood
February 21 Tuesday split wood
February 22 Wednesday finished wood cut logs
February 23 Thursday cut logs for rafters
February 24 Friday cut and hauled some logs to mill
February 25 Saturday hauled a load of logs to Geo Batemans mill on the King place helped Sextons saw wood
February 26 Sunday helped Sexton finish wood to PR Ruberts there
February 27 Monday cut logs
February 28 Tuesday to PR to see after Dads business
February 29 Wednesday cut logs

Farm Diary : January 1928

January 1 Sunday New Years Day 1928 very cold and stormy
January 2 Monday got oats ground took cream up to Chilton
January 3 Tuesday  cut green wood for school house to Osage Brewers after Thresa in eve  Ladies aid
January 4 Wednesday Fred Bateman cam and sawed our slabs  and dry wood
January 5 Thursday cut wood hauled in one load
January 6 Friday helped Robinson saw wood Thresa came in PM
January 7 Saturday cut and hauled wood in AM all went to PR in car in PM
January 8 Sunday Home in AM Horace Green came after hog in PM
January 9 Monday Cut and hauled wood
January 10 Tuesday cut and hauled wood
January 11 Wednesday cut and hauled wood
January 12 Thursday cut and hauled wood
January 13 Friday cut and hauled wood
January 14 Saturday cut and hauled wood to PR in car in PM ran off the grade coming home and had to be helped back in road by people coming by
January 15 Sunday home to church in PM Dads and Chet and Frances here for sup.
January 16 Monday  chored helped wash loaded and hauled Andersons a load of wood and loaded another
January 17 Tuesday cut wood in AM took a load of wood to Mrs Morton and three sacks of feed to get ground and attended Telephone meeting Thresa went along
January 18 Wednesday cut and hauled wood
January 19 Thursday Blizzard cut and hauled one load in AM chored and went after kids at school in PM
January 20 Friday Sacked oats chored took oats to get it ground also got wheat was at John G to be ground took kids home sent cream with stage to PR
January 21 Saturday cut and hauled wood all day to Osage in eve
January 22 Sunday to church in PM Erwin Craft here
January 23 Monday cut wood hauled a load of saw dust for bedding and hauled in the wood I cut
January 24 Tuesday cut and hauled wood
January 25 Wednesday cut and hauled wood
January 26 Thursday cut and hauled wood
January 27 Friday cut and hauled wood and went to Miles Smith sale in PM
January 28 Saturday  cut and hauled wood kids helped Fred Bateman in eve
January 29 Sunday home Aernie Milliman here after wood to church in PM
January 30 Monday chored worked at wood

Farm Diary : December 1927

December 1 Thursday hauled fauder
December 2 Friday hauled some fauder took a load of wood to Slone got some feed ground
December 3 Saturday hauled fauder to Osage in eve after Gros. stormy
December 4 Sunday Dads here
December 5 Monday took kids to school hauled some fauder
December 6 Tuesday took chickens to PR
December 7 Wednesday hauled fauder took kids to school Frances here in eve roads blocked
December 8 Thursday took kids hauled fauder Frances here roads blocked
December 9 Friday took kids hauled fauder they plowed roads so Frances now home
December 10 Saturday Sexton used sleighs in AM we put wood in kitchen in PM took oats to get ground but had to leave them
December 11 Sunday home to church in eve
December 12 Monday took Perkins wood and chickens to Sartains
December 13 Tuesday  to PR sorting spuds that I had stored sold them for .42  per bu
December 14 Wednesday butchered calf
December 15 Thursday took kids very cold. hauled a load of wood to Andersons Chiltons and Leviness
December 16 Friday Cold roads blocked hauled wood to Lester Enfield and Leviness took up some oats to grind
December 17 Saturday chored very bad day with baby funeral I hauled a load of slabs in PM to Osage in eve
December 18 Sunday home chored to Osage to practice kids for Xmas
December 19 Monday took wood to Osage butchered a pig loaded a load of wood in eve
December 20 Tuesday to PR with wood done Xmas shopping  got longe
December 21 Wednesday chored hauled in some slabs
December 22 Thursday went with Kline and Brewer after Xmas tree took wood to Slone in PM kids and Thresa practiced at hall we filled sacks
December 23 Friday took oats to grind to program in eve went with Sextons
December 24 Saturday to PR with car
December 25 Sunday Christmas Day home
December 26 Monday hauled slabs
December 27 Tuesday chored in AM hauled in PM
December 28 Wednesday hauled two loads of wood to Osage  Thresa and kids went last load big snow
December 29 Thursday chored and laid around had headache
December 30 Friday started cutting dry wood and hauled in some
December 31 Saturday cut and hauled dry wood

Farm Diary: November 1927

November 1 Tuesday Plowed, Tracie to Ladies Aid
November 2 Wednesday got oats from Schubert  plowed
November 3 Thursday plowed, cold got horse from Jim R
November 4 Friday plowed cold
November 5 Saturday made Sauer Kraut to town in afternoon, cold
November 6 Sunday home all day, church in eve
November 7 Monday snowed took 2 veal to PR
November 8 Tuesday about 4 in snow done odd jobs for Tracie
November 9 Wednesday town meeting Thresa washed
November 10 Thursday chored husked some corn went to view road work down by Crafts. took pump up and worked on it to Osage in eve to get leathers B. Queen Thresa visited school
November 11 Friday Finished pump chored husked corn
November 12 Saturday husked corn froze up Ford worked on it to PR in PM cold
November 13 Sunday  home Finished corn chored Jimmie caught a weasel I skinned it to church in eve
November 14 Monday worked in cellar moving and crating Ohios changed spuds from stall in barn to cellar
November 15 Tuesday Pump went wrong had to take it up put spuds in cellar in PM
November 16 Wednesday Put some spuds in cellar Thresa washed went to Farm Bureau meeting tried to ingage some spuds but failed
November 17 Thursday finished putting spuds in cellar began sacking spuds in my sacks
November 18 Friday sacked spuds all day
November 19 Saturday hauled a load to PR to coopers to store them Orville Sartain haualed them Thresa and kids took our car and went also
November 20 Sunday home all day Jimmie was sick was coming down with measles
November 21 Monday took rest of spuds to PR got some feed ground Orville brought me home shiped six pigs
November 22 Tuesday Put sleigh together butchered two pigs took a load of wood to school house
November 23 Wednesday Took a load of wood to Slones dipped goats in PM
November 24 Thursday Thanksgiving Day Thresa and Marvin went to Freds for Thanks dinner Emma and Annas there  I stayed home with Jimmie and Ronald with measles I played to Ponsford Dance in eve
November 25 Friday took a load of wood to Mrs Perkins in Osage hauled fauder
November 26 Saturday hauled fauder all day Marvin helped herd about Frank Klarer getting killed in eve
November 27 Sunday home all day
November 28 Monday took oats to Osage to get ground Miles Smith came after wood hauled in a load of wood
November 29 Tuesday chored fixed storm door started to Klarers funeral in PM got stuck in snow did not get there
November 30 Wednesday hauled fauder

Farm Diary:October 1927

October 1 Saturday finished spuds 600 bu
October 2 Sunday all took bath, took horse back,went over home Ruberts there, Frances still sick
October 3 Monday worked on house rained some
October 4 Tuesday finished digging spuds in garden
October 5 Wednesday  hauled manure
October 6 Thursday hauled manure
October 7 Friday raked clover hauled in 1 load rained some
October 8 Saturday hauled in last load of clover, snowed went up to Emma's stayed overnight Sexton done chores
October 9 Sunday up to Emmas cold came home
October 10 Monday hauled manure
October 11 Tuesday hauled manure
October 12 Wednesday hauled manure
October 13 Thursday hauled manure
October 14 Friday cleaned hen house went to Levi Stephens sale down to see about thrashing machine, Laura, Erman + Carl here for a while
October 15 Saturday finished manure, thrashed beans Tracie went to town, Marvin plowed
October 16 Sunday got in a calf, shucked corn, over home for dinner Laura, Erman + Carl there
October 17 Monday plowed, sold corn
October 18 Tuesday plowed, Erman, Laura + Carl here for dinner, Tracie and Laura went to Ladies Aid. Klair here after cow
October 19 Wednesday  sold old Snow plowed
October 20 Thursday plowed
October 21 Friday looked for thrashers they came after dinner, Oats 360, Wheat 100, clover seed 4 bu
October 22 Saturday helped Sexton thrash helped Sanderson also, Tracie to Bemidji, Jerry sick in hospital, went to PR in afternoon
October 23 Sunday done up work, Tracie to Bemidji, Sanderson here, Tracie home in eve
October 24 Monday Little Jerry died, Tracie went in after Uncle John +Aunt Sophia Basch, I took them back in eve
October 25 Tuesday went up to see Averson went to Jerry's funeral in afternoon
October 26 Wednesday got things in out of garden
October 27 Thursday  hauled in fodder
October 28 Friday finished fodder, burned brush piles,school program in eve. Frances + Ruby teachers
October 29 Saturday finished burning brush, riged up gang plow got in wood, rained
October 30 Sunday rained, Dads here, plowed
October 31 Monday plowed

Farm Diary:September 1927

September 1 Thursday Bills went to Aunt Bunts Bills took kids to fair I worked on house
September 2 Friday worked on corn binder
September 3 Saturday started cutting corn
September 4 Sunday Aunt Amelias cottage Bryans Uncle John Jim Walls and Dads and Virgils cousin there
September 5 Monday helped Robinson
September 6 Tuesday cut corn Bill washed his car in river got stuck I dug some spuds to send to Mother
September 7 Wednesday Just visited Bills got ready to start home
September 8 Thursday Bills started home I cut corn
September 9 Friday cut corn
September 10 Saturday cut and shocked corn
September 11 Sunday Finished stacking fauder got word that Lydia was sick and in hospital in Willmar
September 12 Monday Thresa went to PR I and Leviness worked on garage till noon he went home to clean his chicken house
September 13 Tuesday To PR after freight Leviness came but went back with me and stayed all day
September 14 Wednesday Worked on garage
September 15 Thursday Received word Lydia passed away at Wilmar went to PR Leviness went back home with us I cut corn in PM
September 16 Friday cut corn went to meet train in eve Lydias body came, also Chas +Nettie Lewis and Eva here all night
September 17 Saturday finished corn in morn went to Lydias funeral in afternoon brot Annas + Emmas kids home that eve
September 18 Sunday Minnies stoped a while on the way home, Dads + Franks, Annas, Emmas, Freda, Chas +Laura here for dinner, Chas over night
September 19 Monday cut sweet corn in morn went to Ponsford Charlie and Nettie in afternoon Tracie took them to  .....missing corner of page in eve Laura came out
September 20 Tuesday helped Sextons thrash filled in dirt around foundation went to Freds that eve for supper but didn't have any
September 21 Wednesday picked up a little corn Frank and Mattie came out went to the lake fishing in afternoon also eve
September 22 Thursday Franks went back to Dads, Tracie went along and I picked up corn, Laura came out
September 23 Friday put windrower together Laura + Tracie went to town Frances sick I started to cut clover, Frank out in eve went fishing
September 24 Saturday Frank here picked up corn finished
September 25 Sunday tool Leviness a load of wood to Claytons after a horse, over home in afternoon
September 26 Monday started to dig potatoes Marvin helped
September 27 Tuesday dug spuds
September 28 Wednesday rained all day worked on cement
September 29 Thursday dug spuds
September 30 Friday dug spuds

Note: Tracie writes in red

Farm Diary: August 1927

August 1 Monday put in some forms and cement Minnie and Ila and Eva here in eve
August 2 Tuesday
August 3 Wednesday put in forms and cement
August 4 Thursday put in forms and cement
August 5 Friday filed cellar in barn in AM started cutting wheat in PM Ben Clayson did it
August 6 Saturday cut wheat and oats
August 7 Sunday Finished oats
August 8 Monday hauled rock in morn and put in some forms cattle buyer here Cornwalls here in eve
August 9 Tuesday Leviness here to help on cement
August 10 - August 16
August 17 Wednesday Claud Ceacel here in eve from Iowa
August 18 Thursday Bill Wittendorf and Francis Poden (dorf) came went Fishing in PM Ceacils
August 19 Friday stacked grain run two wagons Francis and Bill helped
August 20 Saturday Stacked  Cora and Thresa went to PR with sweet corn
August 21 Sunday Finished stacking to Aunt Bunts for dinner
August 22 Monday worked on basement of house all week 23 24 25 26 27
August 28 Sunday went to Ponsford and state park
August 29 Monday butchered hog Bill helped
August 30  Tuesday butchered another hog
August 31 Wednesday took hog and went to fair Cora and Bill and Francis went along

Farm Diary: July 1927

July 1 Friday  plowed corn
July 2 Saturday plowed corn
July 3 Sunday Home Tillie and Harlie came in eve
July 4 Monday celebrated at Ponsford Tillie and Harlie went along
July 5 Tuesday plowed spuds
July 6 Wednesday Rainy washed Fished in eve
July 7 Thursday started mower I sprayed spuds Marvin mowed
July 8 Friday Mowed started raking with one horse I shocked some in eve
July 9 Saturday put hay in the hock
July 10 Sunday went to PR Tillie went to Dads
July 11 Monday hauled in hay
July 12 Tuesday hauled in hay rained in PM
July 13 Wednesday buged spuds in AM plowed some sweet corn in PM
July 14 Thursday plowed sweet corn and garden got in a load of hay then it rained
July 15 Friday buged spuds AM worked with hay and drug roads in PM
July 16 Saturday Rained in PM to PR in PM
July 17 Sunday home Chet and Frances here to church in eve
July 18 Monday Fixed hay fence changed some drug road
July 19 Tuesday Finished haying to school meeting in the eve Mrs Burt Gilpen election clerk
July 20 Wednesday started to cultivate corn  but rained
July 21 Thursday sprayed spuds in AM cultivated corn in PM Thresa sprayed spuds
July 22 Friday  cultivated corn
July 23 Saturday Finished corn
July 24 Sunday went to PR after Dad and Ma  Kate Fitzsimmons and her mother Mary Ryan and another lady here
July 25 Monday plowed spuds
July 26 Tuesday started scraping out hole for new house
July 27 Wednesday scraped
July 28 Thursday Took chickens to PR in AM scraped in PM
July 29 Friday sprayed spuds dug on basement
July 30 Saturday hauled rock and went to PR in eve got pump
July 31 Sunday Picked berries sprinkled to Bog Lake fishing in PM

Farm Diary: June 1927

June 1 Wednesday disced harrowed and planted braking in garden
June 2 Thursday planted beans Thresa went to PR her mother sick I harrowed some corn
June 3 Friday harrowed in morn to Lemons grove to school picnic
June 4 Saturday finished harrowing made fence by Sextons
June 5 Sunday to Dads Marvin and Ronald went to ball game at Osage
June 6 Monday made goat fence
June 7 Tuesday made goat fence Marvin harrowed spuds
June 8 Wednesday attended Town meeting Thresa went to party at Jim McCarins
June 9 Thursday Fixed some fence
June 10 Friday fenced on north end of Stephens eighty put corn in
June 11 Saturday worked on fence
June 12 Sunday Finished fence in morn Dads Tillie Clark and Harlie Freds Ruberts here
June 13 Monday hoed and replanted sweet corn in AM started to move hay shed
June 14 Tuesday got Sextons stump puller and started moving hay shed
June 15 Wednesday Finished shed
June 16 Thursday replanted corn
June 17 Friday replanted corn in AM to Ruth Becks sale and started cultivating sweet corn
June 18 Saturday Finished corn and garden in AM put up garden fence and skided poles and wood from where old hay shed stood Miss Fogelburg came
June 19 Sunday to PR to Lutheran Sunday school picnic
June 20 Monday Rainy hunted  ???  rainy
June 21 Tuesday cultivated corn
June 22 Wednesday cultivated corn
June 23 Thursday cultivated corn
June 24 Friday cultivated corn
June 25 Saturday cultivated spuds
June 26 Sunday to Bemidji Tillie and Harlie came home with us
June 27 Monday to Town meeting Equilization day
June 28 Tuesday
June 29 Wednesday plowed garden hauled rock from Sextons
June 30 Thursday plowed corn in PM Thresa and Tillie went to PR

Farm Diary : May 1927

May 1 Sunday sheared goats to sawmill PM Bateman ready to saw my lumber
May 2 Monday hauled and piled some lumber a hard hail storm and rain in PM
May 3 Tuesday sorted spuds Loyd and Ray Sexton helped rainy
May 4 Wednesday sorted  more spuds same help sold 192 1?2 bus at $1.00 per bu
May 5 Thursday hauled and piled number
May 6 Friday hauled and piled lumber
May 7 Saturday hauled and piled spuds Finished sawing
May 8 Sunday Rained all day and night
May 9 Monday piled some lumber took wagon back to mill and put tank on it Bateman and Anes here for dinner Van here to practice in PM rainy
May 10 Tuesday hauled lath snowed
May 11 Wednesday hauled manure PD (Played Dance) at PR in eve
May 12 Thursday hauled manure and disced gardens harrowed garden and planted some spuds and other garden
May 13 Friday disced and harrowed and plowed the ground where old machine shed stood Thresa went after chicks at Gerbers Played for dance at Osage in eve
May 14 Saturday planted my sweet corn and worked some on bridg
May 15 Sunday Geo Bateman here for dinner scaled lumber Dads and Fred and Olive and kids here for supper to church in eve
May 16 Monday worked on bridg hauled manure
May 17 Tuesday hauled manure
May 18 Wednesday hauled manure
May 19 Thursday hauled manure in the AM disced spud ground in PM
May 20 Friday rainy put in some garden fence To Osage in AM
May 21 Saturday rainy and foggy disced for corn
May 22 Sunday home fixed garden fence and put sow and pigs in goat pen Foggy Thresa and kids went to church Lutheran Concert in eve in Osage Foggy
May 23 Monday  hauled manure in AM to Zitmans Show in PM Rainy
May 24 Tuesday disced and harrowed rainy
May 25 Wednesday harrowed corn and spud ground
May 26 Thursday planted corn finished
May 27 Friday planted spuds
May 28 Saturday finished planting spuds
May 29 Sunday home in Am to cottages on lake and to Jack Mc Granes in PM to church in eve
May 30 Monday cleared out north end of garden started to plow same place
May 31 Tuesday finished plowing in garden to PR in PM

Farm Diary: April 1927

April 1 Friday hunted calf Thresa went up town in PM I split wood looked for calf in eve
April 2 Saturday found calf on Sextons place Sexton boys herd it split wood took cream Thresa went to PR with Sextons
April 3 Sunday home in AM to Lester Enfields in PM
April 4 Monday rained all day cleaned barns sacked oats for grinding fixed disk
April 5 Tuesday split wood in AM to Ella Crosbys funeral in Park Rapids very bad roads
April 6 Wednesday split wood all day
April 7 Thursday Finished splitting wood corded some wood
April 8 Friday Took feed up to get it ground took Poggy up to get her shod
April 9 Saturday
April 10 Sunday Marshals came Dads here for supper
April 11 Monday Cleaned  Oats
April 12 Tuesday cleaned wheat took cream and got a sack of wheat
April 13 Wednesday fixed harness got disk ready to disc in PM
April 14 Thursday finished discing for wheat harrowed in PM
April 15 Friday harrowed in AM rained in PM
April 16 Saturday plowed
April 17 Sunday Easter over to Dads
April 18 Monday sowed some wheat in AM helped Sexton saw in PM
April 19 Tuesday rainy done odd jobs in PM Sowed wheat in PM
April 20 Wednesday to Gerbers after chicks in AM Finished sowing wheat
April 21 Thursday Plowed
April 22 Friday Plowed
April 23 Saturday started discing for Oats
April 24 Sunday Becks here Dads here
April 25 Monday disced
April 26 Tuesday disced
April 27 Wednesday disced and harrowed
April 28 Thursday harrowed started seeding Oats
April 29 Friday sowed Oats
April 30 Saturday Finished sowing Oats to PR in PM

Farm Diary: March 1927

March 1 Tuesday to town meeting cleaned barns
March 2 Wednesday cut logs and wood
March 3 Thursday hauled logs and wood
March 4 Friday took oats to grind took cream to new butter maker at Osage hauled in some wood
March 5 Saturday helped Sexton saw wood cleaned barns
March 6 Sunday home May and Howard here in PM
March 7 Monday hauled load of wood uptown in afternoon, a store sale +opening day of creamery
March 8 Tuesday Election day to Ponsford Spelling contest in eve
March 9 Wednesday cut wood
March 10 Thursday cut wood
March 11 Friday cut + hauled wood played for dance in PR got stuck in snow coming home snowed
March 12 Saturday got car Miss Fogelburg here cut wood
March 13 Sunday home to church in eve
March 14 Monday cut both bolts and wood
March 15 Tuesday cut bolts and wood
March 16 Wednesday cut bolts and wood
March 17 Thursday cut some bolts in morn to Town meeting qualification days
March 18 Friday cut bolts Notified to sit on jury
March 19 Saturday cut bolts hauled some
March 20 Sunday hauled some bolts and wood in PM Orville Buckto chore. to church in eve
March 21 Monday started to Detroit about 6 AM Geo Sanderson went along sawed wood to home
March 22 Tuesday corting Orville split wood
March 23 Wednesday got excused home in PM Mr Turmel and Hawks came to Osage with me found Thresa in Osage with cream Orville went home
March 24 Thursday split some wood
March 25 Friday done jobs snowed hard
March 26 Saturday hauled bolts to lath mill
March 27 Sunday hauled a load of bolts to mill Dads here for dinner
March 28 Monday hauled wood in kitchen cleaned hen coop
March 29 Tuesday  hauled in some wood mulched fruit trees
March 30 Wednesday put wood in kitchen clipped goats took cream in PM
March 31 Thursday finished kitchen wood looked for calf that run a way to look at road down by McKinleys and Crafts after calf in eve we didn't get it

Farm Diary: February 1927

February 1  Tuesday cut logs to Osage in Pm took cream to corner and eggs
February 2 Wednesday cut logs all day
February 3 Thursday cut logs in AM cleaned barns and drove to Robinsons after cream can and corn we sent for in PM
February 4 Friday Quit cutting logs 370 in all at noon took Oats to Osage to get it ground John went wolf hunting I and Burt Gilpin went along got wolf to Sandersons birthday party in eve
February 5 Saturday started skiding logs snowed in eve Civib fresh
February 6 Sunday home Dads here I went to Osage after them snow too deep in road to church in eve
February 7 Monday took Sow to becks Skided logs in PM
February 8 Tuesday took Geo Mayer a load of wood Skided logs in PM
February 9 Wednesday skided logs all day
February 10 Thursday skided logs and loaded a load of stove wood in eve Miss Lucns here in eve Edn Bateman came after her
February 11 Friday to PR with wood and cream brought home some mill feed
February 12 Saturday skided logs cleaned out barns
February 13 Sunday home Miss Fogelburg here in PM to church in eve
February 14 Monday skided logs Mrs Sexton here in PM I broke trace
February 15 Tuesday skided logs cleaned barns
February 16 Wednesday we hauled in a load of stove wood cleaned chicken house finished skiding logs hauled some and cleared out roads to saw setting snow about 2 1/2 feet deep
February 17 Thursday Visited school in AM hauled logs in PM cold
February 18 Friday hauled logs
February 19 Saturday hauled logs
February 20 Sunday to Dads Frances came after us to church in eve
February 21 Monday hauled logs and cleaned barns
February 22 Tuesday cut up hog hauled logs in AM
February 23 Wednesday hauled logs
February 24 Thursday helped Robinson saw wood
February 25 Friday hauled logs and loaded a load of wood
February 26 Saturday to PR with wood and cream and eggs bought back some feed Marvin went along
February 27 Sunday home Dads here loaded wood
February 28 Monday to PR with wood brought back some corn

Farm Diary: January 1927

January 1 Saturday Chored some to Osage to dance in eve
January 2 Sunday home brought Mr and Mrs Leviness here for dinner to church in eve
January 3 Monday To Pr with wood and cream Ronald went along
January 4 Tuesday To Robinsons after bull cleaned barns and took oats to get it ground
January 5 Wednesday sorted spuds Dads here for dinner
January 6 Thursday Sorted spuds tore down log part of the old barn and skided some of the logs to repair  my bridg Thresa went to Mable Swinsons Shower
January 7 Friday cut up logs for wood around old barn
January 8 Saturday cut wood around old barn
January 9 Sunday home Jack McGranes here
January 10 Monday cleaned barns chicken house
January 11 Tuesday Filed sawes borrowed Sexton saw Ray helped me cut a few trees in PM I cut logs
January 12 Wednesday cut logs
January 13 Thursday cut logs
January 14 Friday cut logs in AM took Geo Mayer a load of wood
January 15 Saturday cut logs kids helped me Miss Fogelburg here kids and her went on sleigh ride party in eve
January 16 Sunday home Dads here in eve to Osage to church in eve
January 17 Monday to PR with wood and veal to ship bought 1,000 Ibs of corn
January 18 Tuesday got corn ground took sow to becks to telephone meeting in PM
January 19 Wednesday cut logs
January 20 Thursday cut logs
January 21 Friday cut logs
January 22 Saturday cut logs Marvin helped me
January 23 Sunday home Geo Mayer here after his corn we went to church at Osage in eve
January 24 Monday cut logs in AM to Osage in PM took cream and eggs stoped to see Jim Robinson on way back he was suffering with a sore leg
January 25 Tuesday cut logs in AM very cold cleaned barn and got cream can at the corner in PM cold
January 26 Wednesday 42 below zero cut logs
January 27 Thursday cut logs
January 28 Friday cut logs and cleaned barn
January 29 Saturday cut logs kids helped some snowed in PM and blocked roads
January 30 Sunday home Ray and Howard here in eve played cards
January 31 Monday cut logs and cleaned barns

Farm Diary: December 1926

December 1 Wednesday
December 2 Thursday Butchered two hogs
December 3 Friday Cut up meat Carver here fixed chicken stall in barn Thresa went to Dell Pools party Miss Fogelburg here all night
December 4 Saturday Worked on chicken pen in AM took feed to Osage for grinding in PM Miss Fogelburg went home with us
December 5 Sunday Home chored and finished chicken pen to church in eve
December 6 Monday Skinned a goat that died took Mrs Johnson some wood
December 7 Tuesday Butchered two year old calf
December 8 Wednesday Hauled some fauder
December 9 Thursday  Hauled fauder
December 10 Friday Got grainery ready to move
December 11 Saturday To PR took cream and calf hide
December 12 Sunday  Home very stormy
December 13 Monday Home Achievement Day for Ladies Club at PR a blizzard
December 14 Tuesday Very cold and stormy
December 15 Wednesday Very cold and stormy had to take kids to school all three mornings just chored
December 16 Thursday Still stormy but warmer hauled some fauder
December 17 Friday Better weather Dad postponed his sale on account of roads blocked I hauled fauder. To Osage with teachers orders
December 18 Saturday I hauled fauder
December 19 Sunday home all day to church and practice in eve
December 20 Monday To PR with wood and cream Dad took wood 3 cords
December 21 Tuesday home butchered hog Thresa and kids went to Osage to practice for Xmas program I went up after them in eve
December 22 Wednesday To PR with wood and chickens Uncle John took chicks 22 cents lbs Ward took wood
December 23 Thursday hauled fauder Morty Stephens and? men here for dinner Thresa and kids went to practice in PM I took them. To Xmas tree in the hall in eve
December 24 Friday To PR with car done shoping Took cream To Xmas tree in church in eve
December 25 Saturday Xmas dads here a fine white day
December 26 Sunday  Home looked at traps
December 27 Monday hauled fauder
December 28 Tuesday hauled some fauder
December 29 Wednesday hauled some fauder
December 30 Thursday  hauled some fauder
December 31 Friday finished fauder played in the eve for a dance in Ponsford

Farm Diary : November 1926

November 1 Monday Froze could not plow cleaned hen house and filed it in with dirt husked some corn Thresa went to Chas Robinsons in PM
November 2 Tuesday Election served on board home at 5:45 AM
November 3 Put some machinery in shed husked some corn
November 4 Thursday Took back horse to Rob Blanchard and took some oats to John G to get it ground Took clover seed to PR and sold it $68.00 worth 234 Ibs
November 5 Friday Cleaned up some wood around hen house cleaned barn and husked some corn
November 6 Saturday Plowed all day Cornwall here in morn after chicken and eggs
November 7 Sunday Home AM to Forester Tower on Smokey Hill in PM cold  Ervie Parks killed in auto accident
November 8 Monday  Cold loaded joists from old barn and put them in new shed Took horse back husked some corn hauled in some fauder
November 9 Tuesday Put paper around house banked house and barn cold Went to Ervie Parks funeral in PM very cold
November 10 Wednesday Chored in AM to PR with Arthur Sartin in PM to see about selling spuds
November 11 Thursday Started sacking spuds
November 12 Friday Sacked spuds to Osage to program and Iowa
November 13 Saturday Finished sacking spuds and hauled some fauder and husked some corn
November 14 Sunday To PR to Ruberts came we went to Virgil Ryans rainy
November 15 Monday Loaded spuds Morty Stephens and Orville Sartain hauled for me bad snow storm hard going lots of cars stalled
November 16 Tuesday Worked on cow stanchions in barn
November 17 Wednesday Fixed stalls for calvs in barn
November 18 Thursday Got shed ready to move
November 19 Friday Moved goat shed
November 20 Saturday  To PR put goats in shed in eve
November 21 Sunday Home Thresa cold Dads here stayed for oysters Perry and West here also
November 22 Monday
November 23 Tuesday Worked on goat pen
November 24 Wednesday Helped dress some chickens and went to PR in PM with Sextons
November 25 Thursday Thanksgiving Day home
November 26 Friday
November 27 Saturday Hauled fauder
November 28 Sunday Over to Dads
November 29 Monday
November 30 Tuesday Hauled in some wood

Farm Diary: October 1926

October 1 Friday Rainy dug some
October 2 Saturday Finished digging spuds to party at the hall
October 3 Sunday Home rainy wrote diary
October 4 Monday Fixed trailer in and helped wash in AM to PR in PM
October 5 Tuesday  Plowed in AM helped Fred Bateman dig spuds in PM picked up a little corn
October 6 Wednesday Finished Fred Batemans spuds in AM turned clover in PM picked up some corn
October 7 Thursday Turned clover and picked up corn
October 8 Friday Plowed in AM Stacked clover in PM
October 9 Saturday scatered clover bundles in morn to PR got lumber planed and freight door rollers and track
October 10 Sunday Dads here spred some clover bundles to church in eve
October 11 Monday Stacked clover Howard Sexton helped me unload in AM Fenced clover in PM
October 12 Tuesday Plowed
October 13 Wednesday Plowed got ready for hollers?
October 14 Thursday Plowed finished spud ground hauled some manure Miss Fogelburg here in eve took Levines some wood
October 15 Friday Hauled manure and fauder east of house  took gange to Osage for repairs
October 16 Saturday Got ready for thrashers fixed wagon box put boards in grainery floor huled clover and thrashed Oats in PM run very late and finished
October 17 Sunday  Home in AM to Erwin Overholsers funeral  in PM at Osage to cottages afterwards and to church in PM
October 18 Monday Got wagon ready Leviness here to work and hauled hogs to ship in PM
October 19 Tuesday Done odd jobs topped straw pile it rained and turned into snow bad day to trade pigs with McLaughlin here Leviness in PM
October 20 Wednesday Put sled together hauled in some fauder snow went off  plowed in PM west of grove
October 21 Thursday  To Osage after g plow and got horse of Rob Blanchard worked on plow put in tongue made doubletree Leviness here all day
October 22 Friday  Finished plow and started plowing
October 23 Saturday  Started to plow broke plow went to shop plowed in PM Thresa and kids went to PR in PM Geo Mayer went along  cold snow
October 24 Sunday Home chored husced some corn and cleaned barn
October 25 Monday Cleaned up machine shed put in some tools Mr Shultz here in PM
October 26 Tuesday Leviness here I plowed
October 27 Wednesday  Leviness here I plowed
October 28 Thursday  Mr Leviness came in AM to fix doors rode home with Thresa when she went to club I plowed in AM Helped Sanderson thrash in PM
October 29 Friday Plowed
October 30 Saturday Froze hard chored in AM plowed in PM
October 31 Sunday Home all day to church in eve

Farm Diary :September 1926

September 1 Wednesday Done jobs fenced in AM to fair in PM
September 2 Thursday Started breaking in front of Sextons
September 3 Friday Broke
September 4 Saturday Finished breaking Liviness here to start Shed
September 5 Sunday Home in AM To Ball game in PM O vs ??
September 6 Monday Helped on machine shed
September 7 Tuesday Helped tear down old barn Took out nails cut corn
September 8 Wednesday To PR after roofing Helped on shed cut corn T Adams died
September 9 Thursday Worked on corn binder
September 10 Friday Worked on binder and cut some in PM Thresa picked seed corn
September 11 Saturday Rainy  ??? some sweet corn in PM Minnie and kids came in eve
September 12 Sunday I cut corn with binder Thresa and kids went to PR  I to T Adams funeral
September 13 Monday I cut corn Minnies here Rained in PM
September 14 Tuesday Shocked corn and went to Town Meeting reg day
September 15 Wednesday Shocked and cut corn
September 16 Thursday Cut sweet corn by barn
September 17 Friday Cut tall corn and shocked some
September 18 Saturday Cut corn and shocked
September 19 Sunday  Shocked corn in AM to ball game in PM Osage vs Vergas
September 20 Monday Finished shocking corn and helped put roof on shed in PM
September 21 Tuesday Rainy hauled sand and rock for grainery floor
September 22 Wednesday Put in grainery floor and started turning clover
September 23 Thursday Thresa to club I and Jimmie worked on cellar rainy
September 24 Friday Turned clover took load of lumber to PR to get plained
September 25 Saturday Picked up corn Miss Hogelburg here for dinner
September 26 Sunday Home jersy had calf fixed car glasses
September 27 Monday Strung crates and got ready to dig spuds in PM
September 28 Tuesday Dug spuds in PM Dad Ina and Lydia here and helped
September 29 Wednesday Rainy dug some
September 30 Thursday rainy dug some

Farm Diary : August 1926

August 1 Sunday Fixed tire went swimming to Osage in PM to church in eve
August 2 Monday Finished pulling stumps took puller back piled stumps in PM
August 3 Tuesday Piled stumps Dads here for dinner took two loads of wood in in PM I burned some a good rain
August 4 Wednesday Worked on old cellar Thresa went to Mrs Greens party
August 5 Thursday Worked on cellar Mr Liviness here in PM took him home
August 6 Friday Took first sweet corn to PR
August 7 Saturday Took sweet corn
August 8 Sunday Home Dads here Lizzie and her kids here for dinner had ice cream
August 9 Monday Stacked oats Geo Mayer helped
August 10 Tuesday  Thresa took sweet corn we stacked oats
August 11 Wednesday Finished oats hauled some rocks for chicken house foundation
August 12 Thursday Took sweet corn Mr Schmidt here to operate on my pig buried pig next morn
August 13 Friday Burned stumps in PM to Town Meeting to pay road grader man Marvins birthday party
August 14 Saturday To town with sweet corn fixed harness and tore down old machine shed in PM
August 15 Sunday Home
August 16 Monday Liviness started to work on chicken house foundation and windows
August 17 Tuesday Worked on chicken house and started on barn in PM
August 18 Wednesday Made fence around hay stack rained
August 19 Thursday Took load of lumber to town to get planed worked on barn
August 20 Friday Worked on barn I fixed fence in PM Marvin helped Liviness with siding
August 21 Saturday Worked on barn made fence in AM
August 22 Sunday Went Aunt Amelias
August 23 Monday Worked on barn
August 24 Tuesday Painted barn Liviness helped
August 25 Wednesday Took lumber to PR to get it planed Ben Clayson cut clover I shocked clover quit cutting with binder
August 26 Thursday Cut clover with mower I got rake to Mayers medow Thresa went to club at Schackmans I hauled sand for new machine shed Uncle Johns here and John and Ella Clauson from Iowa for supper
August 27 Friday Helped Robinsons thrash
August 28 Saturday Hauled wood off the patch I wanted to brake got bee sting in PM
August 29 Sunday To ball game in Osage Vergus played and won
August 30 Monday Made fence around patch I wanted to brake
August 31 Tuesday To Fair took goats

Farm Diary: July 1926

July 1 Thursday Hunted lost Bittman girl got home at 8:30
July 2 Friday Went to hunt kid found her plowed corn Went to show
July 3 Saturday Plowed corn - pulled some stumps went to show
July 4 Sunday Took our dinner + went to the lake
July 5 Monday Went to Ponsford all day
July 6 Tuesday  Fixed mower took up oats
July 7 Wednesday Mowed roadside in morn Went to Ponsford in PM also in eve
July 8 Thursday Mowed clover + raked + shocked
July 9 Friday Rained fixed fence, Emma here for supper
July 10 Saturday Finished fence to town in afternoon
July 11 Sunday Went over home Ruberts and Harrys also there
July 12 Monday Plowed spuds
July 13 Tuesday Started mowing, + spraded spuds, Marvin run the mower
July 14 Wednesday Hayed
July 15 Thursday Hayed, Jim Robinson + Annas + Alberts here in eve
July 16 Friday Anna and kids here, hayed
July 17 Saturday Hayed ,went to Bill Lents funeral +to yown in PM
July 18 Sunday Went over home in PMAlberts there
July 19 Monday Hayed all day
July 20 Tuesday Went to Ponsford to look at roads. Marvin sprayed spuds, plowed corn, to school meeting in eve
July 21 Wednesday Cultivated, finished hay, board met to hire teachers
July 22 Thursday Cultivated - to look at roads in Osage
July 23 Friday Cultivated rained the rest of the day
July 24 Saturday Finished cultivating corn, cultivated in garden to PR in PM took in some new spuds at 4 cents per Ib to Carnival in PR in eve
July 25 Sunday  Home Miles Smith and wife were here a few minutes fixed tire
July 26 Monday Sprayed spuds and fixed fence
July 27 Tuesday Pulled stumps
July 28 Wednesday Cut oats Clayson did
July 29 Thursday Finished oats
July 30 Friday Pulled stumps hot and dry
July 31 Saturday Pulled stumps in AM to PR in PM hot and dry tire trouble

Farm Diary: June 1926

June 1 Tuesday Cleared ( (in front of Sextons)
June 2 Wednesday Cleared
June 3 Thursday Cleared
June 4 Friday Cleared
June 5 Saturday Cleared in AM to PR in PM
June 6 Sunday Dads here Vernon Pratt here played weddon in PM To church in eve at Osage
June 7 Monday Cleared fence row for goat fence and drove fence
June 8 Tuesday Got Sextons stump puller and started to pull stumps
June 9 Wednesday Plowed garden and corn around house
June 10 Thursday Fixed hog fence raining
June 11 Friday Pulled stumps
June 12 Saturday Pulled stumps in AM Marshall here to get time order to PR got goat fence
June 13 Sunday To PR Lutheran Sunday School Picnic and to Aunt Amelias cottage and saw Kate Fitzsimmons and her family
June 14 Monday  Put up goat fence and put goats in new pen
June 15 Tuesday Plowed big patch of spuds Dads came for supper
June 16 Wednesday Rained tryed to pull stumps Burt Gilpon here after spuds started work on car
June 17 Thursday  Rainy worked on car
June 18 Friday Worked on car Sanderson here with cow in AM plowed corn in PM
June 19 Saturday Plowed corn in AM Carver here assessing To Holstine convention in PM
June 20 Sunday To Jack McGranes to see new house in AM rained all day
June 21 Monday Judge at election home at three AM
June 22 Tuesday Plowed corn
June 23 Wednesday Plowed corn some in eve
June 24 Thursday Plowed corn and garden and corn around house Thresa went down to Robinsons in PM
June 25 Friday Plowed big patch of spuds second time To Osage after ground feed in eve
June 26 Saturday To PR in morn To be present at law suit with Jiohn Habbergr plowed some corn in PM
June 27 Sunday Home in AM
June 28 Monday Town Board Meeting (Equalization) Butchered (Ed) Went to show
June 29 Tuesday Plowed corn fixed fence went to show
June 30 Wednesday Plowed corn

Grandma's Diary entries are in RED

Farm Diary: May 1926

May 1 Saturday Hauled manure planted early spuds Tearhark here after spuds
May 2 Sunday Home ball game in PM
May 3 Monday Plowed sod hauled manure
May 4 Tuesday Plowed and hauled manure
May 5 Wednesday Plowed and hauled manure
May 6 Thursday Plowed and harrowed
May 7 Friday  Harrowed started planting spuds
May 8 Saturday Finished planting spuds To Robinsons after shearing machine rained whole time
May 9 Sunday Home sheared goats Greens here
May 10 Monday  Plowed and hauled manure
May 11 Tuesday Plowed and hauled manure
May 12 Wednesday Plowed in AM to Mr Joe Smiths funeral
May 13 Thursday Got in some hay plowed sweet corn patches around house
May 14 Friday Finished plowing and harrowing around house to Osage to get planter fixed worked on planter sowed buckwheat for chicks
May 15 Saturday Planted sweet corn around house and barn Put up garden fence hauled a load of manure plowed sod in PM very dry to Osage in eve
May 16 Sunday Home
May 17 Monday finished sod harrowed some
May 18 Tuesday Plowed some corn stubbles with gange finished
May 19 Wednesday Harrowed and started planting corn dust storm in eve
May 20 Thursday  Finished planting corn
May 21 Friday Done odd jobs
May 22 Saturday Harrowed sweet corn to PR in PM
May 23 Sunday Virgal Ryans here
May 24 Monday Worked on trailer to PR with calvs in eve
May 25 Tuesday Helped wash took car to Osage and worked on it some
May 26 Wednesday Thresa went to Bemidji I harrowed fellow here to Dr piggy
May 27 Thursday  Harrowed in AM sold pigs to Thoran Smith and Mclaughlin fixed porch roof Mrs Smith here in eve
May 28 Friday To S School picnic had hard rain in PM and night
May 29 Saturday Dr Pigs dehorned calvs shot hawk to PR in PM Emma came home with us
May 30 Sunday To Dads Rubert and Emma and family there
May 31 Monday Started clearing in front of Sextons

Farm Diary: April 1926

April 1 Thursday  Sacked and had Martin Stephens haul in the spuds 150 bus at one load I went along to PR received $1.65 per bus
April 2 Friday Split and ricked wood in AM worked on trailer in PM
April 3 Saturday To Huntersville after goats  stopped and done trading in PR
April 4 Sunday  Home Easter Cold Top Church in eve at Osage
April 5 Monday Corded dry wood by spruce tree
April 6 Tuesday Cleaned barn finished wood snowed
April 7 Wednesday Got a load of posts snow went off Cleaned up yard in PM  Skinny here overnight
April 8 Thursday Put up sleighs got manure spreader out Mrs Borton here for dinner Frances here I hauled manure in PM
April 9 Friday Worked on trailer took some oats to grind at Osage hauled load of manure in eve Frank Becks here for supper to Osage in eve
April 10 Saturday Cut post in AM to PR in PM took bull hide cream and eggs
April 11 Sunday Home Dads here
April 12 Monday Hauled manure in AM Morrison here for fire permit started discing in PM
April 13 Tuesday Disced went after oats to Osage disced in eve very cold began to freeze
April 14 Wednesday Froze up hauled manure and disced
April 15 Thursday Disced
April 16 Friday Disced finished Geo Mayers house burned
April 17 Saturday Harrowed in AM to PR in PM bought goat Geo Mayer went along
April 18 Sunday  Home all day helped bury Mayers cow that got burned
April 19 Monday Harrowed all day long
April 20 Tuesday Harrowed in AM cleaned oats in PM Chas Robinson here after wheat
April 21 Wednesday Got drill out started seeding oats 0/ pigs
April 22 Thursday Fixed grass seeder on drill and sowed some more oats
April 23 Friday Finished sowing oats hauled some hay to bunk 11 pigs
April 24 Saturday Hauled manure to PR in PM
April 25 Sunday Went fishing in river got 15 suckers Hazel and Jim here in PM
April 26 Monday Hauled manure
April 27 Tuesday Hauled manaure
April 28 Wednesday  Hauled manure
April 29 Thursday Hauled manure
April 30 Friday Hauled manure

Farm Diary: March 1926

March 1  Monday  Cut wood and hauled Ronald had birthday party  Stormy
March 2 Tuesday Cut and hauled wood
March 3 Wednesday  Hauled wood  Bryan went to Becks to saw wood I took Ault to PR Bryan cut wood in PM
March 4 Thursday Hauled wood in AM John G here and ground feed in PM
March 5 Friday I and Bryan hauled wood in AM  I chored and Jet born Thresa went to school Bryan drove her
March 6 Saturday  Snowed I and Bryan went to PR took some spuds
March 7 Sunday Home snow blew blocked roads Howard here in PM
March 8 Monday Got in load of hay andtook Bryan to Osage to meet stage which went with sleigh Chored in PM
March 9 Tuesday To Town meeting election I was reelected supervision
March 10 Wednesday Helped Beck saw wood
March 11 Thursday Helped Beck saw and he came back and helped me butcher the bull
March 12 Friday  Delivered meat in AM Choped some wood
March 13 Saturday Choped and hauled wood
March 14 Sunday To PR over to see Don
March 15 Monday Cut and hauled wood
March 16 Tuesday Town meeting qualification
March 17 Wednesday Cut and hauled wood
March 18 Thursday Cut and hauled wood
March 19 Friday Sawed wood for myself Marshall run the saw Geo Mayer Mr Sexton Alfred Nelson and Orville Beck helped
March 20 Saturday Sawed for me in AM and for Sexton in PM
March 21 Sunday Home Dads here in PM
March 22 Monday Cut posts to Osage  took a quarter of beef and cream
March 23 Tuesday Split wood Stone here about noon split and ricked wood
March 24 Wednesday Snowed cleaned barn and sorted some spuds in AM
March 25 Thursday Split and ricked wood
March 26 Friday Split and ricked wood
March 27 Saturday Split and ricked wood in AM to PR in AM
March 28 Sunday Home May here Frances and Elene here a few minutes
March 29 Monday Split and ricked wood spud buyer here
March 30 Tuesday Commenced sacking spuds
March 31 Wednesday Sacked spuds

Farm Diary: February 1926

February 1 Monday  To Park Rapids to get feed ground Thresa and Jimmie went along
February 2 Tuesday Hauled wood in kitchen cleaned out barn went to town meeting in PM
February 3 Wednesday Choped wood sacked spuds for Arthur hauled some wood
February 4 Thursday Choped wood To Becks after boar hauled a load of wood
February 5 Friday Cut wood
February 6 Saturday Cut and hauled wood Frances came and stayed all night
February 7 Sunday Dads here Arthur got spuds
February 8 Monday Took hogs and Veals and shiped them took oats to grind
February 9 Tuesday Cut wood chored Bryan called up in eve and told he was here
February 10 Wednesday  Chored in AM visit school in PM Bryan came that eve
February 11 Thursday Chored and visited
February 12 Friday Chored and visited
February 13 Saturday  To PR took cream and got barrel of oil
February 14 Sunday Home all day
February 15 Monday Choped wood and hauled some
February 16 Tuesday Fixed piano wrote letter to Chester
February 17 Wednesday Chored in AM sawed wood in PM
February 18 Thursday  To PR with a load of wood Bryan went along and stayed in PR
February 19 Friday  Cut and hauled wood
February 20 Saturday Cut and hauled wood
February 21 Sunday To PR Dads birthday  Bryan came home with us
February 22 Monday  Helped wash fixed tires to Osage in eve broke band in car
February 23 Tuesday  Worked on car and trailer all day
February 24  Wednesday Cleaned barn and got load of fauder from old barn took car to Osage to get band put in Bryan played checkers
February 25 Thursday  Cut wood on east side of river Bryan helped
February 26 Friday Went to town meeting  Thresa went to PR with Rooster cream and eggs Bryan drove
February 27 Saturday  Split wood and filed kitchen to Osage in eve
February 28 Sunday Home all day Bryan here to church in eve

Farm Diary : January 1926

January 1 Friday  To Dads in PR for new years dinner had goose
January 2 Saturday  Butchered a 325 hog  cut some brush  Marvin took mumps
January 3 Sunday  Home sacked some spuds for Arthur got 150 per bu
January 4 Monday Cut brush Fred Bateman here after boar Glen stayed I sorted spuds in PM
January 5 Tuesday  Sacked spuds for Arthur
January 6 Wednesday Cut up pork helped Chilton load wood put on a little siding on barn
January 7 Thursday  Took cream hauled some wood in kitchen hauled a load of dry pole wood
January 8 Friday  Hauled wood from pig pen
January 9 Saturday  Cut dry wood to Osage in eve
January 10 Sunday Home Dads here sacked spuds for Arthur Geo Moyer
January 11 Monday School started I cut dry wood Thresa and Jimmie went to Sextons
January 12 Tuesday Helped wash hauled one load of dry wood brought kids home from school
January 13 Wednesday  Choped wood Thresa went to see Mrs Robinson I and Jimmie hauled some pole wood
January 14 Thursday  Started to PR to Farm Bureau meeting but stopped at Osage a bliz and roads blocked
January 15 Friday Cut wood in AM to PR in PM
January 16 Saturday Hauled wood chored
January 17 Sunday Sacked spuds for Arthur went to see Mr Rhodes and Smith
January 18 Monday  Sacked feed and took it to Osage John sick and couldn't grind left feed. Sexton sick done his chores
January 19 Tuesday Helped Sexton with pump and chores Cleaned barn
January 20 Wednesday Jimmie took Mumps  cut wood Halfsoled some shoes Chilton here after wood Took cream and eggs to Osage
January 21 Thursday  To Robinsons after boar, no use took him back after noon very cold
January 22 Friday  Cut Tamarack wood Very cold Ronald came down with mumps
January 23 Saturday  M Rhodes died we cut wood very cold and blizardy
January 24 Sunday Home Arthur here after spuds chored cold
January 25 Monday Hauled wood in AM  to Mr Rhodes funeral in PM
January 26 Tuesday Hauled in some wood and took some oats down to Robinson to get it ground Jimmie sick
January 27 Wednesday Cut wood in morn chored and took eggs to Osage  and got Marvin from school bad storm
January 28 Thursday about 35 below cut wood and hauled it in took cream to stage at noon
January 29 Friday Cut and hauled wood
January 30 Saturday Cut wood in AM cleaned out barn and went to Osage in eve
January 31 Sunday Home all day about 8 in of snow fell