Farm Diary : December 1922

December
1  Friday Hauled some straw to Osage  with cream to dance in eve
2  Saturday Hauled some straw Frances and Velma went home
3  Sunday Chored to John Shobers in PM Osage kids and Becks here in eve
4  Monday Snowed AM Blizzard in PM and eve
5  Tuesday Helped wash  hauled straw snowed
6  Wednesday Hauled some straw Overholser took Flora chored
7  Thursday Got in wood fixed storm door
8  Friday  To cream put tire around stove started thrashing beans
9  Saturday Thrashed beans
10 Sunday Home set some traps
11 Monday Thrashed some beans got kids blizzard
12 Tuesday Took kids to school took sow to Becks
13 Wednesday Helped wash thrashed some beans
14 Thursday Fixed butchering rig butchered calf in PM
15 Friday Finished beans fanned them dane in Osage
16 Saturday Loaded some wood took Velma and Frances to stage took some beans butchered calf in PM
17 Sunday To Becks in PM practiced
18 Monday To PR with wood kids here to practice in eve
19 Tuesday Thresa went to town I baked bread chored got in some wood got folks in eve
20 Wednesday Helped wash chored husked fauder Bazarr at hall in eve
21 Thursday Got ready to butcher then butchered a hog practice in eve
22 Friday To Osage in AM cut up meat in PM
23 Saturday Got in load of wood got feed ground to program at Osage in eve
24 Sunday Chored Becks here
25 Monday Xmas to PR took dinner with Dads took load of wood for Dads played for dance at Osage
26 Tuesday Chored cut some wood
27 Wednesday Husked fauder cut some wood
28 Thursday Chored AM cut wood in PM
29 Friday Took cream worked at school house AM chored cut some wood
30 Saturday Hauled wood cut some
31 Sunday Home chored

Farm Diary: November 1922

November
1  Wednesday Plowed
2  Thursday Plowed
3  Friday Took cream got plow lays sharpened plowed some in PM rained in eve
4  Saturday Plowed rained in eve
5  Sunday Rained all day
6  Monday Took veal to PR
7  Tuesday Hauled some manure
8  Wednesday Hauled some manure took Thresa to Knoops party plowed
9  Thursday Plowed
10  Friday Plowed
11 Saturday Plowed in AM done odd jobs in PM to Armistice program and dance in eve
12 Sunday Dads and Harrys here
13 Monday Made fence around barn
14 Tuesday Helped wash and set some posts put some saw dust in the cellar top
15 Wednesdy Got in some lumber put dirt in barn started on pig shed
16 Thursday Worked on hog shed in AM took Thresa to Mrs Sandersons party fine day painted new poarch
17 Friday Worked on pig shed to school parents day took cream
18 Saturday Worked on pig shed raining
19 Sunday Snow Uncle Johns and Virgil Ryans here went hunting
20 Monday Finished pig shed fixed fence around barn
21 Tuesday Put pigs in pen butchered one got in load of wood
22 Wednesday Unloaded wood chored corked barn husced some fauder
23 Thursday Cut up hog loaded wood went to telephone meeting at Ponsford
24 Friday To PR with wood meat cockrels and clover seed
25 Saturday  Hauled some straw spoilt load
26 Sunday Home Mr Green here
27 Monday Took 14 chickens to Osage set traps
28 Tuesday Hauled spoilt straw
29 Wednesday Hauled straw Frances in Osage
30 Thursday Thanksgiving day snowed in morning turning to rain froze in eve and wasa real blizzard sleighing started Frances and Velma V here

Farm Diary: October 1922

October
1  Sunday Home Hawkins boys went home
2  Monday Fixed cellar and helped wash
3  Tuesday Pulled beans
4  Wednesday Finished beans in AM hauled in some fauder in PM put it in hay shed
5  Thursday Hauled fauder Knoop here after pig crate To Hendrickson to chicken culing
6  Friday Hauled fauder Chas Robinson helped Lizzie also here rained in eve
7  Saturday  Raining Waymon Dow here for dinner to PR in PM picked tomatoes at Uncle Johns
8  Sunday Home all dfay Aunt Amelia here in PM to Radio Concert in Osage
9  Monday Hauled fauder Shober got digger Jersy calved
10 Tuesday Helped wash hauled fauder
11 Wednesday Fenced stacks cold finished digging early spuds with fork
12 Thursday Worked on barn foundation Shober brought digger back
13 Friday Worked on foundation
14 Saturday Worked on foundation Frances and Vangyet here Clyde Juffel and Harold Spanswick here
15 Sunday To Glen Dows in eve raining
16 Monday Snow took Jersy to Aunt Amelia
17 Tuesday Helped wash fixed cellar door fixed barn floor
18 Wednesday Fixed barn floor finished using up my cement
19 Thursday Racked and burned potato vines
20 Friday Took cream started cultivating the corn ground for quack grass
21 Saturday Cultivated
22 Sunday Home went hunting got 6
23 Monday Thrashed in PM helped wash
24 Tuesday Cleaned up around strove stack and fenced it hold up other wire
25 Wednesday Finished cultivating quack to Osage in eve
26 Thursday Plowed garden and other patches disced some
27 Friday Disced Mr Green here for dinner To program by school in eve
28 Saturday Plowed Thresa and kids went to PR
29 Sunday Went over home
30 Monday Plowed
31 Tuesday Plowed in AM took down seed corn and cleaned out hen house in PM Rained

Farm Diary: September 1922

September
1  Friday Thresa and kids and Harrys and Anna and their kids went to Dakota  I took cream and hauled rock got stuck and wet rained
2  Saturday Helped Robinsons fill silo
3  Sunday To Osage in PM took teachers books
4  Monday Helped Robinsons finish silo  worked on barn foundation in PM  Thresa and kids came home
5  Tuesday Worked on foundation
6  Wednesday  Worked on foundation Knoops here in PM
7  Thursday Worked on foundation
8  Friday Took cream got in wood hauled some water Picked up corn in PM
9 Saturday To PR to fair rained  Emma and Rubert came home with us Saw Bryan
10 Sunday Dads came out went home with Emma and Rubert in PM saw about horse water
11 Monday  Worked on barn foundation Federal Loan man here Bryan came rained (Bryan is most likely Bryan Henderson his brother)
12 Tuesday To Sherwoods sale bought pigs and cream can 6 boar 6 Ibs
13 Wednesday  Cut some fauder corn hauled clover
14 Thursday Finished corn hauled in clover straw fellow here with car to trade
15 Friday Unloaded straw picked up corn
16 Saturday Picked up corn in AM shaved Shocked fauder corn to Osage in eve intended playing for a dance at Twin Lakes
17 Sunday Home Bryan here played checkers rained hard
18 Monday Raining put spud digger together
19 Tuesday Bryan went back worked on barn foundation to see road workers in eve
20 Wednesday Started to digging Knoops spuds
21 Thursday  Dug spuds picked up some corn
22 Friday Dug spuds picked up some corn
23 Saturday Dug spuds picked up some corn Jenny calved
24 Sunday Got cellar ready for spuds
25 Monday Finished Knoops spuds butchered
26 Tuesday Delivered meat in morn started doing my spuds
27 Wednesday Dug spuds To Shubert boys funeral in PM
28 Thursday Dug spuds
29 Friday Rained in morn  dug some spuds in PM
30 Saturday Finished spuds Ervin and Owen Hawkins here overnight

Farm Diary: August 1922

August
1  Tuesday Finished oats to sell  Iowa folks in eve
2  Wednesday Took Rockes out of river for foundation scraped some on cellar boke and fixed harness
3  Thursday  Scraped and shoveled in cellar
4  Friday Shobert took cream and looked at spud digger worked on cellar
5  Saturday Worked on cellar cemented some PD at Osage
6  Sunday Leo Estens here here to ball game in PM
7  Monday Cemented on cellar  to Knoops in eve
8  Tuesday Helped wash in morn cut clover in PM
9  Wednesday  Stacked clover in  in AM  silo man here for dinner started stacking in PM Ray Sexton helped
10 Thursday Stacked all day Ray helped
11 Friday Finished stacking Thresa helped butchered sow in eve Howard helped
12 Saturday To PR took hog weighed 332 lbs got 36.55
13 Sunday To ball game at Osage vs Evergreen
14 Monday Plowed late fauder corn fixed hog fence
15 Tuesday  Snoped corn Fin here to look at horse
16 Wednesday Helped Robinson thrash went to fire on Neal place
17 Thursday Finished snoping corn Harry and Kate Fitzsimmons here for supper Uncle John and Aunt Amelias here too
18 Friday Got corn binder and took cream cut corn in PM
19 Saturday Helped Beck to thrash PD in Osage in eve
20 Sunday Home in AM Fishing in PM  ? here raining
21 Monday Cut corn
22 Tuesday Cut corn
23 Wednesday Cut corn
24 Thursday Quit cutting corn bought binder
25 Friday Lang and Uncle John here for dinner schoked corn in PM sold chickens took cream
26 Saturday Shocked corn AM to PR in PM bought home new potato digger
27 Sunday To Marshels AM  to Sandersons in PM Mac McLoughlin there Lange here in eve
28 Monday Mowed school house yard
29 Tuesday Cut corn with grain binder
30 Wednesday Hauled in fauder and bedding
31 Thursday Rainy to PR

Farm Diary: July 1922

July
1  Saturday Harrowed and planted fauder corn plowed some spuds
2  Sunday Home Red Zeller here in eve
3  Monday Plowed spuds
4  Tuesday To PR to Huntersville in PM to play for dance  Thresa went
5  Wednesday Plowed spuds and corn  Glen Dow sprayed my spuds
6  Thursday Plowed corn and beans played for dance at Ponsford Thresa went
7  Friday Plowed corn
8 Saturday Plowed corn in AM to Osage in PM Thresa and Frances went to get form made Played in Wolf Lake
9  Sunday Home to Osage and fished
10 Monday Plowed corn cut hay
11 Tuesday Cut hay Len Sorenson spray spuds
12 Wednesday suiting? raked Len sprayed Inse Sorenson helped
13 Thursday Hauled in hay Len finished spraying
14 Friday Hauled in hay Len helped hay Sexton helped in PM
15 Saturday Put end in hay shed plowed some corn to PR in PM Thresa went to Farm Club
16 Sunday  To Marshels
17 Monday Took Bonnie and Reddie to ship
18 Tuesday Plowed and sprayed spuds
19 Wednesday Sprayed spuds Vera Evans here on ??
20 Thursday Sprayed in AM Plowed spuds in PM
21 Friday Sprayed in AM rained Thresa took cream
22 Saturday Plowed spuds and fauder corn Thresa Frances and Jimmie to PR on stage
23 Sunday Home Glen Dows here in PM
24 Monday Plowed fauder corn in PM
25 Tuesday To PR paid 100.00 on farm
26 Wednesday Started to measure for new barn
27 Thursday Plowing and working on barn
2  Friday Took cream worked on barn
29 Saturday Worked on barn Levi Stephens here to treat swinged colt PD at Osage
30 Sunday To Osage to ballgame Osage vs Hubbard
31 Monday Cut Oats Iowas folks in Osage

Farm Diary : June 1922

June
1  Thursday Plowed spuds and some corn
2  Friday Harrowed spuds marked ground and planted some beans rained some
3  Saturday Hauled manure finished planting beans  plowed sweet corn
4  Sunday To Church in PM
5  Monday Harrowed spuds helped on Picnic
6  Tuesday Plowed corn
7  Wednesday Plowed corn
8  Thursday Finished corn loaded lumber
9  Friday To PR got lumber planed rained some
10 Saturday Unloaded Lumber Dr pigs fixed hog fence dug dirt away from house
11 Sunday To church in PM
12 Monday Worked on new porch  Mr. Lavinis helped
13 Tuesday Worked on porch
14 Wednesday Worked on porch in AM plowed corn in PM Rained at night
15 Thursday Piled lumber weed man was here Aunt Amelias here in PM Rained
16 Friday Worked on fence took cream
17 Saturday Finished fence to PR in PM
18 Sunday Home Dads here also fellow on car trade
19 Monday Plowed corn raining to Osage to vote
20 Tuesday Plowed corn
21 Wednesday Plowed corn took shovels to Osage and got them sharpened I plowed some spuds
22 Thursday Plowed some spuds to Farm Beaurau Picnic rest of day
23 Friday Took cream plowed spuds
24 Saturday Plowed spuds and beans
25 Sunday Took colts to trade for car did not trade To Sorensons in PM
26 Monday Worked on mower took cream
27 Tuesday Mowed some hay cultivated
28 Wednesday Cultivated and put up hay
29 Thursday Plowed hay ground
30 Friday Sold spuds to Wm. went to telephone meeting in Ponsford in PM

Farm Diary : May 1922

May
1  Monday Traded oats with Jim Robinson hauled manure bought some oats of D Witter and had Bun Lemons ground them rained some
2  Tuesday Hauled manaure
3  Wednesday Hauled manure to Osage at noon
4  Thursday Hauled manure burned brush
5  Friday Hauled manure to  ? White’s funeral
6  Saturday Hauled manure and plowed
7  Sunday To PR Emma and ruberts there
8  Monday Plowed AM Rained shelled corn in PM
9  Tuesday Plowed sod to Mrs. Pratts Funeral
10 Wednesday Plowed sod  got Clark Pools and Knoops spuds out pof cellar Knoop took spud planter
11 Thursday Plowed took Christensonss spuds out of cellar
12 Friday Finished plowing corn ground got more spuds out for Christenson
13 Saturday Harrowed Thresa had party for Mildred Hair in PM
14 Sunday Home Aunt Amelia’s Marchel were here Bun Lemons got load of spuds
15 Monday Vernon Pratt got spuds took cream got corn planter and planted corn
16 Tuesday Finished planting corn Marchel got spuds
17 Wednesday Rainy plowed some
18 Thursday Plowed
19 Friday Plowed
20 Saturday Finished plowing harrowed corn in PM
21 Sunday To Sherwoods after lumber in AM To Church in PM Dads and Vern here in eve
22 Monday Finished harrowing corn and ? spuds Lydia cut spuds in PM
23 Tuesday Started planting spuds Mildred and Lydia cut spuds
24 Wednesday Planted spuds Uncle Isic here in eve
25 Thursday Planted spuds to Picnic finished spuds 73 bus
26 Friday Disced bean ground loaded some spuds for Fars and Olson harrowed bean ground
27 Saturday Made fence on Houston 80 to Farmers club in eve
28 Sunday To Dows in PM
29 Monday Fenced on Houstons took cream
30 Tuesday Fenced rained some
31 Wednesday To PR got linoleum

Farm Diary: April 1922

April
1  Saturday Cut posts snowed fixed pantry
2 Sunday Home in AM to Greens in PM
3  Monday Helped wash got out posts drove colts
4 Tuesday Split wood in AM drove colts helped Beck saw wood
5  Wednesday Split wood drove colts got kids
6  Thursday Split wood drove colts got kids
7  Friday Took Cream split wood drove colts got kids
8  Saturday Split wood all day finished pile
9  Sunday Home some young folks here in PM
10  Monday Helped wash took wheat to Rinins to get cleaned
11 Tuesday To PR to Dr with Jimmie Thresa got tooth pulled Frances here with Marvin and Ronald
12 Wednesday Cleaned wheat in AM disced in PM Aunt Amelias here
13 Thursday Got drill ready rainy to box supper in eve
14 Friday Got load of wood on sled took cream put up sled
15 Saturday Rainy sowed some wheat
16 Sunday To church at Osage
17 Monday To PR to veal got feed ground played for dance in Osage
18 Tuesday Took Mildred home cold sowed wheat by hand snowed got in load of wood
19 Wednesday Hauled in all of the dry wood harrowed some in eve
20 Thursday Fixed spreader disced in PM
21 Friday Took cream hauled manure and disced
22 Saturday Fixed bridge disced and harrowed treated oats
23 Sunday Home Lester Enfield and Milton Rhodes here in PM
24 Monday Harrowed in AM sowed oats in PM
25 Tuesday Finished sowing oats
26 Wednesday Helped Sextons with cow in AM planted early spuds and disked
27 Thursday Disced and fixed bridge
28 Friday Took cream hauled manure
29 Saturday Hauled manure to Wolf Lake in eve did not play stoped in Osage to farmers club on the way back
30 Sunday Home all day Marshall here

Farm Diary: March 1922

March
1  Wednesday To PR with wood bought 36 1/2 bus of Oats into Payeth
2  Thursday Butchered
3  Friday Took cream cut up meat got in wood made sausage
4  Saturday  Cut and pileed wood
5  Sunday Home in AM
6 Monday Helped wash to Osage and went down and helped Beck saw
7  Tuesday Cut wood
8  Wednesday Helped Beck saw wood
9  Thursday Choped wood
10  Friday Took cream choped wood
11 Saturday Choped wood and hauled it
12 Sunday Home all day
13 Monday Helped wash hauled straw
14 Tuesday Choped wood went to election
15 Wednesday Choped wood and piled it
16 Thursday Choped wood
17 Friday Took cream piled wood choped in PM
18 Saturday Choped wood
19 Sunday To PR at Dads Esta came home with us
20 Monday Helped wash cut wood
21 Tuesday Piled wood got fanning mill out and cleaned some grain
22 Wednesday Cleaned grain took Esta to meet Stage
23 Thursday Finished grain hauled a load of logs to Sherwoods sawmill
24 Friday Hauled a load of logs to mill and took cream Bun Lemons here to grind
25 Saturday Ground some grain and sawed my wood Sawed a load for Clayson
26 Sunday To Marchels in PM
27 Monday Helped wash cut posts in PM
28 Split wood
29 Split wood
30 Split wood
31 Split wood and took cream got in load of posts
The Stage ran from Park Rapids to Osage to Ponsford to Detroit (Detroit Lakes)
Esta is more than likely Esta Wilson.

Farm Diary: February 1922

February
1  Wednesday  Went to PR with wood and oats
2  Thursday Chored all day
3 Friday Took cream got in a load of wood
4  Saturday Chored in AM worked on sleigh cab to telephone meeting in PM
5  Sunday To PR to Dads (Theresa’s Parents Louis and Louisa Stuve)
6  Monday Took cream chored got load of c straw  (clover)
7  Tuesday Helped wash hauled load of  c straw
8  Wednesday Finished c straw hauled in fauder corn west of barn went in cellar
9  Thursday Finished fauder cleaned out mangers got load of wood
10 Friday Choped in AM to Osage Farm Bureau meeting took cream got kids very bad day
11 Saturday Choped in AM took Roosters to Arthurs in Pm Frances came home with us
12 Sunday To Sandersons a few minutes in PM Frances went along
13 Monday Choped
14 Tuesday To telephone meeting at Ponsford
15 Wednesday  Helped wash took kids to school husked some corn chopped  ( Marvin would have been 6 years old, Ronald 4 and Jimmy under a year old…so I wonder which other kids…the Robinson kids?)
16 Thursday Hauled and piled wood
17 Friday Sacked oats took cream chored loaded wood
18 Saturday  To PR Thresa and kids went along
19 Sunday Home all day
20 Monday Went to Sextons to saw wood did not saw helped wash choped some
21 Tuesday Helped Sexton’s saw wood
22 Wednesday Hard snow storm and wind from N.E. chored
23 Thursday Snow plowed pathes husked some fauder
24 Friday Took cream husked some fauder
25 Saturday Choped and husked fauder
26 Sunday Home all day Ronald and Marvin both sick with colds
27 Monday Helped wash husked fauder
28 Tuesday Got in a load of Oats straw loaded wood husked fauder

Farm Diary : January 1922

January
1  Sunday  Dads Ma Francis Lydia Clif Coleman and Vern S. here

2  Monday Helped wash husked corn Thresa and kids to Robinsons in PM

3  Tuesday Husked corn cleaned out mangers got in load of wood

4  Wednesday  Husked corn husked corn

5  Thursday Husked corn helped fellone? with engine in river

6  Friday Husked corn tok cream Velma and Francis came helped get engine out

7  Saturday Husked corn got load of straw loaded wood Orvil S. Percy and Ruby C here in eve

8  Sunday To Greens

9  Monday Took wood and calvs to PR Francis and Elma went along

10 Tuesday helped wash chored unloaded load of corn Henrich man here

11 Wednesday Cleaned out mangers got in load of wood to telephone meeting at Ponsford

12 Thursday Cleaned out henhouse put handle in axe and ground it

13 Friday Cut sled bunks and sway fork and took cream Thresa and kids went too got in load of straw

14 Saturday Took log to mill and had bunks sawed

15 Sunday To church at hall Rev Farber officiating

16 Monday  Helped wash and put up creamery ice

17 Tuesday To telephone meeting got in load of wood

18 Wednesday Picked over beans Thresa went to party at Robinsons  I went on to Osage

19 Thursday Worked on sleigh bunks picked over some beans cleaned mangers loaded wood socked oats in eve

20 Friday Took cream went on to PR  with wood and beans got oats ground

21 Saturday Unloaded oats cleaned out mangers got in a load of wood

22 Sunday Home chored very cold more or less 34 below in morn

23 Monday Took kids to school 43 below got load of clover straw in PM

24 Tuesday Took kids about as cold as before helped wash got some oats straw got in load of wood

25 Wednesday Worked on sleigh bunks

26 Thursday Chored in AM cut wood in AM

27 Friday Took cream and chored in AM cut wood in PM

28 Saturday Cut wood in AM took Thresa and Lula to party at Crosbys piled wood in PM

29 Sunday Home all day quarelled with my wife

30 Monday  Help wash got in load of straw

31 Tuesday Choped in AM loaded wood and socked oats in PM