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