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June 1922

6-1-1922 Will finish cultivating corn 1st time & Elmo go for posts & wire in PM.  Men work on fence south of barnyard.  E go CV & Will get gravel.  Elmo take B & me to CK’s to Gleaners after dinner.  I join.  A nice cool day.  NE breeze.  B & I go to Heidenriechs at eve, while Elmo look for gravel beyond Nimtz.

6-2-1922 Cool, partly cloudy & few sprinkles.  Men work on fence & cut & take up grass where fence to be set out in road.  Beulah clean my bedroom.  Annetta stop in on way home. 

6-3-1922 Beulah call on Mrs Lake, she not home.  Men cultivate in AM & Will in PM.  Elmo & I go R in PM.  Nice day.  I go to Aunt Alice’s.

6-4-1922 (Sunday) A lovely day, warm.  E take B home.  Will go to H Seely’s & then home.  E & I go to Durand, thru Pecatonica, home by Harrison.

6-5-1922 Partly cloudy.  Beulah wash.  Men cultivate.  Mrs Lake call in PM. 

6-6-1922 Warm & clear.  Beulah iron.  Men cultivate in morn & Will in PM.  Finish 2nd time over & cultivate potatoes & sweet corn.  E, B & I to R in PM, Archie Davis come home with us.  [Archie is brother to Harry, both sons of Uncle Dan who is grandfather to May Seal] Buick break at eve. 

6-7-1922 Will finish cultivating potatoes & men build fence south from barnyard.  Elmo take B & me to Starr’s, but no club meeting.  Warm.

6-8-1922Elmo & Archie go R in AM & then work fixing B[uick] till middle of PM.  Will taking down old fence, then Elmo work on fence.  Mrs McDonald call in AM.  A warm day, but nice SW breeze. 

6-9-1922 Look showery & thunder at noon.  Nice evening.  We take Beulah & Will to Town Hall & go on to Chan.[tanqua] at CV.  Men work on fence.  Windy thru day.  Beulah clean back hall.

6-10-1922 Warm &  windy.  Elmo & Archie get hay loader from CV in AM.  Will work on fence.  Elmo & Will make gate, etc in PM.  Cloudy at eve.  Telephone man fix phone.

6-11-1922 (Sunday) Elmo take B home & he & Archie go on to RockCut.  Will at Cunningham’s in AM.  After dinner, all men go CV & at eve, Elmo & I go to Chantanqua.  Real cool NW wind.  Sprinkled last night.

6-12-1922 B come in morn. Elmo mow part lawn.  Will cultivate.  Elmo go R & Archie go back with him.  Cool & clear.  2 little Lake boys here.

6-13-1922 Elmo get 2 loads of gravel, one by CV & 1 by Beaver.  Will cultivate.  Warm B wash.

6-14-1922 Elmo get 2 loads gravel from CV.  Will cultivate.  I go to club at Maggie’s.  Very warm.  B hoe in garden.  Mrs Lake call.

6-15-1922 Elmo get 2 loads gravel from CV.  Will finish cultivating 3rd time.  Potatoes blossom, bugs too.  B finish hoeing garden, get 1st peas.  Mable here all PM & her parents come for her after Will Watson’s funeral.  Find little colt in pasture.  Warm!  Rain little in morn.

6-16-1922 S wind, sun hot.  Elmo get mixer from F Reid & go to CV  R.  Will go to CV for cement & then cultivate garden potatoes.  In PM, men work at cement in barn, S end & CK help. 

6-17-1922 CK, Elmo & Will finish cement work in S end barn.  Will & Elmo clean up things after dinner & then Will hoe & rest of us go to CV & R.  Cooler.

6-18-1922 (Sunday) E take B home.  Will gone throughout day.  Peppers, Whittles & Mrs J Thomson here in PM.  Nice, cool day.  Mostly cloudy.

6-19-1922 Cloudy much of day.  Will cultivate.  Elmo go CV in AM.  Cut June grass at “20”, also most of road in PM.  Mrs Lake & mother all on errand in AM.  Geo Picken & oilman here at noon.  Some warmer. 

6-20-1922 Partly cloudy.  Cool.  Elmo help Pickens bale hay.  Will cultivate.  Beulah wash & iron.  E, B & I go to Aunt Alice’s with peas at eve.  Have more than we can use.

6-21-1922 Nice day.  Annetta & children bring up strawberries in AM.  Lakes & Mrs C in to see if we want cherries.  Mat R also here for Swenson’s address.  4½ qts cherries canned in PM, which Mrs L brought.  Men get up 3 small loads hay.  Clarence Martenson & his father call in PM.  Elmo cut some clover at eve.  Dozen eggs in waterglass this week.

6-22-1922 Look much like rain all AM.  Clearer PM.  Elmo cut clover in AM.  Will cultivate & rake rest of road hay.  In PM, men get 1 jag road hay & then plow at “20” where they had cut grass & Elmo go CV late.  B go to Mrs Lakes late PM.  At eve, Will & E to Dorn’s and then Elmo & I get 43 chicks from Howard’s.

6-23-1922 Irma & children come with 10 more chicks early.  Starr come for tamper [?] in AM.  Men work on piece for corn at “20” in AM.  J Hennig help men get up 4 loads clover in PM.  Will get Starr’s side delivery rake.  Very warm, but breeze.

6-24-1922 Very warm.  Men plant corn in patch at “20” in morn.  J Hennig come at 10AM & they get up 5 ½ loads clover.  Will go R with Nimtz’ at eve.  E, B & I go later. Rained a trifle in AM. 

6-25-1922 (Sunday) Elmo take B home.  Will gone till noon.  In PM, E & I drive thru Roscoe & Beloit.  Starr, Fr, Stan & Emily here in AM.  A nice cool day.

6-26-1922Cloudy most of day.  Cool.  Will cultivate.  Elmo take side delivery to Starr’s, then finish cut clover, also timothy on “20” & 4 rounds at 10Am.  Go R in PM.  Get last peas.  Mrs Lake call in PM. 

6-27-1922 Nice day.  B wash.  Elmo & I go to Hennigs & CV before 10AM.  Then Elmo rake & cut hay.  Will cultivate in AM.  In PM, J Hennig come & men get up small load clover & 3 loads hay from “20”.  Elmo cut at eve.

6-28-1922 Mr Hennig here in AM & to unload 1 load in PM, 4 loads.  In PM, Will cultivate & Elmo cut hay.  At eve, B, E & I go to R.  Sprinkle at noon.  Partly cloudy.  B pick about 1 ½ qts raspberries.  Letter from Mabel.

6-29-1922 J Hennig here & men get 6 loads hay.  B can 2 qts beets.  Elmo finish cutting 10A by “20”.  E, B & I go CV at eve.  Warm.  Have had lots of nasturtiums all this week.  Letter from Cousin Hattie.  Card from Kate.

6-30-1922 Raspberries & cherries for table right along.  J Hennig here in AM & men get up 3 loads hay.  In PM, E & W work on hay carrier.  Cloudy & rain a trifle at noon & gets on load. Letter to May P & June Seal.

 

May 1922

5-1-1922 Beulah back in morn & wash.  A lovely day.  Will draw manure.  Elmo cut potatoes, then go R about 10AM.  Then to CV in PM.  Make garden, E & B & Will help finish. 

5-2-1922 62o at 8AM.  Real warm, even wind.  Cloudy much of AM.  Beulah help Elmo cut potatoes.  At noon E & I go to Starrs to see about planter.  Beulah iron in PM.  Will draw manure.  I weigh 88#.  Elmo begin to plant potatoes last PM.

5-3-1922 A fine, gentle rain much of night.  Can most see things [stet].  Grow warm & sunny.  Men fix creek pasture fence.  Beulah clean her room & go to see Mrs Lake in PM.

5-4-1922 A lovely warm day.  Fixing line fence by Mat’s pasture.  In PM, Will draw manure & E & I go R & home by CV.  Beulah wash outside windows & put on screens.  Set out tomato plants & more lettuce seed.

5-5-1922 72o at 10AM.  Get out planter.  Will draw manure.  E & I go CV for Sexton groceries.  Stop at Starr’s.  Then E plant sweet corn.  Cloudy early.  Drag roads.  Mrs Lake call in PM.  Will go with Joe at eve.  B put in turnip seed.  Starr begin to plant corn.

5-6-1922  64o at 10AM.  Windy, light shower with wind last night.  Clear off middle of AM.  Will draw manure & E get stone from Hyland’s in M.  Both get stone in PM.  Beulah go with Brown’s to Gleaners at Greenleys.

5-7-1922 (Sunday) Elmo take me to CK’s & Beulah home, then we go to cemetery & Whittle’s.  Home at noon.  Will go to H Seele’s.  Fred Davis, Miss Vandakar & Miss Hunter here in PM.  A nice day.

5-8-1922  64o at 10AM.  Beulah wash.  Get very windy & get in clothes before diner as it rain some.  Clear off in PM.  Will draw manure.  Elmo get sheller from Starr’s & shell seed-corn in PM.  At eve, Elmo & Will go to Belv to Asa’s. 

5-9-1922  Most of day fine, tho shower in PM.  Very warm.  Beulah finish ironing & clean cellar.  Elmo work on corn ground.

5-10-1922 86o at 12.  A nice day.  Tho very warm.   Thunder & sprinkle here in late PM.  Elmo plant few acres corn on clover sod.  Then he & I go R about 4:20.  Shower there.  Will draw manure in AM.  Pulverize in PM.  Beulah mow part of lawn.  Plant flower seed.

5-11-1922 80o at 10AM.  B clean guest room.  A fine day tho hot.

5-12-1922  Light shower last night & cooler today.  Cloudy early, but clear in AM.  B finish mow law, Elmo work in garden at eve.  Mow some on lawn at noon.  Clean upstairs hall.  Men plant corn. 

5-13-1922  A lovely day.  Cooler.  Finish planting corn middle PM.  Then Will drag & E, B & I go R.  E finish garden cultivating.  School children go to play festival.  Starr finish planting over home.  9 little chicks, first. 

5-14-1922 (Sunday) A nice cool day.  Elmo take B home.  Will gone till chore time.  Elmo & I home all day.  Ed, Florence, Mable with Lois & Melroe Shimmin call late PM. 

5-15-1922  Partly cloudy, but nice.  Elmo take grist to CV in Ford.  Home about 9AM.  Then to R, then he & I plant in sweet corn & go to Starr’s for eggs to set.  Will drag corn.  Mr Swanson & wife here at eve.  See about fix ceiling. Beulah call on Mrs Lake.

5-16-1922 64o at 11:45AM.  Partly cloudy, rain little about noon, but Beulah get wash dry & in before.  Iron in PM.  Will plant corn. 

5-17-1922 Will mow lawn & hoe some in garden.  Drag potatoes.  Elmo take pigs to Perryville. In PM, work on fence by “20” Beulah clear out dining room, carpet & all.  Onions from garden for dinner.

5-18-1922  Men plaster ceiling in dining room.  Rainy last night & morn.  Cloudy all day.  Elmo & Will help some in house & do odd jobs.  In PM finish new fence by “20”.  Beulah carry rubbish from road bon-fire & sprout potatoes. 

5-19-1922  Rain much of AM.  Men put corn & oats in bar, two horses in creek pasture.  Cows to pasture for 1st.  After early dinner, E go R & Will fix ¼ line road fence.  Beulah put netting on windows & clean cupboards.  Sun out a little in PM. 

5-20-1922 Clear off in morn.  Beulah weed garden in PM.  Elmo to Belv for posts & wire for barnyard fence.  Men work on fence by granary in PM.  Elmo & Will go to CV at eve.  Beulah find 1 little duck, E put it back in nest, under barn at night.

5-21-1922 (Sunday) Elmo take Beulah home in morn.  Joe drive colt in in AM.  He & Walter take Will to his home & to Hospital in PM. Elmo & I go to Fitch’s & McLarty’s in PM.  Latter not home.  Nice day.  Find 4 little ducks.

5-22-1922 A Swanson put last coat on dining ceiling.  Will help him & E & I go to CV.  I to Dr West for eyes.  Beulah finish weeding garden.  In PM, Beulah clean dining & men work on barn-yard fence.  Radishes from garden. 

5-23-1922 Rain much of day, tho we get carpet beaten 1st.  Men help & we get dining room in order & sitting room cleaned & floor painted.  Now have 30 little chicks in all. 

5-24-1922 Sunshine & clouds, shower about noon.  Beulah wash & iron.  Muggy.  Elmo & I go R in AM, have dinner at Mr Molander’s with Clarence, his father & aunt.  Men then work on barn-yard fence.  Mrs Lake call in PM. 

5-25-1922 Thunder clouds & sunshine, shower at noon & last night several.  Beulah finishing fixing sitting room.  Will mow lawn, etc in AM & Elmo get lumber for fence from R.  Men work on barn-yard fence in PM.

5-26-1922 Cloudy all over & rain some in AM.  Clear off in PM.  Men work on barn fence, tear down old.  E take me to Kleckner’s in PM.  Lilah here with asparagus in morn.  Beulah clean in kitchen.

5-27-1922 A nice day.  Men fix 1-row cultivator & cultivate potatoes & sweet corn.  Will begin on field corn in PM.  E, B & I go R.  I to Fitch’s, meet Mrs Aten.

5-28-1922 (Sunday) A lovely warm day.  Will go home.  E take B home & then we go to Starr’s.  E on to CV, back to Starr’s to dinner.  Then I go with Starr’s to CV cemetery.  Russell & Fr go to CV with Elmo.  I come home with E.

5-29-1922 Elmo & I go to put plants on Papa’s lot and then to CV and on to Davis cemetery.  Dinner at Frank Davis’.  Hear Mr Price died last night.  Will cultivate.  Elmo mow part lawn at eve.  B wash & hoe garden. 

5-30-1922 B finish in garden & iron.  Men cultivate.  At eve, Elmo & I go to CK’s a few minutes.  A lovely day.  Some cloudy at even.

5-31-1922 Rain gently early morn & at times in AM.  Get screen on backdoor & Elmo finish mow lawn.  He & Will go to Mr Prices funeral in PM.  Sun out a few min in early PM.  Clear off, cool at eve. 

 

April 1992

4-1-1922 A beautiful day.  Sun on ice covered trees in morn lovely sight.  Soon melt, as does snow.  Will split wood.  Elmo go R in Ford.  Get stuck coming home.  Have sore throat.

4-2-1922 (Sunday) Rainy morn.  Elmo take Beulah home & Will to Nimtz in morn.  7 little red pigs.

4-3-1922 Beulah come in morn.  Men do odd jobs, grease harness, etc.  Elmo indoors some with cold.  Sprinkle little, cloudy.

4-4-1922 Mostly sunny, but NE windy.  Beulah wash.  Will fix berry bushes, etc. Elmo clerk at election.  Edwin Holmnes elected road commissioner. Beulah’s feet bother her towards supper time.  Elmo elected Justice of Peace!!  [May very rarely uses exclamation points]

4-5-1922 42o at 6AM.  Cloudy.  Rain soon after dinner. CK help men to take bull & 2 loads pigs to Perryville.

4-6-1922 52o at 7AM.  Cloudy & fog in AM.  Then sun out before noon.  Elmo go R in Ford, work on pulverizer when home.  Will split wood & manure garden.  Beulah go to Gleaners at F Reid’s with Mrs Brown, to CKs in AM.  17 little pigs now. 

4-7-1922 62o at 7:30AM.  68o at 10AM.  S wind.  Partly cloudy.  Shower while we at breakfast.  Elmo go to Picken’s to fix his pulverizer in morn.  Get stuck on way over.
Men begin seeding & pulverizing in PM.  Pell here in PM [he is the auto agent]. 24 little pigs.  1 mother pig died.

4-8-1922 Nice, warm day.  Beulah’s feet worse.  Men in field in AM.  60o at 10AM, 64o at 12.  Will pulverize till after 4 PM, when rain stop him.  Elmo & Beulah go R in Buick.  Beulah to Dr.

4-9-1922 (Sunday) Very windy last night & this AM.  Blow down part of barnyard fence.  Rain some in morn.  Will go church & home.  Elmo take Beulah home in morn. Roads slippery.  Starr, Maggie, Annetta, Emily & Francis B here in AM.  Elmo stop at CKs in morning.

4-10-1922 62o at 9:30AM.  Beulah come in morn.  School begin with substitute teacher.  Beulah wash & rain on clothes, tho sun out little & we get all in.  Men work on oatfield, except stop some by rain.

4-11-1922 Quite a little rain & some snow & wind.  Elmo at Hall all day. Beulah go with Starr & Maggie to vote.  They in in AM.  Will tear down pig fence.  Furnace fire.

4-12-1922 42o at 9:30AM.  Clear off last night.  Elmo take grist to R, then plow in ditches.  Will plow in pig pasture.

4-13-1922 38o at 9AM.  Cloudy in morn & partly thru day.  Men plow in AM & Will in PM.  Elmo go Starr’s in PM.  Get stuck.  Carson pull him out.  Also sow oats in field & then in hog pasture.  Mrs Lake call in PM.  31 little pigs.

4-14-1922 Will pulverize.  Elmo go R in Buick in morn & then sow rape.  Cloudy until PM & rain trifle in AM.  Elmo drag in PM.  Starr & Fr come for fanning mill.  43o at 11AM. 

4-15-1922 A nice day, but ground froze last night.  Will pulverize & then drag.  Elmo drag & then go R at noon & Buick have to be fixed, so he not home till about 4:30.

4-16-1922 (Sunday) Elmo take Beulah home.  Starr, Joe, & Fr here in AM.  Will go to Herman Seele’s thru day & to Nimtz’s at eve.  Thunder shower about 6PM & showers thru night until 1 o’clock. 

4-17-1922 52o at 8AM.  Beulah come in morn.  Men move shed & fix for pigs near new granary.  A “cloudburst” in R last night.  Cloudy & damp, rain a little during day.  Cooler in PM.

4-18-1922 34o at 7AM.  Nice day, but late PM get cloudy.  Beulah wash, get windy before 12.  Will plow for alfalfa.  Elmo do odd jobs, go R in PM. 

4-19-1922 38o at 11:30AM.  Cloudy, very strong S wind.  Snow little and sprinkle rain in MA.  A factory blown down in R.  No one hurt.  Elmo go R about 11.  In PM, men spread lime rock by school.  Children in on way home from school.

4-20-1922 30o at 7AM.  Ground froze.  Nice day, Beulah clean closets & rake most of front lawn.  Sexton man take grocery order.  Men finish alfalfa & begin on barley.  Children in with “Geographics.”  Will went to CKs at eve.

4-21-1922 36o at 9AM.  Partly cloudy.  Elmo sow barley & go R in Buick thru middle of day.  Will pulverize.  Go R at eve with Nimtz to see his brother at Hospital.  Beulah rake yard.  Bon-fire. 

4-22-1922 48o at 9:30 AM.  Clear & still.  Will finish dragging & draw manure.  Elmo take barley to R. 

4-23-1922 (Sunday) Nice day. Will here.  Elmo take B home.  Mr & Mrs King and Belle & Fred Whittle here.  Also Walter & Russell.

4-24-1922 60o at noon.  Beulah come & wash.  S wind, partly cloudy. Men pulverize & sow oats again in ditch washed thru oats.  Draw manure on garden & potato ground.  Russell in.  Elmo go CV in PM.

4-25-1922 Cloudy most of day.  Mistly morn.  Elmo go Belv in AM.  Will draw manure.  In PM, men build temporary pig fence. Starr in late PM. 

4-26-1922 Plow garden, drag & plant ½ bu early potatoes & some peas.  In PM, will draw manure & rest of us go R.  Get bushes from Aunt Alice’s.  Also pieplant.  Cold NE wind. 

4-27-1922 Elmo set out bushes & Beulah stake them.  Elmo plow potato ground.  Cold, so he use walking plow.  Freeze ground last night.

4-28-1922 Elmo work on potato ground.  Will draw manure.  Monte lie down & greatly excite school children. [Monte is bull, I think] Emily & boys bring up plants from Aunt Alice’s.  Also onions.

4-29-1922 Will draw manure.  Elmo drag ground for potatoes near alfalfa by school.  In PM he & I go R.  I to Mrs Pepper’s, also call to hear how Mr Pice is, slowly failing.  Elmo, Beulah & I go to Brown’s at eve.  Will go R, E & B put out plants. 

4-30-1922 (Sunday) Nice day. Elmo take Beulah home & Will to Spearings in morn.  In PM, go to Mr Slater’s funeral. Will back at eve.  Quite a number of autos go thru mudhole.

 

March 1922

3-1-1922 16o above at 6:30AM.  30o above at noon.  Snow lightly & thunder in PM.  Miss Hounsell here in PM, also Starr, Walter & Russell. Watsons here at eve.

3-2-1922 16o at 8AM.  Cloudy.  Elmo split wood in AM & go R in PM.  Take Beulah as far as Barkley’s to Gleaners.  She join.  Miss Hounsell call [she must be the teacher.]

3-3-1922 Elmo split wood.  Beulah feel grippy.  Miss Hounsell call.  Starr drive in

3-4-1922 A lovely day.  I go to B Whittles in AM while Elmo downtown & we have lunch there.  Then Joe, Russell, Walter & Emily drive in in PM & then Elmo split wood.  Beulah feeling better.

3-5-1922 (Sunday) Elmo take Beulah home in morn.  We go to Howard F’s for dinner.  Miss Hounsell here about 5 when we return.  A lovely day.  Warm, tho windy.  Russell takes scarlet fever today.

3-6-1922 Rain hard, thunder during early AM.  Beulah sick, so Florence H come in morn.  Elmo work on income tax in AM.  Sun come out before noon & wind blow hard.  Turn from S to W & get cooler.  38o at 4:30PM.  Elmo go to Belv in Fore in PM.

3-7-1922 Florence wash. Elmo take clover seed to CK & go R for limestone in PM.  Cloudy, windy, snow a little.  Sun out in PM, so we put few clothes out.

3-8-1922 Chas H bring Beulah in AM & get Florence [H].  Elmo take pigs to Perryville & go R in Ford in PM.  Saw 3 bluebirds & meadowlark. Starr, Emily, & Annetta call in PM.

3-9-1922 A lovely spring-like day.  Elmo get load of crushed limestone.  Miss Hounsell call in PM.

3-10-1922 32o at 8AM.  Cloudy.  Rain a little after dark.  Elmo get load of limestone.  Starr, boys & Emily bring fanning mill home.

3-11-1922 30o at 6:30PM.  All go R in Ford in AM.  Some muddy.  Rain little last night, turn cool & snow little.  Elmo take rest of hay B to R in PM & get limestone.  Miss Hounsell call. 

3-12-1922 (Sunday) 32o above at 6AM. A lovely day. Elmo take Buelah home.

3-13-1922 Cloudy AM.  Sunny PM. Breezy.  Elmo unload Sat load of limestone & go R in Ford with potatoes in PM.  Get stuck between creek & corner coming home.  Bonnie pull out.  At eve she pull out H Lake in same place.  Miss Hounsell call.  Annetta go back to see school Dr.  Beulah wash.

3-14-1922 48o at 10AM.  Cloudy.  Edwin M borrow fanning mill.  Elmo go R for limestone.  Sun out a few min in PM.  Elmo pull gravel truck out of mud.  Annetta go back to H.S.

3-15-1922 34o above at 7AM.  A lovely day. Elmo go to CV & Asa Hammond’s farm in buggy.

3-16-1922 Elmo go to Freeport sale.  I to Aunt Alice’s.  Beulah home to help her folks wash.  We get stuck coming home by CKs.  H Lake & Cunningham help us out.

3-17-1922 34o above at 10AM.  Windy & cloudy.  Elmo go to H. Davis’s farm sale. Beulah call on Mrs H Lake, but she not home.  Mr L come later as he need gas to get home with.  Rain after dark.  Breezing, too.

3-18-1922 32o at 7AM.  Rain some at times, windy.  Elmo go with truck & they go to Lewis farm for “calves”.  Beulah call twice on Mrs Lake, find her home last time.

3-19-1922 (Sunday) Rain hard at times in AM.  Ice on trees.  Roads deep mud.  Elmo take Beulah home with team.  Clear in PM & colder.

3-20-1922 Ground frozen.  Windy, cloudy.  32o at 6AM.  Elmo go R in Ford.  Starr here late PM.  Beulah come in morn.

3-21-1922 26o at 7AM.  Clear, windy.  Thaw thru day.  Beulah wash. Elmo go R in Ford to look for man.  We all go to Mat Ralston’s at eve.

3-22-1922 Elmo take grist to CV in PM & go to Anderson sale there.  Mrs Lake & Beulah walk to F Reid’s & she not home.  Then Mrs L stay here.  Miss Hounsell call.  CKs out of quarantine.

3-23-1922 56o at noon.  Fine day.  Elmo saw wood at Franseen’s in AM. 

3-24-1922 38o at 1:30PM.  Cloudy, chilly.  Elmo go R in Ford.  Get stuck coming home between school & our corner. 

3-25-1922 Rain, especially in PM after Elmo go to R in Ford.  He came home by CK’s & get stuck by our corner.

3-26-1922 (Sunday) Starr & 3 children here in AM.  Elmo take Beulah by team in morn.  In PM, walk to McFarland’s corner & go with Mat Ralston’s to Mr Dolittle’s funeral.  Will Brockman come in PM.  Cleared off last night & a nice day, tho very muddy. Starr’s out of quarantine.

3-27-1922 Cloudy, sun out a trifle about noon.  Men open silo, haul gravel to mudholes in ¼ line road.  Put corn & oats in barn, etc.  Beulah come in morn, tho eyes bad. 

3-28-1922 46o at 10:30AM.  Bark & rainy AM.  Sun shines a few min at noon.  Cloudy all PM.  Men clean oats & barley.  Joe & Emily in.  Russell, Stanley & Franklin up but not in house in PM. 

3-29-1922 34o at 10AM.  Elmo take pigs to R for CK.  Will split wood & fix pig pens.  Cloudy most of day & chilly.  E wind, grew cooler late in day.

3-30-1922 Rain & sleet last night & rain this morn.  32o at 8AM.  Men work on pigpens.  Rain much of day. 

3-31-1922 Froze ice on trees last night.  Snow enough today to cover ground.  Men clean auto house & do odd jobs.

 

February 1922

2-1-1922 Rain lst night & today enough to make it muddy.  Windy from S.  Elmo go R & then to Shaw sale.  Franseen here.

2-2-1922 13o above at 6:30AM.  Strong W wind, a trifle of snow last night.  That & dust blow all day.  Sun out some.  Elmo split little wood, fix sewing machine, etc.

2-3-1922 12o above at 6:30AM.  Starr & Emily up with beef.  Elmo get up two loads of wood.  Bed cattle.

2-4-1922 A nice day.  Elmo get up 2 loads wood in AM.  Walter here for dinner.  In PM, we all go R.  I to see Florence, she is sick in bed.

2-5-1922 (Sunday) Lloyd K come for Beulah.  Starr & Franklin in a little while afternoon.  Snowed last night & early morn till everything covered with blanket of snow.  Sun thaw quite a bit before night.

2-6-1922 22o above at 10AM.  18o above at 5PM.  W wind.  Elmo take hay to R. F Davis bring back saw.   

2-7-1922 10o above at 7AM.  Nice day.  Elmo go with grist.  Beulah at Kleckner’s on errand.

2-8-1922 Warmer, S wind.  Nice.  Franseen here in AM.  Then Elmo go to CV in Ford.  In PM go to Gus Nimtz sale. 

2-9-1922 Nice day, warm.  Elmo & Beulah go R.  Take Florence Heidenriech [this is the Florence/sister of Beulah’s that was at CK’s a bit back].  Mrs Brown & Miss Ralston call in PM. 

2-10-1922 Very warm & nice.  Roads muddy.  Elmo go R in PM.  We all go to Nimtz’ party at eve.

2-11-1922 18o above at 6:30AM.  Turn cold last night & freeze roads before we come home, 1 AM.  Elmo get up 3 loads wood.  Beulah go to Brown’s to Theresa L shower.  Annetta here & go with her & Florence H.

2-12-1922 (Sunday) 24o above at 7AM.  Rain a little early, freeze on.  Sun out later, some.  Also little snow.  Elmo take Beulah home in AM. 

2-13-1922 2o below. Clear.  Beulah come in morn.  Elmo do odd jobs in AM, go to Mr Hunter’s funeral at Memorial hall in PM.

2-14-1922 7o above at 7AM.  Nice still day.  Beulah wash & dry clothes outdoors.  Bake cake & have bon-fire.  Elmo get up 1 load wood & go for coal to R. 

2-15-1922 10o above at 6:30AM.  12o above at 10:30AM.  NW wind, dust blow.  Elmo get up 2 loads wood and go to Steele sale in PM.  Buick freeze up coming home, very cold.

2-16-1922 2o below at 6:30AM, but still.  Elmo get up 2 loads wood in AM & drop log on foot bruising toe badly.  Go R in PM.  Mat & Mary J & Pickens here at eve.

2-17-1922 28o above at 10:30AM.  S wind, dust blow.  Cloudy.  37o above at eve.  Pell, auto agent here in PM.  Elmo do odd jobs & rest foot a good deal.

2-18-1922 A fine day.  Elmo go R in PM.  Hear of Fitch’s accident.

2-19-1922 (Sunday) Cloudy till middle PM, then clear.  Thunder & rain little early AM.  W wind.  Kleckners take girls home in morn.  Elmo & I to P. Ralston’s dinner, Pratts & Prices there. 

2-20-1922 Nice day, but colder.  Beulah wash.  Clothes freeze.  Elmo get up last load wood & cut little in orchard.  Go to see Nimtz & men about sawing.

2-21-1922 34o at 2PM.  E wind, cloudy & mist in AM.  Rain in PM.  Thunder.  Elmo unload rest of coal & Beulah sweep cellar after ironing.  Theresa Lake married.

2-22-1922 Rain some last night & more today, AM heavy thunder showers, sun out at noon & see a robin.  Elmo go R in Ford in PM & have hard time getting home after off of gravel.  Frost coming out.  Have to rescue people in SE Rockford from flooded homes.

2-23-1922 32o at 7AM.  W wind, dashes of rain early & then snow squalls.  Elmo drag S road & then walk to sale on P Ralston’s place.

2-24-1922 Clear & colder, ground frozen but sun thaw top.  Starr & Walter in in PM.  Elmo go to J Lake’s sale in PM.  Then to Starr’s for meat.  We all go to P. Ralston’s at eve.  Lilah K have scarlet fever.

2-25-1922 Snow trifle & partly cloudy.  Frozen up.  We saw wood & Elmo go R when we done.  Joe, Russell, & Stanley here in PM.   Lakes move in “over home.”  Franklin have Scarlet fever.

2-26-1922 (Sunday) Nice day.  Elmo take Beulah home in morning & we go to Fitch’s to dinner.  Roads thawed quite a little in PM.  Starr & Russell up at eve.

2-27-1922 Nice day.  Elmo go R.  Miss Hounsell here in PM.

2-28-1922 2o above at 6:30AM.  Stanley has scarlet fever.  We call at J Lake’s.  Beulah wash.  Nice day.  Joe & Walter up for package.