Henry & family where here for dinner. We & Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary went up to Smithton to the Turner pinic [sic], but there wasn’t much of a crowd there. We met Jim Beese, & wife, & Liddie, & a few other we know. There was people here this morning looking for shoats. Papa went over to Freeburg church this morning.
Friday, July 10, 1931
Henry is putting up hay today, Papa, Rosalia went out for lunch, dinner, lunch. I baked bread, coffee cake, doughnuts, cake, today. I seen in the paper that Mrs. V. Heck, & Mrs. Zeno Mendel gave Miss Hilda Bertram a surprize [sic] Miscellanous [sic] shower, on her approaching marriage next Tues. July 14 to Slyvester [sic – Sylvester] Miller, at the Miller residents. Mr. & Mrs. Archie Whiel left for a 10 day trip to Chicago & Minnesota. Hy. Minneman of Fults Ill, died & was buried last Wed. afternoon, he is a brother to Chas. & Ed. of here. Mrs. Ed. Shmidt of Waterloo, Jake & Dan’s mother died Thurs & will be buried Sat. morn.
Thursday, July 9, 1931
It is raining this morning. We got our beets in from the garden here & the truck patch, we got 5 quts & 1/2. Mrs. Katie Klotz was here this morning to see if she could get a can of cistern water at Uncle Fred’s place, because they are getting the thrashers this evening, & they wanted the water to wash the dishes. Papa went up to Eichenseers, & went along out with Vic & Odillo, to fix Henry pump, they put 5 ft. pipings on it, there is 30 ft. of water in it yet. Papa called up for Rosalia to come out & bring some wrenches along from the store. Mrs. Klotz was telling me about a fire at Albert Gregson’s on Tues. night, the road men had a fire burning the grass on piles, & they left without putting the fire out, & during the night the fire creeped & burned all the way through the woods, nearly too the house, they just got it out in time. George Lorberg was called with a tank of water on his truck & also Joe Shilling’s, Louis Armstutz’s & a fire apartment, I don’t know if it was Smithon’s [sic] or Red Buds, fire out later, it happened around 12 o’clock in the night that is when George Lorberg left. This evening we went out & lawend [sic] at the cemetery, & looked at Frank’s pigs, sheep. Eggs are 12¢ now.
Monday, July 6, 1931
Today is wash, iron, patching day. It is awful warm again this afternoon. About 4 o’clock this afternoon there was an awful smoke east from here, it was Ruhils place, the smoke-house & pasture, Mrs. Ruhl had fire out side & it got away & burned the smoke-house nearly all down, that is the place from Joe Gregson’s South. As far as we know the house wasn’t damaged.
Sunday, July 5, 1931
We had a nice shower rain last night, & this morning it is cool. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary bought some beef & made soup, then they brought it here, & Henry & family where all here for dinner. Roy Stauenbiel came to see if Aunt Mary could help them cook tomorrow, because it is thrashing day. She is. We where all over at Aunt Mary’s for lunch this afternoon, they bought 25¢ ice cream & we helped to eat it. Hecker ball team first & played Smithton Pontiac’s, in favor of Smithton.
Saturday, July 4, 1931
Today the machines go, there is Homecoming at New Athens, & Circus at Belleville. Papa went down to see Ed. Pabst’s, this morning to see the crops there. He bought 12 tiling from the town for 60¢. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where up this afternoon, we all had lunch there & this evening we sat on there porch, watching fireworks at New Athen’s & at George Wagner’s. We had music & singing. Joe Schilling finished threshing today & pulled out in the prariere [sic-prairie] are up by Paderborn. He threshed 2214 bus, with oats & wheat.
Friday, July 3, 1931
There sure was a pretty rainbow in the west this morning. Wilma Birkner was here & brought a pattern. We had a nice shower rain this afternoon. I seen in the paper Red Finnerty died, he was the mail carrier at Burksville. It was a pretty lucky day last Sun, for the Hecker Baseball Teams, Athen’s & the fist [sic] team played 3 to 4 in favor or Hecker, the second team played Round Prarie [sic], 3 to 1 in favor of Hecker. There where 2 young chickens killed on the hard road today.
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