Henry was here for lunch, dinner & lunch, supper, he finished cutting wheat up here & took the binder along. Leona & the kids brought him up & they went home again this morn, she canned 31 qt. berries. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came up awhile this evening. Fr. Grootens has a dance in the hall tonight. Papa built a little hog house, & they moved it with the horses, back to the straw shed. eggs are 9¢ today.
Monday, Oct. 5, 1931
It rained this morn. We washed, ironed. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where here this afternoon started on Bertille’s dress. The egg man was late this evening, pays 23 today. We made some green tomatoes, cut them up for pickley Lily, cooked tomatoes for catsup. Made pear preserves today.
Friday, Sept. 25, 1931
We canned 7 qts. tomatoes & cooked catsup. Papa hauled 2 loads of coal, this afternoon it rained. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where up. There where people around selling tomatoes $1. bu. Henry & family where up awhile this eve. from here they went to Uncle Fred’s. Papa got a letter an invitiation, [sic] we all & Aunt Mary should come up & see Fr. Grooten’s tonight, but we won’t go. We gave Leona a basket ful to take along, the yellow ones, she is going to cook catsup from them.
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1931
We canned 3½ qts. tomatoes. Osie Neff came & him & papa went to Waterloo & got the deed written out by Archie Wiehl for $2.00, 4 acres of land for $225.00. Now Osie is going to build up a nice house, he won’t be far from the roadside. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came up this afternoon, he cut his corn. Rosalia & Bertille went out to Henry’s, helped her with the plums, Rosalia got her hair cut. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came back again this evening for the euchre, we all went but papa, he didn’t, he went as far as the store. Uncle Fred was the only one that got a prize, he had 8 points & got a sack of flour. Aunt Mary had 7, but didn’t get any. Rosalia had 5, Bertille had 4. When we came home it started lightining [sic] & thundering & we had a little shower.
Monday, Sept. 21, 1931
We washed, ironed, patched, canned 6 qts. tomatoes & cooked some for catsup. Osie Neff was here this morning, he wants to buy some land from Papa now about 4 acres, he has to move soon. Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s to sack up a load of wheat & take it to Waterloo. Osie Neff was here again this evening, he wants to make the deed tomorrow. Papa was over at Wagner’s & helped George pulled a tree in behind his car with our chain.
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1931
Aunt Mary gave us some pickles, & we canned 2 qts. Rosalia & Bertille went out to Henry’s to help can peaches, 9 qts. & 4 qts. beans, 6 pints pickles, she canned 16 qts tomatoes, got them from Aunt Lizzie for nothing, all real big tomatoes. We had dinner there. Papa was hauling wood. Osie Neff was here & Clifford Stalbber was here & got 2½ doz. eggs @ 18¢. There a lot of people working at the cemetery trying to help get it leveled off before tomorrow. Today is Creses birthday 19 yrs. old.
Monday, August 31, 1931
We canned saurkraut, [sic] 8 qts from 2 gallons. We washed this morning, started about 10 o clock, because it looked so like rain. This afternoon we went out to Aunt Mary’s helped with the peaches. We had lunch & supper there. Henry & Leona came there too & left the kids there, while they went to Belleville. She took a basket of peaches along from her, they also got a bu. from Ralph Collier’s at Waterloo, for 50¢. This evening Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary stopped here, they went down to see Adam Eckert he is in bed, with Rhuematism [sic] since Sat a week, it started, he had to crawl in the house, it is so in his legs. It was in the paper that Anton Buehler left Mon. for Mascoutah, where he will be the guest of Chas. Mueth’s family.
Tuesday, August 18, 1931
Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where up this afternoon & Leona & the kids where also here, she came up to get a bu. of peaches from Dr. Eckert for 60¢ bu. nice, she & Aunt Mary & Rosalia went over to George Wagner’s & looked at them first, she got hers there too. Bill Lehr was here, he is going all over town taking orders. Aunt Mary helped to peel the rest of ours & we got 6 more cans, we got 40 cans about 20 to a bu. we would have about 42 cans with those what we ate. Al Rittmeyer was here trying to sell brushes & the like. We sure had lot of rain & nice.
Monday, August 17, 1931
Papa & Rosalia went after the peaches this morn, they got 2 bus. from Gross Orchard for 65¢ a bus. there where so many trucks there loading. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came up to help to peel them, we caned [sic] 32 qts. so far, the green ones we layed back, they where here for lunch & supper, we also canned 1 qt. pickles, 2 tomatoe, 1 greengage. This evening there was a big truck around with peaches from Ava, Ill. they sold quite a few in town here, the Eichenseer’s got 8 bus. they where also 65¢ bu. Aunt Mary & Bertille where at George Wagner’s this evening. Henry & family where all here, he went to Eckert’s, & Kessler’s, looking for peaches. Eggs 15¢ & wheat 42 at Red Bud today.
Monday, August 3, 1931
We all drove to Belleville this morning & sold some sp. chickens for 20¢ & eggs for 20¢. Adam Eckert’s are moving out today. Yesterday was Smithton Homecoming & Singer fest in Millstadt but I guess the rain spoiled it all. Ed Pabst was here & brought our oats up, 43 bus. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary was here for supper this evening, they came from Eckert up here. We had spring chicken supper. We got 1 can of pickles now.
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