Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s this afternoon. Papa and Henry are going to James Cody’s sale and Rosalia is going to stay by Leona. Bertille stayed at home. Today is Irv Rapp’s birthday. There is to be a party, but we were not invited. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary are going down to Red Bud this afternoon. It is also Christ. Buehler’s birthday. Lester Gregson moved on the Thompson place last Wednesday. He intends to haul milk. He wants to buy Griffin’s route, the one Elmer Lother drives. If he got the route he was to start today. Bertille took 3 dozen eggs to Eichenseers this afternoon and got .21¢ a dozen. Mamie & Angela Eichenseer are coming down tonite to keep Bertille company. We found 20 eggs.
Thursday, February 27, 1930
Bertille was at church this morning. There is to be quilting at Mrs. Eckert’s this afternoon. Mr. Mehrman got stuck in George Wagner’s road and he had to get Vic Eichenseer to pull him out with their truck. He had to serve as jury man in Belleville. Joe Mueth in the prairie have a little son, they got him christened yesterday. I don’t know what they named it. Bertille took 3 dozen eggs to Eichenseer’s & got .21¢ a dozen. Henry came up this evening and brought his calfs up. He came down here a little while. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came down here a little while before they went to Euchre. Aunt Mary, Uncle Fred, Papa, Rosalia, & Bertille went to the Euchre and Old Time Dance in Kammler’s hall tonight. The Herzog’s boy and girl played with both accordions. Uncle Fred got a broom for a prize & Aunt Mary got a dish pan. None of us got anything. Bertille had 5 punches, Papa 4, and Rosalia 3. The sixes took all the prizes. They also had a slipper dance. The ladies had to take their shoe off and throw them in a box and the boys had slips. They had to pick one shoe and find the partner to that, then dance with that girl. They had a square, broom, polka, barn dance and also some of the latest steps and tunes. Uncle Fred played some of the old timers (tunes). Found 23 eggs.
Wednesday, February 26, 1930
Bertille took 4 dozen eggs to Eichenseers & got .22¢ a dozen. Ed Meng was here and looked at our building. We found 19 eggs today.
Tuesday, February 25, 1930
We found 23 eggs today. The euchre which was to be given by the Y.P.L. tonight was postponed on account of bad weather until further notice. It rained all day, til about 4:30 then the sun came out. Vic Eichenseer was here & got his tools.
Monday, February 24, 1930
We found 24 eggs today. Mr. Wilson was here this afternoon trying to sell us the dixie feeds. Edward Neff was here this evening & played pinochle with us. Papa & Bertille got one out of six games. Bertille took 3 dozen eggs to Eichenseers this morning, got .23¢ a dozen. We started building our brooder house today. Bertille wrote a letter to the Eureka Hatchery to find out the price of W. Leghorns. Mrs. Adam Braun wanted to buy some. Mr. Adam Vogl’s daughter was buried today. She died from diphtheria and flu.
Sunday, February 23, 1930
Papa went to first mass. Rosalia and Bertille went to late mass. In the afternoon we drove up to Eichenseer’s and got gas and air and took Mamie along, we went to Smithton, Douglas, Belleville, Millstadt, Darmstadt, Columbia, Waterloo, Red Bud & then back to Hecker. Oh! Wasn’t that some drive. I say it was. It took 2 hours. We found 20 eggs today.
Saturday, February 22, 1930
We found 19 eggs today. We put our little baby chicks out in the chicken house. We have 193 left from 250. Victor Eichenseer was here this morning and put the brooder in the chicken house. It is raining all day. Today is Frieda Buchler and Martha Boll’s birthdays. Rosalia took 3 dozen eggs to Eichenseer’s this morning. She got .23¢ a dozen.
Thursday, February 20, 1930
We got our telephone connected today. Papa, Steve Rheinecker, Elmer Kummer, & Victor Eichenseer set up the pole, & connected the wire. There was a fire out at Uncle Adam’s today. Emil was burning hedge and it started to run away. He call the neighbors for help, but they didn’t answer. So Papa & Odilla Eichenseer & Kenneth Kemp, Clem Parker, Lester Gregson went out, but the wind went down, so it didn’t take long they had it out. Rosalia took 4 dozen eggs to Eichenseer’s this morning, she got .24¢. We found 23 eggs today.
Monday, February 17, 1930
Today we have church all day. We all went up to church this morning, our hour is between 11:30 & 12 o’clock. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary were up this morning. Henry and family were for dinner today. After they went home, Rosalia & Bertille went up to church. We took 4 doz. eggs to Eichenseer’s, got .30¢ a dozen. Then we went up to Braun’s, had a little argument with him. We found 19 eggs today. Papa, Rosalia, & Bertille went up to church this evening.
Sunday, February 16, 1930
Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary were here for dinner. Rosalia & Bertille were invited to Angela Eichenseer’s, she had a birthday celebration. Those present were: Miss Lena Meng & Clifford Sthalebher, Mrs. Joe Wachtel, Miss Mamie Eichenseer, Miss Elica(?) Pour, & Rosalia & Bertille & Angela. The evening was spent in playing euchre and pinochle, refreshments were served at due time, popcorn and cake. August Meuth’s have a little girl. They named it Bertilla. We all went up to church this afternoon to confession. Tomorrow is thirteen hour devotion. We found 13 eggs.
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