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.
Tuesday, August 25, 1931
Our company had breakfast , & stay a little while then left for Ben Neff’s. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where also over here. Henry was here for lunch this morning. He was also here for dinner, lunch supper. Ed Pautler the oil man was here too, he brought Henry some oil up here. I seen in the paper that Joe Mueth & that married Ben Neff’s daughter Minnie have a little baby girl born last Friday, it is the first born. Frances Eichenseer’s wife of Belleville is under going medical attention at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Clarence Wiegand’s wife of near Smithon [sic] is also at the hospital, they also have a little baby girl, first child. George Neff is sick with the dropsy, has changed doctors, 3 one already, he is by Osies now. The way they say everything was free last night, played euchre free, ice cream & soda, & dancing all free. We went down to the cemetery this evening, it just looks awful there, they started yesterday, today they never plowed they just took the tombstones & rocks & haul them out, some of them back of the house. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary was there too, we took the rose bushes what was left on the grave along home, but only 2 we got.
Monday, August 24, 1931
Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s, Papa wants to bring the team up. Papa was at Red Bud Church yesterday morning. This morning about 10 o clock Anton Buehler & family from DeKalb Ill where here, then they went over by Uncle Freds, had dinner, Henry had dinner there too, he was plowing up here, this afternoon the women folks, went to see George Neff & Jake & Mr. Buehler went to see Mr. Hill. Then we all had supper at Aunt Mary’s, then they went to Levi Gregson’s, then came back here again for all night. Josephine, Rosalia & Bertille went up in the car & watched how many people went to the euchre. Uncle Fred & Papa went to the cemetery to see it, it looks awful, everything plowed to pieces, right in the front, took the copings of off the graves, some of them plowed the rose bushes all out. It rained so heavy, there where a few people around there but not so many. Leona & the kids, came up & got Henry with the machine this evening. Roy & Mirmie Staufenbiel where also here to see Uncle Fred.
Saturday, August 22, 1931
Today is Paderborn, & Mondaville pinics [sic]. Osie Neff was here this morn. to see Papa. This afternoon we took some wheat along to Waterloo got 38¢ bu. then went to Washausen sale 3 miles west from there. It was nothing much, to sell so we left again. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where up agin [sic] till over Sun. We rung our pigs today. We went out & cleaned the cemetery.
Friday, August 21, 1931
Today is nice once for a change. Leona & the kids, came up to get greengages, she cut our hair. Hy. Armstutz was here awhile. Anton Buehler from DeKalb & also his family where here, he just stopped in to say Hello! they are coming back again to make a longer stay. Osie Neff was here, he wants to buy land. There was a man in town today begging for money, he lost both of his legs in the coal mine, he is walking round on clutches. Papa went out to the farm this afternoon. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary brought some more greengages along up for Henry’s & Kammler’s this afternoon.
Friday, July 31, 1931
Today is baking day. This afternoon we all went to Waterloo & from there out to Dillerberg’s sale on the Dr. Vogel place. Nick Welzbacher is coming there now. Dr. & Dillenberg where the only biters there, they got everything between themselves. We had supper at Aunt Mary’s they where up here all afternoon so they had supper ready when we came home. Hy. Armstutz gave them a call too. We heard George Neff almost smothered, he is very bad sick. John Euler from Floraville shot himself last night, he will be buried Mon. in St. Augustine’s cemetery of Hecker.
Tuesday, July 28, 1931
Today we washed, ironed, patched, baked bread. Papa & Rosalia aren’t feeling well yet. I seen in the paper that the Police are searching for Ed. Neff of Belleville for hitting his father Conrad while eating supper. Mrs. Rennecker is out helping Wm. Gregson’s threshed. We cut the lawn this evening.
Wednesday, July 22, 1931
Papa & Rosalia duged [sic] potatoes this morning. Bertille baked bread & coffeecake. This afternoon the threshing machines where all going to start again, but around 1 o clock we had a shower rain, so that put them back another day, I guess. Just before noon today, there was a car passed here, with 4 ladies dressed as gypsies. Clifford told us they took $15.00 from George Neff, the two of them where in Eichenseer’s store. Clifford brought our mail along too. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary was here again this evening, he went to Red Bud. It rained mostly all night.
Thursday, May 28, 1931
This morning we finished our truck patch for this week, then Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came & then we went to Belleville all day. We ordered our Belleville Paper, that the lady took us through the printing shop. We all got weighed, Aunt Mary 168 lbs., Uncle Fred 152, Papa 165, Rosalia, 149, Bertille 112. Today is Frances Kern’s birthday. Joseph Huber Jr. has purchased a Chrysler. Last Thurs. night Edwin Wachtel gave a dance at the brick House. Rev. Fr. Odillo Eichenseer off Chicago spent a day last Sat. with Anton Eichenseer, & Sun. at Ruma he celebrated his 25th yr. priest, the relation where all present, & they had served dinner in the Hall for 200 people. Mrs. Charles Rausch of Belleville sold her farm where Ed. Schinder lives on, a lake will be made on the farm. Red Bud ball team played with Hecker on there grounds here, & defeated them by a score of 2 to 1. Smithton Jr. team played Hecker Jr. team here Sun. the score was 10 to 9 in favor of Smithton. Frances Schilling was home last Sun. visiting parents. George Neff is on the sick list, he is my Osie’s [? last word unclear]. Ed. Parker’s barn is nearly finished now, it costs between $3 & $4,000. John Roth sold some of his land to George Roth is son.
Tuesday, May 12, 1931
They gave beautiful prizes, Bessie Parker got the silk pillow with a slip in candy, Clarance [Clarence] Wittenauer got a bottle perfume, & many others got prizes at the show. We went tonight again they raffled 2 blankets, Levi Gregson, & Hilda Neff were the winners. They also sold candy, & Erma Hepp got the silk spread, Nick Helfrich, the silk hose, & many others, Rosalia got a teaspoon. They sure do draw the crowd, there play tonight was Kitty’s Statue. They sold out on the candy, & there was a blanket left that no one called for, so he raffled that one & Eugene Bruns winner. Rosalia & Bertille went to church this morning. We washed, ironed, patched, baked bread today. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary come this afternoon to work at there place, they where here for lunch & supper, then they went us, to the show. We were by Mrs. Rennecker & got some flowers.
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