Henry is plowing. Seen in the Waterloo paper, Slyvester Miller & wife are going to move to St. Louis, gave up his job at the condensery. Rob. Schaefer has his place. Henry had dinner here, finished plowing & went home. Joe McCarthy bought himself a new ford U.S. truck to haul milk, Martin May & Hoffmann new chev’s. Ben Schilling has a new chev. Mr. & Mrs. Ivo Rapp have there wedding celebration & dinner & supper at Blackburn’s; Fr. Aydt had dinner there too.
Thursday, June 14, 1934
Papa & Bertille went out to Henry’s, Nobbe came out & they made a trade, the old binder & the mare, & $150 cash, getting the old binder, tonite, bring the new one 9, o’clock tomorrow, Christ Buehler & kids are here, going to cut wheat, made ½ around, broke double tree; they had dinner here; We all went out shocked our wheat. Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s, he helped shock there awhile. We went out to Uncle Freds this evening, took his plow out. Mrs. Bill Fritsche, stopped the saloon keepers from giving Bill, whiskey. that is the third time now. Ed Schilling wedding anniversary 1 yr.
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1932
Miss Bell is 63 yrs. old today. Jung the egg man was here & got 39 doz. eggs at 15¢. Papa cut corn on Uncle Fred’s place, & then he got some whey, 2 barrels for Henry. We are cooking catsup, canning some 4 qts, & 7 qts & 4 pints saurkraut [sic]. We have the cans all filled now. Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s to cut corn there. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where up again this afternoon. Shcinder is plowing here. Jung was here & cashed his check.
Thursday, Sept. 3, 1931
Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came up this morn. & had dinner with us. This afternoon Henry & family came up, he finished plowing & took the team home. We all went to the funeral of Mrs. Rittmeyer except papa, she had a pink coffin, & dress, gold ring on & a diamond hair pin, she looked good. Steve Rennecker was over a while. Odillo Eichenseer came, he wanted to see our paper. Mrs. Eichenseer came too so he had to take her to Red Bud to the doctor. This morning Fr. Grooten’s had Mrs. Pete Watchel, Mrs. Henry Kern, Henry Rausch & Odilo Eichenseer, in Waterloo in front of Bollinger’s in the room, Pete Watchel & Rausch [crossed out by Bertille] paid the expense, as far as we know.
Friday, August 28, 1931
Henry finished plowing with the tractor this afternoon up here, he had lunch then left for home & left the team & wagon here. Rosalia dyed her dress wine colored & washed the green one. Adolph Rittmeyer’s wife is awful bad sick, she has rhemutaism [sic] of the heart & diabetes, they also have a nurse there. Mrs. Ben Rausch is on the sick list. Hecker’s ball players had a lucky day last Sun, the first team played at New Athens scored 6 to 3. The Juniors played Smithon [sic] here & scored 10 to 9, Hecker winning both games. William Birkner is erecting a furnace in his dwelling. This week is State Fair at Springfield, quite a few from here attended. The Hecker Public School will open on Sept 1, Greg McCarthy teacher. The Misses Frances, Martha Schilling returned home Aug. 20 after an extended tour through the northwestern states. John Eschman of Waterloo passed away suddenly Wed morning Aug. 26 at 1 o’clock.
Wednesday, August 12, 1931
Papa is plowing again today. Ed Meng was over a little while. There was a man around selling moth & insect killing, it is something like moth balls, we bought a card for 25¢. Valentine Fritche of East St. Louis who was in a accident on July 30 on Smithon [sic] & Hecker road died and will be buried Thurs. afternoon at 3 o clock to the Mt. Hope Cemetery. He is 70 yrs. old & had 5 ribs bones broken & hip bone. Hy. Armstutz was here this eve, a little while. Ed Meng & Clifford was here, they brought a gray horse over & took the boy home, they said Nick Schefer bought it & they where going to take it out there. Today is Weyhaupt sale by Smithon [sic].
Tuesday, August 11, 1931
Today we washed, ironed, patched. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where up all day, working in there garden & pulling weeds. It is awful cool today, cold wind. Papa went over to Mengs this afternoon & got his horses, & started plowing the chicken yard. There was a man here trying to sell burglar alarms to prevent the chickens, cause so much stealing has been carried on in Monroe Co.
Friday, March 20, 1931
Today is the starting of 40 hour Adoration in Waterloo. Papa went up to the store this morning. Henry came up with the team today, he phoned a piece, & sowed oats, & plowed some, for us to plant potatoes, it was 3 rows, & he also plowed Uncle Fred’s patch for potatoes, so we planted them too. Henry was here for dinner. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary were here for supper, then Aunt Mary, Rosalia, Bertille went to church. Martha Boll has the measles now. Elgin Eidman died & was buried this afternoon, & also that Janssen in Belleville that killed his wife & himself was buried this afternoon at Freeburg. Rosalia had cleaning day upstairs.
Thursday, March 5, 1931
Papa is plowing & harrowing the potatoe land this morning. Fr. Grootens was here. He wanted to use the truck to get some straw and our brooder. So him & Frank got it. He has 2000 little chicks. He also has a new DeSoto coupe. We planted 2 bu. potatoes this morning. Papa took the team back out to Henry’s again he is going to help him sow oats out there today. He was there for dinner. This afternoon Rosalia had to go out to get him. We have to turn our eggs twice a day now in the incubator. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came up this afternoon. She went to the sewing circle. Tonight is farmers meeting at the new school hall, but none of us went. Eggs are 18¢ today. There was a lady here today & wanted to sell 3 flowers in a basket for 25¢. I send her off. She said she was selling them to support 5 small children & her father. There was a man here wanted to take orders for strawberrie plants, & also a fellow from Waterloo & wanted to sell or advertising Skill Gas. They sure have a time at Blackburns School this year the way Mrs. Ettling told Papa.
Thursday, Oct. 30, 1930
Henry & family were here all day today. Henry finished plowing this evening. Emil was here this afternoon. We baked molasses cookies today. There was a man here this evening, he wanted to buy eggs, but we told him we didn’t have any. Eggs are .29¢ at the store. Rosalia & Bertille went up to Mamie’s & Angela & then we all went down to the public School House for a Literary Meeting. Speakers were: H. M. Hill, Wm. Wiegand, Greg. McCarthy. Mr. Wiegand spoke on prohibition and ruination of the country. Mr. Hill spoke of Art and Mr. McCarthy spoke of Nature. Mr. Hill also sang a song & played the violin with it, a war time song. Today is Annie Reheis Birthday.
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