This morning & this afternoon while it was cool we finished digging our potatoes. This eve- we went down & cleaned at the cemetery, the hogs has been in there & got everything messed up for Armbruster’s lot & Monike’s lot. From there we drove over to Aunt Mary’s, but they where at Oscar Birkner’s threshing oats, so we went back home again.
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.
Monday, July 27, 1931
We was all at Henry’s today for lunch, dinner, lunch, but all where feeling bad, sick, vomiting all the time. He threshed 1163 bus. wheat. We brought beef & dressing, potatoes & saurkraut [sic], along home for supper. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came for supper. They told us that we have another cousin & that is Christ Buehler’s have a little baby girl born this morning at 3 o clock. Oscar Birkner & wife will be the sponsors Sun. morning. Uncle Fred took the eggs too town got 14¢ doz.
Sunday, July 26, 1931
We all had dinner & supper at Aunt Mary’s today, across the street. This afternoon, We all & Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary drove out to Henry’s, to help along with threshing. When we came home we went to the truck patch & looked that over.
Saturday, July 25, 1931
Most of the threshing machines are starting out at 9 o’clock this morning. Vic Eichenseer & Odillo where here & fixed the pump again. This afternoon we all went to Henry’s threshing, we had lunch & supper, they threshed 421 bus. from lunch on.
Friday, July 24, 1931
Henry was here this morning & the kids, they brought a wash tub plums & box apples. We didn’t keep all the plums, it was to many. Mr. Ed Meng was here this morning, to tell papa that Ratz had a cheap team for him, that if he wanted to he should come & look at them this afternoon. But he aint going. Papa got crushing done this morning. They say Phil Braun’s machine is going to start threshing this afternoon they must not of had any rain there. Vic Eichenseer was here & fixed our pump this morning, it works again now. We cleaned our truck patch & sowed some more turnip seed again today & also some radishs.
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.
Monday, July 20, 1931
Today is wash, iron & patch day. But the weather don’t look so nice this morning. Leona called this afternoon & said we should come out & bake the cakes, & pies for threshing, so we bake 4 cakes, 11 pie shells. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary was up this afternoon, papa had lunch with them this afternoon. Papa sold 17 lbs. springer for 25¢ a lb. to a man from Belleville. It started raining this evening & kept it up all night, we sure did need it too. Papa took the clock of off the stove to get it fixed once. Bertille went over to Mrs. Rennecker this evening & brought her there Red Bud paper back again.
Thursday, July 16, 1931
Today Ed Pabst’s is threshing, papa has to go down around eleven oclock & also Eichenseers. Edwin Reheis has a little girl since last Sat. Rosalia & Bertille went to church this morning when Hy. Braun was getting buried. It was a large funeral. This afternoon we went out to Parker’s, they didn’t take it to church, they went from the house to the cemetery. The baby was 7 mo. old. Koch had both funerals. Papa went to Pabst’s, he had dinner there, we got 62 bus. for our share but we are 5 short now. So I don’t know how it will be now. Vic & Odillo hauled it here, they where both here for lunch.
Wednesday, July 15, 1931
Leona & the kids where here for lunch this morning. We heard that George Parker’s baby Virgil died, they had him at the hospital, had trouble with the teeth, they wouldn’t come through. We cleaned the chicken house, papa is setting posts. Henry went threshing today. The machine was by Parker’s yesterday, but account of the baby died, they moved up to Kemp’s & are threshing there now, & from there to August Blackburns’s. There was lady here this morning selling a bottle vanilla for 99¢ & a set sugar bowl & pitcher. We washed the machine this afternoon & fixed the tire. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came up this evening, they told us about Pete Hoffman, from Mayestown, he was driving a wagon & fell off & broke his back, the horses ran away. A man down by Red Bud, they didn’t know his name he was ground all to pieces through the seperator [sic]. Mr. Keonig from Columbia was here, he was the guy that was looking for the score book, ball games. He took it along. Henry had found that book by the school house some place.
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