Uncle Fred & A. [Aunt] Mary were working up here this morn. Pap went out dug potatoes up in field a bucket full. Henry started combining again, goes alwful [sic] slow so far, mill only pay 50 [cents] for the wheat, wants to ship it to St. Louis now. We went to Orlets this afternoon piled hay & put up some. Today is the last day in quarry for Jac. being put out of a job; etc. only them that need it bad; rest are all laid of. Waterloo paper has this week a $600.00 reward for the finder of the boomber [sic] of Schaefer house.
Friday, June 30, 1939
Filed Under: 1939, June, Tillie's News Diaries from the 1930s Tagged With: Anton, Aunt Mary, Brand, combining, Henry, house_bombing, mill, Orlet, quarry, reward, Schaefer, St._Louis, Uncle Fred, unemployment, vandalism, Waterloo, Waterloo_Newspaper
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