Rain this morn. stops threshing today. Went to Red Bud to Waterloo this afternoon. McKonky [editor’s note – I believe she means Kumke here since she had crossed out McKonky and wrote in Kumke in yesterday’s post]. is at Evansville parlor, will also be buried there tomorrow morn. Mueth was on wrong side of slap & no lights they thing. Awful hot this afternoon 80 [degrees]. Everything closed at Waterloo. Leo & family came, went to Red Bud to Dr. Pautler with Marita, she has sores on her arm, gave her salve to put on. Emil came over, wasn’t much fire works put on in town. Ed Brand & wife are here from Alb. [Alabama] at Heyl’s at Waterloo, stop over at Emils, on way home from a trip to river, also at Levi’s.
Tuesday, July 4, 1939
Filed Under: 1939, July, Tillie's News Diaries from the 1930s Tagged With: Alabama, Brand, burial, car_accident, death, died, doctor_visit, Emil, Evansville, fireworks, Fourth_of_July, funeral, funeral_parlor, Gregson, Heyl, Kumke, Leo, Marita, McConkey, McKonky, Mueth, Orlet, Pautler, Red_Bud, Rosalia, stores_closed, threshing, threshing_season, Uncle_Ed, Waterloo, wrong_side_of_the_road
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