Last day for schools at most places. It rained last nite, & all day. Bad for the funerals today. Ed Parker’s have a barn dance, tonite we where invited, but the weather was unfavorable, & didn’t go. Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Hill of Smithon [sic] have a little baby boy born in St. Elizabeths Hospital the other day.
Friday, April 29, 1932
Filed Under: 1932, April Tagged With: barn_dance, Belleville, birth, funeral, Hill, last_day, Parker, school, Smithon, Smithton, St._Elizabeths_Hospital
Sunday, April 24, 1932
We went to Red Bud church, & also went to the hospital to see Mamie Meuth, she got operated for appendix, she is getting along fine. Clem Parker & Aaron Papenberg where here & invited us for the barn dance at George Parkers tonite, Elmer’s 18th Birthday. So we went out this evening. Papa went up town this afternoon. Bertille went up to Lester Gregson’s but there was nobody there, they where at Joe Gregsons.
Saturday, July 11, 1931
Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s again today to help haul oats bundles in the loft. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came this morning, they where here for dinner, lunch. He went to Red Bud. We had cucumber salad for dinner. Papa & Rosalia where out at Henry’s for lunch, dinner. There was a man here selling different things for the orphans at Belleville & also two men from St. Louis, to see if we had any eggs for sale. Jake Friedrich has another barn dance this evening.
Sunday, June 14, 1931
Today is Pinic [sic] in Floraville & one at the Round Prarie [sic] Church, on the hill. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary stayed at Hecker all night, ready for church this morning. We where at there place for dinner & lunch. Hy. Armstutz stopped when he came home from the ball game. Ben Rausch stopped & invited us all to come to the barn dance tonight at Webers, to surprize [sic] him on his birthday. So we all went, it was mostly all old people there. Sthiel & Herzog furnished musci [sic]. Papa & Rosalia went to Waterloo Church this morning, we went to Hecker, it was out in a hurry, no sermon & low mass, because he tought [sic – thought] the people where tired from the pinic [sic].
Filed Under: 1931, June Tagged With: Anton, Armstutz, Aunt Mary, barn_dance, birthday, church_picnic, Floraville, Hecker, Herzog, Rausch, Rosalia, Round_Prairie_Church, St. Augustine Church, Sthiel, Uncle Fred, Waterloo, Weber
Thursday, June 11, 1931
Ed Parker has poster’s, up for his big new barn dance tonight. We went out & the crowd that was there, some said 300, & others said 500 people upstairs, it sure was crowded. People from all over, Evansville, Smithton, Waterloo, St. Louis, from everywhere. There was a man here today selling fruit again, we send him off. Papa went out to Henry’s to get a load of posts. Eggs are still 12¢ yet.
Saturday, June 6, 1931
Papa went to get crushing done again this morn, the last time they crush before harvest. We sprayed our potatoes today. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came here, from here they went to Collins Sale at Red Bud, they bought a rocking chair, & a wood box. We went to Belleville & looked at a horse, then we went out to Kerber’s sale, it wasn’t much of a sale. It rained this afternoon by Belleville. Rittmeyer where to have a barn dance tonight but it was post poned until tomorrow night.
Filed Under: 1931, June Tagged With: Anton, Aunt Mary, barn_dance, Belleville, Collins, crushing, Kerber, potatoes, Red_Bud, Rittemeyer, Rittmeyer, sale, Uncle Fred
Friday, June 5, 1931
Henry & family where here for lunch this morn. she brought him up so she could take the machine back home again, because Henry took the team home in the evening. Rosalia & Bertille went to church this morn. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came this morn. to help with the hay, they where here for dinner & lunch, & also Henry was here. Ed. L Parker has the announcement in the paper for a public barn dance on June 11 next Thurs., floor 34 x 60, Rheinhardt Orchestra.
Filed Under: 1931, June Tagged With: Aunt Mary, barn_dance, hay, Henry, Leona, Parker, Rheinhardt_Orchestra, Rosalia, St. Augustine Church, Uncle Fred
Wednesday, June 3, 1931
Walter Wittenauer is awful bad sick, they say he had 2 doctors, Mrs. Reagan is out there too, he was poisoned from the wheat. Henry came this morning, he got Meng’s rake & put his hay up this afternoon. He was here for dinner, lunch, supper, lunch. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where her for lunch & supper. Mr. Hill was here & got out lawn mower, & also brought it back again. This evening, we all went out to Gus Blackburn’s to a barn dance, there where lots of people there, they took up collection from the boy’s.
Filed Under: 1931, June Tagged With: Aunt Mary, barn_dance, Blackburn, hay, Henry, Hill, illness, Meng, poisoned, Reagan, Uncle Fred, wheat_poisoning, Wittenauer
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1930
We washed bed spread today & cleaned the backyard. Philip Meuth from Jake Neff’s place in blackjacks was here this morning, he said he didn’t want our leghorn springs, he could get them cheaper some where else. Mike Armstutz was here this afternoon a little while talking to Papa in the field. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary was here this evening, from here they went to a dance at Fred Weber’s barn. Annie Herzog invited them to come over, they were going to celebrate Joe Herzog’s birthday. We found 21 eggs today. I seen in the paper that Victor Metze, son of John Metze and Miss Florence Crook, daughter of Cora Crook of Belleville will be married soon. Last week Leo Metze had his marriage license in the paper. He married a Horn girl.
Filed Under: 1930, September Tagged With: Anton, Armstutz, Aunt Mary, barn_dance, Belleville, birthday, Blackjacks, Crook, eggs, engagement, Herzog, Horn, leghorn_springs, Metze, Meuth, Neff, Uncle Fred, Weber
Saturday, Sept. 13, 1930
Rosalia & Bertille went to church this afternoon. We baked bread, coffee cake & cleaned today. Tonight Rittemeyers are going to have a barn dance, there are dances all over again tonight.
Filed Under: 1930, September Tagged With: barn_dance, Rittemeyer, Rosalia, St. Augustine Church
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