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Sunday, March 21, 1937

Palm [Sunday]. We went to first mass. Mrs. Gennin of Red Bud died will be buried tomorrow morn. mass at Red Bud, remains to St. Peter & Paul’s cemetery at St. Louis. Chester Cowell’s mother in law. So many people dying of Red Bud parish; here lately. Henry & family came, we went along with them to Leo & Rosalia’s had dinner & supper there. Sure beautiful day, little warmer. Spring to begin today. Last Fri. nite when raining so hard was an auto accident at Parrots corner, Voges beer trucker driver of Red Bud was killed instantly & Grueber man with him had 2 legs broken & all bruised, truck was stoped [sic] on hard road, rained so heavy, stoped [sic] the truck & they had no lights.

Mr. & Mrs. Emil Schilling of St. Louis stopped in, going home from Geo. Schillings, see how we all were & left me 2 pictures of Omer, that he had taken when Martha got married; they are going to move in about 2 weeks are so, to Northton Ave; not far from Unioun [sic] Ave. he said.

Filed Under: 1937, March, Tillie's News Diaries from the 1930s Tagged With: auto_accident, burial, buried, car_accident, car_crash, church, Cowell, death, Floyd, Genin, Gennin, Geunin, Grueber, Gueber, Henry, injuries, Leona, mass, Omer, Palm_Sunday, Parrot's_Corner, Red_Bud, Robert, Schilling, St._Louis, St._Peter_and_Paul_Cemetery, Voges, Willis

Monday, Oct. 26, 1936

by Angie Kelly Leave a Comment

We washed. Pap went out to Henry’s & Uncle Adam’s. We went to Mr. Geo. Hepp funeral this afternoon, in Dec. he would be 103 yrs. old. grandchildren pallbearers, large funeral, the weather was ugly & cold; couldn’t all get in church, that was at the Round Prairie Church & Cemetery. Mr. Nic Cortner Sr. died will be buried tomorrow afternoon, Hecker cemetery. Isadore Cowell of Red Bud was buried last Sat. afternoon there & Mr. Ernst Frick of Belleville died, & will also be buried tomorrow afternoon.

Filed Under: 1936, October Tagged With: Anton, Belleville, birthday, burial, buried, chores, Cortner, Cowell, death, died, Frick, funeral, Hecker_Cemetery, Henry, Hepp, Red_Bud, Round_Prairie, Round_Prairie_cemetery, Round_Prairie_Church, Uncle Adam

Thursday, July 16, 1936

by Angie Kelly Leave a Comment

Cooler but no rain. Henry & Floyd was here yesterday disking the Stuble field; had lunches & dinner & finished up. Mrs. Freund & Creses & girl friends from St. Louis came, paid the $75 balance on mare & colt, had lunch; that was also yesterday. Harry Baskplah was also here, collected his $9.00 cold service from Henry. We went to Waterloo to Columbia, this morning. Cliffords baby is getting buried this afternoon 2:30 to cemetery. Rev. Hosto came to the house. Thunder & storm here this evening from 4:30 till 7 o’clock, the lightening struck Louis Voges barn on Cowell place, burned it down, grain & hay, ect [sic], big loss. Had lot hail at Waterloo, not many here, but a good rain. Mrs. Hy. Meng is pretty sick at present.

Filed Under: 1936, July Tagged With: barn_fire, Baskplah, bills_paid, burial, buried, Columbia, Cowell, Creses, death, fire, fire_caused_by_lightning, Floyd, Freund, Henry, Hosto, illness, Meng, St._Louis, Stahlheber, Stuble, Voges, Waterloo

Friday, June 19, 1936

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Pap & Rose went out to Henry’s before 5 ‘o clock; had lunch & dinner & finished cutting oats now; at noon, got Emil down & he helped put the binder in the shed; has about 2 hrs. shocking to do yet. Ralph Rausch came & pd. the balance $5. on ball ground there dance was fairly well attended Sun. nite. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came we went to Chester to see Gertie Irose; she sure looks natural & good, she has been in bed for 5 mons; & was terrible sick the last 10 days. Hubert said, had a cancer; she was at the home of Schroeder Ambulance & Undertaker, they are remodeling the parlor at present time; When we got to Chester, the shift gears wouldn’t work on our car, got it repaired at Chester Cowell’s garage. Walter Gregson were down, & McDermott, Doyl’s May’s. The crops don’t look so good down there. Leo Orlet of Paderborn, stopped in while in town this evening.

Filed Under: 1936, June Tagged With: Anton, Aunt Mary, ballground_payment, bills_paid, binder, Brand, calling, car_repairs, Chester, Cowell, Cowell_Garage, death, Doyl, Doyle, Emil, funeral, Gregson, Henry, Hubert, illness, Irone, Irose, May, McDermott, oats, Orlet, Paderborn, Rausch, Rosalia, Schroeder, Schroeder_Ambulance_Undertaker, Schroeder_Undertaker, shocking, Uncle Fred, wake

Saturday, March 14, 1936

by Angie Kelly Leave a Comment

Pap sewed clover seed down below in Hy Armstutz oats patch, then went to help Henry sew again. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary were up, planted 7 rows potatoes. We went out & listened to there radio tonite. Mrs. Bill Rahn Red Bud died of fractured skull, they said Emett Cowell took her to Columbia, & she fell from the car, door flew open, going 30 miles, happened last Mon. some time; we had heard it on the radio, that she was hurt. Ivo Buehler is 18 yrs. old today. Ligntening [sic] & cloudy weather.

Filed Under: 1936, March Tagged With: accident, accidental_death, Anton, Armstutz, Aunt Mary, birthday, Buehler, clover_seed, Columbia, Cowell, death, died, gardening, Henry, planting, radio, Rahn, Red_Bud, Uncle Fred

Sunday, Oct. 27, 1935

by Angie Kelly Leave a Comment

Raining all morning. Went to church, took Helfrichs along, he gave us ½ gal. molasses; & Boy it is good. Henry & family came all day, had dinner & supper. We went to a free dance at Oak Grove tonite, wasn’t much, Cowell’s Orch. played. Birkners didn’t get to town today, to much mud she said; & still a raining.

Filed Under: 1935, October Tagged With: Birkner, Cowell, Cowell_Orchestra, dance, Floyd, Helfrich, Henry, Leona, molasses, Oak_Grove, Robert, Willis

Saturday, Aug. 17, 1935

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Papa went out to Henry’s. Clarence Wittenauer’s milk truck struck Henry’s colt & knocked it in the air, is awful bad, has a big hole in shoulder; Wittenauer has insurance, & he got the veterain [sic – veterinarian] out; & bandaged it up a little. Pretty serious they say. Henry, Dick, Grover, Emil, all up making hay had dinner, 2 loads here & took 1 load home; today & last nite; he broke the wheel of, so this morning he went up to get Emil’s wagon & had the colt loose & sure it had to get hit. Casper Horschmann has sale on the Barney Kaiser farm this afternoon. Al. May auctioneer. Ivo Buehler is moving Louis Voges from Sethfest farm to Cowell place in blackjacks, from which Esthers [Estkers?] moved to the bottoms, Aaron Papbenberg moved them. Freeburg Homecoming today. Donahues has a free dance tonite. Blossom City Boys playing. We went out to Henry’s to see the colt, it eats, but still lies down.

Filed Under: 1935, August Tagged With: accident, Anton, auctioneer, Blackjacks, Blossom_City_Boys, bottoms, Brand, Buehler, Cleveland, colt, Cowell, dance, Donahue, Emil, Esther, Estker, Freeburg, Freeburg_Homecoming, hay, Henry, Horschmann, injured_animal, injury, Kaiser, May, moving, Papbenberg, Papenberg, property_transfer, sale, Sethfest, Voges, Wittenauer

Good Friday, April 19, 1935

by Angie Kelly Leave a Comment

Good Friday. We went to services at Red Bud; brought fish from A. Cowell’s butcher shop; jack salsoms [sic]. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary stopped after church awhile; went home. We went to TreOne [?] Devotion from 12 to 3. The rabbit was busy making eggs this evening. Sent Josie a Easter Greeting; to mail in St. Louis; tomorrow.

Filed Under: 1935, April Tagged With: Aunt Mary, church, Cowell, Devotion, Easter, Easter_Bunny, Easter_Greeting, Good_Friday, Keller, Red_Bud, St._Louis, Uncle Fred

Tuesday, April 2, 1935

by Angie Kelly Leave a Comment

Ironed, painted screens, etc. Henry & family came this evening, she tried her coat on at Staufenbiel’s again, it ain’t finished yet. Today is election of road commissioners, G. Lorberg won with 201 votes, Pabst 19, Roever 40 Wittenauer 52. for clerk Cowell elected with 149 & Kiefer 142 votes.

Filed Under: 1935, April Tagged With: chores, clerk, Cowell, election, Floyd, Henry, Kiefer, Leona, Lorberg, Pabst, road_commissioner, Robert, Roever, sewing, Staufenbiel, Willis, Wittenauer

Sunday, March 3, 1935

by Angie Kelly Leave a Comment

Went to Red Bud church. Emil spend an hr. with us this morn., wanted some seed oats; Nice warm day. The young people of Red Bud parish, are giving a 3 act play, name is “Everybody’s Crazy;” we all went to see it, & Boy! was it good, crowded hall, some had to leave, it was filled, having it again tomorrow night, because couldn’t all get in, players were, Ed & Leona Vogt, Melba Siebold, Gladys & Al Siefert, Harvey, Bob Cowell, Pearl Roscow, Viola Pertle, Linus Mertz, Tiny AuBuchon, Catherine May, Orvil Schmidt, Jim Tobin, Mrs. Bill Haudrich; tap dancing & singing, musci [sic] by AuBuchon Band & Kettler. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary came, went to the euchre, given at Kammlers by Fire Co. also had nice crowd, dance after, musci [sic] by Birkner Orch.; Adm. 15¢. Jhon [sic] Cody had opening & birthday dance, at his place, Oak Grove. Margaret McDermott is in Red Bud hospital was operated fro tumor last Tues, was getting along nicely, but isn’t very good at present; Raymod [sic] Matzenbacher, was operated for appendix Sat. afternoon also at Red Bud hospital; that is Pete Matzenbacher’s boy.

Filed Under: 1935, March Tagged With: actors, appendicitis, AuBuchon, AuBuchon_Band, Aunt Mary, Birkner_Orchestra, birthday_dance, Brand, church, Cody, Cowell, dance, Emil, Euchre, fire_compan, Haudrich, illness, Kammler, Kettler, Matzenbacher, May, McDermott, Mertz, Oak_Grove, Pertle, play, Red_Bud, Red_Bud_Hospital, Roscow, Schmidt, Siebold, Siefert, Tobin, Uncle Fred, Vogt

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