We ironed & patched & scrubbed the basement, raining all day. This afternoon Fr. Grooten’s was here & raised a howl about the cemetery, & cursed the whole family, wanted to sue for slander, & nothing to it. Today the Schools started all over, everybody has the same teacher pretty much hired on there same place, like last year. It rained all night.
Tuesday, August 25, 1931
Our company had breakfast , & stay a little while then left for Ben Neff’s. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where also over here. Henry was here for lunch this morning. He was also here for dinner, lunch supper. Ed Pautler the oil man was here too, he brought Henry some oil up here. I seen in the paper that Joe Mueth & that married Ben Neff’s daughter Minnie have a little baby girl born last Friday, it is the first born. Frances Eichenseer’s wife of Belleville is under going medical attention at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Clarence Wiegand’s wife of near Smithon [sic] is also at the hospital, they also have a little baby girl, first child. George Neff is sick with the dropsy, has changed doctors, 3 one already, he is by Osies now. The way they say everything was free last night, played euchre free, ice cream & soda, & dancing all free. We went down to the cemetery this evening, it just looks awful there, they started yesterday, today they never plowed they just took the tombstones & rocks & haul them out, some of them back of the house. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary was there too, we took the rose bushes what was left on the grave along home, but only 2 we got.
Monday, August 24, 1931
Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s, Papa wants to bring the team up. Papa was at Red Bud Church yesterday morning. This morning about 10 o clock Anton Buehler & family from DeKalb Ill where here, then they went over by Uncle Freds, had dinner, Henry had dinner there too, he was plowing up here, this afternoon the women folks, went to see George Neff & Jake & Mr. Buehler went to see Mr. Hill. Then we all had supper at Aunt Mary’s, then they went to Levi Gregson’s, then came back here again for all night. Josephine, Rosalia & Bertille went up in the car & watched how many people went to the euchre. Uncle Fred & Papa went to the cemetery to see it, it looks awful, everything plowed to pieces, right in the front, took the copings of off the graves, some of them plowed the rose bushes all out. It rained so heavy, there where a few people around there but not so many. Leona & the kids, came up & got Henry with the machine this evening. Roy & Mirmie Staufenbiel where also here to see Uncle Fred.
Saturday, August 22, 1931
Today is Paderborn, & Mondaville pinics [sic]. Osie Neff was here this morn. to see Papa. This afternoon we took some wheat along to Waterloo got 38¢ bu. then went to Washausen sale 3 miles west from there. It was nothing much, to sell so we left again. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where up agin [sic] till over Sun. We rung our pigs today. We went out & cleaned the cemetery.
Wednesday, August 5, 1931
Henry & the boy’s was here & brought some coal up for threshing. Wheat is 37¢ bus. now. We all went out & cleaned the cemetery, & from there we went up to Henry’s to find out about threshing, Henry & Pap went over & seen Geo. Schilling.
Friday, July 31, 1931
Today is baking day. This afternoon we all went to Waterloo & from there out to Dillerberg’s sale on the Dr. Vogel place. Nick Welzbacher is coming there now. Dr. & Dillenberg where the only biters there, they got everything between themselves. We had supper at Aunt Mary’s they where up here all afternoon so they had supper ready when we came home. Hy. Armstutz gave them a call too. We heard George Neff almost smothered, he is very bad sick. John Euler from Floraville shot himself last night, he will be buried Mon. in St. Augustine’s cemetery of Hecker.
Wednesday, July 29, 1931
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.
Thursday, July 9, 1931
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It is raining this morning. We got our beets in from the garden here & the truck patch, we got 5 quts & 1/2. Mrs. Katie Klotz was here this morning to see if she could get a can of cistern water at Uncle Fred’s place, because they are getting the thrashers this evening, & they wanted the water to wash the dishes. Papa went up to Eichenseers, & went along out with Vic & Odillo, to fix Henry pump, they put 5 ft. pipings on it, there is 30 ft. of water in it yet. Papa called up for Rosalia to come out & bring some wrenches along from the store. Mrs. Klotz was telling me about a fire at Albert Gregson’s on Tues. night, the road men had a fire burning the grass on piles, & they left without putting the fire out, & during the night the fire creeped & burned all the way through the woods, nearly too the house, they just got it out in time. George Lorberg was called with a tank of water on his truck & also Joe Shilling’s, Louis Armstutz’s & a fire apartment, I don’t know if it was Smithon’s [sic] or Red Buds, fire out later, it happened around 12 o’clock in the night that is when George Lorberg left. This evening we went out & lawend [sic] at the cemetery, & looked at Frank’s pigs, sheep. Eggs are 12¢ now.
Tuesday, June 9, 1931
Papa is going to take the truck to Bill Fristche’s & get the bor fixed on it. We are washing today. Papa & Rosalia went out to Henry’s & got the last load of corn. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary where here for lunch. Papa, Rosalia, Bertille, Aunt Mary went down & cleaned the cemetery this evening. There where 2 weddings last Sat. from Hecker, Harold Dueker married a girl from St. Louis, & Edwin Reheis married Florence Voges.
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