March 5 - May 22, 1898
(Box 5/Folder 1)
March 5, 1898
We went to Altavista and we saw more people in town than we ever saw except the fourth of July Edwin and I picked up all the cobs in the manger
When we was coming from town we was going to the post office to get the mail but papa had it Hermon Martenson called this forenoon to see papa on business
Weather warm and smoky
March 6, 1898
We went to sunday school and the title of our lesson was Jesus and the Sabbath
And we went to young folks meeting in the evening Augusta Schultz came up to our house and went to sunday school and young folks meeting with us Edwin went to young folks meeting and went to sleep and thought we went home without having it
Weather warm and smoky
March 7, 1898
Mama is cleaning house and mama whitewashed the bedrooms today I went to school and wore my hood in the forenoon and my bonnet in the afternoon and came home with a headache and went to play and forgot all about it Mr Crabb called this morning to borrow a rope to move his old house
Weather warm and smoky
March 8, 1898
Crissie Doverspike sent a note to mama and told me to tell her to answer it and mama told me what to say and I learned it by heart and told crissie. Mama white washed the kitchen. Mabel Clark brought two walnuts and she gave me one of them and she kept the other and the other girls wanted them. Papa sold the old gobler for $1.95.
Weather warm and windy
March 9, 1898
Blackey had a little calf this morning and it was black as coal and we called it Nig. Mrs Doverspike called this afternoon. We started to school and mama called me back and gave me the secretary book to take to the teacher as she is secretary of our Sunday School.
As we were coming home from school we saw part of the garden was harrowed and mama was planting some onion seeds and covered them up.
Weather very warm
March 10, 1898
Edwin and I was going to school and we usually came home for our dinner and we started without it and mama called us back to take our dinner she thought the weather would be to rainy to come home at noon. We started home when school was out and papa came for us and we rode the rest of the way home.
Mama got a good joke on me this evening mama had a bread pudding and set it on the table and I thought it was baked beans.
Rained all day and cloudy this evening
March 11, 1898
When we were at school today the teacher showed us the place on the map where the maine was blown up. Mama finished planting the onion patch.
Crissie and William and Roy piled up the wood at the schoolhouse. Papa went to the literary and we didnt go so we drew pictures with our eyes shut and we stayed up until nine oclock mama stayed up till papa came home and papa came and said he heard a noise and say something ran up a tree and got the gun and shot it and it was a skunk
Weather beautiful
March 12, 1898
We picked up nuts and filled a box
Susie Doverspike called this afternoon a shortling
Morning cloudy now a few drops of rain
afternoon sun shone dimly
March 13, 1898
The yellow Heifer had a calf today so we didnt get to go to Sunday school it has been a long time since we have missed we hated to stay out nor we didnt get to go to preaching because we had to take care of the calf. We had a goodtime eating nuts and playing and went to young folks meeting in the evening
The weather was very pleasant
March 14, 1898
The wind blew so hard that mama could not dry the clothes and we couldn’t hardly walk to school at noon We had a pleasant shower and a little hail and the wind went down
The Yellow Heifers calf died today
March 15, 1898
The teacher gave us a cotation to speak the last day of school. The teacher wrote a song on the board and gave the third and fifth Readers time to copy it
March 16, 1898
We prayed half an hour before breakfast The teacher wrote a song on the board for the third and fifth Readers to copy.
Alia Maguire shook hands with the scholars as her papa has bought a farm about 9 miles from here Alia was quite a favorate with the school and am sure we shall miss her very much. Mama took the carpet up and made the dust fly in the sitting room
March 17, 1898
When we came home for dinner today it sprinkled and while we were eating it rained hard but it stopped in time for us to go to school and about half past nine o’clock at night it rained real hard. Mama popped popcorn and we practiced our pieces this evening and spent a very pleasant evening
March 18, 1898
We practiced our pieces and quotations at school. It was misty this evening and so cloudy that we didnt go to the literary but at half past eight oclock we saw a light there. Augusta Schultz came up and spent the evening with us and after she was gone Edwin and I took a bath in the washtub
March 19, 1898
This morning I saw the washbasin in there and said that mama rubbed against it to bathe herself. I finished a basket for the teacher. Papa forgot his coat and left it in the hay field and I and Edwin went after it and I didnt wear mine so I wore his back. Mama churned this evening. Mr. Clarson came here today and said Mr Hornes little boy had to have his head tapped Monday and he probly will not live through the operation.
Weather cool and windy
March 20, 1898.
We went to sundayschool and the title of our lesson was John the Babtist beheaded
We saw a very large snake on the paraire
Augusta Schultz and May Springer came came up here this afternoon and Edwin and I went home with her and she gave me a handkerchief we went to young folks meeting
Weather warm and cloudy.
March 21, 1898.
We had examinations in our school today The girls dug caves at recess because they had nothing else to play The teacher forgot to call the roll we sang a song during examinations for rest Edwin and I picked up all the cobs in the manger and we drew them to house in the little wagon and they upset and while we were picking them up I found 4 eggs and Edwin found only 1 and put it into his pocket and broke it
Weather warm and windy
March 22, 1898
We had a rain last night and with some hail and this morning it snowed and this morning it was so cold mama had to warm our shoes for us to put on and the children played in the schoolroom and made so much noise that the teacher had to tell them so many times not to make so much noise and while we was going up to school the wind blew through our stockings
We practiced our pieces for the last day and when school was out it was ten minutes after four and we waited for papa and came home backwards papa tried to shoot a goose but the gun wouldnt go off
March 23, 1898
We practiced our pieces songs and quotations and it was nine o’clock before we were done speaking and the teacher said that we would stop our program and while the teacher was calling the roll Ida Benson would not say her quotation and the teacher told her what her quotation was and she would not say it and the teacher made her stand on the floor till all the rest had said their quotations and she wouldnt say hers and the teacher said she must say it after school was out and then she said it. Miss Anna Gleason visited our school a few minutes and said she would like to stay longer but she was going to visit another school
Mama set a steel trap to catch a goose and mama knew there was five geese in one flock and she saw four rise up and circle around and she thought she caught a goose but afterwards the other flew up and joined the others and sure enough the trap was sprung The teacher and the older scholars made some flowers to decorate the schoolroom for the last day of school
Weather very warm to have been so cold yesterday
March 24, 1898
We practiced our pieces for the last day and Alice and Roy came up at noon and spent the afternoon to school this evening the teacher came to our house today and mama went over to Hornes a little while we got a picture of grandpa today
Weather warm and sunny
March 25, 1898
Mama was sick and I done the dishes for her when I came home from school Papa was planting potatoes and we went down and he didnt want us Alice and Roy came to school today and at the last recess we took all the woodpile that wasnt already there and the girls put a wire that was on the ground and made a fence and the boys took one wire and ran away with it and the bell rang and threw it down We practiced our pieces quotations and songs for the last day of school
Weather warm and very windy
March 26, 1898
The teacher cleaned up at the schoolhouse today. We went with papa and planted potatoes till about four o’clock in the afternoon and it sprinkled a little and went home and thought it was going to rain and it didn’t rain a bit and then I studied my sundayschool lesson. Papa tried to shoot a goose but the gun wouldnt go off and they went over to Lake Superior the name of my pond and mama thought they went over to Lake Michigan the name of Edwins pond and mama scart them up and set a trap but they went over North and probably they will not come back
Weather windy this forenoon and still this afternoon and warm
March 27, 1898
It rained hard about ten o’clock last night and the wind blew hard all night from the north and this morning it sleeted and snowed there was no Sunday school today it was so cold but there was young folks meeting but we didnt go because it was cold mama said she would get a headache if she went and I didnt feel like going and while we were eating supper the lamp globe broke and about all the glass fell into my plate and it scared me nearly to death
March 28, 1898
We practiced our pieces this afternoon and the teacher made a wreath and she put some yellow flowers and some cedar in the corners of the schoolhouse the girls went in a circle and told stories and Mabel called me before we got to the schoolhouse and the girls played color and than Roxie and Emily went away and they stopped playing and told stories and at the last recess we played wood tag and then we played rotten egg and then the bell rund
Weather very warm to be so cold yesterday
March 29, 1898
Today is the last day of our school it was a holiday to us and we came at nine o’clock and we had lessons till recess and then we played till noon and then the bell rung and we came in and dinner was ready and after noon we spoke our pieces and songs and quotations and before we sang our last song the teacher gave all the scholars a souvenir with the scholars names on them Edwins was tied together with a yellow cord and mine with a pink one and after school the teacher gave us our examination cards and told them to stay and then she gave them all candy but Edwin and she forgot him and afterwards she saw him and gave him an orange and told him to trade with Harry Doverspike and Harry wouldnt trade so we divided the orange and the candy and I took the half of the candy and the orange and in the morning I gave the teacher a vanity basket and then crissie brought an album that some of the school had payed for and Martha Standage gave her a brestpin and at May Springer gave her a nice handkerchief and Mrs. springer gave her a castle.
Weather rather cold but quite pleasant
P.S. Edwin and I helped to pay for the teachers album
March 30, 1898
We didnt do hardly anothing but talk about yesterday This evening two men came with seventy head of cattle and will stay with us tonight and they said they would come back again next Tuesday to buy some pigs of papa Swine had ten little pigs this morning
Weather chilly and cloudy
March 31, 1898
We picked up eight boilers full of cobs this afternoon and we picked up five boilers full of cobs in the hog pen and papa was making a stone hog lot and he was hauling stone and left the pen open and the hogs got out and then we could’nt hardly keep them in the pen and we had to keep stones in the little wagon all the while We went with papa to get some hay and papa turned a summersault on the stack while we were picking up cobs Edwin threw me down and tried to jump over me and he lit on my back
Weather warm and cloudy [unintelligible] both this evening I thought I saw an eclipse and mama told me that it was just the sun setting behind a cloud and whats worse I called it and equinox instead of a eclipse
PS Papa finished planting the onions
April 1, 1898
I played a good joke on papa this morning. a little while ago we had a hair-lipped pig and I asked him why that pig was hair lipped pig and he went and looked in the box and asked me which one and I pointed to one and said April Fool. We got a good joke on papa this evening we put some strings in the mush and he got both of them. Papa called to mama this morning and said come quick as you can and ran and mama ran as fast as she could and left her overshoes and her hood and it was nothing but an April Fool
It rained and snowed and some of the flakes were so large mama said they were the largest she ever seen. Edwin asked mama if she saw a bird with red white spots on its wings and mama said no it must be a United States April Fool bird. Edwin asked me if I saw a bird sitting on the fence-post and mama said Edwin was the one that was fooled for there was one there. Papa mended the harness today. While mama was folding the tablecloth she reached around behind her and knocked and then she stepped back and we thought someone knocked on the door
Mama took all the things out of the big box and put the things back again and put some clothes in the bottom of the box
April 2, 1898
Papa was making a hog shoot today but he didnt quite finish it. It was so mudy today we couldnt play in the forenoon. We played around the fender and we played it was a bridge and the hogs were Texas Cattle and I went to Edwins house and he was gone and I went all around and wanted to buy some hogs but nobody had and to sell and at last I met Edwin and he had some of him and then I bought six bushels of apples and I only got six apples they were so large and then mama called me to get some onions
Weather was warm and cloudy sprinkled several times during the day
April 3, 1898
It rained a little this morning and there was no sunday school and we ate nuts and popcorn and walked around and talked about where we were going to set out an orchard and shrubery and this evening we thought there would be no young folks meeting but Mr. Mcdiffett came for the key and papa went up and they was all that was there and it rained hard so they couldnt come home for about an hour and they have two children sick with Lung Fever and mama a two quart can of peaches fore the children and he said he would eat them before he got home and mama said well I guess you better not and if he did I spose he got a lot of rain water with them
April 4, 1898
I wrote a letter to grandpa this afternoon Edwin fell down and got his mittens so dirty I had to wash them out in the pond Papa hauled stone for a walk and we rode the horses up on the hill when papa went after stone. We named a pond Salt Lake and it was running over and we called it the Amazon river
Weather peasant but cool and windy
April 5, 1898
We went to the Post Office and I got very tired and Edwin said girls were always delicate things. We went with papa to burn off the long grass in the pasture and we picked bunches of grass for him to set fires with. About two months ago grandpa shot a duck and couldnt find it but papa found it today I got something in my eye and could see better with the other eye than I could with both Mama washed today and it looked so much like rain mama didnt dry the colored ones she said they were so thick that she wouldnt dry them but it didnt rain and she wished she had dried them
April 6, 1898
Mama said I had these leaves jumbled when she was wrong herself. My eye didnt feel much better today but I played outdoors most of the afternoon. Mama churned today and Mr. Aye came and bought all the butter and Edwin and I were preparing some onions and Mr. Aye said they were quite early We didnt play in the forenoon I named my pig Crank today. Papa and mama put some of the cattle in the other pasture and Baley kept trying to get out. Papa put the little pigs on the south side of the house and Crank got out
Weather lovely
April 7, 1898
Mama got the toothache this afternoon We butchered and didnt have dinner till about two o’clock Papa went to the field and it sprinkled a little and he thought it was going to rain and he came back and took the hog down and went to the filed again yesterday
mama found a turkey hens nest
Weather cool and windy
April 8, 1898
Mamas tooth didnt ache today but last night it ached till three oclock til he couldnt get a bit of rest. And she came out to the bales and her face was swollen so papa said she would look better if the other side of her face was that way It was so warm I wore my bonnet and not my jacket and I just sat down and didnt play and it pretty near roasted me We watched the hogs so they wouldnt get out of the lot while papa was hauling stone
April 9, 1898
Mama was sick today and we watched the hogs all the afternoon except when I came in the house to get a drink and another time I came in and helped her do the dishes and some other work Mama didn’t cook anything today but some potatoes for supper We turned old Daisy over in the other pasture with her calf
Weather warm
April 10, 1898
We went to sundayschool this morning and the title of our lesson was sufferings of Jesus foretold and we went to young folks meeting this evening and the topic of our lesson was conquering the fear of death. The turkeyhens laid speckled eggs today I guess they tried to lay Easter eggs. Mama was not sick today but she felt very weak because she didnt eat nothing yesterday. I laughed so hard I could hardly writ because I pretty near wrote mama laid the eggs instead of the turkey hen
Weather pleasant
April 11, 1898
Old daisy wouldnt let her calf suck mama and Edwin and I went down there and mama tried to hold her and she could’nt and mama was afraid she would strike her with her horns she kept horning at her calf so. Our old sow had eleven pigs and it was so cool they all chilled to death but five and it looked so much like rain papa brought them all in
Our pet pullit was used to coming around us and eating nuts with us and yesterday papa and mama and us were eating nuts in the house and she came in and papa pulled her tail and today she wasn’t so tame as she usually is. Papa gave Blakey and Tiny their calves and tiny stood there and let the calves eat her teats off and afterwhile mama drove them away
Augusta Schultz called this afternoon a short time
Weather very warm
April 12, 1898
Papa made a box to our little wagons because it was rainy and mama wanted to know how it would look in the rain so papa put it out doors and it fell over and papa had to put it right side up. Mama ironed some of the clothes today and I had to write on the kneading board to the flour chest and mama ironed my doll clothes and I wanted to put them one the doll but mama wouldnt let me I am going to give my little doll and cradle to the first little girl that comes.
April 13, 1898
I dressed Anna today Anna is my birthday doll that Grandma Debo gave me when I was only one year old I dreamed quite a while ago that Edwin broke her arm and mama said it dos’nt matter he did’nt mean to and scolded me for caring Mama says I must be awful careful not to dream any lies. We didn’t go to town today. Papa gave the old sow her pigs and she killed all but one and Edwin had to kill that Edwin says mama woulda killed it but she is to chicken hearted
Weather war and sunshiny
April 14, 1898
Mrs. Tass and Ernie came just as we were going to town and they said they had six turkeyhes lay in the same nest. Papa went ahead with the hogs and we went behind and the horses kept going so fast mama had to hold to the lines so her hands swollen up so she could not hardly hold onto the lines. Papa took 14 dozen of eggs in a basket and broke 11 doz. and 10 I mean broke all but 11 doz. and 10 and one of the hogs smothered to death. We got weighed today and I weighed 63 pounds and a quarter and Edwin weighed 66 pounds and a half and mama weighed 108 pounds as Mama was sick and I had to wash the dishes and wipe them and keep a fire and give mama camphor and wet clothes in hot water for her and warm a flatiron and I kept such a hot fire papa asked me if I was cold and told me that we didnt have one so hot in the wintertime
Mr Oneill came here to see papa
Weather no wind atall except once in a while a cool breeze
April 15, 1898
Mama sat up about half of the time Oral Zeifer called this afternoon The turkeys moved their nest. The onions are coming up. Papa came to town with hogs. We didn’t go to the literary I read this to mama and she said it was short and sweet as a roasted maggot
Weather warm and windy not so terrible though
April 16, 1898
We played it was the day before the last day of school and we was cooking up. And this evening we played night hawk and we came to some water and chased the bugs. One of the hogs that papa sold today was a fall one and all the rest was spring ones and he was as large as the rest. One of the sows had some little pigs and papa put some bales around he and put some flax over her ‘cause he thought it would rain
Weather very hot but some wind
April 17, 1898
We went to sundayschool and the title of our lesson was the Transfiguration and Mrs. Melcomb came home with us. It rained and there was no young folks meeting but someone came and maybe they stayed all night
Weather warm and threatening rain
April 18, 1898
We got up a late hour this morning and found that mama and papa was’nt going to Junction City because it was rainy. It rained and papa fixed the door latch and we spent our time spinning toys and papa powed a place to set out our peach trees and in the afternoon we set out the maples and Edwin said he would graft them
After supper mama and papa told us some stories one of them was about a man that went after his cattle and only found half of them so he went back again for them and took his two little girls along and he wished he had not took the children along he had to go so far and after awhile he saw a panther running along behind him and he started to go home and it began to grow dark and the panther got ahed of him and he took the children by the wrist and jumped and took his pocketknife in the other hand jumped to the panther with the children and the panther jumped back and afterwhile he got home and the next day he was sick and another story was about a girl that went on a horse after cattle and some wolves got after her and she tried to get home and the hors must have run against the tree and threw her off and the horse came home without her and when they found her she was badly eaten. I wo’nt have room to tell the rest of the stories
April 19, 1898
We climbed the cottonwoods Sunday Monday and today. Mrs. Parkeson and her neice came her tho by butter and Oral Ziefer came to borrow a chain harness
We was mulching some trees that we sat out yesterday. We picked some flowers today but it isnt rare thing
Weather pleasant
April 20, 1898
We went to Junction City today and Edwin and I stayed at Clarks and we played that I was the doctor and Mabel had the dolls and played they was sick and Edwin had to watch some prisoners and then Clarence came and we didnt play it much after that and Flossie played that Mabel and I stole something and Edwin and her put us in prison and then Flossie hung us and Edwin both and all of us pitched onto her but we couldnt
Mama had her tooth pulled and mama papa bought a Mother Goose Book for Edwin and an Uncle Toms’ Cabin for me
Weather cool and pleasant
April 21, 1898
It rained hard all day and we had to stay in the house and amuse ourselves spinning and reading our new books and talking about yesterday if mama wasnt sick when she came home so we couldnt talk about it then
April 22, 1898
Mama felt splendid well this morning and was setting the table and all at once she got dizzy and she came near falling down and afterwhile she wasnt dizzy but she didnt feel well all the rest of the day. We played while papa fixed the fence I dont like Uncle toms cabin very well but mama says the rest of the book is better I’ve only read the first chapter
Weather warm
April 23, 1898
The turkeyhens wanted to sit today and mama told us to drive them up to the shed they laig 27 eggs. Mama washed today it takes four weeks for a little turkey to hatch I dont think turkeys are as pretty as chickens when there rite young but when they get a little older I think they are prettier then chickens because they are so tame they will runs after a person with their mouths wide open a whisteling last year I had a pet turkey he got crippled some way and we had to feed it bugs and when it got well would roll logs and thing over for bugs and afterwhile it would watch me and when Id roll the logs over he would get after the bugs and some of the crickets would get away and run under another log and the turkey would run after him and try to raise up the log but he wasnt as good as the others because he was crippled
Weather warm
April 24, 1898
We went to Sunday School and the title of our lesson was a lesson on forgiveness and we went to preaching and young folks meeting and the topic was halfits We went to church all day
Weather pleasant excepting quite a nice sower in the afternoon
April 25, 1898
Mama had a kind of straightening up day in the house today. We are going to plant garden tomorrow papa started listing this afternoon and Edwin followed him
Weather pleasant
April 26, 1898
We garden today we planted peas and cabbage and beans and tomatoes and set out some turnips to raise seed and we planted some radishes. It was so warm mama had a [unintelligible] barefoot Edwin had the biggest water blister mama ever saw and he said it didnt hurt him atall and mama told him it would bust and he asked her if she’d have to give him chloroform
April 27, 1898
We finished planting garden too today and we planted some in the forenoon and the wind blew so hard we could’nt plant the small seeds but this afternoon the wind went down and it looked rainy and we hurried to get it in before the rain but it did’nt rain
April 28, 1898
[We was going without shoes (crossed out)]
We went in our stockenfeet today and this morning grandpa and his brother George and Uncle Georges wife and girl came here and mama pretended she was foolish and did’nt know who they was she said when we thought it was them it it can’t be them can it and then she grunted like a pig and grandpa came up and said that they got stuck and papa went down and helped pull them out and they had some birds Weather warm
April 29, 1898
Uncle George was in the war in 1862 and he has not got enough of it yet he wants to go to war with spain. Uncle George asked me if he wasnt prettier than grandpa and I told him he would be if his hair didnt stick up like an Indians. they are going to Calafornia. They think it will take them 3 months but I think it will take four of them
Weather commenced to rain about five o’clock this afternoon
April 30, 1898
It rained all night last night last night April Fool had a calf. The reason we called her April Fool was because she was two years old last April Fool And she fooled us too she was so small It drizzled all day and Uncle George and Edwin and papa went over to Hornes and got some grafts of three kinds of peaches and some Apricots and we grafted trees today. Grandpa gave Edwin and I each a picture of him and Nellie gave mama a picture of her riding a mule. Edwin rode a mule to water yesterday and now he climbs up in the hay rack and pets it.
May 1, 1898
it rained all day today Nellie’s birthday is the 9 of may and they are going to start to California tomorrow I don’t think they will get any cake for their birthday. We didnt have any Sunday school today. Mama asked Uncle to write in her album and he wrote Dear Neice Although we got stuck We have got the pluck To go to the mountains blue And when you read this send me a kiss For I shall always love you true And cousin Nellie wrote In the golden chain of friendships reard me as a true link
May 2, 1898
our emigrants started out today I don’t think they can travel very far it is such rainy weather. It kept raining every once and a while today and papa went off to get some forest trees. About five o’clock Allie Morhead got stuck and I don’t now whether the mules feeled good at first or not but he hitched them to the back of the wagon and they just jumped and wouldnt pull and papas horses would have pulled it out but one of the mules laid down and papa said it pretty run over him. they left the load till tomorrow
May 3, 1898
they unloaded part of the corn and got stuck with part of a load till papas horse couldnt hardly pull it out and papa pulled it out of the draw intirely and Allie said he would kill them if they didnt pull it out but they had to pry it out
papa went over and got some trees and set them out all day
Weather rainy
May 4, 1898
it rained all day and papa set out trees today. I like Uncle Toms Cabin very much the chapters I like best are The Husband and Father. Showing the Feelings of Living property on Changing Owners. Escape of Eliza. In which it appears that a senitor is but a man. The property is carried off. Select incident of lawful trade. The quaker settlement. Evengeline. The freemans defence
May 5, 1898
Its still rainy weather and papa sets out lots of trees and we put dirt around them and one time we played we was tree dwellers and didnt have a ladder so we couldnt climb the trees so we put the loose dirt around them but we couldnt get the dirt that wasnt loose because we couldnd dig it up so we would take another tree and when we stamped the dirt down we tried to get up the tree
May 6, 1898
It stopped raining today and mama washed
theres lots of flowers now and the meadowlarks sings im glad its may the kinds of flowers we gather are ferns daisies buffalo peas and violets and dandilions
May 7, 1898
We went after the mail today and got a picture and when we came home papa had got the hay and we fed spot some and then we played toys night
It was a pleasant day
May 8, 1898
We went to sunday school today and the title of our lesson was The marriage feast there wasnt any Sunday school last Sunday so mama had a review of last Sundays lesson and the title of it was the triumphal entry We tried to get around in time to go to preaching but we just got there in time to hear the last song and be dismissed and then we stayed and talked about building a church and we would have been late for young folks meeting and they commenced to gather before it was dark papa was just milking the cows but mama was leader so they waited for her it was like the fellow that was going to be hung there wasn’t going to be anything done till he got there. I wore my summer hat today one time while we was setting out trees mama turned milinner and trimmed my hat
Weather very pleasant threatening showers
May 9, 1898
It rained last night and papa and mama put Duchman in the derick and we went out to play and mama thought it was terrible
Lumbs girls came here and gave mama some treebark and she gave them some pickels
Weather sprinkled ocasionly
May 10, 1898
this morning when papa and mama was putting Duchman in the derrick Harry Lumb and his hired hand came and helped lift her up. the reason we called her Duchman was she had a big nose
Weather warm and cloudy
May 11, 1898
Mama and papa put Duchman up in the derrick and they did’nt have much trouble putting her up and mama and I went to town today and the flags were flying in all directions I guess their getting woke up about the war Mama and I saw the cuban flag under the United States flag and mama thought it was the flag of truce from the spaniards and the United States flag was faded some Papa and Edwin went after the scraper to make a dich and we couldnt hardly get the cows down
May 12, 1898
We did’nt the cow up in the derrick today [unintelligible] are in bloom a little. last year I had several kinds of flowers but they didn’t but two kinds come up and they was cucumber and cypress and they was three colors Red white and pink but we didnt get any scypress seed. My flowers was planted this year before a week of rain and there aint but two up
Weather windy from the South East
May 13, 1898
this afternoon we was to the house while mama was to garden and it commenced raining a few large drops fell and mama ran home and we went in the bedroom and it hailed a little and kept raining harder all the time and in about twenty minutes it stoped raining just fell and the water must have been a foot high all over the yard
May 14, 1898
We went to the postoffice and I told Mable about the cakes of dirt in the draw and Edwin said I ment cakes of dirt and mable said no she means cakes of ice We went out and running and had a circus and when the mailcarrier came his horse was all swed and when we came I foung a penny
Weather warm
May 15, 1898
We did’nt have any sunday School today because it was raining this morning and and we had Young Folks Meeting this Evening and the topic was our bodes Gods temple and Andy Mcarther lost eight head of yearling steers last Friday and Lumbs hogs and hog lots swept away together but they all swum out but three and the lightning struck their best three year old steer and a calf drown
Its cloudy and threatening rain this evening till mama had me wear my cap
May 16, 1898
We did nothing but play this morning the air was so fresh and mama went over to Clarks to trade some eggs to set and I cut my thumb an im so afraid of blood I was scared worse than it hurt and it hurt very bad to and so you see I was pretty much frightened
May 17, 1898
mama went over to Doverspikes to get some seeds that she had sent to town by them for and when we got up mama had just got back with some lilacs she had begged
Doverspikes lilacs are awful late. We went to Allie Morheads. We went to tell him his hog and two pigs come to our house all the time and mama said she could ask for some lilacs but he was gone and the lilacs were all gone but some
Weather very warm
May 18, 1898
It was so windy today we played in the sitting room all the forenoon and we cut people out of papers and we have horses mules elephants girraffes colts lambs and sheep and I guess afterwhile Edwin will get a rattlesnake to ride. We went to the garden with mama this afternoon
May 19, 1898
this forenoon I helped mama work in the garden and today nick schorten Mr Hornes hired hand came and told us that clarence horne was dead His head was operated on Tuesday they thought they would burry him on Saturday they said they would come around again and let us know
We feel very sorry for Mr. Horne
Weather warm and Windy
May 20, 1898
the wind blew terrible hard today and threatened rain so hornes had the furnerl today but they thought it was going to rain so they hurried the funerl services they We looked at the corpse and he looked better than he did in life He was buried in a beautiful white coffin the first white one I ever saw. he was buried beside his sister there was the prettiest evergreen I ever saw on her grave. and there was so many wreathes and flowers we never saw such pretty ones the grave was almost covered
May 21, 1898
It rained hard last night and today we went over to the other pasture with papa and came back and drove the hogs and we run till we could not run any longer after one of them and we came back and rested and went over to the postoffice and back and did’nt get a bit tired I guess the reason I got so terrible tired that time was because I wasnt well. and when I was going up there I found a snake four or five inches around and when we came back he was there and May Springer came and she walked very fast and we told her she would find him
Weather cool and cloudy
May 22, 1898
We went to sunday school today and the title of our lesson was the day of Judgment and we went over to springers and and Ethel had about a [unintelligible] full of pieces for a quilt and she has a part of a quilt already it was already [unintelligible] I couldnt find enough to [unintelligible] about so they had to repeat We stayed to springers till evening and went to young folks meeting with them
Weather very warm