Thursday September 14th 1916

 Very close, muggy day. Rain hard at night. Sidney and Mora husked corn. Other girls picked off beans. Martin bought his cow tonight, looks like a good one. Mr. Wilson came, I got graham, oats and sugar.

Thursday August 31st 1916

 Fair, warm day. Mr. Wilson came. I got some graham and matches. sold him 1 doz. eggs, .28 cents. Glen Davy called also, I sent a letter Hannah. Mrs. Russel called to have girls stay with her girls while she met Hank with his groceries.

Thursday August 24th 1916

 Fair. Sent a letter and note to Mina. Bell Allen and Mrs. Albert Herholts called p.m. Sidney picked 9 qts of blackberries. Mr. Wilson did not come. 

Thursday, August 17th 1916

 Warm. Sidney and Mora went up on the Fidler place and got about 5qts of lovely berries. Sidney went p.m. got 2 qts more. I went on this lot, got 2 qts, not at all nice. too dryed up. Let Mr. Wilson have 6 qts. I also picked 3 qts of huckleberries.

Thursday August 10th 1916

 Cool. Sidney and I picked berries p.m. Mora picked some a.m. Gave .8 cents for black berries. I got flour, soap, baking powder and yeast off Wilson. Bell took 3 more loads, all moved but 3 have got away from her.

Thursday August 3rd 1916

Cool. We hoed beans and popcorn. Children pulled weeds. I got flour and salt off Mr. Wilson. Molasses and compound off Davey, also 2# spanish onions for which I paid .7 cents per lb. Sent an order to Sears Roebuck. Rec'd a card from Sidney. Mailed a card to him. Sprinkled ever so little p.m. 

Thursday July 27th 1916

Warm, burning dry, everything curled up. Sidney killed more potatoes. Mora and I went berrying p.m. Got only enough for 1 qrt can and small glass of jam. I got flour and soap off Mr. Wilson. Sugar and lard off Davy.

Thursday July 13th 1916

 Hot a.m. thunder shower p.m. Sidney went to Smith's at noon. Mora went to Potter's. Maud and Memphis to Bisbo's but as they were through picking they went with Mora. Cassy went down with them and brought back their money. Mr. Wilson said he could not get any flour, so I sent a card to Davy to bring us a sack. Children all had their dinner pails full of berries when they came back.

Thursday July 6th 1916

 Beautiful bright warm day. Maud and Memphis picked berries at Bisbo's. Mora walked over on the Pinnacle and back, they were all gone. Sidney and I hoed. I got 5# graham, 5# soft a. sugar and yeast foam off Mr. Wilson, and flour comp. beans, soda off Davy.

Thursday June 22nd, 1916

First nice day in sometime. Sidney, Mora hoed potatoes and beans. I found {unknown, page ripped} in a hole back of hen house. Rec'd a card form Mina. Sidney gone after the rest of his {unknown, page ripped}, he left them in woods above Geo. Munger's. Went to Mr. Smiths, a.m. I sold 6 eggs, got 3 lbs grahm off of Mr. Wilson, a.m. .22c for eggs.  Paul is sick.

Thursday May 25th 1916

Warm bright day. Sidney and I planted potatoes a.m. and I and the children p.m.  Sidney worked for Frank Kent p.m., this eve. He and Maud have gone to prayer meeting at Claud Bryant's. Memphis and Cassy went to school but the teacher was gone away, so there was no school. Memphis cut her foot on a nail. I got 10# meal off of Wilson, also groceries off of Davy.  1/2c for sugar and 15c for compound. Maud took the turkey to Bell's and went and brought her home tonight.

Friday May 19th 1916

Bright, beautiful day, between 4 and 5, thunder shower, then clear. 3 girls went to school, a.m. Maud and Memphis rode over on the Pinnacle with Pete Dupra at 6:30 p.m. I got 10# meal, 5 graham and 2 thread off of Mr. Wilson, a.m.. Hazel Kent gave Maud a pr. of shoes she had outgrown. I did a good big washing.

Thursday May 11th 1916

Cool, high wind. Children went to school. Mora came home and went acrost to {page ripped, unreadable} tonight Maud and Memphis got {page ripped, unreadable} uncle Billy's this eve to prayer meeting. Mora went with Cottetts folks to social at Roscoe Bisbo's last night. I sent a letter to sidney, got 1/2 sack bread flour off Mr. Wilson, also can of red cross milk, paid 3 cents a can. Mrs Kent gave Memphis some dahlia and gladiola bulbs tonight.

Thursday April 20, 1916

Rainy a.m., fair p.m. Children went to school. Rec'd a letter from Sidney, enclosed .50c coin. Mr. Wilson came but he did not have any flour. Russel girls came for an hour this eve. Mr. Russel came for them. Mora took a little hulled corn to Bell, eve. I let the ducks out and they went off in the swail a.m.

Thursday April 13, 1916

Rainy a.m., pleasant p.m. Paul was very sick all night, better tonight. Sidney came a little past 5 p.m., brought 1/2 # flour, 5# rice, 1/2 # coffee, some sugar, can molasses, can milk and bk powder, also lard, besides his scroll. A load alright. Gone to prayer meeting eve. Mora and Maud with him. Sent Maud Cronans flour by them. Mora got a peck of potatoes off Russel's. Mr. Wilson came, I got 10# graham flour off him. Red hen died.

Thursday April 6, 1916

Nice a.m. Rain and snow p.m. Sidney went away with the scroll at 6 a.m. Mora, Memphis and Cassy went to school, very slushy coming home. Russel girls stopped for them this morning. Mrs. Russel stopped in awhile. Mr. Wilson came, his first trip this year.

Tuesday November 2, 1915

Cold raw wind. Rained and hailed about 4 p.m. Mora came over acrost with Lettie, she went {unable to read, ripped}. Mora, Maud and Memphis went to school together. Russel came just dark, wanted one of the girls to help Mamie while he went and see about a house to {unable to read, ripped}. So Mora went. Maud and Memphis went with {unable to read, ripped}, came back with the lantern. I got off of Mr. Wilson, 5# graham, 1 red cross and 1 soap. Sold him eleven eggs at .38c/doz. Sidney started at 9 a.m. to go and vote and go on towards Fulton intending to get as far as Loren woods tonight. Volney Russel's barn burned last night, all his farming tools, horse, cow, hogs and hens, also burned with it. Mr. House came in and talked himself out as usual.

Thursday October 28, 1915

Beautiful day, white frost last night. Ice in tub. Thunder and lightening'd all eve. I got 10# graham, 1 red cross, and 1 lenox soap off Mr. Wilson. Sold him 11 eggs at .38c/doz. I let Bell have 4 eggs. Children went to school. Brought their dinner pails full of sweet apple's from Cronins. Harry put putty on two lights of window.

Thursday October 21, 1915

Quite a nice day, very little mist about noon. Mr. Wilson came 10 a.m. I got 10# graham, 1 red cross. Sold 1 1/4 doz. eggs for .34c/doz. The Russel girls stopped for our girls this morning to go to school. Arthur Getman came with an automobile.

Wednesday October 13, 1915

A nice warm day. Children at school. Sidney left home at 9 a.m., walking to Brewerton and from there toward Cicero. Mr. Wilson came a.m. We got 5# graham, 1 red cross, and 1 lenox soap. Sold him 1 1/2 doz. eggs at .30c/doz.