Saturday October 7th 1916

 Fair. Memphis is 10 years old. Sidney went to Fulton a.m., got home at 3 p.m. Got a letter from Aunt Adaline, 1 from Mina, and card from Philys R. and several other letters. Maud went with Vera and been to Florence's twice. Loren Wood came hunting, told me we could have some cabbage. Memphis went over and got 4 heads. Cassy and Lillian with her. Mora gone to spend the night with Vera. 

Tuesday September 19th 1916.

 Continues very cool. Cassy is better, sent letter to Sidney. I picked [unknown, paper ripped].

**The family moves and the journals do not pick up again until early October, the sheets may have been lost. 

Monday September 18th 1916

 Rainy night last night. Clearing in morning. Fred came at 1 p.m. after dinner, loaded up and started for Volney at 6 p.m. Sidney, Maud and Memphis went with him. Cold Night. Bell and Mrs. Russel came p.m. Cassy sick. 

Monday July 17th 1916

Hot day. Sidney went to W. Monroe, got feed and groceries. Rode past way both ways. Mora, Memphis and Cassy picked berries for Cassy Potter. Mora went to Sloson's and got her clothes tonight. 

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.

Wednesday July 12th 1916

 Hot, sultry with an occasional breeze. Mora rode past way over to Little France a.m., got some rolled oats and sugar. Maud, Memphis and Cassy went and picked a l0 qrt pail. Also a carrier of berries at Mr. Cary's for us to eat p.m. Sidney went to draw hay at Mr. Smith's but it rained before they got fairly started for the first load.

Friday July 7th 1916

 Fair, hot day. Sidney and I cultivated with Frank Roggiski's horse. Mora picked berries for Cassy. Maud and Memphis for Bisbo's. I cooked the turtle mora got yesterday for supper.

Wednesday July 5th 1916

Fair, cool. Peter Dupra came for James' clothes a.m. Sidney and Cassy picked berries a.m. at Bisbo's. Maud and Memphis all day, caught another rabbit. Mora picked berries for Casey, came back and picked 4 qrts at Bisbo's pm. 

Friday June 30th 1916

 I got up 5:45, drew off milk, fed pig calves and chickens before the rest were up except Pa. Picked berries, all of us got 2 crates and Cassy and I picked 20 qts over to bring home. James came and brought us home. Marian and Myrtle came, Susie traded a goose and a guinea hen for 2 hens. She gave me some butter an a pail of milk to bring home. When we got to Bisbo's our girls rode home having just finished, they got tickets cashed, Sidney, Maude and Memphis went home with James.

Tuesday June 27th 1916

Hot, muggy a.m., showery p.m. Mora and Maud rode over to Cassy's with Mrs. Dillenbeck and from there, walked over to Cottet's, to get Mora's clothes.

Friday June 23rd 1916

Lovely all day. Sidney, Mora and I hoed and planted some beans. Sent a seed order to Salger. Paul is better, Cassy sick, a.m.

Thursday June 15th 1916

8 ducks hatched. I dead in shell. Fair a.m., rainy cold p.m.  Children got pretty wet coming home from school. Lettie let them take some coats. Cassy went p.m., she went to Bisbo's a.m. to meet the mail as I expected a letter from Sidney, but none came however.

Thursday June 1st, 1916

Fair, warm today. Quite a hard frost this morning, quite a few things were black on the low land. Our early potatoes that were up got niped. Maud and Cassy went to school. Memphis took care of Paul so I could help plant corn. Memphis and Maud covered like little nailers after 4. Sidney carried manure in 2 pails and dropped it all in the hill. Lafayette Mead came here at noon, eat dinner and started for Potter's. Mr. Wm. Johnson called this eve, on his way to prayer meeting. Sidney, Maud and Memphis went to Roscoe Bisbo's, got some groceries off Glen Davy. Got some dandy molasses for .40c/gallon.

Wednesday May 31st 1916

Fair, cold high wind. Sidney and I planted corn. Maud and Memphis went to school. Cassy looked after Paul. I sent a letter to Aunt Adaline Raymond, her birthday 85 years old.

Tuesday May 30th 1916

Showery. Sidney and I planted best we could between showers. Memphis and Cassy went to school (kept school to make up a lost day) Maud staid home to look after the babie's.

Monday May 29th 1916

Hot. Sidney went to N. Constantia and then to Constantia. Got oats, meal, 1# tea and a can of milk. He was awfully tired when he reached home. Maud, Memphis and Cassy went to school. Mora went to Elmer's about 4: 30 p.m.  James, Susie and the baby came at 5 p.m., had been to Mallory, Little France and then here. I dug 12 rows of holes to plant corn.

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.

Saturday May 20th 1916

Cool. James and Mable drove over a.m. and brought Maud and Memphis home. Brought some milk and a can of maple syrup, quart. Maud and Cassy went over to Elmer Cottet's with the Russel girls to get vinegar. Mrs. Russel and the girls here, a.m.

Tuesday May 16th 1916

Rainy a.m. generally cloudy p.m. 3 girls went to school, teacher sick so they came home and gone fishing, p.m.  Memphis got a sucker. Got a bag of clothes at Cassy's to make over.

Monday May 15th 1916

Rainy, thunder showers all night. Children went to school except Mora. She went to Elmer Cottet's at 5 p.m.. Other children went to Cassy Potters after school, she gave our Cassy a nice little new hat. Mora and Lillian went to Johnson's to get a little sour milk. Mrs.J. gave them cookies. Pa's birthday. Mrs. Russel came for flowers. Put Maud's duck setting.