July 12
Helped sprinkle all our beans for Beetles. Took off 39 chicks. Dug some potatoes. Cleaned out setting nests. Finished mowing yard. Worked in garden.
July 11
Cleaned chick coops and roosts off. Feeling rather bum. Worked in garden this afternoon. Went after cows and picked enough berries to can 2 qts. Helped milk and separate. Took milk and went to Mabel's and had cream. Chicks hatching. Hogs $5.55; Eggs 10 cents. Cream 12 cents.
July 10
Went to S. S. Velma, Emmas and Violet went too. We four went to Oak Grove to Jennie Jolly's funeral. Garland Fox and family were here this evening. Also Wanda and Ray. Raining tonite.
July 9
Dusted setting hens, cleaned up front room and went and helped Carrie cook for threshers. Hoed cucumbers, mopped kitchen, studied S. S. lesson and took a bath.
July 8
Helped do mornings work. Worked some button hoes and Violet and I went berry picking. Got about 1 1/2 gal. Read papers and mama P. came and we finished making her green dress. She gave me a J. C. Penny 25 cent dress. Helped milk and mowed some grass. Boys finished threshing wheat this P.M. Wonderful not to cook for them. Robert here tonite. Hoover, Roosevelt and Upshaw are pres nominees.
July 7
Did the ironing. Helped get some beets ready to cook to can. Velma was down today. Had lots of wind and rain just after dinner. A cyclone hit s. of N. Vernon and almost swept old Vernon off the map. Did some patching this P.M. and made a suit of underwear. Folks stopped on way home tonite. Robert and Violet came and took Ora and myself to Vernon tonite. Surely was terrible. Business section was utterely destroyed. Wanda and Ray were out tonight.
July 6
Did the washing. Helped ma T. finish remaking her black dress. Picked a few B. berries in garden. Reset some cabbage plants. Dampened clothes. Cut out a suit of underwear.
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