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Clara Steen Skott diary, 1917-1921
1917-1921 - 06-20
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June 20 1917. Started out three times to go to town in P.M., but rain and mud prevented, till I got a Ford ride all way in. I set out tomato plants and replanted beans and beets. Hans met me when I walked half way home. Margaret and Otto Weidemann sent us meat fork and gravy ladle. 1918. Hans got back home at 3:00 A.M. so we slept late. The Ford had to have new radius rod. Had to clean up my dusty house. I rode 40 miles or so with Hans in P.M., making arrangements for canning demonstration, in Greenfield, etc. Very hot- got sunburned again. 7:30. Hoed sweet corn till dark. 1919. Baked oatmeal bread, did more mending, cut out and started flowered blue overblouse. Mrs. Peterson brought us a gallon of cherries, and Mr. Dunlop gave Hans a quart of their fine strawberries. Heavy thunderstorm in P.M. Letter from A. Bess Clark. 1920. After Hans straightened rod on Ford I bent, and I baked a pie, a big load of us- Hans, his father, mother, grandmother, Velma, Constance, Hilda and I went to Olga's for dinner. His grandmother stayed. Rained coming home in eve. Smallest gosling killed by auto. We ate ice cream at Warren's. June 21 1921. 7 washersful- took most of forenoon. Baked big white cake for ice cream social at Theodore Miller's in evening. Program first, coon quartet, farce, etc. Fine evening, nice lawn, good ice cream, large crowd.
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June 20 1917. Started out three times to go to town in P.M., but rain and mud prevented, till I got a Ford ride all way in. I set out tomato plants and replanted beans and beets. Hans met me when I walked half way home. Margaret and Otto Weidemann sent us meat fork and gravy ladle. 1918. Hans got back home at 3:00 A.M. so we slept late. The Ford had to have new radius rod. Had to clean up my dusty house. I rode 40 miles or so with Hans in P.M., making arrangements for canning demonstration, in Greenfield, etc. Very hot- got sunburned again. 7:30. Hoed sweet corn till dark. 1919. Baked oatmeal bread, did more mending, cut out and started flowered blue overblouse. Mrs. Peterson brought us a gallon of cherries, and Mr. Dunlop gave Hans a quart of their fine strawberries. Heavy thunderstorm in P.M. Letter from A. Bess Clark. 1920. After Hans straightened rod on Ford I bent, and I baked a pie, a big load of us- Hans, his father, mother, grandmother, Velma, Constance, Hilda and I went to Olga's for dinner. His grandmother stayed. Rained coming home in eve. Smallest gosling killed by auto. We ate ice cream at Warren's. June 21 1921. 7 washersful- took most of forenoon. Baked big white cake for ice cream social at Theodore Miller's in evening. Program first, coon quartet, farce, etc. Fine evening, nice lawn, good ice cream, large crowd.
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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