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Clara Steen Skott diary, 1917-1921

1917-1921 - 08-01

AUGUST 1
1917. Baked the first rye bread I ever made. It was too sticky. Also baked molasses spice cake. No high test gasoline in town, so borrowed school irons and ironed 3 hrs. Hans' school work, mostly overseeing garden, begins. He put drawer in typewriter table, and we straightened that up. I sent mamma button hole scissors for her birthday.
1918. Ate another dish of ice cream with Dahlberg's at social, then drove home, getting here at 1:20. Up by 7:30. I canned 4 qts. tomatoes, 1 of apples, 2 of beans, and 1 of kohlrabi, and made 3 glasses apple jelly (apples are windfalls from
Rees' trees).
1919. Baked bread, did good-sized baby washing, put a batch of corn to dry, canned 4 qt. tomatoes, finished my ironing, wrote to Mrs. Keck, to Adela and her mother. Letters from her say they have been offered $400 an acre for their farm. Spent evening at Miller's.
1920. Started as Supt. of Godard S.S. 25 there. I drove our Ford. We had our first tomato for dinner. Hans and I picked about 3 qt. Blackberries in our timber, and a lot of big cucumbers in truck patch. Wrote to mamma. Missed having nap, first time in ten days.

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AUGUST 1 1917. Baked the first rye bread I ever made. It was too sticky. Also baked molasses spice cake. No high test gasoline in town, so borrowed school irons and ironed 3 hrs. Hans' school work, mostly overseeing garden, begins. He put drawer in typewriter table, and we straightened that up. I sent mamma button hole scissors for her birthday. 1918. Ate another dish of ice cream with Dahlberg's at social, then drove home, getting here at 1:20. Up by 7:30. I canned 4 qts. tomatoes, 1 of apples, 2 of beans, and 1 of kohlrabi, and made 3 glasses apple jelly (apples are windfalls from Rees' trees). 1919. Baked bread, did good-sized baby washing, put a batch of corn to dry, canned 4 qt. tomatoes, finished my ironing, wrote to Mrs. Keck, to Adela and her mother. Letters from her say they have been offered $400 an acre for their farm. Spent evening at Miller's. 1920. Started as Supt. of Godard S.S. 25 there. I drove our Ford. We had our first tomato for dinner. Hans and I picked about 3 qt. Blackberries in our timber, and a lot of big cucumbers in truck patch. Wrote to mamma. Missed having nap, first time in ten days.