1917


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January 1, 1917  Rained.  We made some boards.

January 2, 1917  We got some wood and moved hay press.

January 3, 1917  We made some boards.  Rained at night.

January 4, 1917  I went to Etown.  Rained.

January 5, 1917  We covered barn at the other place.  Rained.

January 6, 1917  We worked at same.  Went to party at Hubert Crutcher's.

January 7, 1917  We went to James Lee's in evening.

January 8, 1917  Charlie Irwin and Wm. Hauston got some hay.  We moved hay press to J. H. Shelton's.

January 9, 1917  We baled hay for J. H. Shelton.

January 10, 1917  We moved hay press home and hauled stacks of fodder.

January 11, 1917  We killed hogs.

January 12, 1917  We got some wood.

January 13, 1917  Snowed.  Big snow.  We got load of wood for Mother.

January 14, 1917  3 below zero.  Snow 11 inches deep.

January 15, 1917  Snowed.  Nothing doing.

January 16, 1917  Still cold.  Nothing doing.

January 17, 1917  Cold.  Nothing doing.

January 18, 1917  Nothing doing.

January 19, 1917  Nothing doing.

January 20, 1917  We got some wood for Mother.  Edgar Barry got 1021 pounds of hay.  Ray Hutchinson was here.  Bought two tons of hay.

January 21, 1917  Rain today.  Big rain.  The snow all went away.  Mill Creek was on a big boom.

January 22, 1917  We throwed some manure out of the barn and fixed the spring wagon pole.

January 23, 1917  I went to Etown.  Virgil went to Vine Grove and had his teeth fixed.

January 24, 1917  We worked cleaning up ground at Henry's place.  James Cowley got ton of hay.

January 25, 1917  Roy Irwin got ton of hay.  We cut wood for Mother.

January 26, 1917  We cut stalks and got some wood in morning and cut wood for Mother in evening.

January 27, 1917  We cut and hauled wood for Mother.

January 28, 1917  We went to Horace Williams'.

January 29, 1917  We hauled some hay and went to saw mill.

January 30, 1917  We cut some wood.  Barry got load of hay.

January 31, 1917  We hauled fodder stack and piled out some strips at saw mill.


February 1, 1917  We got wood.  Turned cold.

February 2, 1917  Cold.  Nothing doing.  Mrs. Sims was here.

February 3, 1917  We cut some stalks.

February 4, 1917  Grace, Golda, Ted, and Barnie Day was here.

February 5, 1917  Cold.  Nothing doing.

February 6, 1917  We cut and burnt some bushes.  Edgar Barry got load of hay.

February 7, 1917  I went to Etown.  Barry got load of hay. Virgil worked for Mother.

February 8, 1917  We hauled strip from mill at Don Hibbs' place.

February 9, 1917  We got some wood and cut some stalks.

February 10, 1917  I went to mill.  James Cowley got load of hay.

February 11, 1917  We went to church at Mt. Zion.

February 12, 1917  Ed Barry got load of hay.  We cut some stalks.

February 13, 1917  Barry got load of hay.  We cut stalks in morning.  Barrry got load of hay.  Boys hauled strips.

February 14, 1917  We fixed wagon and hauled strips.

February 15, 1917  Snowed.  Nothing doing.

February 16, 1917  I went to see Miles McMillen.  We cleaned out the stables.  Mat Spink was here at night.

February 17, 1917  We got some wood.

February 18, 1917  Bessie and I went to D. C. Bailey's.

February 19, 1917  Went to Etown.

February 20, 1917  We made sled.

February 21, 1917  Fixed plow and cleaned out hen house.

February 22, 1917  I went to Brother John Hargan's funeral.  Boys hauled manure.

February 23, 1917  We cut posts for garden fence.

February 24, 1917  We cut and hauled posted for the garden fence.

February 25, 1917  We stayed at home.

February 26, 1917  We began plowing at Mother's.

February 27, 1917  We plowed and hauled manure at Mother's in morning.  Rained in evening.

February 28, 1917  Big snow on ground this morning.  Ethel Cowley and John Frank Shain was married.


March 1, 1917  Snow on ground.  Hauled load of wood.

March 2, 1917  Snowed and rained all day.  Nothing doing.

March 3, 1917  Went to mill in morning.  Hauled load of feed in evening.

March 4, 1917  Snowed all day.  Barnie was here in evening.

March 5, 1917  Nothing doing.  Snow on the ground.  Mrs. Bush died.

March 6, 1917  Nothing doing.  Snow on the ground.  Little Thelma Goodin died.

March 7, 1917  George Tanner was here in morning.  It rained.  Nothing doing.

March 8, 1917  We made rails.

March 9, 1917  We made rails and fixed fence.

March 10, 1917  I went to Etown after preacher.  Boys hauled out straw stack.

March 11, 1917  We went to church at Sycamore.  It rained at night.  Big tornado in Indiana.

March 12, 1917  I took preacher back to Etown.  It rained.

March 13, 1917  It rained.  Worked old Pearl to wagon and pulled some stumps.

March 14, 1917  We grubbed at the other place.

March 15, 1917  We hauled hay in morning and fodder in evening.

March 16, 1917  We grubbed in morning.  Rained in evening.

March 17, 1917  We grubbed in morning.  Ray Hutchinson got load of hay.  Sold calf to Authur Bailey.

March 18, 1917  We stayed at home in morning.  Dutch was here.  We was at D. B. Sims in evening.

March 19, 1917  We cut stalks in morning.  Plowed in evening.

March 20, 1917  We plowed.  Alice Day, Mother and Annie was here.

March 21, 1917  We hauled posts.  Rained.

March 22, 1917  We hauled manure at Mother's.  Ray Hutchinson got two loads of hay.

March 23, 1917  Rained all day.  Nothing doing.

March 24, 1917  I took Mother and Annie to town.  Boys tore down garden fence.

March 25, 1917  We went to Mother's in evening.

March 26, 1917  We plowed and planted potatoes over at Henry's place.

March 27, 1917  We hauled some manure at Mother's in morning and some posts in evening.

March 28, 1917  We went to Etown and got wire fencing.

March 29, 1917  We plowed.

March 30, 1917  We plowed in morning and sowed oats in evening.

March 31, 1917  We finished sowing oats and planted potatoes.


April 1, 1917  We stayed at home.  It rained all day.  John Blair died.

April 2, 1917  We worked on yard fence.  Barnie and Dutch helped.

April 3, 1917  We worked on yard fence.

April 4, 1917  I went to Vine Grove.  Boys worked for Mother.

April 5, 1917  Rained all day.  Nothing doing.

April 6, 1917  We fixed some fence and hauled some stumps.

April 7, 1917  Sowed orchard grass and hauled load of hay. Virgil went to Vine Grove and got buggy.

April 8, 1917  We stayed at home.  Rained and snowed.

April 9, 1917  We worked on garden fence for Mother.

April 10, 1917  We worked on garden fence at home in morning and plowed in evening.  Sowed clover seed.

April 11, 1917  We plowed at Mother's.

April 12, 1917  We plowed at same.

April 13, 1917  We hauled manure.

April 14, 1917  We hauled manure in morning and plowed in evening.

April 15, 1917  Jess Cowley and family was here.

April 16, 1917  We plowed at Mother's.

April 17, 1917  We plowed at Mother's and fixed fence.

April 18, 1917  Elmer and I went to Etown.  Virgil plowed.

April 19, 1917  We made garden.

April 20, 1917  We hauled manure in morning and plowed in evening.

April 21, 1917  We hauled manure in morning and plowed in evening.

April 22, 1917  We went to Sunday School at Mt. Zion.

April 23, 1917  We plowed and hauled manure.

April 24, 1917  We plowed.  Virgil's birthday.  Big crowd of kids here at night.

April 25, 1917  Plowed and worked in shop.  Bud Day put the colts on pasture.

April 26, 1917  We went to Etown to get fertilizer.

April 27, 1917  The boys harrowed and we planted a little corn in evening.

April 28, 1917  It rained.  We planted some corn in evening.  Big rain at night.

April 29, 1917  It rained.  We went to George Tanner's in evening.

April 30, 1917  I helped Bud make Sanford's harrow and grubbed at Mother's in evening.  It rained.


May 1, 1917  I went to Etown and had tooth pulled.  Boys grubbed at Mother's.

May 2, 1917  Boys harrowed at other place and at Mother's.  I made and hung gate.

May 3, 1917  We planted corn at the other place and at Mother's.  Rained some.

May 4, 1917  We worked some at Mother's.  James Lee got some corn.

May 5, 1917  We fixed fence for Mother.

May 6, 1917  Bessie and I went to Ed Ash's.

May 7, 1917  We planted corn at Mother's.

May 8, 1917  We planted corn at same.

May 9, 1917  We finished planing corn field at Mother's and went to Etown.  Stayed all night.  Rained.

May 10, 1917  We planted corn in evening.

May 11, 1917  We planted corn.  Golda and Ted dropped pumpkin seeds.  Rained.

May 12, 1917  We finished planting corn at home and plowed potatoes.

May 13, 1917  Bessie and I went to church at Mt. Zion.  Cold.

May 14, 1917  We worked at Mother's fixing fence.

May 15, 1917  We plowed and cleaned up ground at Mother's.

May 16, 1917  We finished planting corn at Mother's.  Got done planting corn.

May 17, 1917  We broke ground for cane at Mother's.

May 18, 1917  We planted cane and fixed fence at Mother's.

May 19, 1917  We went to Etown.

May 20, 1917  We went to Mt. Zion to Sunday School.

May 21, 1917  The boys hauled manure.  I hoed the potatoes.

May 22, 1917  We plowed and fixed some tomato ground.  It rained.

May 23, 1917  We made watermelon patch.

May 24, 1917  We but bushes.  Barnie helped.

May 25, 1917  We went to church at Cedar Creek.  Mr. Bud Viers was buried.

May 26, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys cut some bushes.

May 27, 1917  D. C. Bailey and wife, A. L. Bailey and family, Mother and Annie, Tom Sims and J. H. Huback was here.  Big rain at night.

May 28, 1917  Rained.  Nothing doing.

May 29, 1917  I was at John Masters', Jess Cowley's, and Fenley Masters' to see measles.

May 30, 1917  We replanted corn.

May 31, 1917  Elmer set out tobacco for Huback.  I went to Horace's.  Virgil went to John's.


June 1, 1917  Rained.  We hauled cocle out of wheat.  Elmer went to Frank Cowley's.

June 2, 1917  We went to Etown.

June 3, 1917  We stayed at home.  D. B. Sims and Mirtle Huback was here in evening.

June 4, 1917  We replanted and harrowed corn.

June 5, 1917  Boys harrowed corn at Mother's.

June 6, 1917  We harrowed and replanted corn.  Cyclone blew Hubert Crutcher's house down.

June 7, 1917  Went to Thomas Williams' funeral.

June 8, 1917  Boys sprouted oats.  I stayed at Mother's.

June 9, 1917  Virgil went to Etown.  I stayed at Mother's.

June 10, 1917  We stayed at Mother's.

June 11, 1917  Boys harrowed corn for Bud Day in evening.

June 12, 1917  Harrowed for Bud in morning and for us in evening.

June 13, 1917  We harrowed corn.

June 14, 1917  We harrowed corn and plowed potatoes.

June 15, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys plowed corn.

June 16, 1917  Plowed corn and worked patches.

June 17, 1917  I was at Mother's.

June 18, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys plowed corn.

June 19, 1917  Plowed corn and cut bushes.

June 20, 1917  We plowed corn and cut bushes.

June 21, 1917  Plowed corn and cut bushes.

June 22, 1917  We plowed corn and cut some clover for Mother.

June 23, 1917  We cut bushes at home and broke up some hay for Mother.

June 24, 1917  I was at James Lee's in the evening.

June 25, 1917  I cut bushes.  Boys plowed corn.

June 26, 1917  I cut bushes.  Boys plowed corn.

June 27, 1917  I went to Etown and got barrel of oil.  Boys cut wheat at Mother's.

June 28, 1917  We cut wheat at Mother's.  Rained late in evening.

June 29, 1917  We cut wheat for me.

June 30, 1917  We finished cutting wheat at Mother's.


July 1, 1917  We went to Sunday School at Zion.

July 2, 1917  Boys helped Bud Day cut wheat.  I hoed watermelons.

July 3, 1917  We finished cutting wheat for me and Bud's.  I went to Etown.

July 4, 1917  The kids all went to the river.  I hoed some watermelons and put pair of shoes on Joe.

July 5, 1917  The boys plowed corn and I cut bushes.

July 6, 1917  We plowed corn and cane.

July 7, 1917  We harrowed corn.

July 8, 1917  I went after medicine for Mother.  The children went to church.

July 9, 1917  We harrowed corn.

July 10, 1917  Elmer harrowed corn in morning and we put up oats in evening.  Virgil helped cut wheat at John's.

July 11, 1917  We finished cutting oats and cut some bushes.

July 12, 1917  Went to Etown.  Took some peaches.  Got two dollars a bushel for them.

July 13, 1917  We stacked wheat in the evening.

July 14, 1917  We finished stacking wheat and hauled our oats in.

July 15, 1917  Rained good rain.  We stayed at home.

July 16, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys cut threshing wood.  Rained in evening.

July 17, 1917  Worked some in shop.  Rained big rain in evening.

July 18, 1917  Cut some grass in morning.

July 19, 1917  We cut and shocked some hay.  Barney helped us.

July 20, 1917  We went to Mt. Zion to help clean off graveyard.

July 21, 1917  Rained.  Nothing doing.

July 22, 1917  Horace Williams and family was here.  Rained.

July 23, 1917  We fixed some fence for Mother and put stack of hay.  Rained in evening.

July 24, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys worked for Mother.  Rained.

July 25, 1917  We cut some bushes in morning.  Rained in evening.

July 26, 1917  We mowed weeds.  Boys made pig pen.

July 27, 1917  We helped make kraut in morning and cut bushes in evening.

July 28, 1917  I went to Etown.  Virgil stayed with Mother.  Elmer cut bushes.

July 29, 1917  We went to dedication at Mt. Zion.  Mother's horse died.

July 30, 1917  We burnt old Dan and cut bushes.

July 31, 1917  I went to Etown in the morning.  We helped Bud Day, Horace Williams, and Bryant Viers thresh.


August 1, 1917  We threshed in the morning and helped George Tanner thresh in the evening.  I had 45 1/2 bushels of wheat.

August 2, 1917  We helped George Tanner thresh.

August 3, 1917  We cut and put up hay.

August 4, 1917  We worked in the hay.

August 5, 1917  We went to church at Mt. Zion.

August 6, 1917  We finished the hay.

August 7, 1917  I went to Etown in the morning.  The Mt. Zion preachers was here.  Bro. Bill and Bro. Caw.  Rained.

August 8, 1917  I fixed some harness and pair of shoes.

August 9, 1917  We cut some bushes out of the corn and shoed horses.

August 10, 1917  I went to Etown after Brother Carrier.

August 11, 1917  Went to Sycamore to Children's Day.

August 12, 1917  We went to baptizing at Mt. Zion and to Wm. T. Peck's for dinner.

August 13, 1917  I went to Etown.

August 14, 1917  We cleaned wheat.  Plowed late corn.

August 15, 1917  We went to Vine Grove with load of wheat.  Got $2.20.

August 16, 1917  We helped James Lee and Kilgus thresh.

August 17, 1917  We took load of wheat to Vine Grove.  Got $2.20 per bushel.

August 18, 1917  We cut some clover and weeds for Mother.

August 19, 1917  Bessie and I went to John Masters'.

August 20, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys baled straw for Kilgus' boys.

August 21, 1917  We baled some straw for Kilgus' boys and moved the press to Tanner's.  Rained good rain.  Onie Day got married.

August 22, 1917  We went to Etown.  Took some peaches.

August 23, 1917  We fixed some fence.  I went to Vine Grove.  Took some apples and plums in evening.

August 24, 1917  I went to Etown after Annie.  Boys baled straw at Tanner's.

August 25, 1917  I went to Vine Grove.  Got new buggy.  Boys baled straw for same.

August 26, 1917  Bessie and I went to church at Cedar Creek and to Albert Sherrard's.

August 27, 1917  Boys baled straw for Tanner.  I took Annie to her school and fixed spring wagon wheel.

August 28, 1917  I went to Etown to fair.

August 29, 1917  We went to Etown to the fair.  Rained and hailed.  Wind storm.

August 30, 1917  Rained.  We picked some peaches.

August 31, 1917  I went to Etown.  Took peaches and cantaloupes.


September 1, 1917  Boys cut some weeds.  I fixed buggy.

September 2, 1917  We had lots of company.  Gertie Cofer, Clara Miller, Barnie Day, Grace, Golda, and Manola Day, Frazier Sims, Horace Masters, Tom Sims, and Harlie Irwin was here.

September 3, 1917  We cut some weeds in the morning.  Rained in evening.

September 4, 1917  We picked some peaches to take to Etown.

September 5, 1917  I went to Etown and took fruit.  Boys cut and shocked some weeds.

September 6, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys worked at same.

September 7, 1917  I went to Etown.  Took peaches.  Rained.

September 8, 1917  I took Mother to Etown.

September 9, 1917  We went to Zion to Church and to Bud Miller's for dinner.

September 10, 1917  Boys went to Amos Deckard's and got 3 pigs and picked peaches.  I made tobacco knives for Wayne Wright.

September 11, 1917  I went to Etown and took peaches.  Boys cut some weeds.

September 12, 1917  I went to Miss Leona Bailey's and got some roosters and to Pat Patterson's and bought a hog.  It weighed 120 pounds.

September 13, 1917  Virgil and I went to Patterson's and got hog.  We finished putting up weeds.

September 14, 1917  I went to state fair at Louisville.  Boys dug potatoes.

September 15, 1917  Bessie and I went to Etown.  Boys dug potatoes.

September 16, 1917  We was at Bud Day's.

September 17, 1917  We cut corn.  I went to sale at Sullivan's in evening.

September 18, 1917  We cut corn.

September 19, 1917  We cut corn.

September 20, 1917  We cut some corn.

September 21, 1917  We cut corn.  Rained.  Virgil took Mother to Ed Ash's.

September 22, 1917  We cut corn.  I went to Etown in the evening.

September 23, 1917  We went to Sunday School at Mt. Zion.

September 24, 1917  We cut corn.

September 25, 1917  We cut corn.

September 26, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys cut corn.

September 27, 1917  Rained.  We cut corn.

September 28, 1917  We cut corn in the morning.  Boys cut corn for Henry Masters'.

September 29, 1917  We cut corn.  Went to the supper at Deckard's at night.

September 30, 1917  I was at Henry Masters'.


October 1, 1917  We cut corn.

October 2, 1917  We cut corn.

October 3, 1917  We cut corn.  Rained a little.

October 4, 1917  I went to Vine Grove to mill.  Boys finished cutting corn in morning and went to Etown in evening.

October 5, 1917  We hauled pumpkins in the morning and sharpened plows and harrow in the evening.

October 6, 1917  I went to Etown after fertilizer.  Boys plowed for wheat.

October 7, 1917  Bessie and I went to Sunday School at Zion.

October 8, 1917  We plowed for wheat in the morning and cut cane in the evening.

October 9, 1917  We cut cane.  I bought 4 calves.

October 10, 1917  We finished cutting cane and fixed some wheat ground.

October 11, 1917  We fixed ground for wheat.  Rained at night.

October 12, 1917  We went and got calves in morning and hauled pumpkins in evening.

October 13, 1917  We began sowing wheat.

October 14, 1917  We went to Sunday School at Zion in morning and to George Tanner's in evening.  George Tanner's wife died this morning.

October 15, 1917  We went to funeral at Mill Creek and sowed some wheat.

October 16, 1917  We sowed some wheat and hauled some pumpkins.

October 17, 1917  I went to Etown to get fertilizer in morning and sowed wheat in evening.

October 18, 1917  We finished sowing wheat.  Rained at night.

October 19, 1917  We done jobs.

October 20, 1917  We went to Etown to the show.

October 21, 1917  We stayed at home in morning and went to Mother's in the evening.

October 22, 1917  We finished digging potatoes.

October 23, 1917  We put potatoes away.  Hauled loads of pumpkins and some corn.  Wm. A. Day got his colts off the pasture.

October 24, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys fixed fence to turn hogs out

October 25, 1917  We got load of corn in morning and set the hay press in evening.

October 26, 1917  It rained in morning.  We hauled wood in evening.

October 27, 1917  The boys cut wood for Mother in morning. We went to sale at the Early place.

October 28, 1917  We went hickory nut hunting.

October 29, 1917  We baled hay in morning.  It rained in evening.

October 30, 1917  We fixed up the barn.  It snowed some and turned cold.

October 31, 1917  We baled hay.  Barnie helped.


November 1, 1917  We baled some hay for D. B. Sims and hauled our hay in.  Barnie helped.

November 2, 1917  Boys baled hay at Sam Fox's.  Bessie and I went to Vine Grove.

November 3, 1917  Boys finished baling hay in morning.  We all went to sale at Wm. Bryant.  Bessie and I went to Ed Ash's at night.

November 4, 1917  We come home from Ed Ash's.

November 5, 1917  We gathered corn at Mother's.

November 6, 1917  We gathered corn at Mother's.

November 7, 1917  I took Mother to town.  Boys gathered corn.

November 8, 1917  We gathered corn.

November 9, 1917  We gathered corn.

November 10, 1917  We gathered corn.

November 11, 1917  We went to church at Sycamore.

November 12, 1917  We gathered corn at Mother's.

November 13, 1917  We gathered corn.

November 14, 1917  We gathered corn.

November 15, 1917  We gathered corn.

November 16, 1917  We gathered corn.  Aggie Williams died.

November 17, 1917  I fooled around.  Virgil went to town.  Elmer went to Frank Cowley's.

November 18, 1917  We stayed at home.

November 19, 1917  We gathered corn at home.

November 20, 1917  We gathered corn.

November 21, 1917  I went to Vine Grove.  Boys gathered corn.

November 22, 1917  We gathered corn.  Rained.

November 23, 1917  Boys got some wood for Mother in morning.  Hauled load of cane in evening.

November 24, 1917  I went to Etown.  Boys cut some wood for Mother.

November 25, 1917  We stayed at home.

November 26, 1917  I went to sale at Bob Sheets'.  Boys worked at Mother's.

November 27, 1917  Rained all day.

November 28, 1917  Rained.  Frazier Sims and Elsie Pawley was married.  Virgil went to wedding.

November 29, 1917  Rained.  We went hunting.  Thanksgiving.

November 30, 1917  Virgil and I went to Vine Grove.


December 1, 1917  We got some wood.  Gathered 5 shocks of corn.

December 2, 1917  We had lots of company.  Ed Pfeiffer and family.  Grace, Golda, and Manola and Barnie Day and D. B. Sims and family was here.

December 3, 1917  We gathered corn.

December 4, 1917  We gathered corn.

December 5, 1917  We gathered corn.

December 6, 1917  We gathered corn in morning.  Snowed.  Ed Ash and Alfred Williams was here at night.

December 7, 1917  We went hunting.

December 8, 1917  Big snow this morning.  Nothing doing.

December 9, 1917  9 below zero this morning.  Nothing doing.

December 10, 1917  We got some wood for Mother.  Still cold.

December 11, 1917  We got some wood for us and Ural.  Still cold.

December 12, 1917  We got wood for Ural and for ourselves. Still cold.

December 13, 1917  Snowed in morning.  Nothing doing.

December 14, 1917  We put soles on sled.  Cold.

December 15, 1917  We went to Etown.  Cold.

December 16, 1917  We was at Mother's.

December 17, 1917  I helped Ural render lard.  Virgil helped Bud kill hogs in morning and got wood in evening.

December 18, 1917  We killed a hog.  Weighted 285.

December 19, 1917  I helped Henry Masters kill hogs.  Boys got wood for Mother.

December 20, 1917  We cut wood for Ural.  Shirley Day was here.

December 21, 1917  We cut and hauled wood for Mother.

December 22, 1917  I went to Etown.

December 23, 1917  We stayed at home.

December 24, 1917  We went to Etown.

December 25, 1917  We stayed at home.  It snowed all day.

December 26, 1917  We went to Mother's.

December 27, 1917  Cold.  Nothing doing.  Gertie Cofer was here at night.

December 28, 1917  The children went to Joe Pfeiffer's.  I went to Ural Kilgus'.

December 29, 1917  Cold.  We hauled I some cane and fodder.

December 30, 1917  We stayed at home.  5 below zero this morning.

December 31, 1917  We cut wood for Mother.