Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal - February 13, 1918 - February 25, 1918

13 - Wed. We washed this forenoon.  Fred had dinner at half past ten and then went Boos's.  I finished the was & decorated the pulpit at church & then went to the funeral.  Old Mrs. Nettz had dinner with us.  Cecil Boos was one of my S.S. scholars last year.  When I got home I did the scrubbing & rolled up the clothes.  Then we went to a school program. Basket (?) social are here.  They made $14 for the school 7 $18 for Red Cross.

14 - Thur.  This morning I recanned over twenty quarts of tomatoes.  They froze & forced the lids loose.  So I cooked them up and recanned them so they would not spoil.  This afternoon I ironed.

15 - I finished ironing today.

16 - I did up my Sat. work & did some of the mending.

17 - We went to church to day.  I did some reading this afternoon & went to church this evening.

18 - Mon. I finished mending & then did a little sewing.  Fred went to Taylor and traded the Chevrolet for a Ford car because Albert wrote & said he must have his money.

19 - Tue. I did some more sewing.  We got home late last night & couldn't get the car started today because it was so cold. That's a Ford for you.

20 - I made pillow slips - 2 pair - for the Red Cross & then went up a while & I did not stay long because I was baking, but I brought a hospital shirt along to make or finish which I had started there.  This evening I work at it yet & would have finished it, but I thought the ready made the pattern I brought along with me had the sleeves put in wrong so I waited to ask the Pres. about it first.

21 - Thur. This afternoon I went to the Lady's Aid at the church.  We had dinner there.  I took the shirt pattern along & asked Mrs. Nettz about it & we found out that they were put in wrong.  This afternoon Ross Eppelsheimer came to the basement to inquire for Mr. Pfaltzgraff & I told him he was not at home.  He said someone outside wanted to see him, so I asked if I would do & he said so & so I stepped out.  He said he wanted Fred to perform a wedding ceremony for him that evening, so I was to get him home in time.  So he & Alma Meyers, a Lymanite, were married that evening.

22 - Fri. Fred got a letter from home today that Albert was going to leave for training camp & he was wanted at home Sunday for dinner so as to have all the children together once more.  So Fred made up his mind to go tomorrow.

23 - Sat. Today is dear Fred's birthday & a sad one as it turns out to be, but yet very lucky.  He left in the Ford about 9:30 for Atlantic, this being the 3rd time he'd run it.  I & Hazel watched him go as far as we could see him & then went in the house.  I went at cleaning off the shelves in the pantry.  And I was not through yet when a knock came at 10:15 at the door & a strange man came & said, " Don't be scared.  Mr. got hurt with his care & we are bringing him home!"  I don't know how I felt.  Then I saw them bringing him to the house.  His clothing was covered with mud & his head & face covered with mud & blood.  But he was conscious & could walk of which I was very glad.  They helped put him to bed & then waited & pretty soon Mr. H.C.Schuler came & stayed & then Dr. Montgomery came & wehn he saw how bad Fred was he sent for his nurse so he came & then they put him on the table & tried to fix him up.  His shoulder was dislocated & the ligaments were torn but he thought a bone was broken & he put 5 stitches in his head where he had a gash.  Then he worked a couple of hours on his arm trying to set it & then Fred was very weak & faint & put him to bed & gave him some broth.  They all had dinner here & then went home.  I read to Fred a while.  Poor fellow he had so much pain.  M.V. Rudig & Verl & Harold Schuler brought his car home & then came in to see him.  The car was badly smashed.  I stayed up with Fred that night.  Ina came over to help me this afternoon.

24 - Sun. Dr. Montgomery came again this forenoon.  H.C. Schuler came in to see Fred & so did John.  John stayed & helped the Dr.  Dr. worked over his arm for a couple of hours again.  A lot of people came down to see him but Dr. was just working over him so they couldn't see him.  Mr. & Mary Rothe came down & tried to get Alice for a week but couldn't get her.  Rudig's & George Rose's came up to see Fred this afternoon & when they were gone again, I had to call the Dr.  Fred had so much pain.  Dr. came & worked over him again a couple of hours.  After services Dr. was still working over him.  Ed Bourcks came down to see him & George Rose & Verl Rudig & Harold Schuler came down, too.  Verl & George Rose stayed up with him all night.

25 - Mon. Today Dr. came again this forenoon.  Mr. Rudig came up & was here a while & then he got faint & went home.  He faints so easy.  Dr. tried again for two hours to reset it & then went home & in the afternoon we had to call him again.  Fred had so much pain he couldn't stand it & so he & the nurse came both & Henry Schuler came too.  Mr. Weaver & Mrs. Schuler & Harold came to see him but Dr. was just working over him so they couldn't see him.  Mr. Schuler & Mr Rudig came & stayed up all night with him.

 

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal - January 30 - February 12, 1918

January 30, 1918 - I did not feel very good today.  I felt so dizzy.  Fred had the Grippe, so I did not iron until the afternoon & then the iron went out and I did not get done.

31 - Today I finished ironing and di most of the mending and Fred got the pump man to come up from grant to fix our pump.  We had been melting snow every day as our cistern is empty and the well pump broke.

February 1, 1918 - Today I did up most of the Sat. work and then we went to town (Atlantic) to have some dental work done but when we got there the stores were all closed & the dentist was gone so we went to the depot to meet Leonard  Raecker who is to lecture here Sunday & when we go to the depot the train was 6 hrs. late last night so Fred was determined to take me home and so he did and then I went to bed and he rested an hour & then got up and went back 7 met the train.  It got there at 2:30 AM and it is due at 9:10 PM.

2 - Well this is groundhog day and he sees his shadow.  Fred &Mr. Raecker went to call on Mr. Miller.  We had soup for dinner & he said it "hit the right spot" ha!  Fred and he had to go up again this morning to get the grip which did not come last night.

3 - Mr. Raecker preached on "The Narrow Vision" this morning and this evening on "Forces That Win."  They took up an offering this morning & evening for Red Cross work.

4 - We took Mr. Raecker to Atlantic & had some dental work done & when we got back I cut out my blue house dress & worked on it the rest of the day.

5 - I sewed all day today.  Fred was scouting around for wood to burn & George Kuester promised him some.

6 - I sewed all forenoon.  This afternoon we went to the Red Cross meeting in the church basement and this evening to a wedding at Rudig's.  Maude and Clarence Hovius were married.  They had a big chivary.  The chivarers broke a glass in the door & stole a cake.

7 - We went to Atlantic again today to the dentist.  It was so nice we took the curtains off of our car.  When we got home Rudig's called up & said that they could not take any delegates for the convention because Verl had the mumps so we called up H. Schuller.  He thought we better call off the convention becaus there were so many cases of it around so we called up Council Bluffs and Audubon and had them call the rest of the places & let them know.

8 - Russel Schuler went to Atlantic yesterday and stayed so we did not need to go get Brother Faust.  Russel brought him.  It stormed & sleeted & snowed just awfully.  We planned to have quarterly conference anyway.  But it stormed so that we could not have any services at all this evening.  Brother Faust said he planned for us tomorrow.

9 - Brother Faust & Fred went to Lyman and called on Mrs. Knoke.  We had services tonight.

10 - We had services twice today.  We went to Dolches for dinner today.  Knokes were there, too.

11 We took Brother Faust away this morning.  J. Schuler rode up to Atlantic with us to see the income tax man.  We had a date with the dentist then it was about noon when we got home and Mrs. F. Schuler called us up & said that Cecil Bros was very low & a little afterward I heard her tell Mrs. Pilger that he had died.  We went over in the afternoon and left Hazel at William Eppelshiemers.  It was raining this afternoon. The we came home.  I came near to staying but I did not feel very well & on account of Hazel I did not hardly feel I ought.  I was going to start wash this evening.  Roy Rothe was here when we got home & said he would be up to see us very early in the morning.

12 - We got up.  I was sick with a chill all night and then we swept & dusted.  We did not feel like eating so we did not eat any breakfast.  Then Laura and Roy Rothe came to get married.  Ross E. and Mary R. were with them.   Laura wore a wedding dress of white crepe du chine trimmed with pearl trimmings.  Laura cried a little when Mary congratulated her. Mary did, too.  They went to Rothe's for dinner & Rothe's surprised them by having the rest of the children there.  I was very weak all morning so I went to Grant with Fred.  We got Hazel's 3 Liberty Stamps.  We bought them in January but they did not have them then.  This afternoon I scrubbed some of the clothes & then Della & Frank Knoke and Laura Funk & Harold Schuler came up here to practice for the funeral.  Emma Kuester came & played.

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal - January 19 - 29

19 - I did up my Sat. work in the forenoon.  I finished mending stockings for once.

20 - We went to church.  I had 5 scholars in my class.  After S.S. we had a message bearer meeting.  The Visiting Committee reported one visit.  We went to church again in the evening.

21 - Today we canned 7 quarts of beef.  I did some mending & cleaned my Black dress & my blue shirt & Hazel's tan dress & her coat & cap.  In the evening the trustee board met here.  They decided to let the Red Cross have entertainments in the church & charged admission.  I don't feel right about that.  I don't think it is right at all to charge admission.  They decided also to let the Ladies Aid do their wash in the basement.

22 - I guess I was mistaken about that about charging admission into the church.  They are not going to do that.  I'm glad.  I pressed my shirts yesterday. today. This afternoon we went to Fred Sunderman's for supper.  They had fruit salad & cake & roast beef & mashed potatoes.

23 - I did some typewriting for the Message Bearers today.  This afternoon I went to a Red Cross meeting at the church basement.  I helped wind off two skeins of yarn and started a pair of pajamas.  I brought four pattern slips along home.

24 - I baked bread today and some cookies & canned some beets.  They are rotting in the cellar.  I sewed a little this afternoon.  We made some ice cream this evening.  I was freezing it in the kitchen & I was tired & it was late and Hazel came and said, "Mama you're tired, too.  Don't bather.  Let's go to bed."  It was so sweet of her. 

25 - We went to Taylor today.  We tried to sell our Chevrolet car or trade but don't know whether the fellow will want it yet or not.  Fred preached at Westphalia.

26 - I did up the Sat. work this forenoon & this afternoon.  I did a little sewing.

27 - There were not many out to church today.  There were just 3 in my S.S. class with Hazel & myself.  There were no services this evening.  I lay down in the afternoon & read as I was not feeling very well.

28 - We got up at 3:30 this morning and washed & were all done scrubbing & everything by 10:30.  Then Fred went & got some rabbits.  He gave two to the cat & two to the chickens and left nine & skinned & cleaned them for ourselves.  The boy came down from school after water today and broke our pump.  So new we have no water.  We put a boiler full of snow on to melt.  I cleaned the cellar this afternoon & picked over the fruit jars 7 sorted those but that had frozen & forced the lids off to be used first.  I still have the tomatoes to sort over & recan.  Then I go in the clothes & got supper.  Fred worked at the car this afternoon.

29 - Today I had sunch a toothache I could not do anything for quite a while.  Then Fred took the treatment out of my tooth.  Then I felt better.  Then we had breakfast.  And then I did about half of my ironing & got dinner & went to Atlantic to the dentist.  When we came home we stopped at Laura & Orville Funk's for supper.  It was 11 o'clock when we got home.

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal - January 1 - 18, 2024

 1918

January 1 - This morning the first we heard of Hazel she was singing up the stairs and she sang all the way down an all the while she was being dressed.  I mad a New Year's resolution.  I wasn't going to let anyone get ahead of me wishing me a Happy New Year, so when Ina Weaver came down after a pail of waters I was going to wish her a Happy New Year & when I stuck my head out of the door, The screen on the back porch was so frosty I couldn't see through it, so I did not see her right away & she saw me first & wished me a Happy New Year.  There went my resolution all to nothing & when I got to church, they heard about it thru Fred & so they all got ahead of me, too.  "No More New Year's resolutions for me.  ha!  Henry Schuler was re-elected S.S. Supt. & Verle Rudig Secretary & Menerva Frank Treas.  Laura Eppelsheimer was appointed Cradle Roll Supt. & Mrs. Knoke Home Dept. Supt.  The S. S. was reorganized & graded.  I got the real Little tots The Beginners to teach, Ina Weaver the primaries and Mary Rothe the Juniors & Mrs. O. D. Furila the Intermediate.  Mrs. G. P. Schuler the Y.L.B.C. & Emery Eshelman the Y.M.B.C. & Frederick the new class of Young Married People & Mr. Newman the Old Women.  In the afternoon we went to C. Wasmers for supper & got the W.M.S. report read.

2 - Frederick hauled two loads of wood today from John Rose.  I ironed a little & mended a little.  I did not feel very well so I did not get much donw.

3 - This forenoon I baked bread & Fred went calling.  He had dinner at Knokes & in the afternoon we went to Henry Schuler's to the W.M.S. Meeting.

4 - Today we went to Taylor County to preach & from there we went to Visit Mother Moser & then came home.

5 - This forenoon Fred had a funeral, a little Debus girl who died of spinal meningitis.  I did not get to go as I have not been feeling very well & was behind with my work.  I finished my ironing this afternoon.  Fred went to Boos's to get another swarm of bees while I got supper.

6 - Today we had services and Mr. Schuler came along for dinner in the afternoon.  Verle Rudig came up and they arranged the classes & appointed the teachers a stated in recort for 1st.  In the evening we all went to church again.

7 - Today I mended most of the day.  Fred when to Griswold this afternoon with Bruce Rudig.  Mr. Rudig brought us some Beef & Liver.  My it was good.  Ina came in for a while after school to Hazel's delight.

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9 - Fred went to a sale at Carl Wasmers and then came home & we went to Gridwold to get something for the Ladies' Aid meeting tomorrow.  In the evening we organized our red cross at the church.

10 - I had the Ladies Aid this afternoon  It was awfully windy & cold but there were 10 members here.  Ina came in after school and it was so cold we persuaded her to stay all night.

11 - I swept and dusted in the forenoon in the afternoon I read & mended a little.

12 - I did up the Sat. work and did some mending.

13 - We all went to church.  I taught my new class for the first time.  There was one scholar there.  We had services again in the evening.

14 - We washed clothes today and got thru about noon.  I washed my hair in the afternoon.

15 - I did all the ironing today & did some mending.

16 - Today I mended all forenoon.  In the afternoon there was a red cross meeting at the church.  They distributed some work.

17 -  Today I mended all day.

18 - I mended most of the time today.  This evening we went to H.C. Schuler's to the Y.P.A. Business meeting.  Russel Schuler was elected Pres. Ina Weaver Vice Pres.  Beulah Weaver Recording Sec. Harold Schuler Corresponding Sec. and Verl Rudig Treas.  Emma Knister (Kuester?) Pianist.  They served Ice cream & cookies all you could eat.

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal 1917 May 25 - 29; July 1

 May 25 - She went home.  I cleaned the wash room & scrubbed the sidewalks & cellar steps & swept the cellar floor & cleaned the upstairs & the downstairs & did some baking & got dinner for Fred & Bro. Faust.  After dinner I cleaned the lamps & finished the upstairs & did some more baking & got supper & went to church.  Fred & Bro. Faust went calling.  It rained so that there wasn't anyone out.

26 - I did not feel very good today.  Fred took Bro. Faust to Atlantic today so he could get a train for Silver Creek.  In the afternoon we went to Grant to get some more sweet potato plants & we made some more gardens at all by my aster plants as a few colors that Mrs. WEaver sent me.  After supper Fred cleaned our clothing.

27 - We all went to church.  It was cloudy all day.  After dinner Fred went to Deremeyers & got Bro. Faust & we had communion services here in the evening.

28 - Fred took Bro. Faust to Atlantic & I cleaned out the front rooms & did some baking.  Bake 2 good cakes. Made some jello.  This evening the W.M.S. met here.  They elected me pres., Mrs. H. Nau vice pres., & Mrs. Croomer Sec. & Mrs. H.S. Schuler Treas.

29 - I cleaned up the house again & got dinner & sent the W.M.S. reports.  D.Kreitzberg was here for linens.  They are working at the church today in the basement.  After dinner I started out to Eshelmans to get a report & I got just down the hill when the car stopped & Hazel & I walked back & got Fred.  He went over then & then when he got back he went to Atlantic.  We got back in two hrs.  Ross Eppelsheimer was here for supper.

July 1 - I was getting ready to go home the 26 or June.  We left for Home the 26 of June.  We wanted to leave the 25th but we had to marry Ed Brusik & Blanch Wassner yet that evening.  So we had to way a day.  When we got home the folks took us out to Leslie's & then up to Minneapolis to Berbert, & in two weeks we got home.  We had a good time.  The trip was made by auto from Lansing to Minneapolis.  Then when we got home we were busy catching up with the work & getting ready for the Council Meeting which we enjoyed very much.  While there we visited at Dumont & sold our Saxon car.  And when we got home Fred fixed up the Chevrolet car that burnt up for Cass Wasmer.  Altogether it cost us $265 & we have practically a brand new car.  Altogether we were very busy.  I had a contest on in my S.S. class dividing the class into two parts with about 20 on each sided & the side that gained the largest attendance gained one point & the side that had the largest offering got one point and the side that had the most golden texts got one point.  The side receiving the most points won for one Sunday and then I had two poster board cars and a set goal with each car moved a foot at a time & the car gaining the goal first won in the contest.  The Sunday it reached the climax booth cars were tied just one stop before the goal so they worked very hard.  There were 32 present in all & the offering was around $13.50 and there were about 20 golden texts.  It was surely interesting they all worked so hard.  They are to have a picnic very soon.

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal 1917 - May 2 - 24

 May 2 - We went to Atlantic so I could take another adjustment.  It started to rain on the way home.

3 - It snowed quite hard today.  I did not feel one bit good.  Started to read "A Shepherd of the Hills."

4 - Fred & I tried to go to Griswold but the roads were quite bad, & the car would not work at all & it was raining and snowing all the time.  We only got to miles from home when the car stopped & Fred had to work at it several hrs. to get it started again.

5 - Fred worked at the car some & then at the lights at church but could not make them work.  I felt very bad today.  Hazel is much better again.

6 - We all went to Sunday School.  There was a big crowd int he afternoon.  Russell Schuler came up & helped Fred fix up some gas lights for the evening services.  The band boys came out from Griswold & sang.  The church was crowded.

7 - We got up at 7 today.  That is very late for us on wash day but we did not have a very big wash as we got it out by noon any way.

8 - We went to Atlantic today to take an adjustment.  Fred was not feeling very good as he took one, too.

9 - We got ready for the plastere but he did not come.  We cooked in the pantry & ate int he library.  we went to prayer meeting J. Kritzberg led.

10 - The plasterer came this morning & plastered the kitchen & part of the library ceiling.  We did some ironing & then cleaned up the kitchen.

11 - Today we cleaned up the Library for a little & scrubbed the porches & put up the curtains in the kitchen & went to Eshelmans in the evening to a class meeting.  I took a cake which they thought was very good.

12 - We papered the pantry today & cleaned it.  Wilma cleaned the church & part of the base burner.

13 - I did notnot go to church because I had such a tooth ache that I couldn't do any thing but walk the floor.  Mrs. A. Rothe came down here with her two children about half past 11 & stayed until church was out.

14 - I started to clean things out of the bedroom as we could paper in there.  I finished the mending from last week.

15 & 16 - we did some more cleaning up in the front rooms preparatory to papering.

17 - We papered the ??? bedroom in the morning & in the afternoon we went to Atlantic to the chiropractor.

18 - I finished the bedroom we slept upstairs on the sanitary cot last night.  We liked it just fine.  When we took Hazel's bed apart to take it upstairs, she cried as if her heart would break.  I guess she thought we were breaking it.  She liked it upstairs just fine, though.  we papered the parlor today.  In the evening we went to the Class Glory in Grant.  We also went to Atlantic to the chiropractor.  On the way we caught up to a car that was in trouble & it was three women folks that could not get their car started so Fred stopped & helped them & then along came O. D. Funke & Laura & O. D. F. tried to help them, too, but neither could start their car so they hitched it onto O.D. F.'s truck & Laura went to town with me & Frederick stayed & came with O.D. Funke.  Laura went to the dentist & to the chiropractor.

19 - Today we finished the parlor & started in the library.  We papered the library before dinner & then after dinner I washed the woodwork in their & then we went to Atlantic & when we got home Fred helped me finish.  Wilma went to Lyman with Rudig's.  Fred and I were up till 2 minutes to twelve that night. Ironed the parlor and Library curtains & put them up.

20 - We all went to church.

21 - We put out a great big wash.  WE washed one quilt & 2 horse blankets beside our regular wash.

22 - We ironed all the clothes today & did some of the mending.

23 - We papered te kitche & cleaned it today.

24 - I cleaned the cobshed & part of the back porch while Wilma got breakfast.  After breakfast I finished the back porch while Wilma washed dishes & dressed Hazel & then both went out the front porch & cleaned the long part & then we got ready & went to  Rothes to the Ladies Aid & were there for dinner.  about Half past three we went to Atlantic to the chiropractors' & Wilma finished the porch.  when we got home she had her mind made up to go home so Blanch & Beatrice Rudig came up & brought some of her sheet music back.

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal 1917 - April 5 - May 1

5 - Wilma and I tatted nearly all day. Fred worked at his bee hives.

6 - Wilma & I cleaned the attic while Fred worked at the car & went to Grant.  We went to Lyman, too.

7 - I did not feel very well in the forenoon.  We did up the Saturdays work.  It snowed nearly all P.M.

8 - I went to church with Wilma & Hazel went with Frederick.  This is a beautiful Easter day.  But it is very muddy.  Fred preached on Acts 5:42.   It was a very good sermon.  In the afternoon Frederick & Hazel went to sleep.  Wilma wrote on the typewriter.  We all went to church in the evening.

9 - We washed clothes today & made ice cream while Fred & Hazel slept to surprise them. 

10 - We ironed clothes.  It is Hazel's birthday today.  WE had two candles & a cake for dinner & some ice cream.  It does not seem possible she is two years old already.  We got her an unbreakable doll & mother sent her a dress.

11 - We finish ironing & went to Grant & started to rake yard.  Did some mending.

12 - We put out some garden seeds & raked part of the lawn.  We deposited $10 for Hazel yesterday.

13 - We raked some more lawn.  Fred lost his fountain pen.

14 - Fred went to Griswold.  We finished raking the yard.  We sowed some rutabaga seeds back of the farm.  Hazel cut her finger & when it bled she pointed to the blood & said, "pretsy."

15 - We all went to church.  I got 2 new scholars today.  Wilma went to Rudig's today and we went to Mother Miller's  & Henry Martens & Mrs. Fred Miller to call.  We all went to church in the evening.  Hazel set her "baby" on her nursery chair today & then after a while she went to it & said, "see eru, " "see eru" ha!

16 - I put some seeds in paste board boxes today for early use & made an apron for myself & finished some underwear I had started for Hazel.  Today Hazel dropped a box of buttons 7 when they all spilled she frowned and said, "oh, too bad."

17 - I finished my apron & made a suit of underwear for Hazel's new doll & we put out a bed of onions & some gladiolas & sweet peas.  Fred went to Lyman & got some more seeds.  Hazel was outside this afternoon.  It had rained last night.  Just what we want.  I got some plants, a cyclamen & a fuchsia from Iowa Seed Co. & a Martha Washington Geranium & fern from Reeve Smith at Grant.

18 - Wilma & I cleaned the dressing room today.  Fred went to Griswold after a grocery order from Montgomery Ward & Co.  I got my new spring coat.  I did not like it at all at first.

19 - Today was to be a W.M.S. meeting but we couldn't have it on account of it being such a busy time so we went to Grant to see the doctor.  It rained hard before we got back.  We cleaned the spare room upstairs in the A.M.

21 - We cleaned Wilma's room today.   Fred pounded the rugs & mattresses & washed the car.  It was rainy all day, yesterday, so we couldn't.  I ran house.

22 - We went to church & in the afternoon Wilma & Fred & Hazel took a ride & Hazel caught a bad cold.  She was very restless all evening in church.

23 - We washed clothes today.  Hezel felt some better.  I mended some stockings.

24 - Today we went to Atlantic to the chiropractor for treatment.  I got a new hat and so did Hazel.  She got the sweetest bonnet.  We had lots of trouble with the car, ruined two inner tubes & broke the brake band & the gas iron.  Hazel seemed worse, but a little better toward evening.  I finished mending stockings. 

25 - We went to Atlantic to the chiropractor again today & in the afternoon we borrowed John Schulers flat irons & finished or almost finished ironing.  I did some mending.  Hazel was quite sick.  We got Hazel a coat today.

26 - We went to Atlantic again to the Chiropractor & took Hazel along.  She had an adjustment, too.  It started to rain on the way home.  In the afternoon it rained so & snowed as we could not have the W.M.S. meeting.  I tatted in the afternoon.

27 - It rained & snowed so much yesterday & last night.  Thought the ground was white so we could not go to Atlantic.  Hazel seemed a little better.  Today I finished the tatting & hook today & sent it to Herbert & Elsie's little baby boy today.  We cleaned in hall this afternoon and have the upstairs cleaned now.

28 - I did not feel very well.

29 - Fred & wilma went to church.  I stayed home with Hazel.  She was not very well 7 it is awfully muddy & damp out so I did not like to take her out.

30 - I did some tatting & took some plants out of the hot bed.  Hazel slept mos tof the day.

May

1 I did not feel very good.  Hazel is some better