Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's journal beginning Jan. 5, 1916

January (continued)
5th - I relined my muff.  Fred went to Griswold with the car to have his tooth fixed.  He had several punctures on the way.  It was very cold.

6th - Fred called at W. Knokes and Mrs. Knokes and  S. Sundermans.  I finished relining my muff and made a little hair pin lace.  Baby was very good.  Mrs. F. C. Saemisch called on us this afternoon.  Fred wen to Bible Study and Sunday School Teacher's meeting at the church.  I started to make a clothes pin apron this P.M.  I got my dear old Sunday School class back.

7th - Fred staid at home all day.  I did some mending.  Baby was very good.  Mrs. Rothe called in the afternoon.  Fred worked out a sermon and in the evening he went to Y.M.B.C. and Y.L.B.C. entertainment at Sothman's.  The teacher and hired girl went too.

8th - Fred stayed home.  He swept the church in the afternoon.  Lily Schuler cqme and got Laura and the teacher went to.  So we are along at Home Sweet Home.

9th - Fred went to church.  I got up for a while and played the piano about an hr. and then I got so weak I had to go and lie down.  But I did not go to bed all day. Laura and teacher came home again in the evening.

10th - It was very cold today.  I sat by the fire all day.  Fred worked out a sermon.

11th - I sat by the fire all day.  It was very cold.  Laura S. washed.  This p.M. Fred made three calls and one visit this afternoon.

12th - It was very cold all day it snowed a little and drifted very much.  Mr. Rudig brought the milk as it was too cold for Beatrice to carry it.  Fred went to H. Schuler for the milk.  I worked at baby's bibs and finished "A Treasure of Heaven" by Marie Corelli.

13th - I worked at baby's bibs.  Fred killed two rabbits.

14th - I worked at baby's bibs.  She was very sick and I had to hold her all day.  Her eye teeth were coming thru.  We had to stay up all last night with her.

15th - Baby was some better.  She only woke up once last night.  She played some today.  Mrs. H. Schuler brought us a load of coal.  Laura Schuler went home this evening.  Fred cleaned the church today and got the milk from S. & R.

16th - Fred went to church.  Evelyn C. got the breakfast and did up the work and got the dinner.  Baby had quite a fever this forenoon.  But she was some better this afternoon.  Ina Weaver brought us some beef.  Elda Weaver brought her suit case in the afternoon.  She will work for us this week.  Fred went to church in the evening.  Gus Kuester and Harold Schuler came over here after church.

17th - I worked at the bibs.  Baby is about the same.  She played a little.  Elda W. gave the house a good cleaning.  Fred was thawing the sewer out with a real hot poker and he got against the portiers (sp?) and set them a fire.  It scoched the wood work some and he cleaned that off and so he di not get to go calling.

18th - Fred went calling at U.G. Weavers adn F.C. Saimisch.  I worked at Baby's Bibbls and did some correspondence.

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