Grandma Pfaltzgraff's journal June 10 -

 Continued from previous blog post -

& they came on the noon train to Atlantic all together & Harold Schuler went to meet them in their big car.  Then that evening were services & also the next day Bro. Kimmel preached in the forenoon & in the afternoon he dedicated the church & then we gave him a lunch & he left for Atlantic so as to be back to his work again on Monday & in the evening Bro. Faust preached & we had communion services & the next morning he left.  Mother & Father stayed with us yet.  Then we had very much work still with the Xmas programme.  One of the committee refusing to help put the load on me.  But God always helps his children when they are in need & so finally it was over with & pronounced a success & then came Xmas at home.  Fred hurried home after the services and lit our little tree & then after a while we came &then such a time Hazel was so tickled over her tree she would look at it & clap her little hands & then she would carry nuts & candy & apples to Grandpa & the rest until she had our arms & hands filled.  I must write down some of the things I go for Xmas from Fred - a clothes rack, a sweater & cap, a cameo pin, a post card album & buttlerfly slippers from Mother & Father, a dress (blue serge skirt & tube silk waist), a dust pan & milk strainer & from Fred's folks a yoke for a nightie & a handkerchief from Florence & from Wilma & from Leslie & Salome 5 or 6 kitchen holders & clothes pin apron & from Herb & Elsie a lawn apron & Laura G. a handkerchief & from Mrs. Bourck an apron also dress for Hazel & Laura Knoke a box of stationary & Della K butter plate & Mrs. Rudig a little H and bag & from the W.M.S, a beautiful corset cover yoke from Mrs. Sumisch & utility case from Mrs. H. Nau. & apron from Ms. N Wasmer & handbag - Mrs. Dinsmer & Glove box - Mrs. W.L. Epplesheimer & Blue silk dress for Hazel from Mrs. G.P. Schuler.  Then other presents I got were a kitchen apron from Aunt Eva & also picture and dresser set from Martha Sothman & pennant from Ella Sothman.

    The next day we had Xmas dinner at Dolches.  There were others there also.  Father and Mother stayed with us until the 2 of Jan.

Grandma Pfaltzgraff's Journal May 28 - June 10th and beyond

 May

28th -We all went to church there was a big crowd there.  We went to Rothe's for dinner & after dinner they went to A. Rothe's & Mother Naus.  In the evening we went to church & a storm came up in the middle of the services.  So they had to dismiss the people.

29th - Fred took Bro. Faust as far as Knoke's & then Frank took him with a team to Griswold & Fred solicited for the church.  I stayed home and crocheted.

30th - Fred & I went calling.

31st - We went calling.

June

1st - I stayed home & started to get ready for the picnic.

2nd - Fred 7 I did up our Sat. work in the forenoon 7 in the afternoon went to the programme at the church.

3rd - Fred went to Griswold to get mother & Florence & Carol.  They came on the early train.

4th - We all went to church morning & evening.

5th- We washed clothes & were all thru by noon.

6th - I ironed some & did a little mending.  Fred went calling.

7th - I did some more ironing & Fred went calling.

8th - I finished the ironing & did some mending & went to W.M.S. at Novel Wasmer's in the afternoon.

9th - I did up the Friday work & in the afternoon did some mending.  The little tots practiced at the church & some of them came down to play with the baby.  We practiced singing for Children's Day in the evening.  The painters finished giving our house the first coat of paint.

 10th - This is our second wedding anniversary & we celebrated it by working hard all day.  Fred went to Lyman and Griswold & washed the car & some of his clothing.  I did up the Sat. work & in the afternoon I rested & I canned 8 qts. of priplant & one of strawberries.  Last evening Fred brought us some fresh meat from Kreitzberg's & some strawberries from H. Nare's a lot of priplant from H. Eppelsheimer's & Today Esther Schuler brought us some strawberries & some nice fresh butter.

From here on I cannot tell all the things as they happened but perhaps I can get down a few of the most important ones.  After Fred's mother went home we were very busy.  Fred solicits for the church nearly every day until the money finally was subscribed then the building commenced.  They boarded here & after the basement was dug, the carpenters began & for 5 weeks we had from 3 & 4 to 6 carpenters.  Emma Knester worked for me.  The the plasterer & painter took their meals here & then when the finishing work began & then I had 4 men steady for about a month. Doing my own work & housecleaning besides.  It was a rush because of such a late start from the beginning to the end & then the dedication was the 17th of December & the painter had dinner with us yet the 16th on the 16th Bro. Faust & Prof.  G.B. Kimmel of Naperville came to dedicate the church.  Mother & Father came also to be with us.