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.