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.
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