This A.M. Harve and I helped Henry shock (oats) and in the P.M. hauled hay four loads.
The weather tho fair was not well suited for making hay as the air was very damp and the hay being very green or heavy is slow in curing.
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July 25, 1902
(Sister) Abbie’s 21st Birthday.
Haying and harvesting is still in progress, as usual, so it seems, we made poor progress at the hay today as we only got in three loads.
Rain this evening stopped work on this line for tomorrow.
Yesterday P.M. we put in three loads of hay.
Reynolds was over to see us about cattle.
We sold the roan cow & the bull @ 3 cts., to go in Tuesday.
July 23, 1902
Has been a very cool day and pleasant withal for work, and save for a light very partial shower at noon, was a good time for progress.
(Brother-in-Law Henry Stephenson) Henry started on his oats today.
We completed the first load stack with the derrick, putting in six loads today and making about eight in the stack.
July 22, 1902
A rather cool day but fair and the kind of weather I would like to see until the haying and harvest is up.
The light shower of last night left the hay too wet to work at this A.M. so we went over to Wood’s and brot a load of straw.
Yesterday we only got in one load of hay.
We rigged up a derrick this P.M. and brot in three loads.
Harvest seems to progress slowly owing to the wet weather.
All kinds of grain are high.
Oats @ 44¢
Corn @ 57¢
And all very scarce too.
Today we received the sad news of Uncle Albert’s (Dr. Albert Harvey, M.D. of Wyoming, Ontario.) very critical condition.
Uric poisoning or Bright’s Disease, the cause ascribed.
So we are again reminded of the flight of time, and the end of all things mortal.
Dr. Albert Edward Harvey, M.D., pictured.
(Albert Harvey was also the Father-in-Law of James T. Shotwell, Professor of History at Columbia, who was involved in the League of Nations, the Kellogg Briand Treaty, and the drafting of the charter for the United Nations.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Shotwell
July 20, 1902
July 20th, Sunday
A fair day which we spent over at (brother) Ernest’s. (North of Ralston, where Daryl Toyne lives today.)
The ‘Coon (Raccoon River) is going down slowly and the fields everywhere are very wet.
Small grain harvesting and time haying are pushing each other for first place in consideration.
Yesterday was a very bad day being a continuation of the preceding one.
I went down to Hexie (creek) in the P.M. and repaired our East fence.
Was called on by W.L.Z, to whom, or with whom, I subscribed $2.00 for the minister.
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July 18, 1902
A rainy day.
The rain begun yesterday afternoon and the ground was very wet this morning, then it did not stop at that.
Rain has fallen nearly half the time throughout the day.
We have quite a quantity of hay in windrow and more in swath taking color.
I have spent most of the day making a wire stretcher.
My efforts in this direction were hardly satisfactory in results.
July 16, 1902
Has been a very hot day this morning.
Harve and I ground some meal for the chickens and then after raking some hay went in the P.M. to hauling hay.
We now have in 11 loads, all good big ones too.
The weather continues good yet and haying progresses rapidly.
Henry had his first trouble with cattle on the bottom today.
He has been cutting barley today; finished his fall wheat yesterday.
July 14, 1902
Monday, a fine day but very hot.
This A.M. Harve and I put the hay rake in order and this afternoon Pa and I brot in three loads of hay which Frank cut last Saturday.
Yesterday we with Henry and Fanny were over to Harve and Abbie’s, taking the freezer & some ice & made ice cream.
This afternoon I gave Ida Hunt an order for a book History of the World’s Great Disasters to embrace the story of Pompeii and Mont Pelee’ (which killed tens of thousands in Martinique recently in the same year, 1902). Price: $1.50.
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July 11, 1902
A fine day and we had hoped that good weather was again coming on the stage, but tonight, 10 o’clock, it is raining again.
The river is all over the bottoms, yet tho out on the flat country the water seems to be running off rapidly.
I was reading in today’s Register and Leader that the floods in Des Moines are the highest in fifty years,
Yesterday was fair.
Harve and Abbie moved over to their new home.
Miller bridge is down for repairs and our mail-man has to return with a relay of horses,
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July 8, 1902
Rain, rain, rain a monotonous program even if the effects would cease at the conclusion of the performance.
Water stands in every little depression and runs in every furrow.
It has rained nearly all day today and yesterday was broken by slight showers and if the rain continues until the close of the week it will have been the third week of almost continued raining.
The mail-man was unable to bring the mail farther than Black’s (West edge of Horseshoe Bend) today or yesterday.
I employ this weather on the brush in the sheep lot.