June 17 - 23, 1948

Harriet Adcox (older sister of Helen) is somewhere

in this photo. Again year wasn't recorded.

June 17: "Went to farm early this morning. Hoed potatoes awhile, then greased car. Sprayed some weeds also chicken house. Went to Delavan after dinner and got tractor, seen the new "49" Fords." Ordered 150 chickens.

popcorn   .20

June 18: "Went to farm early this morning. Mowed weeds along road first thing. Then made fence in timber til noon. Put sprayer on tractor after dinner. Will spray corn tomorrow. Was very warm today. Still no rain."

Nancy Koch  1.50
groc. 1.23
paper  .20

June 19: "Went to farm early this morning. Looked like rain, but cleared up late in the afternoon. Cut weeds most of morning. Fixed some fence after dinner. Schmidt's cows were in the corn. Came home early. Went to card party at Zimmermann's."

groc.  1.38
polident  .67

June 20: "Got up late morning. Kids went to Sunday School. I picked 2.5 gallons of cherries up at Hodgsons. Pitted them after I got home. Took 6.5 quarts down and put them in deep freeze. Grandma had a big lunch."

June 21: "Went to Pekin this morning. Had about one inch of rain early this morning. Got my hair cut. Went to farm about 11:00, helped Ruth paint a couple of hours. Then made fence til evening in timber. Came home early, 6:45."

rompers  2.04
strainer  .60
barrettes  .20
candy  .44

June 22: "Went to farm at 7:00, had another shower of rain. Worked on threshing machine all morning. Went to timber after dinner and put cows on other side of timber. Picked about a quart of raspberries. Came home early, went to Rockholds for evening visit. Brought home puppy."

beer  2.85

June 23: "Went to farm this morning, sprayed weeds most of morning. Went to Delavan after dinner to get a gate, also stopped at Ford garage. Had showers most of the day, came home early this evening."