Missouri Memories

F.F. Welsh, Daybooks and Account Books, 1905-1954

F.F. Welsh was a farmer in Laclede, Linn County, Missouri.

Miscellaneous for September 1926

Sept 1 Rainy help shingle on East porch Ross home laclede pm got fixtures

Sept 2 "(rainy)" muddy Brookfield fair pm

Sept 3 Rained hard Laclede for lumber floored south porch

Sept 4 "(rained)" am "(floored)" kitchen Laclede pm

Sept 5 Rainy cool at home alone

Sept 6

Sept 7 Muddy

Sept 8 Calf to Laclede Rained all pm

Sept 9 Rung 3 shoats & 5 sows sowed Timothy Napple came seed

Sept 10 Cleaned out hen house Raymond tried cut weeds Laclede pm

Sept 11 put up seeding worked at house laclede pm

Sept 12 Rained night dark and cool at home

Sept 13 Muddy clear warmer rained pm

Sept 14 Clear threatening picked peaches put in light lamp

Sept 15 Rainy

Sept 16 helped with peaches Cleaned up in yard

Sept 17 Clear warm put in bath drain

Sept 18 "(clear warm)" Laclede for lumber am Brookfld pm

Sept 19 "(clear warm)" Brookfield pm to Alvas & youngs & alex

Sept 20 Cut beans very muddy

Sept 21 Raked and shocked beans

Sept 22 Nice day Laclede a.m. got oat seed corn pm

Sept 23 "(nice day)" Stretched wire to turn hogs in corn

Sept 24 Cool rainy worked at cornfield fence

Sept 25 Cool mowed & raked beans on Bassett place Laclede eve

Sept 26 Quite Frost first of the season not much damage Church a-m- Ross at hom rainy pm

Sept 27 Raining hung seed corn worked in basment

Sept 28 Threatening worked in basement am Lacled pm cecil came to work

Sept 29 Traded steer for Bull with Lamme rained all day

Sept 30 Rainy AM Laclede horse back for nasils

Sept has been quite rainy rained

nearly every day Reads very bad hard to save beans or fodder

not very warm light frost 26th