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Saturday 25 April 1914
A chilly morn Wind East & looks
like a storm. Emma cleans floors
and cooks and irons. Edith washes
dishes. V & J after dinner proceed
to the grainery to clean grass seed,
when R appears "all dripping with
wet and trembling with cold" to
say that her cow didnt come home
with the heifer and R is scart [sic], fearing
she has got in some rock hole or
is cast or something so the work
at grainery comes to a sudden halt
and away goes John with coat closely
buttoned, to look for said cow and
after looking every where on their
farm and several others without success.
V goes also, when the cow quietly walks
home from the Woodman pasture
so 4 hours gone and to late to
clean grass seed. John stops and
milks her heifer and chops wood
enough to last two days and comes home
tired, wet and hungry, bringing a
bowl of beans which B has given him.
We read the war news between U.S.A.
and Mexico and go to bed.

Sunday morn 26 April 1914
A rainy morn, Rained all night; a
big stream of water running on the
flat, to the river. A late breakfast makes
a late dinner, and a late breakfast
and dinner makes a late supper
which is all well enough for Sunday.
I guess the preacher didnt come down
to day if he had his congregation