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Below is a web page of text from a journal that (Elizabeth) Marion Frost kept from 1883 to 1921. There is a link to the next page near the bottom of this page. There is also an index of all of the pages. |
To-night he and Mr. Dean went to the Alliance together. I washed out some things, did a very little mending, and finished Cora’s birthday darning bag.
June 1, Saturday
Arthur broke a little but was very tired. Father came up on horseback in the forenoon. Mother came with wagon in afternoon and brought us provisions. Cora walked home from her boarding place because she had a headache. I did not do any extra work to-day because it is the Sabbath.
June 3
Yesterday I attended Sunday School. Mrs. Dowler returned the Golden Rule which I had let her take, and Mrs. Madson took it home with her. I gave Mr. Petersen, the S.S. superintendent, some pamphlets, etc., relating to the Christian Endeavor society. Arthur has been breaking all day to-day. To-night he has gone down to the other house and will cultivate corn there tomorrow, because Mrs. Hoagland is anxious to go to town tomorrow, and Father wishes to lend her a horse. I have not felt able to do any extra work to-day. I saw two coyotes out of Carrie’s trees and north or northwest of them. Arthur brought home a package of tobacco.
June 4, 1889
Mother was up at Mr. Van Gilder’s to-day. Their little Chloe died. Mrs. Dean and Mrs. Dowler went up after she was dead. I have been writing about all day.
June 5
Arthur went to Plainview yesterday. I suppose he is cultivating corn for Father to-day. Jennie walked up to Mr. Van Gilder’s to attend the baby’s funeral. I have cleared up some [the photocopy transcript says "cleared", but the original may have said "cleaned"]. I walked down to the other house to-day.
June 6
Have been washing clothes and chicken boxes. Arthur is at the other house still. [photocopy transcription did not have this indented]
June 7
Cleaned the pantry, baked some bread, did some washing. Sent letter to U.S.C.E. by Ethel to be mailed. Ethel came up to stay with me last night. Also Gyp. and Prince.
June 8
Cora and Tom cam up last night. Cora went away without her breakfast but Tom had his. My Kenilworth Ivy last year or the year before was left here and was not watered. It had just got a nice start, but had not ripened seed. So, when it was
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killed, I supposed it would never grow again. Awhile ago I thought I would empty the hanging basket and get it ready for another plant. But I did not like to give up my ivy, so I hung the basket in the window and kept it water [water, not watered]. Yesterday I found four tiny ivy plants.
June 9, 1889
Last night Carrie stayed with me. Mother is here tonight. I went down to the other house to-day. Mrs. Dowler stopped here tonight. Father was up here this afternoon. Carrie and Cora were taken back to their schools this afternoon.
June 10
Mother walked down this morning and call on Mrs. Dowler and Mrs. Rose. Ethel came up to borrow some sugar and brought me some pipeplant. Arthur rode by on his way from Mr. Brandt’s. I have had a headache and have not done much.
June 11
Ethel stayed with me last night. My head does not feel very well to-day, but I washed out a few things.
June 12
Mother stayed with me last night. Arthur and Seth are cultivating here.
June 13
I stayed alone last night. Jennie sent up some dinner by Ethel. Arthur went away at noon and did not return.
June 14, 1889
Seth cultivated here to-day. Father went to Plainview. Arthur sent N.W. shortly after noon and then came back and helped Seth get the cultivators home. Father had Mr. Dowler’s buggy and young mules. Alfie Dowler is sick. Arthur, Seth, and Mr. Dean went to the Alliance tonight. I did a little washing and mending, also wrote a note to Mrs. Hoagland, inviting her to come and see me.
June 27
Mrs. Dowler came to see me this afternoon. In the afternoon, later, Father stopped for a short time on his way home from Mr. McMahon’s. Arthur had invited Mrs. Dean and me to go to the Alliance tonight and we had agreed to go. He and Mr. Dean went by while Father was here, but did not stop.
Sept. 2
I did some washing.
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Sept. 21
Arthur slept in the barn last night and ate breakfast here. He has gone to help George Fletcher thresh.
Sept. 18 Mother and I called on Mrs. Hoagland. Mrs. Hoagland expects to go to Mercer, Mercer Co., Penn., next Tuesday, Sept. 24.
Sept. 23
Went down home yesterday morning, and did not get back until about sunset tonight. Someone, I suppose the Merchants’ Bank of Neligh, has attached Mrs. Hoagland’s goods, her and her children’s clothing and bedding. This will probably put off her going. They have also subpoenaed her to appear at some trial Oct. 9. They have taken advantage of her in every way.
Sept. 28
Arthur came in the evening, last night, after I was asleep. He had intended to stay all night, but, fining that the clock was not reliable, concluded to go home.
Sept. 30
Mrs. Van Gilder stopped here on her way down to our house and invited me to go with her. My work was in such condition that I did not go. I did my whole washing in one day for the first time since my sickness.
March 11, 1892 [yes, a large skip in time]
I am teaching in District 103, Antelope Co., Neb. I am boarding at the house of K.C. Edwards, one mile from the schoolhouse.
The school is pleasant and the boarding place good.
Today I finished learning "The Light Of Stars," by Longfellow.
May 15
"Thou, Oh Christ, art all I want;
More than all in Thee I find."
Feb. 3 – May 15.
Sept. 16, 1893
I am teaching in District 46, West Cedar Valley, same county as above. This schoolhouse is nine miles east and one mile north of the one in District 103. This is the first term since that that [transcript has two "that"] I have taught so far from home that I could not get home nearly or quite every week. In these schools we cannot
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expect to get home at all during the term. The school here is larger but not quite so good. I may say the same of the boarding place. It is good, but I do not like it so well. Ethel is engaged to teach in District 103 next winter. Cora is teaching near Park church [no cap on "church"], about 13 miles away. Arthur is in California. I expect to write to Henry at St. Louis to-day. The rest are at home.
Sept. 23
Cora came to see me last Saturday. She walked seven miles and rode the rest of the way on a load of hay. I took her back Sunday with Mr. Griffith’s Jim and Dolly.
Oct. 9
Cora was here last Saturday and the one before. Oct. 1 was the last day of a Christian Convention at Elgin. Yesterday Mrs. McClintock and I took Cora back to Clay Ridge. Mrs. McClintock nearly had spasms about the road going over, (It was the road west from Elgin). On the way back we came east from the schoolhouse in district No. 103, Mrs. McClintock thought Mr. Edward’s place (not the house) the prettiest along the road, at least over at Clay Ridge. She didn’t think the road was very bad on the way back. Last week I had three letters from Arthur.
April 14, 1895, Easter Sunday.
Arthur came back from California March 16, 1895. He had been gone a little over two years.
Last Wednesday Arthur, Ethel, and Sophie went to Neligh with Dolly and Bird. Before they got home Bird lay down and they could not get her up. After getting the girls home Arthur went back and stayed all night with her. They got her home next day. She seemed to have no sickness but to be weak. She is not quite four years old, and as we had hardly any crops last year she (and nearly all of the horses around) had not been well fed. {Bad Year.}
Ethel will teach a few days this week for Maggie Nichol, who is sick. I will help Cora teach at Brunswick. Carrie is teaching in the Gray school. Arthur has the fence around the s.w. quar. sec. 19-27-5 about finished. The grass has a much better start than is usual at this time of year.
June 9
We girls, except Ethel, who stayed at home to give Mr. and Mrs. Noyce their dinner and to attend to the animals, went up to Brunswick to "Children’s Day." The exercises were interesting. Everything went off well. I contributed forty-two cents. Annie Petersen was there. She has just got back from California. Ila Packwood was there, also. "Peace, peace is mine.
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