DIARIES OF ALBERT FONZO COPE 1894-1916 FROM HIS FARM NEAR WALKER, VERNON COUNTY MISSOURI NOTE FROM TRANSLATER: This is typed as near as possible as it was written. I did not correct spelling although I did add periods at end of sentences and commas or dashes which were not in the original diaries. Words that I could not figure out what they were, were spelled as they were written or put in dashes or question marks. Many sentences were not completed. Loretta May These two years were not complete, there are many days missing. January 1914 1. Cloudy little patches of snow melting fast, grourd drying fast, a litle wind SW, clouds broken a litle, the snow gon at 2 pm an plesant. 2. Cloudy wind NW a cold frozen 3. Cleair ground froze thoe, thawing still an nise. 4. Sunday, cloudy wind NW an cold. 5. Cloudy frost, ground frosen, a big foge coming down, frezinig, trees looks like snow. 10. Cloudy wind NW a litle cold, camenst snowing at 4 in evening. 11. Sunday, cleair bright an nise wind SW not high. the litle snow most all gon, the day is nise an plesant. 12. Cloudy an cold wind N sun shines vary lite. Avery Gorge was here, i rented him 20 acres of ground for oats to gave 1/3 of the oats an return the land as soon as the oats is got off. 15. Cleair a big frost wind SW a nise plesant day, we had nise weather for winter. 18. Sunday, partly cloudy warm for winter. Harvy came, Bills folks here. 19. Fogy warm for January still. 20. Cleair wind N an cule, Albert Porter came. 22. Mostly cleair. i sent to the Sumer Set Hereld 50c in stamp to pay the 6 months i roun over. Bill finished the litle Somic? corn Jack an Jasper helped. 23. Som cloud, som wind SW plesant. 24. Cloudy cold an fogy still. 25. Sunday, som litle sleat an a litle rane erly brok a way a litle til a bout 1, cloud thicken up an a liste mist still. 27. Warm still an nise. Becky came. 28. Som clouds warm. Jo Marten here, Suse and Cora came, warm. 29. Warm last night as some raned an got cold, a spit of snow this morning and cold. Becky, Suse, Cora here. 30. Cloudy som homany snow in the afternoon, Becky went home. 31. Cleair cule but nise, ground thawing some, Suse here. The month is going out cloudy. February 1914 1. Sunday, cleair nise still cold but plesant, a big frost - Suse here yet. 2. Cloudy in the morning sun came out sum til noon then cleard up warm an still. 3. Cloudy wind NW a litle cule a sprikl of rane an snow. Suse went home. 5. Cloudy a litle cule. Jasper gon to work. Wind SE damp. my cheack came. 6. Cloudy geting cold a sprinkl of snow at noon, wind N an cold. 7. Cleair an cold a litle snow ground nerly cuverd 2 below yesterday and last night the coldst so far. 8. Sunday, cleair still cold but plesant, som litle snow, ice a bout 2 1/2 in, 2 below on the 7. 9. Cleair plesant an nise wind SE. 10. Cloud snowd last night ground jest cuvird still an plesant. i an Jas went to Walker, snow went off. 11. A big frost, partly cloud still. 12. Snoing the bigest flaks i ever saw, snow a bout 6 in deep level 13. Snowing a litle fine snow. sum came out, a litle snow about 10 in., wind N west an cold. 14. Cleair still an plesant, snow melting som. 15. Sunday, cleair still an nise, snow melting some. 17. Cleair an plesant snow melten. 18. Raning a slow rane snow off in patches, got fogy aat 8 oclock, raned all day, slow, snow in pataches. 19. Cleair wind NE an cold, snode last night ground coverd drifted some. 20. Some clouds a fue spits of snow, still an plesant, som patches of snow. 21. Cloudy not vary thoing some snow in patches fogy. 22. Sunday, cloudy still an plesant a slow rane, fogy an dark snow nerely all gon, rods mudy. 23. Sleted last night snoing this moring wind N an cold. Snowing yet at 1 pm. 25. Snow melting cleair still an nise after the morning. Jasper gon to Harwood to get some corn for the cows to have chapt, got 6 bushels of corn. 28. Cleair ground froze a good big frost, plesent, ground thad an lokend slick, run to gether modertly still an has bin for some days, snow all gon, looks nise, the rods mudy, setleng som. So the month gose out. wind rised at bout 7 blwed hard til a bout 8 then camed down a litle, it was from SW an went to NW. March 1914 1. Cleir a good big frost wind NW a litle cold, thowing ground in plases, looks slick an wet. 2. Som clouds wind S damp cul, grund froze. 3. Cleair a big frost ground thawing. 5. Som scatern clouds dis a perd an cleair. 6. Som clouds, a shur of homey snow. 7. Cloudy snod last night gound a litle gray sptng to day, wind NW an cul, snow mellted. 8. Sunday, cleair ground frosen frost, got warmer in the day, still an nise. Bill an Boide came a while. 9. Gerge camest disten for Oats. 10. Som clouds Gerge camenst soing oats. 11. Cloudy an cold, George sowing oats. 12. Cleair a big frost ground froze, frost gon by 10. Lillia gon to Bills. 13. Cleair still an nise a vary litle frese. Gorge got dun soing oats, we plated som pease and soad som letis, Jasper helped Bill. 15. Sunday, cleair an nise a litle wind SW. Lillie an Emea cam last night, the 2 Lillies gon to Church, Em to Bills. 16. Cleair an nise. the 2 Lillies went to Harwood, Jasper ploud the potatos. 17. Som clouds a litele sprinkle of rane, we panted potatos. April 1914 1. Cleair a litle cul after a rane, a big rane, groud soaked. 2. Som cloud everything groing. 3. Cloud a litle cule, raned last night, grond uful weat. 5. Sunday, som clouds a litle clouds give way, got warmer an nise. Sunday school camenst at 3 oclock. 6. Raning a study slow rane all day. 7. A litle sprinkle of rane wind NE and cule ever thing weet. 8. Cloudy wind NE an cold ice 3/8 thick. 9. Cleair a big frost cul all day. Jasper an Lillile went to Walker an to Jonathans. 10. Cold day ice 3/8 grund frose. 12. Sunday, Ester (Easter) cleair a white frost ice 1/8 of in, nise after the morning and still. 13, Som clouds a litle cule. i an Jasper went an soded Sarah grave. 14. Nise. i an Lillie planted onion seed nest to the barn, grund is weat. 15. Groud a litle wet. i worka litle in the garden, hode the onions, groud drying fast. 16. Som cloud a fue drop of rane, the ground begins to work. i an Lillie plated onions seed, Jasper camenst to plant corn in the SE pease. 18. Cloudy an a litle cule, raned a shour last night. Jasper an Lillie go to Harwood. i planted 2 roes of sweat corn an beans, sode some cabbg seed. 19. Sunday, som clouds wind NW an cule. 20. Cleair an nise. i plated a part of my harlan corn. 21. Cleair windy thoe nise. i planted a roe of watermelins. 25. Some clouds. Jasper planted corn. 26. Sunday, som clouds Plumer came, Kidel came in after noon, raned a bout 5 pm. 27. Cloudy, hode the potatos. 29. Cleair an nise, Blacky found a calf! 30. Cleair nise an plesant. got cold a bout 4 the wind was vary cule from the NE. So the month gose out cule. Jasper a litle over haf don planting. May 1914 1. A vary nise day, every body at work, som lad (land) to brake yet, but fue done planting. 2. Som clouds. i Jasper an Lillie went to Harwood, it raned a good gentel rane. 3. Sunday, mostely cleair an nise. we taken chickens got 13c. 8. Driday, a vary nise day. Jasper got don plating corn, Jack Porter came to work for Thompson, he did not want him til Monday. 11. Winday, wind was high SW. he hode the potatos, Jack camenst with Thompson, grond is geting dry. Jasper camenst cultivating corn, raned a good shour a bout 7. 12. Cloudy and cule wind NW. 17. Sunday, a fue thin cloud ground geting dry, Harva came. 19. Raning a gentel slow rane. 20. Som clouds thoe give a way. Suse an Dewea (Dewey) came a bout 4. raned a good shour. 22. Mostly cleair. Bill Thompson an 2 Sheperds cam, i went to Harwood with to look at a thashing mashen. 23. Cleair an nise. I Jasper an Lillie went to Harwood, got wall paper, Fonzo came home. 24. Sunday, Cleair som wind SW. Suse, Dewey an Jack here, we are going to Harwood to memorel. 25. i nise day. Mrs. Wilson dide. 26. Nise som wind. Thomes of Fare Haven dide was bered the 27th. a good shour of rane. 28. Som cloud. Jasper got over his corn 1st time, lots of armay wormes, clean up som feals. 29. Cloudy with shurs of rane. Jasper and Dewey went to Walker for Becky and Harvys folks. 30. Cloudy an rane a bout 5 pm. i Jasper, Lillie, Suse, Dewey, Jack, Becky, and Harvy’s wife an children went to Harwood to deceration, got back at 5 pm. 31. Sunday, so clouds a litle sprinkle of rane. Backy and Harvey folks stated home 1/2 past 3, Jaspter taken them to Walker. looking vary raney and sprinklen a litle, som thunder, a lot of arma worms doing a lot of damage, bin here a weake. the first i sead was the 24th, thay ar milins of thim eating wheat corn medowes an garden. June 1914 1. Cloudy som litle shours. 2. Mostly cloudy shourey an warm, lots of armey worms, Suse here maken sope now. 3. Suse went to Bills to stay to night. 5. Cleair an hot the armay worm is nerley all gon. Don a heap of damige thoe not lilke i thout thay would do, they was some plases. 6. Cleair warm an geting dry. i and Lillie went Thompson to FairHaven to a picnic. i went to Harwood to Post meeting. 7. Sunday, cleair warm winday an dry, worm a bot all gon. 10. Cleair hot an dry. Ross camenst cuting wheat for us. 11. A fue scaterns cloud. Ross cuting wheat, Powel helping Shock, raned a good shor at 2 wind 12. partly cleair an warm. Ross got don cuting wheat. 13. hot som clouds. I an Lillie went to Harwood, the toomston man came an put up the toomston, got 500 pounds of gravel 50c, sement 1 sack 55c, give a check for $38 and 95c in cash made $40. 14. Sunday, a fue clouds an warm. 15. Mostly cleair an plesant. i ploud the garden with dubel shovel. 16. Raned a good rane all fore noon and turned cold. i planted caffer corn i the garden. 17. Mostle cleair. i finished planting my Ky came an replanted cabbig seede. 19,. Cleair hot an geting dry, George cut his oats. 20. Hot an dry wind SW an hot. Jasper and Jack gon to Nevada, the litle blac nats by the milions. 21. Sunday, a fue scatern clouds wind SW a litle high an dry. Wheat all in shock and most of oats. 24. Som cloud geting dry and lots of bugs herten corn bad. George finished puting oats in the barn a bout 1200 bushels. Jonathan very sick. Powel’s child vary sick. my leg herten me. 26. Cleair an hot. i an Lillie went to Nevada, i got a pare of pants at Claks and a pare of shouse at Dons. Jonathan Dalton dide about 4 pm. 27. Cleair hot an dry. Joathans furnel to be 2 pm, my leg hurt so i can’ goe. 28. Sunday, hot an dry, my leg hurts bad. 29. a litle shour last night only lade dust. 30. Cloudy an plesant. Jasper an Lillie taken chickens to Harwood hens 12 3/4c. 2 lite shours a bout 1/8 of water an cloudy at 10 pm. a good rane camenst, lots of litning, so the month went out wete an stormey. July 1914 1. The month came in raning a good rane a bout midnight 2 inches rane, i got the stocken. 2. Cleair an plesant everathing groing (growing). i put the elastic stocking on my leg a litle eserya (easier?) thoe i can’t walk to do eney good. 3. Cloudy an raney a good 1/2 inch. 4. Cloudy som rane all fore noon, quit raning a bout noon and broke off still an plesant. Jasper an Jack Porter went to Walker in the after noon, my leg no beter. 5. Sunday, lite shours in fore noon, cloudy after noon, my leg no beter. 7. a big rane thrue the night an Monday. after 2 in of rene it slacked of with sprinkles, sun shind in after part. my leg no beter. 9. Sun shines all day vary warm. Old read (red) cow dide. Jasper an Fonzo skind her, my leg a litle beter. 12. Sunday, cleair an hot. Emey came. 13. Cleair. i an Lillie taken Emea to Harwood. i pade $5 on the telephone it is pade up to Dec 13. 15. Cleair an hot Cor ahere, going to Bills. Mrs. Brown starts west. My lege som beter. 25. Cleair an war, geting dry a gane, Lillie went to Rockville. 26. Sunday, clere an hot. 31. A shour of rane a bout 1/4 of inch, cule an plesant, so July gose out. August 1914 1. Cloudy cule an nise. 5. Cleair an dry, the shed wheat 367 bushels, oats 1.10. Greshem Brown got 110 bushels, Suse and Jack here, Bills folks an Curtses wife all helped to get diner. 7. Cleair we are goin to FareHaven. 31. Cleair an windy. i went with John Sharp an Allis Atherant to Boyekens. Jasper camenst plowing for wheat. i am to give him a dolar a day. ground is moist an plows good only to loos cuver good so the month gos out clere an winday. i have bin peling peaches. September 1914 1. Cleair an windy all for enoon came up a cloud a bout 7 with them an raned a good rane, got cule. 3. Cleair an cule. i went with Cuningham up to Cobbs. 3. Cleair an plesent. 4. Mostly clere, som wind SE not high. 5. Cleair an winday SW a litle high. 6. Sunday, shourey good part of the day. 7. fue drops of rane at times. 8. Cleair an hot in fore noon, thunder an threatning after. i went to Osker Mitchels sale, bought 3 hogs, cost $27.15. 9. Som clouds. 10. Shourey a good part of the day. Becky came, Jasper went for her. 11. Cloudy. Becke a caning peches. Jasper got don plowing the 15 acers for wheate. 12. Cloudy an shourey an cule. 13. Sunday, partly cleair som wind. Harva came Becky wint back with him, Bills was here. 14. Som lite shours. Jasper camenst haring for wheat. 15. Raned a good rane. 16. Mostly cleair an warm. 17. Hotst day, hard rane at 1 oclock. we camenst drilen wheat ?? 18. Mostly clear more plesent. 19. Mostly cleair got don soing wheat, give Jasper a check for $12.50 for puting the wheate in. 20. Sunday, shours in after noon. 21. Shours in fore noon, sun shined after. 22. Raned a good rane an turned chily. 31. Mostly cleair warm day, a litle cul at night. Jas went to Nevada to get a tooth fixed, i went to Walker an a round on to Harwood to get sack, so went September. October 1914 1. Some clouds a litle wind SE warm a nuf, plesant nights, mostly cleair warm for Oct. 5. Chancy dide in Montana. Lillie an Mary went over to Rockville 6. Cloudy a hevea cloud NW. 7. Som clouds litle sprinkle. 9. Some clouds a litle sprinkle raned hard at 7 pm for a bout one hour, raned 1 3/4 inch of water. 10. Raned in the night 1 1/4 inches, cloudy an cule. Jasper gon to helpe Burt tak of hogs, i am puting some potatos in the seler, a litle cule. 11. Sunday som clouds a litle cule. i started to Rockville to Chances furnal, the trane was late, i came back. 12. Cloudy a litle culer a big rane last night, lots of litening. the folks all cam home from Rockvile. 13. Cloudy an culd wind North. 15. Cloudy lite shours an culd wind NW. Jasper went for apples got 9 bushel, pict apples 65c culs 35c. 16. Cloudy wind NW an cule. Jasper gon to Nevada to have his teath fixed. 18. Sunday, cleair an plesant. Elsey Menas here. 19. Mostly cleair an plesant. Denis came nst to drill in wheat. Jasper dug the sweatpotatos, then camenst shucking corn. 27. Cleair an still a good frost an ise. on a count of my birthday, Suse, Cora an Jack, Mabel an her man, Bills folks, Mrs. Nicls, Mr. an Mrs. Cobbs, Thompson folks, Elsey, Jack an Mary Mrs. Robers gurl an baby. November 1914. 18, Wind north a litle cule. Jasper got done shuckin corn. 19. Snowed a lite snow an cold. wind NW an cleair. 20. Som clouds and cold the litle snow gon. Bill an Jack helped butcher one hog wade 178 the other 198. 29. Sunday, cloudy a litle mist warm a nuf for November. Jack Porter here thoe started home, bin aful smokey for a weak from the Arkansas fire. 30. Som litle clouds mostly cleair still an nise. I an Lillie went to Nevade, we both got shuse at Stumps, it quite dry, rods good, so the month gos out nise all thrane.(?) December 1914 1. Some clouds a litel cule thoe plesan dry. 2. A litle rane an plesant. 6. Sunday, cloudy sill an plesant. 7. A sprinkle of rane, still. 9. A litle sprinkle of snow bin cloudy over a weeke, damp and still thoe plesant. 10 .Som litle snow, cule. 11. Some snow still an cule. 12. More snow from SE still, thoe snow hard a good track snow an yet coming. 13. Sunday, wind NW an cold, snow a bout 2 inches an snowing some. sun came out a bout noon, partly cloudy yet. 31. Clear nerly still an nise wind SW. Snow an ice going fast rode geting mudy. the snow lasted a bout 3 week bin cold but mild and still. The year gose out nise a litle snow in plases. 1915 January 1915 1. Som thin clouds a litle cold in fore noon clouds all give way, nise an plesant in after noon. Snow an ice nerly all gon. Jasper and Powel sawing wood. 15. Nise, Dennis ploud. 16. Nise still. Dennis an Ross plowed. 17. raned an got cold. 19. Snowing the grund cuverd, clouds braken a way by 9 am. 24. Sunday, som clouds still an cold snow a bot 2 inch. Cora went to Bills yesterday, Jasper at Walker. 30 .rite smart snow an ice geting a way. 31. Sunday, warm and cloudy snow an ice all gon, grund a bout thaoud out. Emey he,e, Bill, Lillie and Boyed here. the earzima (??)_ is herten me bad. it now 2 pm stil dark an cloudy, looks vary threatning. So the month gos out it at 7 pm. February 1915 1. Cloudy grund thoud an mudy, camenst frezen a litle an a litle sprinkl of snow at times tolerbel till not much could. 2. Cloudy all day snoed a litle but no shader? to a mount to eney thing. 4. Warm an nise all day. 5. Cloudy cold an windy, ground frezing all day an disagreeabel. 6. Cleair an nise thoe a litle cul, thawing some. Jasper taken Emey home. She had bin here a week. 9. Mostly cleair plesant wind SW. Jasper went to Walker an going start to Ky to marow. 13. Charles worse strict with perales. 19. Charles dide a bout 3 pm bered the 21st at Mt. Vernon. 21. Sunday, raned a slow rane all night an raning som yet. Bill taken Lillie to the furnel, Cora went with Ledes. 28. Sunday, snowing a litle, snode last night a but 2 in. Wind NE not high a litle plesant, its after 4 pm snow nerly all gon, rode mudey, som clouds yet. Suse an Core here, so February gos out plesant. March 1915 1. Still an nise an plesant in the fore noon a frost grond frozen a litle, some litle patches of snow that hadent melted off, got cloudy in the evening. Suse an Cora went to Bill. 3. Snow in fore noon, rane after part of the day not so cold, thoe chiley. 4. Snow all day som rane an sleat, snow a bout 6 in snow melting som, wind SE and E an NE and chily. the worst day i have seen in a long time. 5. Cloudy snow drifted all wind west an cold, snow melted a litle. 6. Mostle cleair som clouds wind west an cule, snow drift hard melting vary litel, snow drifts holds up in plases. 7. Sunday, cloudy an colde winds west, snow plents a bout 5 in an harde, can walk on it not melting to day. 13. Som clouds an fogy a nise day. i an Lillie wnet Mis Daivs to Harwood. 14. Sunday, mostly still an nise snow a bot all gon, mud dring fast, lots of mud. Murys house burned last night 1/2 pas 2. 17. Sun shining this morning an plesant cloudy after noon. i sent Suse her $10 to day. 16. Damp snow squlls thrue the day, cule. 19. Snow squlls thru the day. 20. Some snow sqalls, sun shined a litle. 21. Sunday, ground cuverd with snow, wind NW an cold, snow nerley all gon by 4 pm, sun shined a litle. 22. Cloudy a fue snow drops still an cule. 29. i an Lillie wnet to Nevada, Becky came, Suse here. 30. Snowing, ground cuvered, melting fast, grond ful of water. March 1915 30. Wind east an vary chilieay, snow went off rods mudy. 31. Mostley cleair a fue high clods grund frose hard wind NE a litle cule thoe nerly still. the f-pros/cts(???) the will go out a litle cule. Suse and Becky here, Becky will go to Bills to night go home to morrow. Suse will stay a while longer. No body don eney farming yet, only a fue oats, sode a litle ways off, no garden made yet, bin so wete farmers cant work. March has bin a cloudy dark month, only a but 3 clear days in March. (Note: there was only one page with the 2 dates above in March, the prior pages may have been lost.) April 1915 1. Cleair still grund froze, frost, ground to mudy to work. Suse here. 3. Clear still, a big frost ground frozen, nise after the morning. 4. Sunday, clair wind SW a high drying. 5. Cleair still an warm, i broke som of garden, Bill camenst plowing for oats, Galaspen disk for oats. 8. Nise in fore noon, showery in after noon a litle. Galaspe dun soing oats, Bill dun, what he disk a bout 4 acres to drell yet. Guster helped Bill tell noon. we planted 2 rose of corn an beans. 10. Nise an warm, raned last night a good rane. i an Lillie went to Harwood. 13. Cleair nise. Bill got don soing oats. 14. Nise an clear. i swaped old Lusy to Fox, give $40 to But (Burt?_ 15. Nise still cleair warm a nuf. 30. Cloudy camenst raning about 2 pm, raning at 5. So the month goes out wet. May 1915 1. Nise an warm, ground weat everything going fast. 2. Sunday som clouds everything looks fine. Tharp put a calf in the paster. 3. Clair an plesant. Dennis put in the paster 2 heaffers. 6. Cloudy raned a good part of day, got cold in the after part of day. 7. Cloud an cule in fore noon, cleared up wind NW an cule. 16. Sunday, a litle cule thoe plesant. Harva came Lillie went to Church. 18. Cloudy an cule wind NE. 19. Cloudy in fore noon raned all after noon, a big rane. 20. A litle mistie erley then rane hard raned a good part of the day. 22. Mostly sun shined hot. I Lillie an Suse went to the Simenry (cemetary?) cleaned of the lote fixed up the graves. 23. Sunday, a bade storm a but 10 am. a bade storm borke tops of mapels and appels trees down trone cope bords (??) and shingels off of huse. blod an brok down 16 apple trees. 26. Raned 5 ot 6 inches of water. Seler had 260 bucats of water. Lillie an Suse cared it out, i was down sick. 27. A bade looking cloud in after noon, broke a way, raned bout 3/8 in. 28. Dark, cloudy at 7 vary damp. Bill an Jack pached the rufe of house. June 1915 1. Raney all the fore part of the week, Suse helped til to day the 5th. 5. Grond to weet to work. Suse went home to day. 6. Sunday, hot som clouds. i an Liley went to Far Heaven to memorial, raned hard at 9 pm. 10. I an Lillie went to Nevada. i got a sute of close an a pare of shoes. 11. Raning a big rane. Mr. Williams dide. 12. a big rane. 14. raning lots of thunder lat night. Denis taken 1 heiffer out of paster. 15. Som cloud, grund mudy. i an Lillie went to Williams furnel. Stoped at Cobbs as we came home. 17. i went to Walker, Lillie an Emea went to Nevada. raned a litle an at night about 10 was a big rane, lots of thunder, storm blode Scots and Ruels houses to peases an don lots of damages. 26. Raned a bout 3 a big rane then nerly all night. 29. The seser came. Lillie an Besey went to the school fixing ice cream. 30. Cloudy raned about 2 an sprinkled til 6 hevey cloud with thunder at 8. So the month goes out wet 1 3/4 rane at night. July 1915 1. Mostly clear the ground full of water, lots of wheat not cut an falling badley, oats ripe, ground to soft to get in. 3. Mostly clear. Bill an Gilispy tride to cut oats but mired down. 4. Sunday, raned a bout 4 a nuf to ceap the fields weat for some days. 7. Raned a good big rane. Bill an Gillipsey cut a fue oats yesterday. Suse came. 11. Sunday, cleair an hot wind a litle hight. Gilipllise got a bit done cutting oats. Jo Ross cut wheat the first wheat cut on me. 12. Cloudy win getin hey, camenst raning at 8 raned 2 hours hard. 15. Cloudy raned a bout 9 a good rane. 16. Vary cloudy an still, raned a good big rane at night. 17. Cloudy ground to wet get in feals, a fue trying to cut. i an Lillie went to Harwood, i got shaved the first in 49 yers. 18. Sunday, cleair grud wet but litle wheat cut on me yet. Russ cut a but 11 acres, 92 acres in nerly all down. Ross an Denis has in wheat 32 acs, Bill 45, i have 15. will get nothing out of it. raned 3/4 of water, wind bleue hard from NE a but 6 pm. 19. Cloudy a drop or 2 then clerd up. 22. Cleair Gilipsie camenst cuting my wheat, lose blotty don the cedin??? 23. Cloudy a drop or 2 of rane then cleair got don cuting wheat. 24. Som clouds. Allis came yesterday, her an Lillie went to Bills to day. Ross got dun cuting wheat here. 30. Som clouds raned a shour about 5. 31. Some clouds a big cloud south a drop here. Ross thrashing at home, still an cloudy. August 1915 1. Sunday, a litle wind south cloudy. Fonzo cut som wheate yesterday. 2. Partly cleair in for noon till a 11 then a cloud cam up raned hard at 12. Ross an Denis thrsh in fore noon here had 108 bushels thrashed, my litle bit had 18B. 3. Cloudy an cul for August. we ar civing the netle balls out of the wheat. Jasper taken Eme home. Denis seteled for my thrashing an i pade him $3.10c. 6. Som cloud still an nise. Bill camenst thrashing had 396 bushels of oats, i got 75 bushels. 7. Bill finished thrashing on me. i got 126 of wheat. 8. Sunday, som cloud looks rane. 9. Raned throu the night 1 an 1/2 in an cary cloudy and raning a litle, raned nerley all day 2/ 34 since yesterday. 12. I an Lillie went to Nevada to the reunion. 13. I an Lillie came home an Jasper went to the reunion. 14. i was sick taken a but 12 pm. 19. Cloudy a litle rane an got cold, very cold for August. 20. Cold an cloud a litle rane. 21. A vary nise day, plesant. 22. Sunday, nise in fore noon, cloudy after noon. wind North East not high, bin cloudy cul an wete for a week and cloudy an wet all the month an cule. 31. Nise clair an plesant the nisest day of the month. i an Lillie went to the Dr. at Nevada. Bill got doun thrashing, the was vary weet an cold tel the 30 and 31 was nise. So August went out the day nise. September 1915 1. Clear an plesant. 2. Clear a litle cul an plesant. 7. Mostly cleair raned last night or this morning, a big rane, lots of thunder an litning. 8. Partly clear. Bukl cut weeds 1/2 day. 9. Cloudy. 12. Cleair an hot. I an Lillie went to Bill Thompsons stade til the 16th it raned nerly all day an all the night before. creek all out of banks, roads so mudy hard geting home. 16. Som clouds a lite sprinkle. we came home from Bill Thompsons. 17. Dark foge, rods mudy. Jasper started for Oklehoma. 19. Sunday, som clouds, Em came. 20. Raned a shur a but 8. 21. Mrs. Porter was bered. 23. Raned a shuer. Old Man Scott was beearde. (buried) 24. Sharear a litle cule. 30. a vary nise. I Lillie, Suse, and Mabel went to Georges sale an i an Mabel went to Harwood to Mrs. Traters firnel. The ende vary nise. October 1915 1, Clear a litle cul thoe plesant. Suse an Lillie went to take Mabel to the trane. Sus will stay a while. 5. A litle cule thoe nise. Suse here dring some appels. Severs De vans sut devonae ??? granted. Paul Haring for me. i camens picin apples. 6. Afrat Powel camenst soing wheat for me at the well. Powel camenst soing wheat for me. 7. Powel got done soing wheat pade Powel $30. dollars. 10. Sunday, cleair an winds. Suse went to Bills, started home, drid a bout 2 bushels of appels. 23. Cleair an nise. Bill got nerly don soing wheat an me next to be at.... Old man Thompson dide. 24. Sunday, cleair nise an plesant, has bin for a week. 27. Cleair warm an nise qite a fue her at my burthday diner. 31. Sunday, cleair in fore noon, qite winday, wind South a litle east after noon cloudy warm, the month has bin nise so the month gose out warm. November 1915 1. Nise, still cleair an warm. 2. Cleair still an warm a nuf. som clouds in after noon., 6. I an Lillie went to Harwood, nise an warm. 71 old man Croswhite bered. 7. Sunday, som clouds winday and warm. 15. Cleair an nise. it trade my wagon to Henery Creamer got $20., got 2 hogs wade 385 lbs gav $3.5 to goot hogs was 6.10 cts a pound. 21. Sunday nise an cleair a litle cul. 24. Wind soth auful high. Vanmeter stade all night, going to Fort Scott. Flake fetched me 32 bushels of cole, wind blod the barn doar aganst me, hert my hand an nose. 20. Pa, Lillie and I started to Walker, horse got scared at a dog, run off, through us all out, hurt Pa an I afful bad. Dr. Walker came to see Pa and Lillie the first trip the Dr. bill was $5.00 dolars. Dr. came back again Tuesday, charge $2.50. Came back again Wednesday, Pa give Dr. $5.00, it paid for 2 trips. Dr. came again Friday. Dr. came again Sunday, bill was $2.50. January 5 (1916?) Dr. Walker came back, Dr. bill $2.50. January 4, 1916 Lillie Alice stade 2 weeks and 2 days, Pa paid her $8 dolars. (the above entry on the 20th amd January 4, 1916 - handwriting seemed a little different that than of previous entries (more feminine) and the spelling was correct - wonder if one the daughters or grand-daughters may have written it for A.F.Cope as he said he was hurt.) This ends the diaries that I received. It is possible there are more but unknown where they might be. Then he may have quite writing the diaries about this time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Completed transcribing the diaries on April 25, 1997. 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