This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
JULY 21 Friday Good day all day. carried two loads of straw away on other place. I went up to see Adina May at night. got home 12 oclock. Margaret Ward came in afternoon. Uncle Garret & Aunt Florence came in afternoon. good day. JULY 22 Saturday Good day all day. cleaned ditch & got water out of Farmyard. Daddy & Robert to St Marys. I took Mrs Via, Rob, & Adina Mae with me when I went in town to get seat covers. Took off 165 lbs of honey in afternoon. took Adina Mae & Mrs Via to Movies at night. saw "Father Was A Batchler" got home 12 oclock. July 21 - 1581 - Spanish Armada attacked by Sir Francis Drake. 1861 - Union forces routed at the Battle of Bull Run. 1918 - U.S. Troops defeated Germans at Chateau-Thierry. July 22 - 1870 - Tweed ring exposed by the N.Y. "Times." 1914 - International Eucharistic Congress at Lourdes, France. 1916 - Bomb exploded in preparedness parade in San Francisco. 1933 - Wiley Pose completed first solo round-the-world flight in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 1/2 minutes. JULY 23 Sunday Good day all day. I went up to Frank Wards to get him to [[?]] seat covers on. Aunt Lucy & Uncle Charley & Miss Ashley came for the day. I went up to Adina Maes at night and played Canasta. got home 10 oclock. Good Girl. JULY 24 Monday Good day all day. men cultivated tobacco all day. Uncle Milton & Willie Ann came in afternoon & brought some [[?]]. carried 1 ton of hay up to Mr Heart at Clinton. saw Mr. & Mrs Via & Adina Mae. Mother & I up to Margaret Wards at night got home 12:00 cut hay all day. July 23 - 1842 - Lost stone of Bunker Hill Monument laid. 1851 - Bloomer costume for women introduced at Lowell. 1877 - Vigilance Committee reorganized in San Francisco. July 24 - 1701 - Detroit, Michigan, first settled. 1847 - Brigham Young and Mormons reached Great Salt Lake. 1929 - President Hoover proclaimed Kellogg-Briand Anti-War Treaty.