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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.