Dora:
Finished Ironing
Baked Bread.
Fussed with 2 little pigs.
Sewed a little.
Note: Dora's financial records indicate that she donated $1.00 to the "Dayton Flood Sufferers". This would be the equivalent of $23.45.
If you recall, back on the 21st, she indicated they had a 'very severe storm' which blew down a neighbor's barn and 'smashed our lawn swing'. She also says that the storm did much damage throughout...she originally put 'throughout the state', but then crossed out 'the state'. They must have gotten word that this storm had caused immense flooding in the Midwest, particularly Dayton, Ohio. It was probably the Hurricane Katrina of 1913.
Ray:
30-40 Fair
at home all day
went over to Lew Heckleman at night.
Note: Ray's financial records indicate that he donated $3.00 to "Ohio Flood." This is equivalent to $70.35
I find this entry perhaps the most interesting on in Ray's journal so far. I never knew my grandfather, but I am happy to know that he had a generous spirit and that he was moved by other people's suffering. I can catch hints him with his dedication to the farm, his organizational ability, his ease with numbers (there are several scraps of paper with long lists of numbers that have been neatly tabulated), his temperance principles, his scratchy handwriting with poor punctuation and spelling, the tedium and the excitement of it all. With this, though, I see he was moved by suffering and did something to help alleviate it. I'm proud to be the grand daughter of this farmer, the one who cleaned Timothy seed, buckwheat, who polished his harness to a sheen, who liked candy, and who gave to those in need.
Cayla:
Worked in the neuro office today. Got home early and had a really fun evening with Tarek and the kids. Ada is really loving to scribble on paper, and Maurice is coloring so well now. And Ada had these crazy pig tails in today, in honor of Glenwood Emma birthing a big litter yesterday....
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