Thursday, July 30, 1914

So many things have been happening that I haven't had time to write them. Last Thursday Uncle Chas. and his family, Mrs. Krause and the kids and Mama and I went to Camp Ground for a picnic. We went in the auto with the Krauses and certainly enjoyed ourselves. In the afternoon Miles took the Robert kids for an 8 mile ride and when they got back, the rest of us went to see Mrs. Blacet. Helen said she wouldn't have missed it for 8. On the way home we stopped to see Mr. Gasa. Mrs. Krause and we kids peeped in the kitchen window to see what was there -- and we saw. He invited us to go into the front room but he couldn't ask us to sit down because there was only one chair and the floor was too dirty to sit on. When we got home we cleaned up and went to prayer meeting. Dr. Wait, Mr. Tom Calame and Ethel Armet had just arrived at Krause's in an auto as they started for meeting. Mr. Krause, Harold and Dr. Wait stayed at home but the rest came on as soon as they had lunch. They went to Nokomis the next day. Sunday we took dinner at Uncle George's. Monday we went over to Gerke's and up town in the afternoon. After supper Irene went riding with us. Tuesday afternoon Irene and I went up to Ina's. She is going to start on a 4 days river trip to-morrow. We hadn't been there long till Frances and Virginia came so we had a fine time. We were all working on the same kind of lace. Ina served cake and lemonade. Coming home we all got weighed. Irene and I weigh 109.5, Frances 103, Ina 95, Virginia 94. Yesterday we went up to Mrs. Kruger's. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were there and Mrs. Kruger's niece. I didn't understand her name. She has a little girl just three weeks younger than Frances. It was a picnic to watch those babies play. Last night Irene and I practiced.