September 18, 1931

I worked from 10-7 [10 minutes to 7] A.M. to 5-15 P.M. at the chicken house. Ate nothing all day. Sure fagged out & sore hands. I chopped, packed and sawed boards for kindlin all day and fixed the chicken house, cleaned the goose barn. Mrs. Beaver, Jno Anderson, Archie Burns are on the sick list. Lindie and his wife are in Japan.[1. In the summer of 1931, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew from Long Island, N.Y. to Alaska, and then on to Siberia, Japan and China, with support from Pan American World Airways head Juan Trippe. Following his flight to Paris, Lindbergh and Trippe became interested in creating an air route across Alaska and Siberia to China and Japan. For various reasons, however, the route did not become available to commercial flights until after WW II. Source from Wikipedia article on Charles Lindbergh] She’s the first woman[2. Anne Morrow Lindbergh] to cross the Siberian end of the Pacific Ocean. Annie Deering told me not to work so hard. I told her it wasn’t any harder than being in the house alone. She knows how hard and what I went thro as a child at home & after, getting married included.

September 20, 1931

2 airplanes just flew over Marysville 3-15 P.M. Came in by Canyon Creek or Beckman’s slaughter house and rite over Bald Mountain. Sure nice to hear them and brave hearts to face the strong wind that’s on.

September 22, 1931

Gee, but I am having dizzy spells. It was 90 degrees in Chicago yesterday in the East. 32 degrees out in Montana & 17 ins. of snow above Neihart and snow here.

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