March 25, 1941, Tuesday

Cold & cloudy Spring morning. Moist cloudy weather, cool enough for fire in heaters. Frank and hand are busy with sowing of grain and plowing. Bobby and Barbara are at School. They each took an armload of magazines I gave them to cut out pictures for their Scrap Books. Bobby says they had an enjoyable time at the Party. Scripture reading John 6:47-65

My cold has taken another spell for the worse and I cough night and day. Have just finished writing Pioneer days of Oklahoma Territory beginning with incidents of childhood and where I was born, received education, near Red River, all to be printed in Magazine form with hundreds of other stories. Mary and I went to Clinton and took my writing to the Daily News and left it.

Spent 2 hours or more with Mrs. Bert Darnell at Clinton Library looking at Pioneer Pictures and talking of past events. A drizzle of Rain was falling while I was at Simpson's Store recalling to memory friends and past pleasures and saw a lot more Pictures of Pioneers. Mary and Opal brought me home then returned to Clinton for the evening.

I received a long letter from Dorothy Reed, my granddaughter at Fresno, Cal. telling how pleased they were at Dad's visit there.