A daily journal from 76 years ago
273rd day- 92 days follow Light Rain and Cool Bill came up on the hill for a few minutes this A.M. Damp and real chilly today. Haven’t heard from Mrs. Fraser. Jubbie worked today. Sawed wood. Ski took Target over to the riding school on the Ave. to stay till we got back from our …
272nd day- 93 days follow Fair + Cool Made a new bed to plant seedlings in for the perennial beds next Spring. Jubbie worked today. Mrs. Fraser is in the Jordan Hospital and is in very critical condition, trouble with her kidneys. Stopped in at Pick’s on the way home from work. Walder has some …
271st day- 94 days follow Fair + Cool This morning Thel and I picked up Geo. and Eleanor and the kids. We all went down to the camp and spent the day. Geo. + I cut brush and trimmed trees till dinner time. After dinner Geo. and I went fishing we got four fair red …
270t day- 95 days follow (Bridgewater) Fair + Cold Saw Mr. H, Harry, and Dorothy. Bill Whiting came up while we were at dinner so we made arrangements for a trip this afternoon. Thel and I picked up Bill and Lottie in town and took a ride up to the site that the Attleboro group …
269th day- 96 days follow Fair + Cold Mowed brush today. Jubbie worked this afternoon. There is a lot of flickers around this Fall. Thel went up to a stork shower at Mildred Holman’s tonight. Harry Hornblower called me up at 9 P.M. tonight. I haven’t got used to my new tooth yet. Ski has …
268th day- 97 days follow Rainy + Cold Cleaned up the barn today. Thel and Ski came up to the hill and got me. We went over to town and I got a haircut, and went up to Dr. Douglas’s and he had my tooth finished and put it in. Thel went over to Hathaway’s.
267th day- 98 days follow Cloudy + Cool After dinner Thel and I went up the other side of Quincy. I bought a suit of clothes there. We came back to Brockton and I bought a hat, socks, and shirts. On the way home we stopped at the Homestead at Kingston and had supper. When …
266th day- 99 days follow Fair + Real Cool I saw a flock of quail in the buckwheat patch this A.M. Mrs. H. went to Boston to have her wisdom teeth extracted. Drucilla Greenwood drove her up. The heater on the hill does come on when you push the thermostat. After supper Thel, I, Geo. …
265th day- 100 days follow (First day of Fall) Warm Rain + Cool. Rained most all day. Jubbie didn’t work today. After supper Thel and I took Grandma Holman for a ride out and around Duxbury and Kingston. The Johnson Stand closed today. Thel and Ski finished up for the summer.
264th day- 101 days follow Partly Cloudy. Geo. picked me up and I went up to his house. We took a ride up as far as Chris Swift’s old bog to look for deer tracks, we saw the tracks of perhaps four different deer. We took a hike up into the hills and I refound …
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