A daily journal from 76 years ago
343rd day- 22 days follow Cloudy and warm. Worked all day on the flower beds putting them in shape for the rest of the winter. Thel drove Ethel Swift up to Carver. I thought I heard some geese but couldn’t see them. Tried a few practice shots with my bow this noon. This afternoon Chet …
342nd day- 23 days follow Fair and warm, fine day for this season of the year. Geo. and Marie stopped in this morning for a few minutes. Bill came up this morning and he and I went up to the Browne site and we filled in the trenches we had opened, and dug a little. …
341st day- 24 days follow Partly cloudy warmer. Thel took Geo. and I up to Chris Swift’s bog and left us there. We saw some fresh tracks and worked over to Beaver Dam Road. Geo. found a doe deer skin and head. Then we came back over the hill to the bog, met about a …
340th day- 25 days follow Warmer and cloudy. Worked this A.M. Harry came up on the hill at 11 A>M. and he and I went up to the C.C.[Country Club] and did some measuring on the proposed new highway. After dinner Thel took Geo. and I out deer hunting. We picked up Carl Bolt at …
339th day- 26 days follow Thel took Geo. and I up to the Greenwood’s and we started in to hunt from there. We worked across the hills over to the surfaced road. And down through the hill to the golf course, met Carl and the three of us hunted from F. Mabbitt's over to the …
338th day- 27 days follow Went up on the hill this A.M. and from there up to George’s. We went along the Greenwood shore road and tracked one deer into the Lapham place section, and when we got to Greenwood’s four deer had crossed the road going up on the hill. We went up on …
337th day- 28 days follow Worked till 12:45 up on the hill and then went up to George’s and he and I went over on the new G.C. and found Carl Bolt. There were a lot of tracks of deer that were made last night. We hunted around the links and over by Fisk Mabbitt’s, …
336th day- 29 days follow Snow on the ground when I got up and started snowing again about 7:30 A.M. George’s brother stopped for me at 7:25. He had a fellow with him by the name of Holmes. We went and picked up George, then went up and hunted around Chris Swift’s old bog, saw …
335th day- 30 days follow Cloudy and mild, went up on the hill, no one up. Geo. took me, we went up to his house and left some groceries. Then we went up to Chris Swift’s bog and spent about an hour and a half tracking deer and looking for their tracks for tomorrow’s hunt. …
334th day- 31 days follow When I got up on the hill this A.M. Richard Greenwood was there. He said he saw a buck deer in the road in front of Shipley’s drive. Geo. Crowell and a carpenter and I went up on the main roof to see about shingling it. Finney’s pick up truck …
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