A daily journal from 76 years ago
271st day- 94 days follow -Arrowheads- Fair and warm fine day. Mr. H. went to New Bedford. Bill came up after dinner. Bill came up and we went to the dig. I had good luck this afternoon. The first thing I got is a small red triangular arrowhead as good as any I ever saw …
270th day- 95 days follow Fair and cooler fine day. Mary Foley was up on the hill this A.M. Mowed the lawns. There was a heavy stand of grass. I got a letter from the Boss at noon and in it was a present for Jubbie, a check for $50.00. Saw a grey squirrel up …
269th day- 96 days follow Thel and I went down to the camp today. We went down this morning and I went out and trolled for awhile before dinner, didn’t get a strike. After dinner Thel and I did some shooting. We broke one arrow. I went fishing an hour in the afternoon and caught …
268th day- 97 days follow Fair and cloudy. After supper I took a ride on my wheel up to the corn field at the Withington’s and hunted for arrowheads and found only one fair white quartz point. They had been digging potatoes and it looks as if the greater part of the crop had rotted …
267th day- 98 days follow Cloudy and warm. Did chores in the house today. Geo. Dunlap went after stripers and got none. The Whiting that tore down Fraser’s barn lives in Manomet on Bartlett Road. He came from Lynn. After supper I took the 6 P.M. bus over as far as the Post Office. Then …
266th day- 99 days follow Mild and partly cloudy. Got the Mass. Arch. Soc. program and ballots today. Mrs. H. and Martha are going to Boston today. Martha’s going from there to school in Conn. on Wednesday. Thel took the car over to the garage to have some work done on it. Mary Foley was …
265th day- 100 days follow Partly cloudy and warm. Went up on the wheel and over to the store and got the paper. Fannie Holman was in here for a visit. After dinner Thel and I rode to Kingston and went into Bailey’s pasture and put in the afternoon practicing archery. There was seven of …
264th day- 101 days follow Arrowheads Fair and warm. They were all on the hill but Mrs. H. I told Jubbie he would be thru working today. After dinner Bill came up and he and I went up to the dig and had a very poor dig of it but Bill found one piece of …
263rd day- 104 days follow Fair and warm, swell day. Mary Gallagher was up on the hill when I got there this morning. Martha had gone up to Boston. Saw a grey squirrel by my tool shop this A.M. After supper Thel and I went up to Eleanor’s and we got the bureau that we …
262nd day- 103 days follow This is Thursday. Somehow I skipped two pages, so I had to come back to them. Mary Foley was up on the hill this morning. I heard some shooting at coot off Stone’s point early this A.M. Jennie Chandler has made an opening in her fence on Warren Ave., so …
