A daily journal from 76 years ago
249th day - 117 days follow Fair Saw Mrs. Harry and Hank. Watered stuff all day. Thel had a bushel of bountiful plumbs given to her by the Rounds. Harry will be back again Saturday for nine days. There is to be a shower for Eleanor up in Whitmans tomorrow night. Mr, Hornblower is at …
248th day - 118 days follow Fair A year ago today I caught the big bass. Eleanor and Ski came up this morning and brought up some mild and meat. Jubbie caught a small small mouth bass. Archie and I went out to try for a big pickerel Archie had a bite from a big …
247th day - 119 days follow Fair Thel and I slept on the porch last night and we had a light thunershower, didn’t last long as the moon came out. The tree toad was on the small oak tree in front of the pump. Archie and I fished most all day, caught perch and roaches …
246th day - 120 days follow Thel $7.00 Mary told me this morning that Harry received a telegram summoning him back to Washington. I was sorry to hear that as he expected to be here 12 days more. Thel and Eleanor put up tomatoes this morning. Jim Adams has been taken up to a hospital …
245th day - 121 days follow Fair I gave Redo Nari a couple of rockets to the Policeman's ball. Dave and Dot left for Winthrop at Noon with Thel, they picked up May and went in to see Toot. He was not so well. The first thing I did up on the hill this morning …
244th day - 122 days follow Fair Eels This morning Harry, his father, mother, wife, Martha and I went over the surveyed line of the proposed highway that is to be built after the war. We ended up in the golf links, we walked back along the bluff in front of the hotel. Mrs Hornblower …
243rd day - 123 days follow Fair warmer Saw Harry and [...] this morning. Helped Mrs. H pick some beach plums. Worked in the bowling green. Picked a bushel of tomatoes. I was watering with a hose by hand and a hummingbird flew out of the grove and stopped in the air just in front …
242nd day - 124 days follow Fair to Cloudy Harry, his wife, and Jr. arrived at 9-40 AM. I went up just before dinner and had a good look at Henry 3, looks a good deal like Harry. Stopped in to see Eric on my way home from work tonight and miss Smith was there …
241st day - 125 days follow Fair Cool Did all kinds of chores this AM getting ready for Harry’s baby. When I got home from work at noon there was a letter for me from George, he is in England and likes it there, the first word we had heard from him for about …
240th day - 126 days follow Fair Cool Went up on the hill and did the chores. Bobbie came up and he and Dave and I did some bow and arrow shooting. Mr Driscoll came down to see Dave. When Thel came home from church, Dave, Dottie, Davene, Bob, Ski, Eleanor, Thel and I …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 